American Reacts to Celebrities That Are Actually British
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Like most Americans I tend to assume that all famous people are American. Today I am very interested in learning about 10 celebs that are actually British. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Christian Bale does NOT have a Welsh accent, he has a London/Essex accent.
And he isn’t even Welsh
Compare Bale to Anthony Hopkins who also did a fantastic american accent in the Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins has a welsh accent, bale has not got a welsh accent.
@@Penddraig7 He was born in Haverford West so he is by birth, if not by ancestry.
@@Penddraig7 Well, he was born in Wales of English parents and considers himself English, I am English born but would not be bothered either way, now if he considered himself Scottish that would be another matter entirely LOL.
@@melanierhianna I know where he was born, I am from the area, but like I said, being born in Wales doesn’t make him Welsh, he is English, his parents were both English who just happened to be working in Wales when he was born and they Wales when he was 2 years old, he was raised in England and raised English, his environment was English, he has no recollection of his time in Wales, he has no connection to Wales other than just happening to be born there and living there for 2 years, he has said himself numerous times that he is English not Welsh.
Being born somewhere does not make you that nationality, you can use it as an argument to say you are that nationality but it isn’t the determiner of someone’s nationality, you can’t claim he is, it’s 100% up to him and even if he did claim to be Welsh, the argument against him being Welsh is far stronger than that of him being Welsh. Being Welsh doesn’t mean being born in Wales, there is far more to being Welsh than just happening to being born there
Hugh Laurie is also a comedian. He, and Stephen Fry used to have their own shows in the 80s/90s.
Jeeves and Wooster is a great one
Just watched him today in a hilarious skit with Tracy Ullman about having Princess Margaret to lunch.
Not forgetting Blackadder
And a musician.
Also Black Adder,
I don't know what's funnier, Christian Bale having a Welsh accent or Staffordshire being a city?...😂
Stafford is the City...
@@weetinkaThey said Staffordshire not Stafford.
it didnt sound very Welsh to me though lol
Made me laugh too
@@weetinka so if they said stafford they'd be correct, but they didn't, they said staffordshire
are you crazy "Hugh Laurie" is the quintessence of being English
It took so long for me to get use to him in a serious role with house, I grew up with a bit of Fry and Laurie, also black adder
Arh hugh laurie and how close he was to queenie in black adder
First film I saw Hugh in was Stewart little before seeing him in Blackadder
Both his parents are Scottish.
Tbf he's incredibly good at pretending to be American. The whole House persona.
Tom Hardy lives near me. He often turns out for local events like village fetes and church fayres. He even came to a sort of cos play jousting tournament last year. Not as a celebrity or guest of honour, just as a local supporting local events. He's very unassuming. Top bloke.
Same, I’m from Plaistow
@@LouisJeffery-yf8hv Plaistow near Kirdford?
Cool dude
Hugh Laurie is actually famous for Americans thinking he's American.
i honestly think his american accent is really bad, as an english person.
@@allenjohnson7686
Does sound a little funny, but maybe for me that's just because I grew up with him on UK TV using his native accent.
@@MostlyPennyCat Jeeeez, showing the US some Fry and Lawrie, or Blackadder might just fry their brains
The funniest episode was when he made a call to the UK pretending to be someone else. Only Hugh Laurie, a Brit could play a Yank trying to fake an English accent.
@@Ladycraft-lk5tkDominic West managed to pull that off once or twice in The Wire as well.
Hugh Laurie started his career as a comedy double act with Stephen Fry and then went on to be a regular in Blackadder .
And Jeeves and Wooster
And the video of - walking on broken glass - Annie Lenox.
"Why are they called the 20 minuters Sir" ??
I love him in Black Adder....well, I love Black Adder 😁
I've written a poem 'Boom Boom Boom'
Not only is Hugh Laurie a brilliant actor, he is a very good comedian and blues pianist who tours with his own band.
And not only a blues pianist but also a Cambridge rowing blue in the 1980 Boat Race.
What a guy
'He was born in a city called Staffordshire'.... eye roll.
