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!

[@sammic7492]

Christian Bale does NOT have a Welsh accent, he has a London/Essex accent.

[@Penddraig7]

And he isn’t even Welsh

[@stue2298]

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.

[@melanierhianna]

@@Penddraig7 He was born in Haverford West so he is by birth, if not by ancestry.

[@vtbn53]

@@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.

[@Penddraig7]

@@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

[@stevenburgess2856]

Hugh Laurie is also a comedian. He, and Stephen Fry used to have their own shows in the 80s/90s.

[@mtburton909]

Jeeves and Wooster is a great one

[@nolajoy7759]

Just watched him today in a hilarious skit with Tracy Ullman about having Princess Margaret to lunch.

[@bandycoot1896]

Not forgetting Blackadder

[@wessexdruid7598]

And a musician.

[@MajiSylvamain]

Also Black Adder,

[@DJ_Sycottic]

I don't know what's funnier, Christian Bale having a Welsh accent or Staffordshire being a city?...😂

[@weetinka]

Stafford is the City...

[@christianfrost8660]

​@@weetinkaThey said Staffordshire not Stafford.

[@lillou6509]

it didnt sound very Welsh to me though lol

[@francesblackman9087]

Made me laugh too

[@cmin3783]

@@weetinka so if they said stafford they'd be correct, but they didn't, they said staffordshire

[@lordylou1]

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.

[@LouisJeffery-yf8hv]

Same, I’m from Plaistow

[@lordylou1]

@@LouisJeffery-yf8hv Plaistow near Kirdford?

[@robertoseveno]

Cool dude

[@chrisfrank2664]

He's one of best actors of this generation (lets say from 2000 from his role in Black Hawk Down) and one of my favorites. And the more stories I hear about him as a person away from work, in normal everyday life, all stories such as one you mentioned about him just make him seem like such a Great Man! Even with half of Hollywood actors being British ( couple Australians thrown in to confuse some Americans such as this video host), Tom Hardy is so big and known to be British and shouldn't be on this list.

[@robertoseveno]

@@lordylou1 Where abouts is that mate? Must be London way.. but it's a big blummim place.

[@anniemoore6455]

are you crazy "Hugh Laurie" is the quintessence of being English

[@LillacTyanu]

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

[@TheBuddhaPrime]

First film I saw Hugh in was Stewart little before seeing him in Blackadder

[@auldfouter8661]

Both his parents are Scottish.

[@boulevard14]

Tbf he's incredibly good at pretending to be American. The whole House persona.

[@Songfugel]

@@boulevard14 absolutely, he is a stellar character actor

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Hugh Laurie is actually famous for Americans thinking he's American.

[@allenjohnson7686]

i honestly think his american accent is really bad, as an english person.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@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.

[@BlueSunYoutube]

@@MostlyPennyCat Jeeeez, showing the US some Fry and Lawrie, or Blackadder might just fry their brains

[@Ladycraft-lk5tk]

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.

[@GodlessScummer]

​@@Ladycraft-lk5tkDominic West managed to pull that off once or twice in The Wire as well.

[@donsland1610]

Not only is Hugh Laurie a brilliant actor, he is a very good comedian and blues pianist who tours with his own band.

[@denniswilliams160]

And not only a blues pianist but also a Cambridge rowing blue in the 1980 Boat Race.

[@robertoseveno]

What a guy

[@mizztab3677]

My sister saw him perform his music in Carmel Indiana of all places back 2009-ish maybe

[@jimreid4367]

Hugh Laurie started his career as a comedy double act with Stephen Fry and then went on to be a regular in Blackadder .

[@KevinStansfield]

And Jeeves and Wooster

[@jocelynstephens7058]

And the video of - walking on broken glass - Annie Lenox.

[@admiralbenbow5083]

"Why are they called the 20 minuters Sir" ??

[@vomfuchs]

I love him in Black Adder....well, I love Black Adder 😁

[@triarb5790]

I've written a poem 'Boom Boom Boom'

[@julianbarber4708]

The other week, I saw an American woman, who was stunned that Brits invented trains. Darling, we invented your entire country!

[@sfrilix1781]

Ikr

[@nicholasgardiner2276]

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

[@Raggmopp-xl7yf]

Yeah - but Vivian Leigh doing a southern accent was just.....sad.

[@dee2251]

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.

