You Probably Thought These 15 Actors Were American — Actually, They're Just Really Good at Accents

Damian Lewis has made a name for himself as someone who can master nuances of different US accents, from his memorable role as Major Richard Winters in Band of Brothers to Homeland's Nick Brody, but, you've guessed it, he's actually British, which you may know know if you've seen him in The Forsyte Saga or Wolf Hall. His ability to flit between accents was handy in the movie Dreamcatcher, in which he played an American who took on an English accent when possessed by an alien (seriously). In Billions, he has a distinctive New York accent, and he describes nailing this dialect as being "about cadence and about rhythms."