Hey, it could happen :-)
OMG. There are famous people who aren't American!! Who would ever have thought that
I know, how very dare we 😂
I hear your English sarcasm there ( Its bloody good lol, and yes I'm English ), when he said how do they do it (the American accent) I just thought they switch their brains off and slur their words lol
@@Linda_Hio my English sarcasm is Australian.
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British actors on American movies, TV, goes back a long way. Bob Hope was born in England, so was Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Stan Laurel in Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, and many others
Yeah - but Vivian Leigh doing a southern accent was just.....sad.
Elizabeth Taylor was indeed born here, but to American parents.She kept her dual nationality and was made a Dame. The rest were British by birth and genetics.
Stan Laurel was a smart bloke. Didn't know Cary Grant was born in good ol' Blighty
@@Raggmopp-xl7yf disagree. Loved Gone with the Wind film and Vivian Leigh was a perfect Southern Belle.
You forgot Angela Lansbury.
The british are outstanding actors!
They must be because I am fooled by them,
I watched an all American movie the other night, I looked up on IMDb and found 8 out of the 10 top actors in the casting of the movie was were British. It's hard to find a movie without a Brit in it
They're better trained in my opinion- most of them have done Shakespeare in theatre, if you can be good at that, you can do anything!!
We love the back and forth of ideas between both countries, music was and is a fantastic example.
I was blown away by Robert Pattisons, southern american accent in The Devil all the time! As a brit I've got to give credit to some American Actors , meryl Streep did a superb Australian accent in A cry in the dark 👌and of course Rene zellwegger's accent in Bridget Jones diary 👌🤣 so convincing
The 30 year British TV career of Hugh Laurie gone in a flash.
A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Jeeves & Wooster, Blackadder - the man is a legend :)
If you really want to be shocked by Hugh Laurie then go and find some clips of him playing Bertie Wooster. They're hilarious and he is very upper class British indeed.
I want Jeeves and Wooster AIs to help me out, and maybe a Blackadder and Baldrick too.
I am going to be making use of the Chat GPT 4o once it's available with listening and spoken communication, and I will be looking to get them to use Jeeves and Wooster voices if I can.
Staffordshire is a county not a city. He was born in Stoke on Trent which is a city in Staffordshire.
was about to make same comment - you beat me to it 😁
@@duncanliath LOL. Me too. 🤣😅
Staffordshire is my city.
@@billyhills9933 Really? In what country? Staffordshire, England, is a landlocked ceremonial COUNTY in the West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, Worcestershire, and Shropshire.
@@sharonmartin4036 The joke went right over your head. Google "England is my city" 😊
The fact that they can pull off such convincing accents shows how mega-talented some of these actors are!
Unlike Keven Costner 😂
It's not easy. I worked in LAS for a while and people I met, well, we would often try to speak like each other and it was hilariously crap and funny :-)
Gary Oldman is British but he spent so much time speaking Yank in his films that when he had to play an actual Englishman they had to get a voice coach in to reteach him how to speak Brit.
Haha great actor. Which is your favourite movie of his? Darkest Hour as Churchill was brilliant but I'll always like the nutjob he played in Leon 😊
How can you be huge fan of Hugh Laurie and not know he's English he's had a 40yr career the mind truly boggles
Cause the u.s people(americans? Brasilian, mexicans, canadians??) dont care that kind of things. Outside the u.s theres nothing To them. So arrogant an so shittie educated crowd. Tells u something about that, that the Trump might be next president🤣🤣 really🤯
After a few of your videos the lack of knowledge of anything beyond the US astounds me,
stunning, isn't it?
Unfortunately for many Americans life does not exist beyond America. Very insular.
Even those who travel abroad seem to think America rules over the world, like tourists not understanding why there were no 4th July fireworks in Morocco! True story.
@@whoseturnisit9733 They are about to get even more insular!
@@whoseturnisit9733many US-Americans don't realise there is a life outside the US.
True.
Tom Hiddleston played an American singer and Robert Pattinson played Batman and on Twilight, both British. One American actor who does a great British accent is James Marsters off Angel and Buffy the vampire slayer. I didn’t realise he was American at first
I didn't know that! I would have laid cash-money he was a Brit!
