Actors/Actresses that don't speak in their original accent.

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I don’t mean on the show they are in. I mean even in interviews and so forth.

First, there is Portia De Rossi. I haven’t done an extensive search, but I can not find a video of her speaking with her Australian accent. I have no idea why this would be, but even on an Australian chat show, she speaks with her American accent.

Then, we have John Barrowman. I can rather easily find him speaking in his Scottish accent, but it seems he usually does his American accent, even on game shows or interviews.

Anyone else that does not seem to use their regular accent even in interviews?

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John Barrowman spent most of his life in the US, so that is his natural accent.

Jane Leeves’ natural accent is British RP, but she’s now in her second show where she affects a Northernish accent.

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Christian Bale has said that he does his American accent for American interviews, and his natural English accent for British interviews. I don’t remember seeing any movie where he used his English accent, but he may have in Empire of the Sun; I haven’t seen that in a long time and don’t remember.

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He did in The Prestige, though I can’t think of any more off-hand.

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Too late to edit:

Mila Kunis might naturally have an accent…she was born and lived in…the Ukraine? I think? checks Wikipedia yup, the Ukraine. She speaks fluent Russian, as it was her first language…but she moved to the US at a fairly young age, so it’s very likely her accent has naturally disappeared, rather than just hiding it.

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Madonna and Johnny Depp both have affected British-like accents now.

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Madonna seems to have gone back to American lately, but there was indeed a time in about 2003-2006 where she suddenly became British.

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Charlize Theron doesn’t have much an of accent for a South African, she lived there until she was 16.

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Hugh Laurie doesn’t speak in his regular accent in House. He also used a slightly different accent from his normal speech in Jeeves and Wooster.

Anna Friel in Pushing Daisies does not use a UK accent.

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John Mahoney evidently lost his accent. He was born in the U.K. and moved to the U.S. as a young man.

I wonder if he can still bring it up as it would seem genuinely bizarre to hear him in anything but the gravelly American accent he uses.

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The OP is not about using a different accent in an acting roll. It’s about the accent that they use in real life, or at least in interviews.

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I always thought that Kenneth Branagh was putting on an English accent as I’d heard he was from Belfast. However, he left Belfast when he was 9 and moved to Berkshire so he’s probably not putting on his speaking accent.

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David Tennant, whose natural accent is Scots but does Doctor Who as standard English.

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From the OP:

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Slight :nitpick: Since it’s a sovereign country now, they prefer it to be called Ukraine now and not “The” Ukraine.

Carry on…

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charlize has zero trace of a SA accent

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Gillian Anderson was born in America but from the ages of two to eleven she lived in London and grew up speaking with a British accent. Her family returned to the United States when she was eleven and she had to learn an American accent. At this point, it’s hard to say what her native acent is and she uses either depending on where she’s at.

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On a show.

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On a show!

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Please, folks. Read the OP. My first sentence stated that I am not talking about people who do accents on shows. Not Jamie Bamber, for example. He did Battlestar with an American accent, but always interviewed with his natural accent.

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Mel Gibson?

I know he’s an Aussie but I don’t think he speaks it ever. Never heard much of an accent when he was shouting “blame the Jews”.

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He’s only partly Australian. He was born in downstate New York and lived here until he was 12 so his American accent is real.