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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jennifer Ehle, who played Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC version of pride and prejudice, is American, I believe. But with British family members I think. [/quote]

Her mother is the British actress Rosemary Harris and her father is an American author. She officially grew up largely in the US but spent a LOT of time in the UK and her drama training was pretty much split between US and UK drama schools. So she's got the goods to deliver a more than credible British accent.

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I'll note that when we talk over here about American actors "doing a British accent" or "doing an English accent" we are off the mark. The differences in accents just in England alone, much less across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (yes, Northern Ireland sounds different from the Republic of Ireland, and Belfast can sound different from other parts of tiny Northern Ireland) -- the differences can be VAST. My husband is English and even he has to work hard to comprehend accents in some "British" shows. It's fascinating and important, too, because accent is tied there not only to location but still very tied to notions of class in ways that don't always translate, pun intended, for Americans. [/quote]

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