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Note that this trope does not apply to non-American actors who are not trying to disguise their accent or origin. Nor should it apply to foreign-born actors raised in America such as Creator/NataliePortman or Creator/MilaKunis, as long as they don't have to fake an accent. America is a nation of immigrants after all, and it isn't all that unusual to meet people who were born or raised overseas, or natural-born Americans who carry an accent from growing up in an ethnic neighborhood. Expect such situations to be Lampshaded, however, especially if the actor in question has a relatively heavy accent, like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger (who, for the record, does not qualify for this trope because while he was born in Austria, he is now a naturalized American). Note also that the majority of Canada is within the USA's dialect continuum, thus most Canadian actors have absolutely no difficulty faking being a generic American (it's when the accent required ''isn't'' a generic one that this comes into play).
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Note that this trope does not apply to non-American actors who are not trying to disguise their accent or origin. Nor should it apply to foreign-born actors raised in America such as Creator/NataliePortman or Creator/MilaKunis, (Israeli), Creator/MilaKunis (Ukrainian Jewish) and Creator/ElizabethTaylor (British), as long as they don't have to fake an accent. America is a nation of immigrants after all, and it isn't all that unusual to meet people who were born or raised overseas, or natural-born Americans who carry an accent from growing up in an ethnic neighborhood. Expect such situations to be Lampshaded, however, especially if the actor in question has a relatively heavy accent, like Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger (who, for the record, does not qualify for this trope because while he was born in Austria, he is now a naturalized American). Note also that the majority of Canada is within the USA's dialect continuum, thus most Canadian actors have absolutely no difficulty faking being a generic American (it's when the accent required ''isn't'' a generic one that this comes into play).
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The United States has the largest native English-speaking population in the world -- about 300 million -- and due to the tremendous global influence of American-produced media, most non-Americans are familiar with the country's dialects and accents, and assume them easy to imitate. Thus it's not uncommon for ''any'' non-American actor to be asked to sound American for a part.
Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share two thirds of their name with each other and the southwestern third of the former was the northern half of the latter before 1848, or Jamaican (has its own distinct accent, known as Jamaican Patois) or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
According to a documentary, in 2008 one-third of all piloted American TV series had British people in a starring or main supporting role, so this is expanding almost beyond the boundaries of trope. There are honestly so many actors playing fake Americans in games, TV shows, and movies as of late, most people that aren't familiar with many of the actors from across the pond assume they're American.
Britons who essay an American accent will usually opt to make the accent "colorful", and preferably Eastern. Expect to hear something along the lines of a) "salty" New Englander; b) Connecticut "blue-blood"; c) New Yorker, typically of the "Brooklyn" variety; or even d) Southern, usually something from Georgia or the Carolinas but occasionally Appalachian, Ozark, or even Texan. This is because the Eastern, and especially Northeastern accents share many phonetic quirks with British dialects, such as the broadening of vowels or the dropping of "r's." It is rare to hear one of these actors attempt, say, a California accent - but it is not unheard of. In those cases, overcorrection of final "r"s is a common tell ("picture" pronounced "pickshurr", say).
Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share two thirds of their name with each other and the southwestern third of the former was the northern half of the latter before 1848, or Jamaican (has its own distinct accent, known as Jamaican Patois) or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
According to a documentary, in 2008 one-third of all piloted American TV series had British people in a starring or main supporting role, so this is expanding almost beyond the boundaries of trope. There are honestly so many actors playing fake Americans in games, TV shows, and movies as of late, most people that aren't familiar with many of the actors from across the pond assume they're American.
Britons who essay an American accent will usually opt to make the accent "colorful", and preferably Eastern. Expect to hear something along the lines of a) "salty" New Englander; b) Connecticut "blue-blood"; c) New Yorker, typically of the "Brooklyn" variety; or even d) Southern, usually something from Georgia or the Carolinas but occasionally Appalachian, Ozark, or even Texan. This is because the Eastern, and especially Northeastern accents share many phonetic quirks with British dialects, such as the broadening of vowels or the dropping of "r's." It is rare to hear one of these actors attempt, say, a California accent - but it is not unheard of. In those cases, overcorrection of final "r"s is a common tell ("picture" pronounced "pickshurr", say).
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The United States has the largest native English-speaking population in the world -- about 300 million -- and due to the tremendous global influence of American-produced media, most non-Americans are familiar with the country's dialects and accents, accents and assume them easy to imitate. Thus it's not uncommon for ''any'' non-American actor to be asked to sound American for a part.
Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) sharetwo thirds two-thirds of their name with each other and the southwestern third of the former was the northern half of the latter before 1848, or Jamaican (has its own distinct accent, known as Jamaican Patois) or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
According to a documentary, in 2008 one-third of all piloted American TV series had British people in a starring or main supporting role, so this is expanding almost beyond the boundaries of the trope. There are honestly so many actors playing fake Americans in games, TV shows, and movies as of late, most people that aren't familiar with many of the actors from across the pond assume they're American.
Britons who essay an American accent will usually opt to make the accent "colorful", and preferably Eastern. Expect to hear something along the lines of a) "salty" New Englander; b) Connecticut "blue-blood"; c) New Yorker, typically of the "Brooklyn" variety; or even d) Southern, usually something from Georgia or the Carolinas but occasionally Appalachian, Ozark, or even Texan. This is because the Eastern, and especially Northeastern accents share many phonetic quirks with British dialects, such as the broadening of vowels or the dropping of "r's." It is rare to hear one of these actorsattempt, attempts, say, a California accent - -- but it is not unheard of. In those cases, the overcorrection of final "r"s is a common tell ("picture" pronounced "pickshurr", say).
Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share
According to a documentary, in 2008 one-third of all piloted American TV series had British people in a starring or main supporting role, so this is expanding almost beyond the boundaries of the trope. There are honestly so many actors playing fake Americans in games, TV shows, and movies as of late, most people that aren't familiar with many of the actors from across the pond assume they're American.
