So many end up having to use English or American accents in their work - I suspect the same is true for welsh and northern Irish actors too.
Also English actors with strong regional accents.
I love the rich diversity of accents and have even study the history and reasons to a peripheral degree and would love to learn more.
My own - due to being a military brat is 'fluid' heavily influenced by who I'm talking with at the time or strong accents on tv or radio.
I'm currently watching old episodes of Taggart on ukplay.
The episode I'm currently watching (well series of episodes the ones all following one storyline are all played as one episode - it's like a feature film love it)
This particular one features:
Sara stewart - most recently I saw her in unforgotten with an English accent
Billy Hartman - who played terry in emmerdale
The next one features Hannah Gordon so well known for her English roles I've met people who don't know she's a Scot.
Others who've appeared in Taggart and then gone on to be well known for roles in which they played English characters or even American ones
Robert Carlyle
Alan cumming
Neil Duncan
John Hannah
Jason Isaacs
Phyllis Logan
To mention just a few.
I understand why they need to play characters with other accents but I do enjoy hearing regional accents especially from actors for whom that's their natural accent.
Which actors do you get pleasure from seeing them being able to play with their natural accents? Are you from the same area? Which accents do you like generally?
In addition to scots accents (yes there's more than one) I love Irish accents but particularly Dublin, also scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire and welsh accents.