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While actors in theatre are traditionally trained to have a Mid-Atlantic accent, actors in film are instead trained to have a General American accent. Dialect coach Robert Easton said the Mid-Atlantic accent was "too semi-British" and opted for General American. Easton commended British actors in learning American accents, "[They] in general ...
Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, 14 March 1933) is an English retired actor. [2] Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, [3] he has appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British film icon.
Raymond Andrew Winstone (/ ˈ w ɪ n s t ən /; born 19 February 1957) [2] is an English television, stage and film actor with a career spanning five decades. Having worked with many prominent directors, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, Winstone is perhaps best known for his "hard man" roles, usually delivered in his distinctive London accent.
However, as any “X-Files” fans will recall, the actor had a pitch-perfect American accent when she played Dana Scully throughout the sci-fi show’s 11 seasons.. So, is her real accent British ...
Vanessa Angel (born 1966) Richard Armitage (born 1971) Sir Richard Attenborough (1923-2014) Eliza Bennett (born 1992) Rosalind Bennett (born 1966) Martin Benson (1918–2010) Steven Berkoff (born 1937) Brian Blessed (born 1936)
Best British Actor BAFTA Award winners (13 P) Black British male actors (310 P) C. British male child actors (4 C, 25 P) E.
Keira Christina Knightley was born on 26 March 1985 in the London suburb of Teddington, to stage actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald. [2] She was meant to be named "Kiera", the anglicised form of "Kira", after the Soviet figure skater Kira Ivanova, whom her father admired; however, Macdonald misspelt the name when she registered her daughter's birth certificate, writing the e before ...
Stephen Joseph Graham OBE (born 3 August 1973) is a British actor and producer. He began his career in 1990, with early notable roles including Tommy in Snatch (2000) and Shang in Gangs of New York (2002), before his breakthrough role as Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is England (2006). On television, Graham reprised his role as ...