Britons who essay an American accent will usually opt to make the accent "colorful", and preferably Eastern. Expect to hear something along the lines of a) "salty" New Englander; b) Connecticut "blue-blood"; c) New Yorker, typically of the "Brooklyn" variety; or even d) Southern, usually something from Georgia or the Carolinas but occasionally Appalachian, Ozark, or even Texan. This is because the Eastern, and especially Northeastern accents share many phonetic quirks with British dialects, such as the broadening of vowels or the dropping of "r's." It is rare to hear one of these actors
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* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'''s Kanuka Clancy is supposed to be a NYC cop of Hawaiian descent, but her voice actor's awkward, heavily accented English says otherwise.
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* Deliberately invoked in the dub for ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', which was recorded by Creator/TheOceanGroup in Vancover. An omake for one episode in the original Japanese had the seiyuu re-record a scene using thick Osaka accents. The dub adapted this to the voice actors acting like they were from the DeepSouth. They're... not that good at it.
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* Deliberately invoked in the dub for ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', which was recorded by Creator/TheOceanGroup in Vancover.Vancouver. An omake for one episode in the original Japanese had the seiyuu re-record a scene using thick Osaka accents. The dub adapted this to the voice actors acting like they were from the DeepSouth. They're... not that good at it.
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*** In the comicbook ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', an Irish [[spoiler:vampire]] on one occasion impersonates his Texan friend, le stories.
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* [=Bis=], the band who perform the ending theme to ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', are Scottish.
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** "The People's Choice" Bobby Calloway was billed from Manhattan (even on his [[{{Kayfabe}} Twitter account]]) but is actually British. The accent was pretty convincing however.
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* The short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTFUpfkfao NAM]]'' features a traumatised soldier from the Vietnam War - played by Liverpool native Luke Anthony Jr.
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* Quick! Where was Creator/SarahMichelleGellar born? If you said "New York City", you're correct - but you also have a bit too much time on your hands. You'd otherwise have a hard time guessing, since [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer her most famous role]] is that of a Southern Californian.
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* Quick! Where was Creator/SarahMichelleGellar born? If you said "New York City", you're correct - -- but you also have a bit too much time on your hands. You'd otherwise have a hard time guessing, since [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer her most famous role]] is that of a Southern Californian.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' has Creator/BillNighy as Rattlesnake Jake and Creator/IslaFisher as Beans, putting on accents appropriate to the American Southwest setting. The actors are English and Australian respectively.
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* Creator/BurtReynolds was from Michigan but was known for playing Southerners.
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* In the AudioAdaptation 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.
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* In the AudioAdaptation version of ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'', ''Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'', Stephen Briggs reads Maurice's lines in a pseudo-American accent, making him sound even more like a used car salesman.
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* The "Wacky Wild Kool-Aid Style" and "human cartoon" ads for Kool-Aid were done by a British firm (Creator/MovingPictureCompany) for an American advertising agency (Grey Global Group), so naturally there were many instances of this trope (with the exception of Kool-Aid man's V.A., Richard Berg).
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* The "Wacky Wild Kool-Aid Style" and "human cartoon" ads for Kool-Aid were done by a British firm (Creator/MovingPictureCompany) for an American advertising agency (Grey Global Group), so naturally there were many instances of this trope (with the exception of Kool-Aid man's V.A., Richard Berg).
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* Creator/JohnWayne often played Texans, and his loping voice fit that setting well, but other than living his first few years in his birth state of Iowa, he was a Southern Californian.
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* [[Characters/WWEAttitude Val Venis]], WWE's [[WrestlingDoesntPay wrestling porn star]], was billed from Las Vegas, although Sean Morley, the real guy, is from Markham, Ontario, Canada.
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* [[Characters/WWEAttitude Val Venis]], Wrestling/ValVenis, WWE's [[WrestlingDoesntPay wrestling porn star]], was billed from Las Vegas, although Sean Morley, the real guy, is from Markham, Ontario, Canada.
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Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share two thirds of their name with each other and the southwestern third of the former was the northern half of the latter before 1848, or Jamaican or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
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Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share two thirds of their name with each other and the southwestern third of the former was the northern half of the latter before 1848, or Jamaican (has its own distinct accent, known as Jamaican Patois) or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
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Britons who essay an American accent will usually opt to make the accent "colorful", and preferably Eastern. Expect to hear something along the lines of a) "salty" New Englander; b) Connecticut "blue-blood"; c) New Yorker, typically of the "Brooklyn" variety; or d) Southern, usually something from Georgia or the Carolinas but occasionally Appalachian, Ozark, or even Texan. This is because the Eastern accents share many phonetic quirks with British dialects, such as the broadening of vowels or the dropping of "r's." It is rare to hear one of these actors attempt, say, a California accent - but it is not unheard of. In those cases, overcorrection of final "r"s is a common tell ("picture" pronounced "pickshurr", say).
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Britons who essay an American accent will usually opt to make the accent "colorful", and preferably Eastern. Expect to hear something along the lines of a) "salty" New Englander; b) Connecticut "blue-blood"; c) New Yorker, typically of the "Brooklyn" variety; or even d) Southern, usually something from Georgia or the Carolinas but occasionally Appalachian, Ozark, or even Texan. This is because the Eastern Eastern, and especially Northeastern accents share many phonetic quirks with British dialects, such as the broadening of vowels or the dropping of "r's." It is rare to hear one of these actors attempt, say, a California accent - but it is not unheard of. In those cases, overcorrection of final "r"s is a common tell ("picture" pronounced "pickshurr", say).
