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R55, you're assuming that the only British actors are the ones with a "posh" background, but they are simply the ones who mostly have an international career. Most actors on British TV are from "normal" backgrounds. And I mean British TV, not Netflix
Cost. It is cheaper for Hollywood to cast British actors than American actors. British actors are getting more recognition and a greater opportunity when Hollywood movies come to be filmed in the UK. The UK offers a tax rebate on movies filmed there, and part of that stipulation is that a certain percentage of actors cast must be British.
Andrew Scott is Irish and may not appreciate being labelled British. Other gay British actors include John Sessions, Olly Alexander (better known as a singer but has had several acting roles too), Mark Gatiss and, of course, John Barrowman. There are lots of others but I can't think of them at the moment.
British actors are more likely to go to universities with good acting programs, or acting schools. Hollywood is only interested in actors who drop out of high school and start working and learning in front of the camera as teens, like Lawrence and Scarlett Johanssen.
To make it big in Hollywood or Streaming, many British, Irish, Australian and Kiwi actors need to be able to do an American accent somewhat convincingly. Even the better ones slip up all the time. A good example is when Andrew Lincoln in TWD always trips on the rhotic R transition and says Coral for Carl.
They let British actors play upscale, rich, educated Americans with their real accents, or toned down posh accents that became mid-Altantic. Audiences felt those kinds of upper-crust Americans spoke like Brits anyway.
The Fall Guy - jacked Ryan Gosling and some British actors Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Aaron Taylor Johnson Taylor. It reminds me of that film with Sandra Bullock where Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt played Fabio or something.
Watching lots of old movies lately and I can’t help but wonder what might have been with some of the actors I’ve watched whose careers seemed somewhat short lived. Samantha Eggar was a beautiful, stylish British actress who peaked in the 60s. Her career seemed to trail off in the 70s.
Hardly current British TV, but I'm enjoying He Knew He Was Right (2004). David Tennant is very funny as a fickle reverend in the B plot, Bill Nighy is... Bill Nighy, and the rest of the cast is a murderer's row of British actors -- Anna Massey, Fenella Woolgar, Stephen Campbell Moore, Geraldine James, Geoffrey Palmer, a young Matthew Goode, etc.
The truth is that most US actors did theater in undergrad and some even did theater in graduate school. The idea that most American actors just woke up and drove to LA to act is outdated and probably was never true. British actors are just riding the wave of anglophilia and the presumption they are smart and cultured even though most are not.