Johnny Depps is so convincing I actually didn’t know he wasn’t English, I always thought as Willy Wonka he was putting on an American accent

@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.

3 жыл бұрын

His accent in "From Hell" was pretty bad, but usually he nails the English accent pretty well.

@jonathanaldecoa1099

3 жыл бұрын

Johnny Depp, is not bad at Scottish, he’s all right.

@simongorvin2263

2 жыл бұрын

He doesn't nail it, its not bad but im a brit and I've live all over the place n never heard anyone sound like that

@jnel715

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a Brit and his accent is bad.

@adf5001

Жыл бұрын

yes yes yes I was floored when I heard him speaking to Veruca in a British accent

Where is David Tennant! In Dr Who he puts on an amazing English accent!

@openshutterfilms

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Kilner He’s Scottish

@heatherblowsbigones

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Kilner he’s British, but not English. There’s a difference

@sainjawoof3506

3 жыл бұрын

Being from the United Kingdom, does not make one English. It is made up of several different countries.

@darkwatersband

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterkilner3939 he's scottish lol

@heatherblowsbigones

3 жыл бұрын

The_ Under_Xans ...Yes. I know this. But he’s still British, he’s just not English.

Yo, that butler from "The Nanny" was low-key one of the best. I can't believe he wasn't actually British.

@Gargoyle_75

3 жыл бұрын

Daniel Davis. Absolutely.

@sarahkinsey5434

2 жыл бұрын

not only was it a good accent, the pure sass just oozed from him

Streep was so damn good she literally channeled Thatcher. Of course several of those who made your list have British parents (Guest and Myers for example) or have lived in Britain or been married to Brits (Paltrow, Jolie.) Robert Downey's British accent was also excellent in Chaplin and Restoration so he has literally worked on it for decades.

2:47 who's Hugh Jackson?

@WatchMojoUK

3 жыл бұрын

...oh dear.

@wick7201

3 жыл бұрын

WatchMojoUK Big oops

@spacecat7715

3 жыл бұрын

I was just gonna ask that. Seriously, WatchMojo?!

@Jack-zp3cx

3 жыл бұрын

So I wasn't hallucinating

@user-re7cr9yu6z

3 жыл бұрын

@@WatchMojoUK Yes, oh dear indeed. Thanks to his English father ? Jackman is Australian ! Almost every Australian can nail an English accent perfectly. You also missed Eric Bana (another Australian) while praising Scarlet Johansen. For my money Liev Schreiber has portrayed the finest Australian accent (far harder, probably the hardest as Hollywood & American TV almost always employ a Brit to copy an Aussie accent & they always fail) I've ever heard.

Most of these accents are either posh or London. If a non-brit can pull off regional one like Birmingham, Newcastle, Sheffield etc then I would rate them

@yesiamthatgradeAcunt_

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking too.If a non-brit could pull off a scouse or a brummie one, only then i'd be impressed.

@nickkaspar8238

3 жыл бұрын

Then check out Glenn Close in Mary Reilly. She gets the lower-class madam accent down pat.

@rparry9165

3 жыл бұрын

I think the Sam accent from LOTR was rather good ,being west country and all that

@ssh1487

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yh west country farmer accent is posh

@jonathanaldecoa1099

3 жыл бұрын

Rosalind Parry West Country is close to American Appalachian and the islanders off of North Carolina.

James marsters has a great English accent and I find it so weird when he speaks in his native American one

I was so surprised when I learnt that James Masters wasn't British. And I was pleasantly surprised by John Lithgow's Chrurchill.

Daniel Davis from The Nanny should've gotten a mention. He fooled people for YEARS that he wasn't from Texas. Also, if you count Welsh actors, Cary Elwes should've been on the list.

Johnny depp is the best

Sean Astin is the best one on this list. It was only one that wasn't a posh southern accent 😂

@jonathanaldecoa1099

3 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@themartinebunny

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen LotR probably 100s of times, and until this video I didn't realise he was even attempting an English accent. He just sounds American to me? 😂

@sarahberkner

Жыл бұрын

At least some of the characters are meant to be posh though. Especially Cruella Deville.