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Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share two thirds of their name with each other, or Jamaican or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
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Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share two thirds of their name with each other, other and the southwestern third of the former was the northern half of the latter before 1848, or Jamaican or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
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American. Interestingly enough, the Fake American is not usually Mexican, even though the United States of America and The United Mexican States (official name of Mexico) share two thirds of their name with each other, or Jamaican or Belizean, even though the two are Anglophone countries like the USA.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'' sees British Paul Blackthorne and Olivia D'Abo as Metallo and Star Sapphire respectively. D'Abo had earlier voiced Star Sapphire ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', only using her natural accent.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'' sees British Paul Blackthorne Creator/PaulBlackthorne and Olivia D'Abo Creator/OliviaDAbo as Metallo and Star Sapphire respectively. D'Abo had earlier voiced Star Sapphire ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', only using her natural accent.
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** "The Messiah" Xavier Burns is from Waterford but spoke in an American-sounding accent in promos. According to him this was less trying to be American and more trying to downplay his thick accent so the crowd could understand what he was saying.
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* Music/{{Rednex}}, a particularly odd Eurodance act heavily influenced by country music, claim to be from Bunkeflo, Idaho, with the stereotypical Southern drawl to go with it. They're Swedish (Bunkeflostrand is a district of Malmö).
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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA9O4ZBA0Kw A Dim Christmas]]'' is a ShortFilm featuring an American couple. However only the girl Lauren is played by an American (Kendal Evans). The boy Frank is played by the British Bobby Calloway.
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* Revy in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is 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]] This is why the dub is preferred by many fans; Revy actually has an American accent. Well, sort of – Maryke Hendrikse, like everyone else in the dub's vocal cast, is Canadian.[[/note]]
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* Revy in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is 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]] This is why the dub is preferred by many fans; Revy actually has an American accent. Well, accent...sort of – Maryke of--Maryke Hendrikse, like everyone else in the dub's vocal cast, is Canadian.[[/note]]
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* Deliberately invoked in the dub for ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', which was recorded by Creator/TheOceanGroup in Vancover. An omake for one episode in the original Japanese had the seiyuu rerecord a scene using thick Osaka accents. The dub adapted this to the voice actors acting like they were from the DeepSouth. They're... not that good at it.
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* Deliberately invoked in the dub for ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', which was recorded by Creator/TheOceanGroup in Vancover. An omake for one episode in the original Japanese had the seiyuu rerecord re-record a scene using thick Osaka accents. The dub adapted this to the voice actors acting like they were from the DeepSouth. They're... not that good at it.
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* In the AudioAdaptation 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.
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* In the AudioAdaptation version of Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents, ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'', Stephen Briggs reads Maurice's lines in a pseudo-American accent, making him sound even more like a used car salesman.
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* In the music video for Music/{{Genesis}}' ''Jesus He Knows Me'', Music/PhilCollins portrays an unscrupulous televangelist, complete with the American dialect. It is also a nod to his guest role as a televangelist in ''Series/MiamiVice''.
* The Music/GreenDay video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" has an American couple, one of whom is played by the British actor Creator/JamieBell.
* The Music/GreenDay video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" has an American couple, one of whom is played by the British actor Creator/JamieBell.
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* In the music video for Music/{{Genesis}}' ''Jesus "Jesus He Knows Me'', Me", Music/PhilCollins portrays an unscrupulous televangelist, complete with the American dialect. It is also a nod to his guest role as a televangelist in ''Series/MiamiVice''.
*The Music/GreenDay Music/GreenDay's video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" has an American couple, one of whom is played by the British actor Creator/JamieBell.
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* The American soldiers in ''VideoGame/HogsOfWar'' were voiced (as were all the other character voices) by Rik Mayall and Marc Silk. (However, [[PlayedForLaughs all the characters in the game are essentially a collection of stereotypes, anyway]].)
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', US President John Henry Eden is voiced by Malcolm [=McDowell=]. He adds a slight folksy twang to his voice, but otherwise does nothing to hide his obviously British accent, even though John Henry Eden is supposed to be from Kentucky.
** The Lone Wanderer's father, James, is voiced by Liam Neeson, who hardly even tries to hide his native Irish accent.
* In the first couple ''VideoGame/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.
* Terry Bogard in ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' is an American character who speaks English. Unfortunately, his voice actor is clearly a Japanese man who does not even know English, thus resulting in such gems as "C'MAON! Gitseeeryus!" or "Laavwoire!" or "Ahyu okaeey? BUSTAH WURFU!"
* The voice actor for Barry Burton in the original ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', Barry Gjerde, is Danish, his accent only adding to the hilarity or the already poorly written and terribly acted story.
* Mark Meer (the guy who plays [[Franchise/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...
** For that matter, Creator/AlistairDuncan, the voice of Turian Councilor Sparatus, is a Scot, and normally uses a very distinct Scots accent. In the game, Sparatus sounds like he might have been born in Baltimore for all anyone knows.
* [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox McCloud]] is this in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures,'' but only that game. Probably due to the game being both made and recorded in the UK. He sounds fairly neutral most of the time, but makes a couple slip-ups with regards to [[OohMeAccentsSlipping British vs. American pronunciations.]] (American "been" rhymes with "when" or "pin," and not "clean", Fox!)
* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', American black ops operative Alex Mason is played by Australian Sam Worthington... [[OohMeAccentsSlipping whose strong Aussie accent slips through frequently]]. Though in his defence, when it ''doesn't'' slip, it's actually quite convincing.
* As aggressively American as they otherwise, fully half the members of the ''[[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany Bad Company]]'' are played by non-Americans; Haggard's voice actor is Canadian, while Marlowe's is actually ''Norwegian''.
* VideoGame/{{Conker|sBadFurDay}} ([[OohMeAccentsSlipping half of the time, at least]]). This is because, being a Rare game, it was developed in the UK. Conker's voice actor believed that his character should be American, but he couldn't really pull it off.
* Quantic Dreams games ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' were both recorded in Europe but with the cast all playing Americans. [[OohMeAccentsSlipping You can often hear the accents slipping through in both games...]]
