20 actors you forgot were British: Secret Brits

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Daniel Kaluuya

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Though he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing American activist and Black Panther party deputy chairman Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Daniel Kaluuya was born in London, where he still resides.

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Charlie Hunnam

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Unlike Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam is no California boy; the Sons of Anarchy star is English.

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Naomi Watts

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While many think this Oscar nominee is Australian, she was actually born in Shoreham, Kent and spent many years of her youth in England before moving Down Under when she was 14.

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Hugh Laurie

Dr. Gregory House is English! Surprise!

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Andrew Garfield

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Your former friendly neighborhood Spider-Man wasn't always web-slinging around Manhattan; he grew up in Surrey, England.

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Naomie Harris

Naomie Harris got her first Oscar nomination for playing a Miamian in Moonlight (2016), but showed off her London roots playing Eve Moneypenny in the Bond movies Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021).

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson

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His American accent might have kicked ass in Kick-Ass (2010), but Aaron Taylor-Johnson is English.

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Andrew Lincoln

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Convincing as his American accent may have been on The Walking Dead, Andrew Lincoln is, in fact, English. (He's in 2003's Love Actually! That's a tell-tale sign!)

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