Yes yes yes yes 😂 James Marsters does do an amazing British accent. I was genuinely gobsmacked when I found out he was American and I've not seen him in anything since Torchwood. Got to give it to John Barrowman lucky B****d🤪😜😝😛🤤🫣
Alexis Denisoff (Wesley) as well tbh - though he lived in the UK for a while
@@HulaHula667 That totally surprised me back in the day. Even now I have to look Alexis Denisoff up to make sure he isn't British. One of the best middle class English accents ever.
@@ChuckstaGaming I remember seeing him in a couple of British TV shows my parents watched years before Buffy (Soldier Soldier & Sharpe, maybe more?) and having no clue he was American. Freaked me out the first time I heard him speak with his native accent, complete dissonance! Did not compute!
'Born in a city called 'Staffordshire' - the clue is in the name....... (not a city, but a county)
Christian Bale does NOT have a Welsh accent. Not even remotely! That's a London/ Essex accent.
The presenter also called Rosamund Pike 'RosaLIND'
Overall not a great source video!
Used to love Andrew Lincoln in 'Teachers' back in the days before he went to the US.
For me, Carey Mulligan will always be Sally Sparrow!
Lennie James (also in Walking Dead), Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Dominic West & Idris Elba (The Wire), Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad), Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, Sarah Connor Chronicles), Louise Lombard (CSI Vegas), Damian Lewis (plus about half the rest of the cast of Band of Brothers), Ian McShane - even Angela Lansbury...the list goes on and on.
Kevin McKidd off Grey's Anatomy is Scottish and used his childhood Aberdeenshire Doric accent in Brave; his normal Scottish accent is more comprehensible. Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Galactica is English though he does have a US father so he said that the accent was easy to copy, having listened to it all his life.
You can now add young Millie Bobby Brown.
Linus Roache - Law & Order.
Christian Bale is Welsh by birth only. His parents are both English and he was brought up England. He regards himself as English even though he was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
I found watching Andrew Lincoln play an American so weird at first. He was still Egg from This Life to me! But, he's a good actor, so i soon got sucked in by the character.
I feel that Hugh Laurie is what people call a "national treasure"! He's been part of British culture for decades.
It always surprises me when Americans don’t know Hugh Laurie is English, over here he’s been known for a long time in blackadder, fry and Laurie, 100 Dalmatian’s, even played an Englishman in friends
Don't forget in Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry. He's brilliant at playing upper-class twits.
And the video of - Walking on broken glass - Annie Lenox.
Love Hugh Laurie. So talented yet very humble.
He's that convincing. And Americans want him under their wing. Bet they have more respect for his acting chops after they find out though heh. Super talented guy. Those old Fry & Laurie sketches are still funny too
@@speleokeir yeah he would have fitted in perfectly with the Monty Pythons 😁
My husband & I were on holiday in California when an American couple wouldn’t believe that Hugh Laurie was English actually said we were making it up we eventually convinced them after half hour
Yeah, some American's really do this! One time I had to argue with an American exchange student in Japan that I'm not American, just because I am ghostly white, speak English with an (mostly) American accent and know so much about the US pop culture and politics. To make matters worse, we had been going to the same classes for a couple of months already by then, when he "called me out" for lying to some girls where I was from during a party 😂
I guess there are so many people in the States who speak broken/bad English, that even my clunky English passed as being native enough
I remember trying to convince a colleague that Ricky Gervais had once been a singer in the 80s. She kept saying no that was in the office. I gave up up cos life's too short...😅
Watch Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Night Manager to name a few things Hugh Laurie Stars in.
Love Jeeves and Wooster
It’s like Blackadder never existed!!!
My mind is blown.
…and historically: Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, Stan Laurel, Alfred Hitchcock, Ray Milland, Michael Rennie, Olivia de Havilland, Angela Lansbury, Barry Morse, Boris Karloff, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, Jean Simmons, Audrey Hepburn, and …born in Britain: Elizabeth Taylor and Jerry Springer. The list goes on.
Hugh Laurie is also in Blackadder, with stephen Fry and Rowan atkinson .. you should watch that
Don't forget Rik Mayall
@@nicholasbaker9853 yes so so true
@@nicholasbaker9853 Who could forget Rik Mayall once seen never forgotten 😅
The thought that people claim to be a Hugh Laurie fan and haven’t seen Blackadder is confusing.