* English actor Robin Atkin Downes voices American Travis Touchdown in the ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes games''. He's also voiced ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} in a couple games, half-American, half-Japanese Kazuhira Miller in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.
* Suffolk-born (that's in England) actress June Brown (of ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' fame) plays sexy {{vampires|AreSexGods}}s Vivi in ''VideoGame/BrainDead13''; and she does this in her best SouthernBelle[=/=]Negro accent quite well.
* In the original SamAndMax game, ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max Hit the Road]]'', Max is voiced by Australian actor Nick Jameson.
* The Scottish Creator/AlastairDuncan as American Senator Steven Armstrong in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. His accent is pretty good for the most part, but it does slip during his "college football" speech.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', Wheatley (voiced by Stephen Merchant) temporarily affects an American accent in an attempt to thwart [=GLaDOS=] by speaking "outside her range of hearing". This being Wheatley, it's... pretty bad.
* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' has Black British actor Colin [=McFarlane=] as the American-accented Avalon Centrifuge.
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* The American soldiers in ''VideoGame/HogsOfWar'' were voiced (as were all the other character voices) by Rik Mayall and Marc Silk. (However, [[PlayedForLaughs all the characters in the game are essentially a collection of stereotypes, anyway]].)
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', US President John Henry Eden is voiced by Malcolm [=McDowell=]. He adds a slight folksy twang to his voice, but otherwise does nothing to hide his obviously British accent, even though John Henry Eden is supposed to be from Kentucky.
** The Lone Wanderer's father, James, is voiced by Liam Neeson, who hardly even tries to hide his native Irish accent.
* In the first couple ''VideoGame/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.
* Terry Bogard in ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' is an American character who speaks English. Unfortunately, his voice actor is clearly a Japanese man who does not even know English, thus resulting in such gems as "C'MAON! Gitseeeryus!" or "Laavwoire!" or "Ahyu okaeey? BUSTAH WURFU!"
* The voice actor for Barry Burton in the original ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', Barry Gjerde, is Danish, his accent only adding to the hilarity or the already poorly written and terribly acted story.
* Mark Meer (the guy who plays [[Franchise/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...
** For that matter, Creator/AlistairDuncan, the voice of Turian Councilor Sparatus, is a Scot, and normally uses a very distinct Scots accent. In the game, Sparatus sounds like he might have been born in Baltimore for all anyone knows.
* [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox McCloud]] is this in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures,'' but only that game. Probably due to the game being both made and recorded in the UK. He sounds fairly neutral most of the time, but makes a couple slip-ups with regards to [[OohMeAccentsSlipping British vs. American pronunciations.]] (American "been" rhymes with "when" or "pin," and not "clean", Fox!)
* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', American black ops operative Alex Mason is played by Australian Sam Worthington... [[OohMeAccentsSlipping whose strong Aussie accent slips through frequently]]. Though in his defence, when it ''doesn't'' slip, it's actually quite convincing.
* As aggressively American as they otherwise, fully half the members of the ''[[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany Bad Company]]'' are played by non-Americans; Haggard's voice actor is Canadian, while Marlowe's is actually ''Norwegian''.
* VideoGame/{{Conker|sBadFurDay}} ([[OohMeAccentsSlipping half of the time, at least]]). This is because, being a Rare game, it was developed in the UK. Conker's voice actor believed that his character should be American, but he couldn't really pull it off.
* Quantic Dreams games ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' were both recorded in Europe but with the cast all playing Americans. [[OohMeAccentsSlipping You can often hear the accents slipping through in both games...]]
* English actor Robin Atkin Downes voices American Travis Touchdown in the ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes games''. He's also voiced ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} in a couple games, half-American, half-Japanese Kazuhira Miller in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.
* Suffolk-born (that's in England) actress June Brown (of ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' fame) plays sexy {{vampires|AreSexGods}}s Vivi in ''VideoGame/BrainDead13''; and she does this in her best SouthernBelle[=/=]Negro accent quite well.
* In the original SamAndMax game, ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max Hit the Road]]'', Max is voiced by Australian actor Nick Jameson.
* The Scottish Creator/AlastairDuncan as American Senator Steven Armstrong in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. His accent is pretty good for the most part, but it does slip during his "college football" speech.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', Wheatley (voiced by Stephen Merchant) temporarily affects an American accent in an attempt to thwart [=GLaDOS=] by speaking "outside her range of hearing". This being Wheatley, it's... pretty bad.
* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' has Black British actor Colin [=McFarlane=] as the American-accented Avalon Centrifuge.
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* A ''LOT'' of "American" cartoons over the years have had the voice recording done in Canada (originally Toronto, nowadays Vancouver) due to lower costs. Since Vancouver in particular is so close to the American border, there is little to no difference accent-wise between a Vancouverite and, say, someone from Seattle (the cities are less than 150 miles apart). Given how ubiquitous this is in animation, if we tried to list every single instance of Canadians voicing American cartoon characters, we'd be here all day.\\
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This can still come into play, however, when a Canadian voice actor is asked to play an American character from a specific region, like the South.
* Anthony [=LaPaglia=] also did the voice of a Noo Yawk/Noo Joisey mafia-type skua in ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''; Creator/HughJackman and Creator/NicoleKidman put on Southern accents as [[strike:Elvis]] Memphis and [[strike:Marilyn Monroe]] Norma Jean.
* Rattrap in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has an American accent but an Australian voice actor (Scott [=McNeil=]) who lives in Canada.
** 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 ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Stork in ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', Hack #2 in ''Reboot'' - and that's just the start.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is a unique case, as America (or humans, for that matter) do not exist in universe, but their accents do. Of the mane cast (all voiced by Canadians, by the way):
** Applejack (voiced by Creator/AshleighBall) has a distinct Southern drawl.
** Rainbow Dash (also voiced by Ball) sounds vaguely like she's from the Bronx.
** Twilight Sparkle (voiced by Creator/TaraStrong[[note]]She's Canadian born but has dual citizenship and has worked in America for years.[[/note]]) bears a Midwestern accent. As do Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy (voiced by Creator/AndreaLibman).
