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Mark Addy, who played quintessential Chicago guy Bill Miller in Still Standing two decades ago. It was jarring the first time I heard his true British dialect.
@@scottalan5282 I dunno about that. I've seen and heard moments where is native Yorkshire accent slips out: especially when Bill shouts "A ha!" I'm not even 100 percent what kind of US accent he's supposed to be doing, whether it be New York, New Jersey, or some kind of Midwestern dialect.
The funny thing about Hugh Laurie as House--the producer was adamant that they hire a "true American". He hadn't heard of Hugh Laurie before so when Laurie found out that they wanted an American, he auditioned with that voice and that accent and the producer said "That's what a real American sounds like!"
If I remember correctly Laurie did an initial interview over the phone for House and then when they met him in person, they were shocked that he’s a Brit
So when Stephanie Beatriz auditioned for Encanto, they thought her normal voice was like Rosa's and were going to have her as Louisa. So when they actually heard her voice they gave her Mirabel.
I heard the same! I'd love to see FOOTAGE of her being like that, the higher voice and bubbly personality that drove them to cast her as Mirabel. Even just Encanto recording sessions...
This is odd given that Lin Manuel Miranda is a well known huge fan of Brooklyn 99, and he also cast her in “In the Heights,” and he would have been involved in the casting on Encanto. He definitely knew her real voice.
laurie on friends when he criticizes rachel on the plane ... the one true time someone actually told the truth about her horrid character and idiotic friends ... like seinfeld all the characters were repulsive evil do nothing idiots snobby with no redeeming value, but people think they were good characters
Nobody thought any of the characters on Seinfeld were good people. They were written to be narcissistic and neurotic from day one. People always recognized that.
I first and most know Laurie from Blackadder, one of my favourite shows, :) Saw that in its entirety a few times before I ever saw House, so I always knew House wasn't his normal voice. Always amazed me how completely he hid his accent. (Unrelated, but I heard how limping as House gave him actual issues!)
First time I saw House, all I could think is: there is something wrong with this show. I couldn't place my finger on it until I rented the first season on DVD, and the minute I started watching the extras, and someone was doing a behind the scenes, and started talking to House, I shouted Prince Regent. And everything fell into place and was fine.
Daniel Day Lewis - look at the different roles, and accents, throughout his astonishing career. The master of multiple accents - northern Irish (In the Name of The Father), upper class English (A Room With a View) , three different American accents for Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln and then My Left Foot, which was just astounding. Simply the best.
Where? I can think of him in Goldeneye (Russian), X-Men (German/Austrian), and Bernard And The Genie (I think just his OWN accent) off the top of my head. Where does he do an American accent?
One of my favorites is Melanie Lynskey, a New Zealander who has played many American characters and does accents from all around the US very, very, well.
I know I've seen her in SOMETHING with her real accent, I think she was one of the evil (not so evil after all) step sisters in the Cinderella adaptation Ever After with Drew Barrymore? So maybe there? I know her most from Two And A Half Men (with a standard American accent), but also But I'm A Cheerleader.
What about Toni Collette? Why is she always forgotten on theses type of lists? She can pull off multiple different accents and sound convincing American (The Sixth Sense anyone?), but she’s Australian.
Absolutely. I remember seeing her in her earlier films like Muriel's Wedding and Cosi. Then I saw her in Velvet Goldmine and thought, what a shame she can't do a proper American accent. But over the course of her career, she has taken on so many amazing characters that have so many different accents, and she does an amazing job. A few years ago, I revisited Velvet Goldmine and realized she is supposed to be an American trying to sound like a posh Brit. So actually much better than I realized!
Gary Oldman has done so many different accents that he hired a dialect coach to relearn his English accent. I was surprised when I heard Christian Bale and Tom Hardy speaking in their native English accents as I was used to them speaking like Americans.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not? He's from New Cross, London, 5 minutes from where im from. watch him play Sid Vicious and Sirus Black, (those roles are more like his real voice) and Winston Churchill... Hes an exceptional actor and my favourite actor of all time, and has been since I was 13 (27 years) i cried when he won his Oscar @tqnohe
His recent work include Slow Horses. His character is the slovenly and sort of obnoxious boss of a group on outcast MI5 agents. It’s clear he relishes the role. Such a fun show!
Gillian Anderson did an American accent 30 years ago when she starred as Agent Dana Scully on the X Files . I didn't know she was British 'til I saw her on a episode of Top Gear
I BELIEVE that she was born in America but grew up in England. So I think she has the “dialect” thing mentioned. She played Margaret Thatcher in the Crown which got me curious and why I even know this. She has lived there for years at this point, so has reverted to a British accent. What I always noticed back during X Files days was how soft spoken and serious Sculley was. In interviews, Gillian was outgoing and friendly
She’s actually British AND American. Her parents are American and Gillian herself was born in Chicago. When she was only about a year old, her family moved to London. So she spent her formative years growing up in London and had a London accent. Then when she was 11 years old her family moved back to the states (I think she moved to upper Midwest.) As a result she picked up an American accent (she was still a kid so it was pretty easy). So she is similar to John Barrowman in that she’ uses two different accents. But she’s originally American. I’ve heard her say when she’s around British people, she automatically uses her London accent. But when she’s around American, she naturally uses her American accent.