James Marsters I thought was British when I watched Buffy for the first time. He was very convincing.

@mattnar3865

3 жыл бұрын

He sounds strange with his normal accent

@NickCC23

3 жыл бұрын

He's from Modesto.

@djwalkerfemaledj

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone thought he was British

@Brook11223

2 жыл бұрын

@@djwalkerfemaledj I actually thought he was British at first. I was like wow he was convincing and when he said Anthony Head his costar helped him with perfecting the accent was just amazing.

I just recently started re-watching GoT, and while I do love the job Nikolaj Coster-Waldau did playing Jaime - his "english" accent is EXTREMELY tinged with Scandinavian influence/accent, if you listen carefully...while the American actor playing another Lannister nailed it totally. I never noticed until last week when I started watching it again.

Meryl Streep did a good impression of Maggie Thatcher, not only the English accent but her voice sounded just like Maggie herself.

I love James Masters accent in Buffy

James Marsters was good, but Alexis Densiov who played Wesley in Buffy & Angel was brilliant. With Masters there were the occasional verbal tics that gave him away, Denisov I was really surprised he wasn't one of us. I disagree entirely with Peter Dinklage, his accent was all over the place. He sounded like an American doing an impression of Victor Meldrew in GoT.

Tyrion's accent doesn't sound like any English accent I have ever heard. He sounds exactly like Victor Meldrew/Richard Wilson; who's Scottish. 😂

You've missed Joel Edgerton in The King. His Lancastrian accent is absolutely perfect. That's a region specific accent too so must be even harder.

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3 жыл бұрын

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@user-re7cr9yu6z

3 жыл бұрын

Joel Edgerton - also Australian, but can't act. Should change his surname to Woodenface.

@bonesf200

3 жыл бұрын

@@HelenGPitts that's a bit random

I definitely would've added Jordan Gavaris and Tatiana Maslany from Orphan Black. Also, Heather Graham did a very good job with the English accent in From Hell.

The best British accent I've seen recently was by actor and comedian Lamorne Morris, playing Wilfred Wigans in "Bloodshot". I looked him up afterwards and was astounded to find he was American. Superb.

Meryl Streep for the win. Every accent she's done has been incredible. There are a few that I think you missed, but that's my opinion, of course. Alan Tudyk in A Knight's Tale and Death At A Funeral were pretty darned good. His voiceover work is extensive anyway. I know I'm ignoring the criteria but hey, I thought he rated a mention. I know I'm missing several folks to mention but his stands out to me.

Alan Tudyk from Knights Tale

Jordan Gavaris from Orphan Black!

I’m English, but I’m sure it must be far easier to do a “posh”, Downton Abbey type accent than a regular, modern day accent. Especially ones from Yorkshire or Somerset for example. Edit: Well, there you go, I wrote this comment before I got to Sean Astin on the list, he’s brilliant 👌

@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.

3 жыл бұрын

The mistake people make with Yorkshire and Somerset is forgetting that there are varieties of the accent even within those counties (Somerset is the most beautiful place in England btw), so when they attempt it, it's all over the place. That happens especially when English people attempt Scots accents, where they end up with some terrible mix of Glaswegian thug and Highland laird within the same sentence. Posh accents are easier to do because most of us have never met anyone who legitimately is that, we've only ever heard actors. Met one ACTUAL posh person in my life (a Lord Lieutenant, if you please), and he was nothing like Downton posh sounding. He was utterly unintelligible, sounded like he was saying "Fnarr hyarr, narr harr farr..".

@isaacthegoat1432

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. No posh accents. I'm from London and most people I know can do a Scottish accent

@sarahberkner

Жыл бұрын

You should look up Chris Pratt nailing a basic British girl accent on the Graham Norton show. But mostly us Americans always try to do the posh accent that's often portrayed on TV.

Downey was great as chaplin aswell in 1992

Rami Malek as Freddy Mercury was spot on.

Eventing Hugh Jackman says is velvety and melting.