** Rarity (voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain) uses a thick Tidewater accent.\\
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It should be noted that much of the show's voice cast operates from Vancouver.
** Speaking of My Little Pony, British actress Emily Blunt gives Tempest an American accent for the film, WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017
* English actor Phil Hayes [[VocalEvolution originally]] voiced ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'''s Scratch with a New York-style accent. In fact, every major character in the series (except for Sonic) has a Canadian or British actor.
** Which makes sense since the series was recorded in Vancouver (except for Jaleel White, who is an American based in LA).
** In fact, the only actor in the show besides White who ''doesn't'' fit this is the late Long John Baldry, who never made any attempt to hide his English accent when playing Robotnik.
* Alan Rickman guest stars on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', playing the part of the "king" of the local Renaissance Faire, of course using his own English accent. At the end of the episode he drops that to reveal his "real" voice, which is a terrible attempt at a Texas accent.
* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' have always been explicitly based in New York (just like the rest of the Marvel Universe). But the earliest animated adaptations were recorded in Canada.
** In the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', most American characters – such as Cyclops, Jean Grey, or Jubilee – are voiced by Canadian actors. Professor X is voiced by an Englishman, and Rogue (who is meant to be from Louisiana) 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 ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', which was also recorded in Vancouver. There, Rogue is played by Canadian Meghan Black and Professor Xavier again sounds English (clearly modeled after the very English Creator/PatrickStewart).
* Creator/TaraStrong, who is Canadian by birth but lives in L.A., in all kinds of roles both female [[CrossDressingVoices 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/Ben 10}}'', and both Princess Clara and Toot Blaustein in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''.
* As opposed to his awful accent in ''Film/BlackHawkDown'', JasonIsaacs does a pretty convincing American accent as [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Admiral Zhao]]. For a character with a Chinese name from a Japanese influenced part of a fantasy world where America doesn't exist. Go figure.
* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Burns' Heir"[[note]] (the season five episode where Mr. Burns makes Bart Simpson his heir after Bart gets rejected from his audition and takes out his anger by vandalizing Mr. Burns' property)[[/note]] where Mr. Burns hires fake Americans to play the Simpsons family and Burns got the famously Cockney Creator/MichaelCaine (voiced by Dan Castallaneta) to play Homer (though that's more of a joke on Caine taking on roles [[MoneyDearBoy just to get paid]]) while Lisa is voiced by a bald male midget from Estonia (and is the same one that would later be seen on the episode "Radioactive Man" as Milhouse's stunt double).
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', with the exception of the Watterson kids and some characters played by Sandra Dickinson[[note]]An American by birth who moved to the UK in her early 20's and has been there ever since. Her own accent after living more than two thirds of her life abroad is a sort of odd warble between the two – British grammatical structure and slang with a mostly American pronunciation.[[/note]] and Dan Russell (American voice actors currently living in London), every character on the show is played by a British actor doing an American accent.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'', most of the American characters were voiced by Canadian actors.
* In the late 1940s, Creator/WaltDisney, too busy to voice Mickey Mouse anymore, handed the duties of voicing the character to the Disney Studios' resident sound effects man James [=MacDonald=], who was born in Scotland but moved to America when he was only six months old.
** Along the same lines, in the newest ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' series of 2013, Mickey is voiced by Canadian-born Chris Diamantopoulos, rather than his usual voice actor (American) Bret Iwan, who was given the role after (American) Wayne Allwine died in 2009.
** Also Disney-related: the late Alan Young (Canadian) was Mickey's voice on the original ''Mickey's Christmas Carol'' record (he was also Scrooge, but you knew that).
* All the voice actors in ''WesternAnimation/DudeThatsMyGhost'' are British.
* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' from the ''Creator/CosgroveHall'' TV Series of the same name is voiced by British actor, David Jason.
* Speaking of Cosgrove Hall, we have Rocky and Bella from ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' who are voiced by British voice actors, Rob Rackshaw and [[LarynxDissonance Jimmy Hibbert]]. Marlon and several female characters averted this trope as they're voiced by Michael McShane (who is American) and Lorelei King (who is American born British) respectively.
* In Richard Williams' anti-smoking ads featuring Franchise/{{Superman}}, Superman and Jimmy Olsen are voiced by British actors.
* The French cartoon ''Wakfu'' was dubbed into English, featuring Manchester native Ross Grant using an American accent to voice Sir Percedal.
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* Most people outside of North America can't tell the difference between American and Canadian accents anyway. Also, Canada and the United States form a single dialect continuum, with areas near either side of the border sounding almost indistinguishable from each other (except around the Windsor-Detroit area where the effects of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift stop sharply at the Canada-US border, if you pay attention, you can hear the different accents of the Canadian versus the American customs agents). Besides, if we were to list ''every'' Canadian who's played an American on TV or in film we'd be here forever.
** Canadians from Ontario, British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces[[labelnote:*]] Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba[[/labelnote]], and Anglophone Quebecers already sound reasonably American. That said, Canadian drama schools do spent quite a lot of time teaching their students on speaking American (it's the little things, like the o in "sorry"). 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.
* Somewhat inverted during the 2000s, when UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was elected the president of the U.S. - many Americans traveled abroad with '''Canadian''' flags on their backpacks, to avoid being associated with his actions (the war in Iraq, etc.).
* Creator/GillianAnderson, 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 ''Series/TheXFiles'' it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force.
** She still puts on an American accent when she's interviewed in the U.S.
* Though not technically the same thing, it is funny how so many British singers who, [[VocalDissonance when they speak, can barely be understood by an American audience, yet when they sing, it's clear as day]].