[@robertoseveno]

Stan Laurel was a smart bloke. Didn't know Cary Grant was born in good ol' Blighty

[@dee2251]

@@Raggmopp-xl7yf disagree. Loved Gone with the Wind film and Vivian Leigh was a perfect Southern Belle.

[@njemilenantan5833]

You forgot Angela Lansbury.

[@TheYoungDoctor]

Staffordshire is a county not a city. He was born in Stoke on Trent which is a city in Staffordshire.

[@duncanliath]

was about to make same comment - you beat me to it 😁

[@sharonmartin4036]

@@duncanliath LOL. Me too. 🤣😅

[@billyhills9933]

Staffordshire is my city.

[@sharonmartin4036]

@@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.

[@invexed]

​@@sharonmartin4036 The joke went right over your head. Google "England is my city" 😊

[@R.James2140]

'He was born in a city called Staffordshire'.... eye roll.

[@Bryt25]

Hey, it could happen :-)

[@AltCutTV]

Dogeville.

[@8BitBex]

Instead of being born in the small town of California.

[@stumccabe]

The fact that they can pull off such convincing accents shows how mega-talented some of these actors are!

[@breeinatree4811]

Unlike Keven Costner 😂

[@Bryt25]

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 :-)

[@Raggmopp-xl7yf]

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.

[@robertoseveno]

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 😊

[@AltCutTV]

When seeing the credits crawl on many of his films: "Good old Gary was in this. Which part was for that name.. Oh, he was the main character!"

[@londonbobby]

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.

[@ChuckstaGaming]

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.

[@t.carole5014]

I loved Jeeves & Wooster and blackadder!

[@bernadettespeakman355]

​@@t.carole5014Black Adder was hilarious. I made a point in watching every episode. Even the opening was funny. It was worth waiting all week for the next episode. PS I am Brit, but getting old now. This discussion has been great.

[@michaelmiddleton4253]

Upper class ??? Lol he was born in blackbird leys which was a even bigger shit hole than it is now and I'm from Hull lol

[@tmac160]

The 30 year British TV career of Hugh Laurie gone in a flash.

[@ziggythedrummer]

A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Jeeves & Wooster, Blackadder - the man is a legend :)

[@uppyraptor49]

The british are outstanding actors!

[@robhingston]

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

[@rebeccablackburn9487]

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!!

[@Bryt25]

We love the back and forth of ideas between both countries, music was and is a fantastic example.

[@clairebuckley4421]

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

[@EinSofQuester]

And Rock musicians

[@helenroberts1107]

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

[@Raggmopp-xl7yf]

I didn't know that! I would have laid cash-money he was a Brit!

[@cleobarr1723]

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🤪😜😝😛🤤🫣

[@HulaHula667]

Alexis Denisoff (Wesley) as well tbh - though he lived in the UK for a while

[@ChuckstaGaming]

@@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.

[@HulaHula667]

@@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!

[@richardwani2803]

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

[@rockrane1]

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🤯

[@chriskates3722]

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

[@speleokeir]

Don't forget in Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry. He's brilliant at playing upper-class twits.

[@jocelynstephens7058]

And the video of - Walking on broken glass - Annie Lenox.

[@PC1974]

Love Hugh Laurie. So talented yet very humble.

[@robertoseveno]

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

[@robertoseveno]

@@speleokeir yeah he would have fitted in perfectly with the Monty Pythons 😁

[@queenslanddiva]

OMG. There are famous people who aren't American!! Who would ever have thought that

[@alisonw5150]

I know, how very dare we 😂

[@Linda_Hio]

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

[@queenslanddiva]

@@Linda_Hio my English sarcasm is Australian.

[@GiannaEmme]

😂😂😂

[@steveb1972]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@robk5159]

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.

[@RippySharp]

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!!

[@mezzoca8110]

Quite a few English actors aren’t that good though. And American tv shows they import the actors are pretty good. Meghan Markles show Suits and the other actors are actually rather well filmed and done I thought.

[@robk5159]

@@mezzoca8110 Let me correct you, I refered British actors not just English. Why you mention Markle I don't know, she was cast as eye candy, low cut clothing certainly skirts so tight one can see what she had for breakfast, actor she is not. It is not my assertion that all American actors are poor actors I have provided exceptions to this rule, similarity then not every British actor will be a "Lord Olivier ". Acting is a craft and must be practiced for years, experience is gained from travelling with theatre groups and learning every facet of the craft. Are there poor British actors? God yes, many try to short cut the process and can become "adequate " and make a living not on stage but perhaps on TV or radio, but the will never be "great". The law of averages will provide a few naturally talented greats will come to the fore however the ratio of masters of the craft from Britain will always be greater because they put in the hard work.