There's a lot of actors from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and the UK in Hollywood
What have they got to do with it ??
@@brianbrotherston5940 sorry you don't understand that a lot of the Hollywood actors aren't actually American. A lot of the rest of the world knows this, but not a lot US citizens do
There's so many that I'm wondering if there are any American actors in Hollywood 😅
@@Brightangel55 I doubt it as they are totally useless at acting !!
I'm aware that everybody knows she's English, but I think Kate Winslet at least deserves a mention for her American accent in Mare Of Easttown. I've heard Americans say that she even nailed the Pennsylvania accent!
I think Andrew Lincoln was in a channel 4 comedy called teachers in the uk very funny
He is my headmasters brother!
Also in This Life, great show.
Teachers was so underrated, it's hilarious 😂
@@Bs6rules very good series that.
'Christian Bales Welsh accent'
Nothing about that accent was Welsh 😂
He's English, born to English parents. He just so happened to be born in Wales due to his parents working circumstances at that moment.
If I'm not mistaken, you did an veritable paean-like reaction to Stephen Fry some months ago. Hugh Laurie and Fry met up whilst both were undergrads at Cambridge, almost 45 yrs ago. They are best friends and Fry was Laurie's groomsman at his wedding. In fact, the two, together with Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) and Dame Emma Thompson were all mates at Cambridge.
Thompson, Fry and Laurie all appear in the Young Ones episode 'Bambi'
best quote: 'Rah, Rah, Rah we're going to smash the oiks!'
Don't expect Tyler to read comments to him..
Wasn’t Kenneth Branagh amongst the mix?
They were all involved in Footlights, Cambridge's theatre club.
Stephen is also godfather to one of Hugh's children.
Hugh Laurie was famous as an actor in the UK long before he ever went over to the US. He was in things like Jeeves and Wooster on British TV in the early 1990s.
Yes, that's right, with Stephen Fry. Hugh plays a rather dim "toff" - upper class twit. Stephen plays his valet who gets him out of scrapes.
Hugh Laurie, yep. Not just English but super English. He played in Jeeves & Wooster with his old comedy mate Stephen Fry, and was Prince George the Prince Regent in Blackadder The Third and Lieutenant George Colthurst St Barleigh, or just plain Lt. George, in Blackadder Goes Forth. And if you haven’t reacted to any of the Blackadders then you should. They’re Rowan Atkinson shows but Blackadder Goes Forth has Stephen Fry in a lot as well.
Tom Hardy is one that I’m surprised American people don’t know he’s British. He uses a British accent in Inception and a number of other roles.
Johnny Depp although american he is very good at a british accent.
Love Johnny. In any accent.
@@ashleighhogan941 Me too, one of my all time fave actors, have a few of his films on dvd. But his British accent in sweeney Todd was awesome.
If you say pirate then people put on a certain accent.
This was first introduced in the 1950’s film Treasure Island by the actor who played the part of Long John Silver by him emphasising his native Cornish accent.
You will hear Geoffrey Rush using it as Captain Barbosa, but Johnny Depp is not tempted to do so and he is more London.
I think it was a wise decision on his part.
@@jocelynstephens7058 Exactly and yes definitely a wise decision in his part I agree.
Robert Newton
Here's a few more for you: The Wire: Dominic West (Sheffield) and Idris Elba (Hackney, London)
Hugh Lawrie plays alongside Rowan Atkinson in "Blackadder goes Forth"
Absolutely. I'd always recommend US Hugh Laurie fans start with Blackadder the Third, though (the previous series), since seeing Laurie play the hapless Prince Regent is probably the best contrast from Gregory House and is where his character in Blackadder goes Forth derives from as well. Specifically, I'd recommend starting with the Dr Johnson episode ("Ink and Incapability") as it also gives you the terrific opportunity to enjoy the Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from Harry Potter) as the famous but rather pompous English man of letters Dr Johnson. An absolute comedy classic.
And the earlier series Blackadder the third.
Andrew Lincoln real name is Andrew Clutterbuck, and his brother was my child's Head Teacher in school.
No wonder he changed his name!
Clutterbuck?
Really?