** Very much evident in the Music/PinkFloyd song "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" where the boy's choir sings with their normal British accents, while Pink Floyd sing with somewhat Americanized accents.
** Shirley Manson of Music/{{Garbage}} sings with an American accent, even though her normal speaking voice is Scottish-accented.
* Creator/EmilyBlunt seems to play this for at least ''half'' of her roles.
* Creator/JohnBarrowman zig-zags this. He was born in Glasgow but moved to Illinois as a child and quickly adopted a broad Midwestern accent. He moved back to the UK after graduating high school but still speaks American in every acting role he does, and keeps it up in all interviews and public appearances. Apparently he only uses his original accent when around his parents.
* Creator/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. The infamous recording where he chews out a stagehand that accidentally walked into a shot shows his native accent slipping through.
* [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel]] was born in England.
* 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. It should be noted that Hope's speech patterns were mainly set in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, as his family moved there just before his fifth birthday.
* The late Richard Dawson of ''Series/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.
* [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]] was born in London, though that was only because his parents were Eastern European refugees fleeing Nazi oppression (and most of their relatives ended up dying in the concentration camps). The Springer family moved to Queens, NY, when Springer was about four years old or so. Jerry's accent today is New York mixed with a dash of Ohio (where he served as Cincinnati's mayor).
* Creator/CaryGrant, who was born in the UK and later took American citizenship. His British accent slowly dwindled over the course of his career, but he never quite sounded American. He almost always played one, however.
* Creator/MalinAkerman, who has portrayed many American roles, was born in Stockholm, UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}, and raised in Ontario, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}.
* Cary Elwes usually does a Midwestern-ish accent when playing American characters, though he did a vaguely Southern sounding one in Film/{{Twister}}. Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Nicholas Hoult, and Creator/TimRoth have all done ambiguously American accents.
* Pro Skater Bob Burnquist is from Brazil. To some, he seems to have lost his native accent.
* Rapper Slick Rick is British.
** Although he lived in the US for so long that he began to speak with a southern drawl.
* According to Nicola Bryant, who played Peri Brown on ''Series/DoctorWho'', the show tried to cover up the fact that she was not actually American. She was instructed to use her American accent in interviews and public appearances. They eventually let her drop it.
* Creator/StephenHawking. His voice synthesizer speaks in an American accent, as it was developed for him by an American company, but Hawking himself is a native of Oxford. He has said he would like to get it replaced with one that uses his natural accent, but the synthesizer has become so iconic that he's stuck with it.
* Hugh Laurie (whose natural voice is about as Oxbridge as it's possible to get ... born in Oxford, educated at Eton and Cambridge University) has a very convincing American accent, which he used when playing Dr. Gregory {{Series/House}}. During casting the director, tired of hearing British accents to the point that he had stopped even looking at audition tapes from non-US actors, watched Laurie's and said "See, ''this'' is what I want, an ''American'' guy." (For some reason, Brits seem to find Laurie's American accent a lot less convincing than Americans themselves do.)
* Creator/DamianLewis is fond of telling stories about how many fans will approach him to compliment him on ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' - and as soon as they hear him speak they go "you're a ''Brit''!?" He claims that he hasn't been able to fully shake the accent since, and that he'll lapse back into it if he's around Americans.
* Actor Rick Cosnett is an Australian born actor who lived in Zimbabwe for most of his childhood and also America and Canada due to location filming. He's known for having an incredibly convincing American Accent for roles like Eddie Thawne and Elias Harper.
* Creator/EmiliaClarke is British but claims that while filming ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' she put on a ValleyGirl accent whenever she was out in public to avoid being recognised. She perfected the accent from watching ''{{Film/Clueless}}'' repeatedly.
* Charlie Pellett, best known to New York City Subway riders as one of several voices used for automated announcements on subway cars built since 2000[[note]]"Stand clear of the closing doors, please", plus some transfer announcements and public safety messages[[/note]], was actually born in London and moved to the US as a kid. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhH2eEG8gAc He listened to radio broadcasts to coach himself out of the British accent]].
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* A ''LOT'' of "American" cartoons over the years have had the voice recording done in Canada (originally Toronto, nowadays Vancouver) due to lower costs. Since Vancouver in particular is so close to the American border, there is little to no difference accent-wise between a Vancouverite and, say, someone from Seattle (the cities are less than 150 miles apart). Given how ubiquitous this is in animation, if we tried to list every single instance of Canadians voicing American cartoon characters, we'd be here all day.\\
\\
This can still come into play, however, when a Canadian voice actor is asked to play an American character from a specific region, like the South.
* Anthony [=LaPaglia=] also did the voice of a Noo Yawk/Noo Joisey mafia-type skua in ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''; Creator/HughJackman and Creator/NicoleKidman put on Southern accents as [[strike:Elvis]] Memphis and [[strike:Marilyn Monroe]] Norma Jean.
* Rattrap in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has an American accent but an Australian voice actor (Scott [=McNeil=]) who lives in Canada.
** 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 ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Stork in ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', Hack #2 in ''Reboot'' - and that's just the start.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is a unique case, as America (or humans, for that matter) do not exist in universe, but their accents do. Of the mane cast (all voiced by Canadians, by the way):
** Applejack (voiced by Creator/AshleighBall) has a distinct Southern drawl.
** Rainbow Dash (also voiced by Ball) sounds vaguely like she's from the Bronx.
** Twilight Sparkle (voiced by Creator/TaraStrong[[note]]She's Canadian born but has dual citizenship and has worked in America for years.[[/note]]) bears a Midwestern accent. As do Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy (voiced by Creator/AndreaLibman).
** Rarity (voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain) uses a thick Tidewater accent.\\
\\
It should be noted that much of the show's voice cast operates from Vancouver.
** Speaking of My Little Pony, British actress Emily Blunt gives Tempest an American accent for the film, WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017
* English actor Phil Hayes [[VocalEvolution originally]] voiced ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'''s Scratch with a New York-style accent. In fact, every major character in the series (except for Sonic) has a Canadian or British actor.