I watched this Johnny Depp, which was wow, but Sean Austin was brilliant and Meryl Streep definitely channeled Mrs Thatcher, awesome, thank you ✨ 🙏 😁

Dialect coach here. Peter Dinklage is a great actor. But he does bot deserve to be on this list.

Renée Zellweger should've #1. There isn't a person alive who didn't think she was British when they first saw her in Bridget Jones' Diary.

You called him Hugh Jackson x lol also I’ve always loved Glenn close Cruella and Mike Myers Austin powers, yeah baby yeah ! But I also love the Gyllenhall’s especially Jake he is the cuties and I love him very much 😊 x and I also love 💗 meryl Streep and Renee zellweger, bridget Jones diary 📔

Amazing what about 10/20 video of actors who did not nail a English accent at all.

2:47 why does it sound like they pronounced his last name "Jackson"? X) X)

I was shocked to learn that the actor playing Francis Poldark was American.

02:46 'Hugh Jackson'?

@WatchMojoUK

3 жыл бұрын

...Jackman's evil twin 😬

@GodofMMA23

3 жыл бұрын

He meant Huge Accent

@omfug7148

3 жыл бұрын

@@GodofMMA23 LOL

I'd also have to say Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones and Brad Dourif as Wormtongue in the Lord ot the Rings

That actress who plays the main girl who got possessed in The Conjuring 2 should have been mentioned! She nailed it flawlessly

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau did fantastic in Game of Thrones. Hard to believe he is not English

@LegionIvory

2 жыл бұрын

He has a natural British accent in real life. He didn't change his inflections much at all.

Awesome thumbnail

Ron pearlman should’ve been on this list for his (Russian) English accent in enemy at the gates

What about Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth?

Keanu Reeves - Bram Stokers' Dracula and Don Chedle - Oceon's 11. Oh wait.

What about Brad Dourif in the LOTR franchise? He fooled Christopher Lee and other members of the cast and crew.

Emma stone? Really? I didn’t even notice the difference from her own accent

@sarahberkner

Жыл бұрын

It still sounds like her but I can definitely hear the British accent and lack of American one.

Johnny Depp is still the best 💕💕💕

No Tessa Thompson? Her accent for valkarie is amazing.

@BrennySpain

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s a bit weird how it’s not on here to be honest.

@Aigoth

3 жыл бұрын

I thought she was British until a few weeks ago

@scollyb

2 жыл бұрын

I was genuinely surprised that she was American. It wasn't just the accent it was the attitude she got perfectly

Renee Zellweger was so good in BJD that everyone UK Only found out she is American (and from Texas) years later

I always thought Spike was English, great bit of acting.

2:48 Who is Hugh Jackson?

‘British accent’ is a complete misnomer - there are SO many regional dialects that are all completely different to each other - what most Americans think of as a ‘British’ accent is usually just generic southern English, the lesser used ‘posh’ or Queens English and the London (Cockney) accent - The accents of Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool, Sheffield etc. are all harder to imitate and as different to our ears as a New Jersey accent to a Texan accent for Americans

@chazza9586

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree, as an Englishman it pisses me off when foreigners can’t tell the different between English and British, it terms of accent or nationality.

Excuse me? Dinklage’s performance as Tyrion is amazing, except the accent, which is subpar. Listen to the way he pronounces many of his “a” sounds - he has frequently used the short a on words that South East and posh English people use the long a for.

You guys sound like me critiquing so many of the non Southerners, lol! I find that more Brits and Irish do a better Deep South accent than the Yankees and the Westerners. They usually massacre our accent. Of course, like Britain, there are many variations of the accent, but it seems like the non Southerners use the Texan accent for the Deep South, and that's just offensive, lol!

Elle Fanning in 'The Great' is quite good, as well.

Got another one: Paul Giamatti in Ironclad. I honestly thought he was English when I first saw that film 😂

John Hillerman as Higgins.

Lithgow was phenomenal

@ajpat9620

3 жыл бұрын

John Lithgow's performance as Winston Churchill is almost tied to Gary Oldman's performance as Winston Churchill.

