14 celebrities you'll be surprised to learn aren't American

Marilyn La JeunesseNov 11, 2020, 21:45 IST

Millie Bobby Brown isn't actually American.Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Many actors have such great American accents that you may have forgotten they were American.
Tom Holland and Christian Bale aren't American even though they've played high-flying heroes with that accent.
Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie are from Australia.

Some actors have made a living convincing you they're American when they're actually not — their true accent is just expertly camouflaged thanks to dialect coaches and pure talent.

Read on to see some popular actors whose killer accents may have convinced you that they were American.

Many remembered that Christian Bale is British at the 2019 Golden Globes.

Christian Bale has a spot-on American accent. Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Tom Holland is also British.

Tom Holland is British. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

Rose Byrne is from Australia, but she does a pretty good American accent.

Rose Byrne is not American. Getty Images

Millie Bobby Brown is British.

Millie Bobby Brown has an American accent on "Stranger Things." Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Eliza Taylor might play an American on "The 100," but she has an Australian accent in real life.

Eliza Taylor is from Australia. Joe Scarnici/Getty

Taylor's "The 100" costar Bob Morley is also from Australia.

Bob Morley is Australian. Mike Coppola/Getty

Margot Robbie has used an American accent for many roles.

Margot Robbie is Australian. Jordan Strauss/AP

KJ Apa isn’t from Riverdale after all. He's from New Zealand.

KJ Apa was born in New Zealand. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for City Year Los Angeles

Max Minghella isn’t an East Coast guy at all — he was born in London.

Max Minghella is English. Emma McIntyre/Getty

Hugh Jackman is an Aussie through and through.

Hugh Jackman is Australian. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

Alfred Enoch is dedicated to his American accent, even though he's British.

Alfred Enoch has been dedicated to nailing an American accent. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Entertainment

Yael Stone has a natural Australian accent.

Yael Stone is not really from Boston. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images

Naomie Harris is an accent chameleon, but she hails from the UK.

Naomie Harris' American accent is pretty spot on. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Katherine Langford is an Aussie as well.

Katherine Langford is not American. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

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