** Which makes sense since the series was recorded in Vancouver (except for Jaleel White, who is an American based in LA).
** In fact, the only actor in the show besides White who ''doesn't'' fit this is the late Long John Baldry, who never made any attempt to hide his English accent when playing Robotnik.
* Alan Rickman guest stars on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', playing the part of the "king" of the local Renaissance Faire, of course using his own English accent. At the end of the episode he drops that to reveal his "real" voice, which is a terrible attempt at a Texas accent.
* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' have always been explicitly based in New York (just like the rest of the Marvel Universe). But the earliest animated adaptations were recorded in Canada.
** In the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', most American characters – such as Cyclops, Jean Grey, or Jubilee – are voiced by Canadian actors. Professor X is voiced by an Englishman, and Rogue (who is meant to be from Louisiana) 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 ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', which was also recorded in Vancouver. There, Rogue is played by Canadian Meghan Black and Professor Xavier again sounds English (clearly modeled after the very English Creator/PatrickStewart).
* Creator/TaraStrong, who is Canadian by birth but lives in L.A., in all kinds of roles both female [[CrossDressingVoices 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/Ben 10}}'', and both Princess Clara and Toot Blaustein in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''.
* As opposed to his awful accent in ''Film/BlackHawkDown'', JasonIsaacs does a pretty convincing American accent as [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Admiral Zhao]]. For a character with a Chinese name from a Japanese influenced part of a fantasy world where America doesn't exist. Go figure.
* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Burns' Heir"[[note]] (the season five episode where Mr. Burns makes Bart Simpson his heir after Bart gets rejected from his audition and takes out his anger by vandalizing Mr. Burns' property)[[/note]] where Mr. Burns hires fake Americans to play the Simpsons family and Burns got the famously Cockney Creator/MichaelCaine (voiced by Dan Castallaneta) to play Homer (though that's more of a joke on Caine taking on roles [[MoneyDearBoy just to get paid]]) while Lisa is voiced by a bald male midget from Estonia (and is the same one that would later be seen on the episode "Radioactive Man" as Milhouse's stunt double).
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', with the exception of the Watterson kids and some characters played by Sandra Dickinson[[note]]An American by birth who moved to the UK in her early 20's and has been there ever since. Her own accent after living more than two thirds of her life abroad is a sort of odd warble between the two – British grammatical structure and slang with a mostly American pronunciation.[[/note]] and Dan Russell (American voice actors currently living in London), every character on the show is played by a British actor doing an American accent.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'', most of the American characters were voiced by Canadian actors.
* In the late 1940s, Creator/WaltDisney, too busy to voice Mickey Mouse anymore, handed the duties of voicing the character to the Disney Studios' resident sound effects man James [=MacDonald=], who was born in Scotland but moved to America when he was only six months old.
** Along the same lines, in the newest ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' series of 2013, Mickey is voiced by Canadian-born Chris Diamantopoulos, rather than his usual voice actor (American) Bret Iwan, who was given the role after (American) Wayne Allwine died in 2009.
** Also Disney-related: the late Alan Young (Canadian) was Mickey's voice on the original ''Mickey's Christmas Carol'' record (he was also Scrooge, but you knew that).
* All the voice actors in ''WesternAnimation/DudeThatsMyGhost'' are British.
* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' from the ''Creator/CosgroveHall'' TV Series of the same name is voiced by British actor, David Jason.
* Speaking of Cosgrove Hall, we have Rocky and Bella from ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' who are voiced by British voice actors, Rob Rackshaw and [[LarynxDissonance Jimmy Hibbert]]. Marlon and several female characters averted this trope as they're voiced by Michael McShane (who is American) and Lorelei King (who is American born British) respectively.
* In Richard Williams' anti-smoking ads featuring Franchise/{{Superman}}, Superman and Jimmy Olsen are voiced by British actors.
* The French cartoon ''Wakfu'' was dubbed into English, featuring Manchester native Ross Grant using an American accent to voice Sir Percedal.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Most people outside of North America can't tell the difference between American and Canadian accents anyway. Also, Canada and the United States form a single dialect continuum, with areas near either side of the border sounding almost indistinguishable from each other (except around the Windsor-Detroit area where the effects of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift stop sharply at the Canada-US border, if you pay attention, you can hear the different accents of the Canadian versus the American customs agents). Besides, if we were to list ''every'' Canadian who's played an American on TV or in film we'd be here forever.
** Canadians from Ontario, British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces[[labelnote:*]] Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba[[/labelnote]], and Anglophone Quebecers already sound reasonably American. That said, Canadian drama schools do spent quite a lot of time teaching their students on speaking American (it's the little things, like the o in "sorry"). 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.
* Somewhat inverted during the 2000s, when UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was elected the president of the U.S. - many Americans traveled abroad with '''Canadian''' flags on their backpacks, to avoid being associated with his actions (the war in Iraq, etc.).
* Creator/GillianAnderson, 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 ''Series/TheXFiles'' it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force.
** She still puts on an American accent when she's interviewed in the U.S.
* Though not technically the same thing, it is funny how so many British singers who, [[VocalDissonance when they speak, can barely be understood by an American audience, yet when they sing, it's clear as day]].
** Very much evident in the Music/PinkFloyd song "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" where the boy's choir sings with their normal British accents, while Pink Floyd sing with somewhat Americanized accents.
** Shirley Manson of Music/{{Garbage}} sings with an American accent, even though her normal speaking voice is Scottish-accented.
* Creator/EmilyBlunt seems to play this for at least ''half'' of her roles.
* Creator/JohnBarrowman zig-zags this. He was born in Glasgow but moved to Illinois as a child and quickly adopted a broad Midwestern accent. He moved back to the UK after graduating high school but still speaks American in every acting role he does, and keeps it up in all interviews and public appearances. Apparently he only uses his original accent when around his parents.