That’s brilliant 😂
Excellent name - that would fit well in the Dickensian novel
It's a simple equation...Brits study to become actors, Americans study to become stars. Brits work on becoming other characters, Americans practice signing autographs. The exceptions to this rule? Streep, Pacino and De Niro.
Don’t forget Dustin Hoffmann and to be fair his Brit accent in Peter Pan was outstanding and the only good thing about the film!!
Btw, if you want to see Christian Bale starring in a movie where he's obviously British, try his first leading role in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun. He's in almost every scene, and obviously British.
I've just said that too. Fabulous film. Isn't the opening song in Welsh? I think he was dubbed though.
Henry v.
@@Lily-Bravo Yes the song is an old Welsh lullaby, Suo Gân. On the film's soundtrack it was sung by James Rainbird, who was then a chorister at King's House in Richmond upon Thames.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 A haunting melody. Thanks for the detail. I used to live just up the road from that school.
One of my favorite movies. Watched it again about 6 months ago and now I realize it’s Christian Bale😮
Tom Hardy in Peaky Blinders was fabulous. The heavy accent he had in that show was incredible! Of course I had to use subtitles at first for all of the cast in Peaky Blinders in any case. From Canada 🇨🇦 with love ….
Carrie plays Sally Sparrow in the iconic episode of Doctor Who "The Weeping Angels".
The episode is actually called Blink. But yeh when she came on on screen I was oh that's that girl Sally sparrow off doctor who lol
Blink.
"Gone with the wind", una de las películas más icónicas del cine estadounidense, tiene a dos grandes actores británicos en ella: Vivian Leigh y Leslie Howard.
Tyler, darling, it's called acting.❤
American would be surprised just how many British actors there are on TV shows and films, plus American actors don't like playing villains, which the British excel
Bale is THE essential London boy. Like he couldn't be more London boy when he speaks. Also, Laurie is the most English actor out there almost. I've been thinking stiff upper class toff when i think of him since 1982 or so. And here in Denmark we had all the Comic Strip stuff and all the Blackadder roles for a long time. I even know Jeeves the butler to Frys upper class toff even though we didn't have that show. The regent in Blackadder is one of my faves of his.. so glad to live in Europe where we actually get UK stuff as soon as its made. To grow up without Python. The Young Ones and Blackadder seems like a nightmare to me. Scandinavia is amazing like that. They see art when its in front of them.
I guess because the research showed he was born in Wales he just assumed, I think he has never heard a Welsh accent
@@MsKaz1000 all americans do that.. say oh yeah welsh..or yeah scouse... But they're always full of shit. Why pretend you know the accents. 😏
Andrew Garfield is also in Doctor who for a couple of episodes.
Carey Mulligan was also in Doctor Who, in the episode called Blink
@@russbaxter1806 oh yeah i completley forgot
Tyler, you made me laugh more than once! Your naivete at 'being deceived' is so sweet!
(as a child C. Bale played in Empire of the Sun, in his own English, not Welsh accent)
Welcome to the world of movie magic! 😊
Lauren Cohen, from the walking dead who you see Rick speaking to, is also British. The o ly time I have heard her accent was on Super Natural.
I was mostly shocked by Andrew Lincoln(Rick) and Lenny James(Morgan) from The Walking Dead. They do an American accent SO PERFECTLY that my jaw dropped almost to the floor when I saw them doing an interview.
I was born and raised in Florida and the British accent is by far the greatest accent EVER. I also live the Cockney accent, I think that's one of the reasons I love the British TV Show Gimme Gimme Gimme.
It seems to be easier for Brits to do American accents then the other way around. One of the worst English accents (it is iconically bad) was Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins).
Apparently it was because David Tomlinson, who played Mr Banks taught him the accent and he was from a posh background and couldn't do a cockney accent either!
Hugh Laurie also competed in the Cambridge and Oxford Boat Race.
and releasedBlues albums!
@@user-wd1rf4nt3m No 'House does house' album? He missed a trick there.
You do know there are American actors who do British accents very well like Gwyneth Palteow, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Robert Downey Jr, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, Renee Zellweger, Don Cheadle, Anne Hathaway, Chloe Grace Moretz I'm quite sure though many more speak with a British accent.
