Dominic Purcell was born in Liverpool before emigrating with his family to Australia at the age of two.
“I spoke with a Liverpudlian accent until I was six years old and went to school,” he said.
“And there I was mercilessly teased by my Aussie buddies, so I quickly lost the Liverpudlian thing and started to speak like an Australian.”
With his Prison Break role he had to ditch the Australian accent for an American one!
“I was speaking American all day and then I’d get home and speak Australian and I just felt so exhausted by going back and forth that I just decided to speak it all the time. Now I just speak American.”
Source: Liverpool Daily Post