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Fake Scot
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A non-Scottish actor pretending to be a Scottish character. Scottish people in particular get very tetchy about foreign actors trying to pull off their accent, probably because they're so conditioned to it being done badly that they can't accept that someone might actually be good at it. Compare Fake Irish, Fake Brit, and Fake Australian. Not to be confused with No True Scotsman. |
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The Wicker Man (1973) has English actor Edward Woodward as Scottish policeman Sgt Howie. Most of the supporting cast were English, Britt Eckland (Willow) was Swedish and Ingrid Pitt (the librarian) Polish. | |
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The Eagle (2011) has a marginal example. Jamie Bell plays Esca, who is apparently a native of a tribe in what's now Scotland - he speaks the language. But he uses his natural Manchester accent. Additionally, the seal tribe has one child that's played by a Northern Irish actor. This is excusable though as it predates Scotland, Scottish people, or the English language. People at the time there were Picts. | |
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Adrian Paul in Highlander. Paul is half British but English rather than Scottish. He used a Scottish accent in the flashbacks. | |
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Centurion's Arianne is played by English actress Imogen Poots doing a good Scottish accent. Ukrainian-French actress Olga Kurylenko also plays the Scottish Etain. But since Etain is a mute who had her tongue cut out, this is less obvious. | |
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Discussed here by Tom Hanks in an appearance on The Late Late Show. Hanks claims you can do a stereotypical Scottish accent by saying "silver plate" in a particular way. | |
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The film adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has only one Scottish actor in the main cast - Gordon Jackson. Dame Maggie Smith, Pamela Franklin and Celia Johnson are all English but speak with Scottish accents. Robert Stephens, who plays Teddy Lloyd, keeps his English accent. | |
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Lip Service: Most cast members are English, not Scottish, even the ones who are supposedly natives of Glasgow. The main exception is Laura Fraser, who's really from there. | |
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Roddy Piper is billed as being from Glasgow, Scotland, and even wears a kilt. He's actually from Canada. | |
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Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck and Hal Smith as Flintheart Glomgold in DuckTales (1987). Averted in the 2017 reboot, where Scrooge is played by Scotland native David Tennant. However, Glomgold is still played by an American actor (Keith Ferguson). (Then again Glomgold himself is a fake Scot.) |
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Angus from No Kidding is a Scot played by the English Martin Stephens. | |
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Eve Austin and Sally Messham, who play Kay and Manda in Our Ladies (2019), are both English. | |
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Harry Potter: English actress Maggie Smith puts on a Scottish accent to play Minerva McGonagall, whose nationality wasn't explicitly stated in the books but was strongly impliednote by her having a very Scottish last name and frequently wearing tartan (and later confirmed by Word of God) to be Scottish. Meanwhile, in an inversion of this trope, the Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane puts on a West Country (South West England) accent to play Hagrid. A curious inversion happens with Kelly Macdonald playing Helena Ravenclaw. She is Scottish but puts on an I Am Very British accent. But her natural accent slips through on occasion, which some fans have taken to be deliberate. Her mother is referred to as "fair Ravenclaw from Glen", implying that Rowena Ravenclaw was Scottish herself. |
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Star Trek: Canadian actor James Doohan as Scotty in The Original Series. Later, Simon Pegg (who unlike Doohan, is at least British - though from England; that said, Canada and Scotland had strong historical links) in Star Trek (2009). His accent was heavier to highlight Scotty's Plucky Comic Relief nature. |
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The Last Kingdom: King Constantine of Scotland is played in English actor Rod Hallett putting on an accent. | |
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Another Time, Another Place has an internal example with Glaswegian actors Phyllis Logan and Gregor Fisher putting on fake northeastern accents. | |
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Macbeth: Orson Welles's 1948 film version had the cast speaking in Scottish accents. The majority were American alongside English (Roddy McDowall) and Irish (Dan O'Herlihy). Executive Meddling had them record a different audio track in their own voices. The only one who doesn't do an accent in either version is Orson Welles's young daughter. Roman Polanski's 1971 version averts the trope by having all the characters speak in English accents. The 2015 film version has Michael Fassbender and Jack Reynor (Irish), David Thewlis, Sean Harris and Paddy Considine (English), and Elizabeth Debicki (Australian). Averted for Marion Cotillard - as they made Lady Macbeth French to accommodate her. |
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gen:LOCK has Cammie, voiced by the English Maisie Williams. Ironically, the Scottish David Tennant voices an Englishman. | |