In Britain we've been watching hugh Laurie since the 1980s and he's an immensely popular comedian/actor and was in so many films and programmes Jeeves and Worcester, Blackadder, Stuart little, 101 Dalmatians, and even in friends
If you want to see Tom Hardy at his best, watch "Legend", in which he plays both twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray, infamous London gangsters of the 1950s/60s
I thought Tom Hardy was brilliant as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, quite a while ago.
Band of brothers has a number of British actors in there too and as a Brit, I have to admit there American accents are just amazing.
What's most amusing about Hugh Lauries' portrayal of House is that in casting the show writer said we want a good American actor and Hugh sent in a tape from Africa that the producers saw as he acted American and they went thats our guy !! Only finding out he was english when they met him. 😅😅
Whats funnier is that in casting i think one of the producers said we want a scathing polymath and we're not getting a British actor for it, Hugh turned up and played and talked only as an American and the producer said he was the best choice, with the inevitable facepalm realisation to come!
Andrew Lincoln and half the cast of the walking dead are British. Have you never seen Blackadder, Hugh Laurie is in it. He also does a sitcom with Stephen Fry from the 90s called a bit of Fry & Laurie.
Tyler it’s that BUBBLE AGAIN AND HUGH DARCY IS MARRIED TO AMERICAN CLARE DANES ROSEMARY PIKE 👍 AND THEY FORGOT DAMIAN LEWIS FROM “BAND OF BROTHERS IN THE LEAD ROLE AND “HOMELAND “yes with Clare Danes HE BEEN IN LOAD OF MOVIES 🤣🤷♀️
we brits are really good at acting it is a Shakespeare thing actually
Few actors who come from my birth place south wales are. Anthony hopkins, Catherine
zeta jones, luke Evans Rhys Ifan's
Tyler your 'WATTT' mid sentence is amazing
He’s WATTT Tyler
amazingly fake
Perhaps he should be Watt Tyler - little bit of history
Hugh Laurie will always be George not Dr House :)
Bertie for me.
I've always enjoyed history, the battle of Hastings, Henry the viii and his six knives and all that. Lt George. As portrayed by Mr Hugh Laurie, Blackadder goes forth
I'm Swedish. To me he will always be the crazy prince in Blackadder.
@@Lily-Bravo Bertie for me, too! Greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮👋🏻😊
10:21- CAREY MULLIGAN - Guest appeared in one of Doctor Who's most favourite episodes ever... Blink'.
I've been trying to learn American accent and you seem to be an excellent role model. Cheers!
I'm Dutch but it cracks me up to see you this mindblown. The UK produces tremendous actors.
Unfortunately the Dutch actors that made it internationally are not very good 😂. Except Rutger Hauer.
Michiel Huisman?
@@campbellthomson252 His English accent is horrible. Nothing is worse than a Dutch-English accent. I think it has gotten better though. He was alright in "Haunting of Hill House".
Yea, but Rutger Hauer makes up for any lack of Dutch actors, particularly in Blade Runner
Andrew Lincoln's real surname is Clutterbuck ! He is married to pop flautist ( Scot ) Ian Anderson's daughter and they have three children.
I didn't know he was married to Ian Anderson's daughter!. I love Jethro Tull!
Hugh Laurie is a British icon, grew up watching him. Sam Palladio is a great young actor, sang & acted in Nashville TV show & just did a concert tour with some of the other cast. Brilliant.
Andrew lincloln was in a popular british programme callred this life in the 90s and he was also in teachers around 2000. So hes been around a good while in the UK
You need to watch a bit of Fry and Laurie or Blackadder, when the director of house saw the line up he said great I only want American actors in this, then the crew broke out laughing, he was taken back and finally asked why they were laughing, they told him house/Hugh Laurie was British he never knew and that was the director.
The first time I saw Andrew garfield. Was in red riding, about a young Bradford lad, whose mother was suspected of being a murder victim of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire ripper. In the end, he shoots Sean Bean, playing a gangsters in a curry house. I am from Bradford myself.
Hugh Lauroe was in one episode of Friends with a very British accent.
Jack Cutmore-Scott who plays Frederick "Freddy" Crane in the Frasier reboot is also British.
