Would you look at Margot Robbie or Chris Hemsworth and conclude that Australians were on average more physically attractive than Americans? That'd be the same rationale.
It's only a tiny percentage of British, Irish and Australian actors who are working in American media. Most of them are at home working in their own industries. You're looking at a small subset of actors who were, a) inclined to go to America in the first place, and b) had the necessary skills to succeed in the market against American actors competing for the same roles. There's nothing 'average' about them, so they can't tell you anything about the average.
As someone comments above, the British actors who succeed in Hollywood have traditionally had more extensive theatrical backgrounds than their American counterparts. And British actors in the past may have looked up to people like Gielgud and Olivier at least as much as they looked up to Clift or Brando. British theatre produces a slightly different style of acting. But it isn't 'better'.
Happily for America, it does seem to lend itself very nicely to playing villains, providing a bit of gravitas in dopey sci-fi stuff and being just the right side of camp in 'Shakespearean' high fantasy though. So it might be 'better' for some things.
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