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Pom from Them's Fightin' Herds has a Scottish-sounding accent yet is portrayed by the Texas born Allie Moreno. | |
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Brave features the above-mentioned Emma Thompson putting on a Scottish accent as Queen Elinor. Julie Walters - who hails from Liverpool - also dons a Scots accent for her small role as the Witch. Narrowly averted with the protagonist Princess Merida; the American Reese Witherspoon was originally hired to voice her, but she ended up played by Kelly Macdonald. | |
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Ryan Phillippe plays the apparently Scottish Henry Denton in Gosford Park. He's actually an actor from America. Lampshaded as the one real Scottish character (who's played by an actual Scot) says his accent isn't from anywhere in Scotland she knows. | |
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Peaky Blinders Season 5 has Irish actor Brian Gleeson playing the Scottish Jimmy McCavern. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Owain Arthur is a Welsh actor doing Scottish accent for the Dwarves. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon: The spin-off TV series has Nolan North as Stoick and Chris Edgerly as Gobber are Fake Vikings With Scottish Accents since they voice characters originally played by Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson, repectively. The second theatrical film features the Australian Cate Blanchett putting on the same 'Scots Viking' accent as Valka. |
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Barry Cryer as Hamish and Alison Steadman as Mrs Naughtie in Hamish and Dougal. Dougal is an interesting case, because Graeme Garden is from Aberdeenshire, but grew up in England and doesn't have a noticeable Scottish accent normally ... and in any case is clearly matching his performance to the comedy accent used by Cryer. Jeremy Hardy as the Laird, meanwhile, uses the same voice he always does when playing an Upper-Class Twit, presumably on the basis that most posh Scots do sound much the same as posh English because they went to Boarding School. | |
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Blackadder: Rowan Atkinson, who usually played Blackadder himself, Acting for Two as Blackadder's identical Scottish cousin MacAdder in "Duel and Duality". | |
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Doctor Who: English actor Frazer Hines put on a Scottish accent to play 18th century Highlander Jamie McCrimmon, who debuted in "The Highlanders" and became the longest-serving companion in the show's history by episode count. Hines' mother was Scottish, which helped him to get the accent right. "The Highlanders" also featured English actor Donald Bisset as Scottish Laird Colin McLaren. "Terror of the Zygons" has English actors John Woodnutt and Robert Russell playing Scottish characters the Duke of Forgill and the Caber respectively. |
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Zach Hanks as Captain MacMillan in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The character is played by a genuine Scot, Tony Curran, when he returns in Modern Warfare 3. | |
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The whole cast of The Body Snatcher (starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi). The play's set in Scotland, and the characters use bits of Scottish dialect - "the wee dog," "we highlanders have what we call the Second Sight," "you're a wild lass, Meg," etc... but they don't even try to do the accents (which is better than trying and doing them badly). The one exception is the street singer, but we never hear her speak. | |
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The Curse of Monkey Island has Haggis McMutton (birth name: Heart Liver and Kidneys Boiled in the Stomach of the Animal McMutton) voiced by Alan Young. | |
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John Hammond in Jurassic Park is Scottish; his actor Richard Attenborough was not, hailing from Cambridge. The accent was attempted, but kind of comes and goes. | |
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Kiwi actor Ari Boyland plays the Scottish Flynn in Power Rangers RPM. His father is also played by a New Zealand actor. He specifically based the accent off the Glaswegian dialect, but was told to tone it down by producers for the sake of the American children the series was aimed at. Years later at conventions, actual Scottish people approached him and said they thought he was genuine, and he even recalled crew members asking him things like "how long have you been in New Zealand?" on set. | |
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Once Upon a Time features the kingdom from Brave in the fifth season. Although Merida is played by Scottish actress Amy Manson, her parents are both played by Irish actors. English actor Stephen Lord puts on a Scottish accent as Rumplestiltskin's father Malcolm. |
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Australian singer-songwriter Sia as Scottish Mrs. Tiggy Winkle in Peter Rabbit and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. | |
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English actors Amelia Bullmore and Ben Miller as Scottish relatives living in the Highlands in What We Did on Our Holiday. | |
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The Loch Ness Horror was filmed at Lake Tahoe, and has a bunch of American actors pretending to be Scottish, very badly. | |
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Parodied in Sabrina the Teenage Witch when Mr Pool is revealed to be of Scottish descent. He's played by the Jewish Paul Feig. Not to say that you can’t be both Scottish and Jewish. | |
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