What would probably also shock Americans is that Hugh Laurie rowed for Cambridge in the famous Boat race between them and Oxford. He also rowed in the World Junior Rowing Championships.
Haven't you watched Blackadder before ?
Most americans don't get British humor. That should be a longer list though. There are several other brits that portray americans and unless you know who they are, you wouldn't guess they were brits..
So may great actors have been and are British. Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Stan Laurel, Kate Winslet, and so the list goes on 48 Oscars have been presented to Britain's for best acting.
Audrey Hepburn, if she was anything, was Dutch. Look up her playing a KLM air hostess when she was young. Maternal name is Heemstra, high society Arnhem name. She even helped in the resistance in Arnhem during WW2. Her grandfather was Mayor of Arnhem....
@@brian5154 Audrey Kathleen Ruston born in Belguim was a British Citizen known as Audrey Hepburn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn Heemstra was her mothers name
Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium and had British citizenship through her father. She was brought up and educated in England. Her mother took her to her mother's native Holland at the outbreak of WW2 thinking she'd be safer in a neutral country.
@@ashleighhogan941Hitler invaded Holland as a direct consequence of the blind eye turning/help the Dutch gave the British and French during the First World War
Hugh Laurie was in Blackadder. He was a comedian in the UK, who often worked with Stephen Fry.
Watch the various Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson- hugely comic and typically British
Christian Bale is not Welsh he was just born there to English parents. His accent sounds more like a Londoner (even though he's not from London either lol)
FOR SCOTLAND!!!
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Fun fact: Andrew Lincoln is my headmasters brother!
Nice!
Mr Clutterbuck?
@@pureholy yep
I love Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in Jeeves and Wooster.
I'm British and haven't heard of quite a few of these ....
Me too. Whatever happened to Henry Cavill (Superman) and Tom Holland (another Spiderman), both acting in quintessentially American roles?
@@leenorman853 Charlie Chaplin !
There's loads of Canadians who people think are American : Leslie Nielsen ( Airplane) William Shatner and James Doohan (Star Trek), Lorne Greene ( Bonanza) John Candy ( Cool Runnings) Michael J Fox ( Back to the Future) Dan Akroyd ( Blues Brothers) Donald Sutherland ( Kellys Heroes). the list goes on and on.
This is an unfair comment because Canadians have a North American accent and although they will hasten to deny this, they sound to us Brits as though they are American. As I lived in the USA many years ago I can usually tell the difference but most cannot. At least they still spell properly like labour, honour, harbour etc.
@@user-ee6oq8uv6d There is no comparison.. Of course it would be easy to assume Canadians are American so you are 100% correct. No one can be expected to recognize tiny nuances especially since there are 50 'Canadian' accents just as there are 50 'American' ones. As a Canadian I will say it's not surprising our celebrities are mistaken for American but the absolute SHOCK with which Americans react after discovering they aren't is ridiculous.. and the ensuing insult that they must be 'putting on an American accent' to fool people (this was actually said once by Tyler on the Canadian channel) just shows that apparently if a person doesn't sound like the stereotype conjured up by 'them' surely the person MUST be American. And thanks for the compliment on our stellar spelling 😉 (but we do use American Z spelling for words like realise, apologise, appetiser etc.)
Let's face it there isn't much difference is there. We share a history, language and a culture. But I agree.
Notable omissions from the list. Matthew Rhys (Phillip Jennings in The Americans), Owain Yeoman (Agent Rigsby in The Mentalist), Erin Richards (Barbara Kean in Gotham). All Welsh actors.
You should hear Jodie Comer from killing Eve she is British (Liverpool) but she can do any accent from any country!
Bob Hope Charlie Chaplain, Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Joann Collins, Laurel&Hardy
Cary Grant was from Bristol in England and moved to the USA at the age of sixteen. Vivien Leigh who played the classic southern belle Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind was also English.
Not Liz Taylor. She was American, born in London to American parents who returned to the US when Taylor was seven years old. So she might have had dual citizenship, but she was 100% American.
@@Essemm52 Born in London and raised there for seven years, does not make her 100% American, has your education system collapsed completely ?