[@Taro69gb]

Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Evan Peters, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Daynes, Meryl Streep... though American, are great actors. Hollywood in general is really naff and out of touch but those are true artistes.

[@04nimmot]

The thought that people claim to be a Hugh Laurie fan and haven’t seen Blackadder is confusing.

[@wessexdruid7598]

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.

[@jacquieclapperton9758]

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.

[@doommonger7784]

You can now add young Millie Bobby Brown.

[@jsemplefelton5348]

Linus Roache - Law & Order.

[@gordonjohn]

@@jacquieclapperton9758 Jamie Bamber was in Ultimate Force with Ross Kemp before he made it in America.

[@jacquieclapperton9758]

@@gordonjohn I have no idea what that was but did he have an American accent in it and was it big in the USA? Would most Americans think that he was an American actor from it or from the huge phenomenon that was Battlestar Galactica? I have no idea as I've never heard of it; I've only seen Ross Kemp in his military or gangland documentaries.

[@Galantus1964]

Hugh Laurie is also in Blackadder, with stephen Fry and Rowan atkinson .. you should watch that

[@nicholasbaker9853]

Don't forget Rik Mayall

[@Galantus1964]

@@nicholasbaker9853 yes so so true

[@susangardner6059]

​@@nicholasbaker9853 Who could forget Rik Mayall once seen never forgotten 😅

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

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.

[@richardhockey8442]

Thompson, Fry and Laurie all appear in the Young Ones episode 'Bambi' best quote: 'Rah, Rah, Rah we're going to smash the oiks!'

[@wessexdruid7598]

Don't expect Tyler to read comments to him..

[@jujutrini8412]

Wasn’t Kenneth Branagh amongst the mix?

[@jsemplefelton5348]

They were all involved in Footlights, Cambridge's theatre club.

[@JoLloyd-i8d]

Stephen is also godfather to one of Hugh's children.

[@drlizzardo4373]

After a few of your videos the lack of knowledge of anything beyond the US astounds me,

[@jasminejones7389]

stunning, isn't it?

[@whoseturnisit9733]

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.

[@alanmoss3603]

@@whoseturnisit9733 They are about to get even more insular!

[@lanamack1558]

​@@whoseturnisit9733many US-Americans don't realise there is a life outside the US.

[@njemilenantan5833]

True.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

There's a lot of actors from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and the UK in Hollywood

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

@@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

[@Brightangel55]

There's so many that I'm wondering if there are any American actors in Hollywood 😅

[@rachaeljones4850]

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.

[@Dasyurid]

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.

[@patriciacrangle8244]

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

[@Songfugel]

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

[@carolinejohnson22]

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...😅

[@ryjawa]

'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.

[@MyLunaRose]

You should hear Jodie Comer from killing Eve she is British (Liverpool) but she can do any accent from any country!

[@robsnoxell7158]

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!

[@Chris_GY1]

Watch Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Night Manager to name a few things Hugh Laurie Stars in.

[@tishlomellini1096]

Love Jeeves and Wooster

[@okgrapefruit1191]

It’s like Blackadder never existed!!! My mind is blown.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

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.

[@Lily-Bravo]

I've just said that too. Fabulous film. Isn't the opening song in Welsh? I think he was dubbed though.

[@SeanSenior-f8b]

Henry v.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

@@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.

[@Lily-Bravo]

@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 A haunting melody. Thanks for the detail. I used to live just up the road from that school.

[@amywalker3647]

One of my favorite movies. Watched it again about 6 months ago and now I realize it’s Christian Bale😮

[@jeffknight904]

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.

[@richardhockey8442]

Here's a few more for you: The Wire: Dominic West (Sheffield) and Idris Elba (Hackney, London)

[@davependragon1]

Andrew Lincoln real name is Andrew Clutterbuck, and his brother was my child's Head Teacher in school.

[@unilincunilinc3857]

No wonder he changed his name!

