Do They Not Have Actors In The US?
I was curious about an actor in a US tv show - the guy who plays Jax in Sons of Anarchy. So I looked him up. He's not American, he's English. Another non-American actor holding a lead in a big, popular American TV series. Do they not have enough good actors in the US that they need to rely on so many "imports"? Not that I mind, not at all, I just find this utterly amusing.
Here is a quick and incomplete list of some shows using non-American actors in their leads, playing American characters.
- Sons of Anarchy - Jax - Charlie Hunnam (British)
- Fringe - Dr. Walter Bishop - John Noble (Australian)
- Fringe - Olivia Dunham - Anna Torv (Australian)
- Fringe - Peter Bishop - Joshua Jackson (Canadian)
- True Blood - Sookie Stackhouse - Anna Paquin (New Zealander)
- True Blood - Bill Compton - Stephen Moyer (British)
- True Blood - Eric Northman - Alexander Skarsgård (Swedish)
- House - Dr. House - Hugh Laurie (British)
- The Walking Dead - Rick Grimes - Andrew Lincoln (British)
- The Mentalist - Patrick Jane - Simon Baker (Australian)
- The X-Files - Dana Scully - Jillian Anderson (British)
- Without a Trace - Jack Malone - Anthony LaPaglia (Australian)
- Without a Trace - Vivian Johnson - Marianne Jean-Baptiste (British)
- Californication - Karen - Natascha McElhone (British)
- Lost - Penelope Widmore - Sonya Walger (British)
- Nip/Tuck - Julia McNamara - Joely Richardson (British)