@@Essemm52 British enough to be Dame Elizabeth Taylor DBE. Were she 100% American (presumably meaning USA), she would only be able to use the letters DBE after her name. She also renounced her US citizenship in 1965; as this was considered invalid as she had altered the oath of renunciation she repeated it validly in 1966. She applied for restoration in 1977. She held British citizenship for her entire life but not her US citizenship. So 100% American! 😂😂
Only Laurel, Oliver Hardy was from Georgia
Its so easy to recognize an american trying to talk british english
It's easy for a Brit to recognise, not so much an American. I think?
The most famous failed British accent is Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
And the gorgeous Keanu Reeves in Dracula but I'm sure there's been some great British accents done by Americans.
@@nidh1109 Trying hard to think of one . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
You obviously haven't seen Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher. Even in British interviews, she does a faultless British accent (received pronunciation).
He was also in the Blackadder series
Tyler I always enjoy your videos you also give the UK a lot of recognition and that's always very nice coming from an american who has plenty of things to be proud of as that. LOL are we gonna find out you are "Actually British"? Take care mate.
Wait until you see Hugh Laurie in Blackadder or with Stephen Fry, that’s gonna blow your mind 😂 Many of us have grown up with him over here
It has something to do with the good American accents many Brits can do. Many years ago I watched Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry playing Jeeves and Wooster. He also appears in Blackadder. He sings too, jazz. I think many Americans find this confusing because they find accents so hard to copy. Had to laugh at "a city called Staffordshire". A shire is never a city. I do cold readings of short plays and most of the group are American, though there are two Brits in there, but I'm the only one who can actually do other accents. Not sure what that says about me.
Yes, he does and plays the piano as well. I have his c.d on Spotify which I play quite often. I particularly like " Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" & "You don't know my Mind". Great band.
i love hugh laurie's friends cameo. he has his own accent in it
OK someone needs to watch some Blackadder!!!
I was thinking about the way he performs George in Blackadder Goes Forth, and the voice is so over the top, pretending to be from the US must have been easy after that lol.
Christian Bale isn’t Welsh, he is English and he doesn’t speak with a Welsh accent, he has an English accent
He even says himself he isn’t Welsh he’s English Although he was born in Haverfordwest to English parents.
I think he was born in Wales, wasn’t he? But yeah, his accent is not only not Welsh, it’s more the other end of the M4, and I’m pretty sure he describes himself as English.
@@Dasyurid being born in Wales doesn’t make him Welsh, he is English
@Dasyurid. Yes he was born in Wales and lived there for a couple of years. When he was older and moved to my hometown (Bournemouth), we lived round the corner from each other and used to play together on our bikes etc ... I was a bit of a tomboy.😊
@@Penddraig7 So being born in england doesn't make you english, just using your logic lol. He was BORN in Wales so that makes welsh even if he says he identifies as english.
Would love to see your take on British comedy 'Black Adder' the series Black Adder 2 " was epic.
Take a look at Cillian Murphy. He’s an Irish actor who came to fame in ‘Peaky Blinders’ and Tom Hardy also played a part in that. He’s since won the Oscar for his role in Openhiemer. He, and Tom Hardy really immerse themselves in the character s and accents. I’m from ‘The Black Country’ very near Birmingham, though there are slight dialect differences that no-one outside these regions would notice. Both these actors, especially Cilian got it spot on. That takes some doing to perfect our accent, because it’s so complicated. The nuances in our accent can’t be perfected lightly. We could spot an imposter a mile off.
British actors are [always] good at American accents? Have you ever heard of Jason Statham?
Statham does not try to do an American accent. He keeps his London accent in all his movies just like Michael Caine.
@@doommonger7784 that is how bad he is. In some movies he's trying to be American.
@@ClassicalGuitaristWannabe Don't you understand English, he never try's to be an American in any of his movies, he just happens to be an Englishman living in the USA playing the part of an Englishman.😬🙄
@@doommonger7784 I do understand English, thank you. And I think you're wrong. You can sort of hear that he's trying but failing miserably. Tries to roll his "R's" etc but it just comes out awful. He knows he can't do it so he speaks in a whisper most of the time. In "The Italian Job" he is British. But in "Cellular" he is trying to be an American.