[@user-blob]

Clutterbuck? Really? That’s brilliant 😂

[@ChuckstaGaming]

Excellent name - that would fit well in the Dickensian novel

[@carolineskipper6976]

'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!

[@AltCutTV]

Not everyone have seen LotR I suppose. ;D

[@stuartfitch7093]

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.

[@alysonhopkins2037]

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.

[@eddihaskell]

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).

[@nicksyb5920]

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!

[@James00785]

Do you think? Try frasier, daphne's brother for the wedding, he has the most annoying brit accent ever made. Very bad acting...

[@James00785]

Anthony Lapaglia plays Simon..

[@ebbhead20]

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.

[@MsKaz1000]

I guess because the research showed he was born in Wales he just assumed, I think he has never heard a Welsh accent

[@ebbhead20]

@@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. 😏

[@alantentevier4018]

…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.

[@EinSofQuester]

No way is Chaplin British. WTF are you talking about?

[@lockdowneric9919]

Born in London

[@amac2573]

Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium.

[@alantentevier4018]

@@EinSofQuester Not only was he British but the Americans took advantage of this fact to refuse him re-entry to the United States when he went abroad temporarily, because he was considered a "commie". Please try to be less abusive when making ill-informed comments.

[@alantentevier4018]

@@amac2573 Her father was a British subject, she was educated in England as a child and , later, as a dancer. Her father's nationality entitled her to British Subject status.

[@chrissimmons5611]

I think Andrew Lincoln was in a channel 4 comedy called teachers in the uk very funny

[@pro_ploperz]

He is my headmasters brother!

[@Bs6rules]

Also in This Life, great show.

[@julialk4536]

Teachers was so underrated, it's hilarious 😂

[@penningtonlfc]

@@Bs6rules very good series that.

[@BarbaraGrosvenor]

Hugh Lawrie plays alongside Rowan Atkinson in "Blackadder goes Forth"

[@russetmantle1]

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.

[@clinging54321]

And the earlier series Blackadder the third.

[@nancyrafnson4780]

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 ….

[@anthonypatterson1074]

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.

[@EinSofQuester]

What? Johnny Depp is American? Like WTF?

[@giftofthewild6665]

Johnny depp's British accent sucks though. Meryl Streep and rene zellweger are very convincing. Anne hathaway is pretty good.

[@bobclarke1815]

Carrie plays Sally Sparrow in the iconic episode of Doctor Who "The Weeping Angels".

[@Lee-kf9tq]

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

[@user-blob]

Blink.

[@emmahowells8334]

Johnny Depp although american he is very good at a british accent.

[@ashleighhogan941]

Love Johnny. In any accent.

[@emmahowells8334]

@@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.

[@jocelynstephens7058]

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.

[@emmahowells8334]

@@jocelynstephens7058 Exactly and yes definitely a wise decision in his part I agree.

[@clinging54321]

Robert Newton

[@mikedavies1827]

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.

[@Zandain]

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! 😊

[@billyhills9933]

Hugh Laurie also competed in the Cambridge and Oxford Boat Race.

[@DavidHubball-x2q]

and releasedBlues albums!

[@billyhills9933]

@@DavidHubball-x2q No 'House does house' album? He missed a trick there.

[@marieparker3822]

Tyler, darling, it's called acting.❤

[@nicolafenner6260]

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

[@bartman9400]

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.

[@AguedaG]

"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.

[@Beau667]

You should see Hugh Lawrie in Blackadder. 😂❤

[@wrightpat]

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

[@EinSofQuester]

The British control Hollywood.

[@ziggythedrummer]

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

[@dotregan1506]

I thought Tom Hardy was brilliant as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, quite a while ago.

[@gemmabarnes]

Andrew Garfield is also in Doctor who for a couple of episodes.

[@russbaxter1806]

Carey Mulligan was also in Doctor Who, in the episode called Blink

[@Missy.master13]

@@russbaxter1806 oh yeah i completley forgot

[@gordonjohn]

Series 3 Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks alongside David Tennant's doctor

[@jancarey4036]

Rosalind Pike was a Bond girl when she was 23 in Die Another Day. She was also in a Johnny English film, the funny Bond wind up film.

[@tonycapri2608]

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!

[@ashleywebster2135]

Maybe many British actors are good is due to the wide range of accents we have in Britian. They may find it a bit easier to adapt.

[@stephenhodgson3506]

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.

[@BadAssSykO]

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.