* Creator/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. The infamous recording where he chews out a stagehand that accidentally walked into a shot shows his native accent slipping through.
* [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel]] was born in England.
* 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. It should be noted that Hope's speech patterns were mainly set in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, as his family moved there just before his fifth birthday.
* The late Richard Dawson of ''Series/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.
* [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]] was born in London, though that was only because his parents were Eastern European refugees fleeing Nazi oppression (and most of their relatives ended up dying in the concentration camps). The Springer family moved to Queens, NY, when Springer was about four years old or so. Jerry's accent today is New York mixed with a dash of Ohio (where he served as Cincinnati's mayor).
* Creator/CaryGrant, who was born in the UK and later took American citizenship. His British accent slowly dwindled over the course of his career, but he never quite sounded American. He almost always played one, however.
* Creator/MalinAkerman, who has portrayed many American roles, was born in Stockholm, UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}, and raised in Ontario, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}.
* Cary Elwes usually does a Midwestern-ish accent when playing American characters, though he did a vaguely Southern sounding one in Film/{{Twister}}. Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Nicholas Hoult, and Creator/TimRoth have all done ambiguously American accents.
* Pro Skater Bob Burnquist is from Brazil. To some, he seems to have lost his native accent.
* Rapper Slick Rick is British.
** Although he lived in the US for so long that he began to speak with a southern drawl.
* According to Nicola Bryant, who played Peri Brown on ''Series/DoctorWho'', the show tried to cover up the fact that she was not actually American. She was instructed to use her American accent in interviews and public appearances. They eventually let her drop it.
* Creator/StephenHawking. His voice synthesizer speaks in an American accent, as it was developed for him by an American company, but Hawking himself is a native of Oxford. He has said he would like to get it replaced with one that uses his natural accent, but the synthesizer has become so iconic that he's stuck with it.
* Hugh Laurie (whose natural voice is about as Oxbridge as it's possible to get ... born in Oxford, educated at Eton and Cambridge University) has a very convincing American accent, which he used when playing Dr. Gregory {{Series/House}}. During casting the director, tired of hearing British accents to the point that he had stopped even looking at audition tapes from non-US actors, watched Laurie's and said "See, ''this'' is what I want, an ''American'' guy." (For some reason, Brits seem to find Laurie's American accent a lot less convincing than Americans themselves do.)
* Creator/DamianLewis is fond of telling stories about how many fans will approach him to compliment him on ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' - and as soon as they hear him speak they go "you're a ''Brit''!?" He claims that he hasn't been able to fully shake the accent since, and that he'll lapse back into it if he's around Americans.
* Actor Rick Cosnett is an Australian born actor who lived in Zimbabwe for most of his childhood and also America and Canada due to location filming. He's known for having an incredibly convincing American Accent for roles like Eddie Thawne and Elias Harper.
* Creator/EmiliaClarke is British but claims that while filming ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' she put on a ValleyGirl accent whenever she was out in public to avoid being recognised. She perfected the accent from watching ''{{Film/Clueless}}'' repeatedly.
* Charlie Pellett, best known to New York City Subway riders as one of several voices used for automated announcements on subway cars built since 2000[[note]]"Stand clear of the closing doors, please", plus some transfer announcements and public safety messages[[/note]], was actually born in London and moved to the US as a kid. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhH2eEG8gAc He listened to radio broadcasts to coach himself out of the British accent]].
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The United States has the largest native English-speaking population in the world--about 300 million, though India will almost surely take the top spot eventually--and due to the tremendous global influence of American-produced media, most non-Americans are familiar with the country's dialects and accents, and assume them easy to imitate. Thus it's not uncommon for ''any'' non-American actor to be asked to sound American for a part.
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The United States has the largest native English-speaking population in the world--about world -- about 300 million, though India will almost surely take the top spot eventually--and million -- and due to the tremendous global influence of American-produced media, most non-Americans are familiar with the country's dialects and accents, and assume them easy to imitate. Thus it's not uncommon for ''any'' non-American actor to be asked to sound American for a part.
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* Somewhat inverted during the 2000s, when GeorgeWBush was elected the president of the U.S. - many Americans traveled abroad with '''Canadian''' flags on their backpacks, to avoid being associated with his actions (the war in Iraq, etc.).
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The United States has the largest native English-speaking population in the world--about 300 million--and million, though India will almost surely take the top spot eventually--and due to the tremendous global influence of American-produced media, most non-Americans are familiar with the country's dialects and accents, and assume them easy to imitate. Thus it's not uncommon for ''any'' non-American actor to be asked to sound American for a part.
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Fake Americans are usually Canadians, Brits, Australians, or Irish (although 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 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American.
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Fake Americans are usually Canadians, Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish (although Irish, although New Zealanders and even South Africans have been known to fake American).American. This is usually done for biographical reasons, to allow for a familial relationship with another character with an [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents American accent]], or to portray a character as stereotypically American.
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* During the early years of TheBritishInvasion, British rock stars could be very clumsy in imitating American accents, and Music/TheBeatles were no exception. John Lennon, for one, seemed to believe that Americans ''always'' pronounce the letter ''a'' very short and forward in the mouth, even when this is incorrect: "I'm in the mood to take a ma'am-bo."
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* During the early years of TheBritishInvasion, UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, British rock stars could be very clumsy in imitating American accents, and Music/TheBeatles were no exception. John Lennon, for one, seemed to believe that Americans ''always'' pronounce the letter ''a'' very short and forward in the mouth, even when this is incorrect: "I'm in the mood to take a ma'am-bo."
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** Twilight Sparkle (voiced by Creator/TaraStrong) bears a Midwestern accent.
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* The French cartoon ''Wakfu'' was dubbed into English, featuring Manchester native Ross Grant using an American accent to voice Sir Percedal.
