Comments on: 10 Non-American Actors Playing American Lead Roles in US TV Shows

By: mary

mary — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:58:07 +0000

@Sammie… Robert Pattinson? if you read the heading it’s about non-american actors in lead roles in TV SHOWS. twilight is not relevant here

By: AussieQueen

AussieQueen — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:50:42 +0000

Simon Baker was actually in Home and Away before he took off for the States. And it’s not that hard for us to pull off US accents, as we get a lot of American TV shows over here, as well as films. Your accent is based on how you learned to speak, and a lot of kids learn to speak from watching American shows, so they have a faint trace of a Yankee accent. I, however, am proud to say that I have a broad Australian accent

By: Robert pattinson

Robert pattinson — Sun, 30 May 2010 14:13:46 +0000

played americans too long in shows and lived there for the well to be honest with you all the actors u listed above do play a very convincing american accent you can’t tell that their not american except lena headey cuz i could tell immediately when i heard her speak she’s not an american cuz she does have some slip ups when she talks…maybe she’s not used to doing the american accent just yet but i could

By: Sammie

Sammie — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:22:34 +0000

Robert pattinson from the twilight saga is british too. Not that he’s a great actor but an actor nonetheless…

By: freakaway

freakaway — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:35:03 +0000

well to be honest with you all the actors u listed above do play a very convincing american accent you can’t tell that their not american except lena headey cuz i could tell immediately when i heard her speak she’s not an american cuz she does have some slip ups when she talks…maybe she’s not used to doing the american accent just yet but i could immediately tell when i 1st heard her…so she’s not so convincing…and also anna paquin yeah she did spend some of her childhood in new zealand but she has since lost her accent when she moved to america and attended high school there so she kinda has a natural american accent now when she talks so can’t really say tat she’s doing too much…. yeah its a southern accent but since she’s been living in america for so long its not hard to fake it…plus i’ve noticed tat some not all australian actors tend to loose their accent and adopt an american wan when they’ve played americans too long in shows and lived there for the majority of their time so i guess they forget their natural accents like julian and anthony cuz ive heard them speak on interviews now and they sound american no more australian accent..so again not a stretch

By: Chantilly

Chantilly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:14:13 +0000

Wow that is very interesting some of those actors I knew weren’t American but some of them I really thought were

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:39:52 +0000

What about Keifer Sutherland? Surely Jack Bauer is one of the most American characters on TV, yet he’s played by a canuck