[@gordonjohn]

Lenny James was in the British film Snatch before he made it in America

[@idontsignin]

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.

[@LalaDepala_00]

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.

[@campbellthomson252]

Michiel Huisman?

[@LalaDepala_00]

@@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".

[@MaryB-tx2xq]

Yea, but Rutger Hauer makes up for any lack of Dutch actors, particularly in Blade Runner

[@emma_LouLondoner]

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)

[@alexcovey1200]

FOR SCOTLAND!!!

[@emmahowells8334]

🤦🏻🤦🏻🤣

[@raindancer6111]

As the UK is known for its multitude of regional accents which our actors have to learn to accommodate for domestic work it should be no surprise that they can adjust to American ones. Plus they are ACTORS.

[@laguna3fase4]

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.

[@Rob-t4z7x]

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.

[@mw-wl2hm]

​@@Rob-t4z7x 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.)

[@alantentevier4018]

...and most importantly: Pamela Anderson!

[@isuckatguitar6252]

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.

[@auldfouter8661]

Andrew Lincoln's real surname is Clutterbuck ! He is married to pop flautist ( Scot ) Ian Anderson's daughter and they have three children.

[@elainemcguinness3962]

I didn't know he was married to Ian Anderson's daughter!. I love Jethro Tull!

[@aaron_p12]

Tyler your 'WATTT' mid sentence is amazing

[@johnmayhew9769]

He’s WATTT Tyler

[@lukespooky]

amazingly fake

[@clinging54321]

Perhaps he should be Watt Tyler - little bit of history

[@mw-wl2hm]

You must've missed my comment on another video where I said he's a drinking game... every time he says 'WHAT!' you take a drink.. 😆

[@TheWebcrafter]

10:21- CAREY MULLIGAN - Guest appeared in one of Doctor Who's most favourite episodes ever... Blink'.

[@productjoe4069]

American accents are somewhat easier for British actors than vice versa because they’re ‘simpler’. American accents have fewer vowel sounds (14-16 compared to 20-25), fewer vowel length distinctions (‘two o’clock’, ‘three o’clock’ and ‘four o’clock’ take roughly the same amount of time to say in American accents but different times to say in British ones), simpler stress rules (British accents mutate unstressed vowels to bring them closer to schwa, but not all the way), and simplified diphthongs and triphthongs compared to many British accents (look at the Geordie accent for an example of complex diphthongs like the different vowel sounds and prosody in ‘moor’ vs ‘school’). British speech also tends to be faster overall, which means an American actor would need to be juggling all these more complicated changes under a lot more pressure than the British actor.

[@josiecoote8975]

Yes, just think of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins!

[@uppyraptor49]

Its so easy to recognize an american trying to talk british english

[@sharonmartin4036]

It's easy for a Brit to recognise, not so much an American. I think?

[@stue2298]

The most famous failed British accent is Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in Mary Poppins.

[@nidh1109]

And the gorgeous Keanu Reeves in Dracula but I'm sure there's been some great British accents done by Americans.

[@sharonmartin4036]

@@nidh1109 Trying hard to think of one . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[@leenorman853]

You obviously haven't seen Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher. Even in British interviews, she does a faultless British accent (received pronunciation).

[@Jee123123]

Hugh Laurie will always be George not Dr House :)

[@Lily-Bravo]

Bertie for me.

[@timothyhartwell2849]

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

[@lisso71]

I'm Swedish. To me he will always be the crazy prince in Blackadder.

[@Gittas-tube]

​@@Lily-Bravo Bertie for me, too! Greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮👋🏻😊

[@davidmalarkey1302]

This just shows you are totally unaware of anything outside of your American bubble. It shouldn't be bizarre like many Americans you just assume everything.

[@keefsmiff]

and that's exactly the point of this channel, why not follow an English bloke talking about himself?, sounds like it would be more suitable maybe?

[@miguelrodrigo3875]

Hugh Laurie is an American with the most perfect British Accent! Hahahaha

[@MaoZhu-j6q]

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.

[@brian5154]

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....

[@MaoZhu-j6q]

@@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

[@ashleighhogan941]

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.

[@clinging54321]

​@@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

[@pro_ploperz]

Fun fact: Andrew Lincoln is my headmasters brother!

[@gaby.lowkeyxx3384]

Nice!

[@pureholy]

Mr Clutterbuck?

