While many Brits have won an Academy Award for their acting, who was the first to do so while playing an American character?

It's a tale as old as time: British actors crossing the pond to be cast in big-time American movies and television shows. Which means speaking in an American accent for months—sometimes even years—at ...

"My film-buff brother thought he was faking the British accent in Pacific Rim instead of faking an American one in everything else." "In The Walking Dead, you couldn’t detect a British accent, and I ...