He was born in Glasgow, though, and from what I remember MANY FANGIRL MOONS AGO, had to fake an American accent when he went to school.

And I mean. Did you see the first season of Torchwood? Barrowman's accent was preposterously, gratingly awful exaggeration of what Americans sound like. It was disgustingly bad. ITV soap drama bad. Every time he opened his mouth, I wanted to cry. And back in the day, he used to give interviews in his native Scottish accent and not the (much-improved) American one he uses now.