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My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

I just love dialects; they're really fun.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.