I like BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and I love 101 DALMATIANS, GAME OF THRONES, and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE!

You CANNOT BE SERIOUS with this list! Just watch Depp's performance in Mortdecai, or rather don't, it's soul-crushingly bad. His accent in that film is a major contribution to that film's utter failure.

I thought Spike was British for years until I heard him in an interview I was like oh damn.

@Nina5144

2 жыл бұрын

He sounds Australian!

You missed David Anders, when he played Mr Sark in Alias, I genuinely thought he was english. Turns out he's from Oregon.

Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator and Quills anyone?

How about English Actors who can nail an American accent? (I would include Guy Pearce as he was born in England despite having grown up in Australia)

@kukalakana

3 жыл бұрын

Hugh Laurie for definite.

@fighterck6241

3 жыл бұрын

@@kukalakana I was about to mention this. As well as Idris Elba.

@sarahberkner

Жыл бұрын

That'd be a separate video, but Tom Holland is one that comes to mind. I was surprised when I found out he's not American.

I was honestly shook the first time I found out that Jimmy Marsters was an American

Timothee Chalamet should have got an honorable mentioned in this list. His English accent in The King was spot-on.

2:48 Hugh Jackson?? 😜

David Tennant?

@openshutterfilms

3 жыл бұрын

just plain oblivious That’s what I said

Man Up is a highly underrated romcom and I honestly thought Lake Bell was a Brit at first

2:33 Sudden Wolverine and Sabretooth. Don't let Deadpool anywhere near them.

Where are Alexis Denisof, and Jordan Gavaris? ...Also, in later seasons as their characters (they got better) James Marsters and Tatiana Maslany.

Which one from what I know there are multiple

12:02 Yeah, take Alexander for example.

What about Juliet landau? (dru in buffy)& I thought Jonny depp was good in corpse bride with his accent.I think John lithgow and Kelsey grammar have those accents where they almost sound English & James marster I thought was amazing! Had me fooled

What about Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Wait, John Lightgow is not british?

How abt make a video abt england actor/actress who nail american accent?

I will NEVER be a fan of Renee Zellweger and her accent in Bridget Jones' Diary and I wonder how, if Gwyneth Paltrow is apparently so good in Shakespeare in Love, wtf happened in Emma. There, it was appalling.

Alan Richtison Does looks good With a Accent .in Reacher season two.

Where is Tenth doctor?

An English accent not the English accent

He sings well too

Of course Johnny would be on Top 10. It couldn't be different.

Daniel Davis, The Nanny.

we dont have just one english accent

Where is lily Collins??

Oscar Isaac in 2010's Robin Hood was pretty good too

Phillip Wincester

How is David Tennent or rami malek not even mentioned !

No Keanu Reeves?? I'm shocked!! (that's a joke)

The anglophones speak of imitating the accent as if it was something super difficult like speaking a new language, lmao

Cate Blanchett should be in the list.

Pounds is currency. Weight is stone.

Robert downey jr, are you bloody joking

I thought Rami or timothee would be on here

RDJ did a horrendous English acsent and welsh in dolitle

@lindlekindle

3 жыл бұрын

English accent is one thing but a Welsh accent is completely different beast

Who is narrating? An Australian? Sheerlock Holmes! If you want to hear great regional and world accents, watch the original Horrible Histories (available on youtube).

Who do you think has the best accent?

@sainjawoof3506

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, Brits do fantastic Yanks, but without fail I can always tell Americans playing Brits. No one does South African 🇿🇦accents well😒.

@ihabammoury2879

3 жыл бұрын

Robert downey jr

What a Thumbnail to Pick 😅😅

Actually listing Oz and Kiwi accents are kinder cheating. These two are still largely grouped into the largely British/Commonwealth accents.

It's an abomination to leave out David Tennant from this list.

@jeb284

3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t he UK citizens and not USA

@yesiamthatgradeAcunt_

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeb284 Yes, but he's not English.

@partyentertains4092

3 жыл бұрын

@@yesiamthatgradeAcunt_ He's Scottish.

where was Cillian Murphy?.