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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been happening for years, with Brits taking the roles of Americans. They just seem to be better actors and there are so many of them. But I think OPs original question of which Americans can do the reverse is more interesting and harder to answer since its a much smaller pool. But the mismatch of the title and the OP have made this go wildly off track.[/quote]

I also think it is just a hard question to answer. The only American off the top of my head I could think of doing a non-British accent is ScarJo in JoJo Rabbit. I know there must be more, I just can't think of any.[/quote]

Gwyneth Paltrow, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Peter Dinklage. They are probably convincing to a lot of Americas, but not to Brits. Much like a lot of Brits do non-distinct American accents that you can't quite place where they would be from. Americans don't attempt the specific regional accents of Britain.[/quote]

I know these actors have all done British accents. I was thinking of non-British accents, though, like ScarJo's German or Streeps Polish in Sophie's choice. These non-british accents are harder to find.[/quote]

The examples in the OP were British --> American, so the reverse is American --> British. I personally dislike when English speaking actors go for a[b] clipped accent like German speaking Englis[/b]h in they are portraying Nazis or something. Like Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's list. It doesn't seem very authentic. [/quote]

This one is routinely butchered on film.  Most people don't realize that Austrians speaking English sound different than Germans speaking English.  Schwarzenegger sounds different than Angela Merkel, and not because it's man/woman.  [/quote]

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