[@pro_ploperz]

@@pureholy yep

[@MishaSims]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 i'm laughing because i know all these people are british lol i watched most of these actors in shows on the bbc long before they were on american tv. you reactions crack me up

[@ronturner9850]

Watch the various Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson- hugely comic and typically British

[@888bangthory]

You don’t get more British than Hugh Laurie, well known for playing the archetypal well spoken stiff upper lip English gentleman

[@deanmitchell4233]

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.

[@SeanSenior-f8b]

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.

[@rosaliegolding5549]

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 🤣🤷‍♀️

[@camoTiaras]

Haven't you watched Blackadder before ?

[@Jadyra]

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..

[@gordonjohn]

Hugh Laurie did a lot of British shows before America. Shows like Blackadder. He was also in the live action version of 101 Dalmations film where he played a British Dog napper criminal. Andrew Gardield was actually in British show Doctor Who before he made it in Hollywood. Andrew Lincoln originally quit the Walking Dead because his family missed the UK. He was actually in a British show called Teachers before The Walking Dead. Carey Mulligan was also in Doctor Who before hitting it big time, She played Sally Sparrow in the episode Blink Tom Hardy has done British films. He even played Picard's clone in Star Trek Nemesis. Christian Bale was born in Wales, but so much of his life in England he classes himself as English. But Bale has been making American films since the 1980s with films such as Empire of the Sun. Taaron Edgerton is the opposite. He was born in England but raised in Wales so he classes himself as Welsh. He even speaks Welsh Rosamund Pike has been in 2 different films where she played someone who worked for the British Intelligence Service. James Bond Die Another Day and Johnny English Strikes back. OK do you want to here one actor who everyone believes is Canadian but was actually born in the UK that is not on the list and this reveal was done by the actor himself in an interview. The actor is KEIFER SUTHERLAND. He revealed his parents were over here as his father was making a film when his mother gave birth to him and his twin sister. Also Slash from the American Rock group Guns and Roses is British Tim Roth is someone who has played a lot of American roles but is actually British Ioan Gruffudd has played a lot of American Roles but is actually Welsh. His first language is actually Welsh. English was the second language he learned Toby Kebbel who has been in films like Fantastic 4 2015, War For the Planet of the Apes and Kong Skull Island is British Erin Richards who played Barbara Keane in the TV series Gotham is Welsh. She comes from my hometown. But here are some who people think who are either British or American but aren't BRUCE WILLIS. Bruce was actually born in Germany EMMA WATSON. She was actually born in France.

[@margaretorange815]

Hugh Lauroe was in one episode of Friends with a very British accent.

[@TheRealRedAce]

Hugh Laurie was in Blackadder. He was a comedian in the UK, who often worked with Stephen Fry.

[@thealternativeview2692]

Let's face it there isn't much difference is there. We share a history, language and a culture. But I agree.

[@ComtesseRochefort]

Jack Cutmore-Scott who plays Frederick "Freddy" Crane in the Frasier reboot is also British.

[@melanierachaelbennett8861]

Few actors who come from my birth place south wales are. Anthony hopkins, Catherine zeta jones, luke Evans Rhys Ifan's

[@Belaugh]

Richard Burton, Michael Sheen

[@karaperrio-du5gs]

we brits are really good at acting it is a Shakespeare thing actually

[@stevensmith204]

Bob Hope Charlie Chaplain, Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Joann Collins, Laurel&Hardy

[@jacquieclapperton9758]

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.

[@Essemm52]

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.

[@stevensmith204]

@@Essemm52 Born in London and raised there for seven years, does not make her 100% American, has your education system collapsed completely ?

[@jacquieclapperton9758]

@@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! 😂😂

[@StrikingAlexa]

Only Laurel, Oliver Hardy was from Georgia

[@robertjackson3552]

Laurie's American accent was so convincing that executive producer Bryan Singer, who was unaware at the time that Laurie was British, pointed to him as an example of just the kind of "compelling American actor" he had been looking for.

[@TraceyMcArthur-c5e]

OK someone needs to watch some Blackadder!!!

[@nenasadie]

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.

[@laurawhitehouse2333]

Watching Tyler’s mind get absolutely blown by Hugh Laurie being British 😂 I think I first saw him in blackadder decades ago. He’s a brilliant comedian, musician, and best friend of Stephen Fry.

[@matthowes249]

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