Famous people who fooled you with their real accent.

[Brian Marwood]

Cillian Murphy, just listened to him on Desert Island Discs and I was shocked by his broad Irish accent.

He guess his name should have been a clue but I genuinely thought he was a Brummie.

I been fooled.

 

[Unravel_Morrison]

Gillian Anderson.

 

[Legz]

Martin Compston...only discovered him watching Line of Duty so didn't realise he was scottish

 

[AytonMews]

Martin Compston...only discovered him watching Line of Duty so didn't realise he was scottish

Did you not watch Monarch of the Glen?!

 

[SmallTown]

Timothy Spall. Even though he's been in a billion things, growing up on Auf Wiedersehen, Pet means he always has a brummy accent in my head

 

[18MFC76]

David Jason

 

[Frozen Horse]

Tony Cozier.

One of the great cricket commentators, fantastic accent. But I only found out he was white on his death.

 

[AytonMews]

Going back a bit… Jimmy mcnulty and Stringer Bell in the wire!

 

[Cardiffdaffs]

Shaun Evans who stars as Endeavour.

Massive broad scouse accent in real life.

 

[uncle_rico]

Callum Turner. Hadn’t heard him speak until after I’d watched Masters of the Air.

A lot of the actors in Band of Brothers were English and in the Pacific a lot are Australian but there’s no bad accents in either.

 

[festa5]

Some good accents in game of thrones. Peter Dinklage is American isn't he?

And the lass who played Jon Snow's bit of rough (and is married to Kit Harrington). She practically speaks the King's English in real life.

 

[TheBlueButterfly]

Timothy Spall. Even though he's been in a billion things, growing up on Auf Wiedersehen, Pet means he always has a brummy accent in my head

Only found out a few months ago he wasn’t actually a brummie! Shocked to death!

 

[JackG]

Brenda Blethyn (Vera). From Kent

 

[TheBlueButterfly]

One that was hilarious was when I first heard Mr Miyagi’s real life accent.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Timothy Spall. Even though he's been in a billion things, growing up on Auf Wiedersehen, Pet means he always has a brummy accent in my head

As with Christopher Fairbank...as with Tim Spall, he's from the South East.

 

[Rauko]

David Jason

I'll second David Jason .. although surprise isn't the right word .. I'm so used to hearing him as Del Boy - it always catches me out when he's just being him ..

Can put Ronnie Barker in that category too .. I've watched Porridge a million times over the years so hearing him speak as anything but Fletch knocks me sideways a little bit ..

 

[FlapJacks]

Gillian Anderson

Although I think she has two "real" accents.

 

[Anton_Berg]

Jodie Comer

 

[RedcarRed]

The chap who plays Skinny Pete in Breaking Bad is ridiculously posh. It just doesn't go

 

[speckyget]

One for the teenagers. Jean Alexander aka Hilda Ogden. Complete poshknocker when appearing on This Is Your Life etc.