History Main / FakeAmerican

** This is also true for the 2000's-era ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', which was also recorded in Vancover.

* English actor Robin Atkin Downes voices American Travis Touchdown in the ''NoMoreHeroes games''. He's also voiced {{Cyclops}} in a couple games, Kazuhira Miller in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.

** Creator/ScottMcNeil is freakin' everywhere in WesternAnimation, most of the time with fake accent (he's from Australia) - he's had '''several''' roles in Beast Wars, Wolverine in ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'', Stork in ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', Hack #2 in ''Reboot'' - and that's just the start.

* In the 1990s animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'', most American characters, such as Cyclops, Jean Grey, or Jubilee are voiced by Canadian actors. Professor X is voiced by an Englishman, and Rogue is voiced by Lenore Zann, an Australian raised in Canada (who spent time in LA before moving back to Canada).
** This is also true for the 2000's-era ''X-Men Evolution'', which was also recorded in Vancover.

* English actor Robin Atkin Downes voices American Travis Touchdown in the ''NoMoreHeroes games''. He's also voiced {{Cyclops}} in a couple games, Kazuhira Miller in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' and GeorgeWashington in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.

* Look at the early Music/LeningradCowboys: Finns [[FakeRussian who pretended to be Russians]] who, in turn, claimed to be Americans — [[OohMeAccentsSlipping with a thick fake Russian accent and hints of their native Finnish accent no less]].

* Creator/BobHope was born in England. His father was English and his mother was Welsh. Listening to old footage of him performing, you'd never know he wasn't an all-American boy from Ohio.

* Revy in ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' a Chinese-American, born in New York. In the episodes set in Japan, she gets a few lines in thickly-accented and stilted English, laden with profanity. [[note]]Which is why the dub is preferred by many fans, where Revy actually has an American accent.[[/note]]

* Though not technically the same thing, it is funny how so many British singers who, [[VocalDissonance when they speak, can barely be understood, yet when they sing, it's clear as day.]]

* In the AudioBook version of Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents, Stephen Briggs reads Maurice's lines in a pseudo-American accent, making him sound even more like a used car salesman.

* HughLaurie also wrote a novel called ''The Gun Seller'', in which certain of the American characters speak in a distinctly 'American' way, essentially by cursing excessively. Others talk completely normally. It's all based on whether or not we're meant to like them.

* Anthony [=LaPaglia=] also did the voice of a Noo Yawk/Noo Joisey mafia-type skua in ''HappyFeet''; HughJackman and NicoleKidman put on Southern accents as [[strike:Elvis]] Memphis and [[strike:Marilyn Monroe]] Norma Jean.

* ChristianBale, when playing an American character, will keep the accent during promotion and advertising. To hear his natural (and very prominent) Welsh accent can be quite jarring.

Fake Americans are usually Canadians, British or Irish (although Aussies, New Zealanders, and even South Africans have been known to fake American). This is usually done for biographical reasons, to allow for a familial relationship with another character with an [[AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American.

This can also be done within the United States, if someone is expected to speak with a very distinctive accent other than their own, e.g. actors with "neutral" accents doing a [[{{Fargo}} Minnesota]] or [[TheCloser Georgia]] accent.

* Revy in ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' a Chinese-American, born in New York. In the episodes set in Japan, she gets a few lines in thickly-accented and stilted English, laden with profanity.

* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Australian EmilyBrowning in TheFilmOfTheBook. She's American in accent only.

* In ''TheAmazingWorldofGumball'', British actress Teresa Gallagher affects an American accent for her role of Nicole Watterson.
** Actually, with the exception of the Watterson kids, every character on the show is played by a British actor doing an Amercian accent.

** ScottMcNeil is freakin' everywhere in WesternAnimation, most of the time with fake accent (he's from Australia) - he's had '''several''' roles in Beast Wars, Wolverine in ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'', Stork in ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', Hack #2 in ''Reboot'' - and that's just the start.

* StephenHawking. His voice synthesizer speaks in an American accent, but Hawking himself is a native of Oxford.

* Gillian Anderson, oddly enough. Though she was born in America, she moved to England when she was two and didn't move back until she was eleven, and by then her speech patterns had been set. She had to work to lose it when she went into acting, and if you pay attention to the early episodes of ''The X-Files'' it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force.

* The late Richard Dawson of ''FamilyFeud'' and ''Match Game'' fame was born and raised in England [[note]]with a very British name: Colin Lionel Emm[[/note] and only came over to the U.S. as a young actor sometime in the 1950s (when he was already in his twenties). Yet when he was a game show superstar in the 1970s and '80s, he sounded just like he was born and raised somewhere in Nebraska or Iowa.

* The late Richard Dawson of ''FamilyFeud'' and ''Match Game'' fame was born and raised in England (with a very British name, Colin Lionel Emm) and only came over to the U.S. as a young actor sometime in the 1950s (when he was already in his twenties). Yet when he was a game show superstar in the 1970s and '80s, he sounded just like he was born and raised somewhere in Nebraska or Iowa.

* Mark Meer (the guy who plays [[MassEffect Commander Shepard]]) is Canadian. He hides it pretty well, [[OohMeAccentsSlipping most of the time]].
** Though it's [[WildMassGuessing hypothetically possible]] that Shepard ''is'' Canadian...
*** At the beginning of Mass Effect 3, he has been staying at an Alliance military base in Vancouver for the past few months, but Anderson is there too, along with presumably many other Alliance Navy personnel who were not Canadian, so this issue is still up in the air.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Another fact that supports this]]: Female Shepard's voice actress, JenniferHale, is ''also'' Canadian.

** Canadians from Ontario, British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces[[hottip:*: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba]], and Anglophone Quebeckers already sound reasonably American. Newfies, Maritimers, people from the territories, and (obviously) French Quebecois usually have more distinctive accents, though how apparent the difference is will vary widely among both speakers and listeners.

* In the first couple ''RainbowSix'' games, the operatives, despite coming from countless ethnic/language backgrounds, all have American accents. Although the terrorists in the second game do have foreign accents, and the announcer has a British accent.

* TaraStrong, who is Canadian by birth but lives in L.A., in all kinds of roles both female [[CrossDressingVoice and male]], such as Batgirl in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Gotham Knights]]'', Bubbles in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Raven in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', both Timmy Turner and Poof in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Ben Tennyson in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'', and both Princess Clara and Toot Blaustein in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''.

*** At the beginning of Mass Effect 3, he has been staying at a military base in Vancouver for the past few months, so one can assume he is Canadian. Although Anderson is there too, even though he is British by birth.