Bob Hoskins did such a great gruff, tough guy American accent in Who Framed Roger Rabbit that the voice fits his face better than his original British accent. He was from Suffolk, England. RIP.
Came here to say this. Thank you for sharing it! Bob Hoskins' real accent is almost cockney. Really tough to understand and he did the American accent in Who Frame Roger Rabbit perfectly.
I remember hearing that so many thought Daniel Davis’s accent was so good as Niles that it made the British accent of Charles Shaughnessy (who played Mr. Sheffield) sound fake even though he actually is British.
James Marsters - Spike on Buffy John Hillerman - Higgins on Magnum PI (the real one) David Ogden Stiers - Dr Charles Emerson Winchester III on MASH all three of these were better than your #1.
@@superandrew2000Her voice got higher and more nasally as the show went one, because she was really leaning into it. It isn’t THAT obnoxious. If you watch her on extended interviews, or in early work like This Is Spinal Tap.
@@superandrew2000 Correct, Fran Fine speaks with the voice Drescher had before she spent a not so small fortune on Voice and Dialect coaches and Speech Therapists.
@@lionelgrisbane-ud87. Wait. So you're saying if I can't do a better accent then I have to distrust my ear and say it's great? So, if I do a better American accent than Arnold Swarzenegger, who is shit at accents, then my shit American accent is deemed good? Do you see the flaw in asking "could you do better"?
@@rossshepherd9836 hey buddy, you got three English people on this small thread saying his accent was spot on, vs. you (are you even English??) saying it’s not. Sit this one out.
Yvonne strahovski from Chuck. The actress nailed an American accent but she is Australian. In the show, she spoke briefly in her natural accent. Go Sarah go.
Australian actors definitely have a talent for perfecting the American accent. I can't even count how many Australian actors I thought were American for a long time until I found out they weren't. From Simon Baker, to Anthony LaPaglia, Isls Fischer, Mel Gibson, Liam Hemsworth (oddly I knew from the start that his big brother Chris is Australian), and many more I can't even think of right now. I saw Yvonne in an Australian series where I heard her speak in her natural Aussie accent. It was weird. I remember also hearing Simon Baker speaking in his Australian accent for the first time when he was a guest on the Ellen Degeneras Show. That was weird too.
I think Misha Collins from Supernatural would have been a good pick. His natural voice was so high pitched in comparison to the angel at the beginning, but the more he did it, the more his actual voice changed, like today, where his voice is only slightly higher pitched
Right!? He’s the first person I think of on this topic. I wasn’t familiar with him prior to House, so when I heard him in an interview for the first time my mind was blown. 🤯😅
IKR! When I saw this vid pop up, I for sure would've thought he was #1. I remember when I first heard his real accent. It was during the series finale of house and they had a whole pre-show. My mind was completely, 10000% blown hearing his English accent for the first time. I felt hoodwinked! Bamboozled! And I loved it lol.
Hello? Where was John Hillerman who played Jonathan Quayle Higgins on Magnum, PI???? He played the uptight British Higgins flawlessly all the while being from Houston, TX. There was even an episode where Higgins went undercover as a gentlemen from Texas. He played an Englishman pretending to be a Texan brilliantly. RIP, dear man.
I was blown away when I had found out that the late John Hillerman, Higgins on the Tom Selleck Magnum series was actually a Texan. His British accent was amazing.
His start as Spike in the second season of Buffy was pretty rough, but he worked on the accent (I understand Anthony Stewart Head helped out) and it sounded completely natural by the end. It also sounded perfect when he guest starred on Torchwood as Jack's crazy ex.
Andrew Garfield as Spiderman is English, Renee Zellwegger is a Texan Bridget Jones. Cate Blanchet can do any accent and is an Aussie, so is Barbie, Harley Quinn, Margot Robbie. The list is very long and more worthy than most of these picks.
Most aussies - especially those who grew up in the more british accented cities, like Adelaide, and pursued training - can pull off a massive range of accents.
Melissa Rauch’s actual voice is different from her character Bernadette from TBBT. Paul Reubens’s actual voice doesn’t sound like his character Pee-wee Herman’s voice.
I love the Hallowe'en episode after Howard came back from space, he mocks her, and she goes DEEPER than her normal voice, equally far the other way, with "I don't sound like that", I always LOVE the delivery of THAT line. :)
From his name and appearance, I had always assumed Anthony LaPaglia was a New York Italian-American. It blew me away when I heard him interviewed. What an actor!
David Suchet, who played Hercule Poirot on the long-running TV show, has a much deeper voice than he uses for the character. And of course no Belgian accent. I read that Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero (who played Amy Santiago) were really concerned that, since TV shows rarely cast two Latina women in a mixed ensemble, one of them would be imminently fired. So they worked to make the two characters as different as possible so that neither could be considered superfluous. I do wonder if Rosa's gradually deepening voice was a product of that.
Just watched a Dr Who with him and finished 5 mins ago. Great actor. So bizarre to see him hosting Have I Got News For You, for instance, and him use his REAL voice! Haha. Also he's basically a comical porno verion of the Dr in the remake of the movie Fright Night.
The fun part of this is that David had issues with pronouncing the "oo" sound in an English accent. Russel T. Davies trolled him by making him say "A Judoon platoon upon the moon".
I loved David Tennant as the Doctor. When he starred in Broadchurch, his Scottish accent was so strong I had to put the subtitle function on the TV so I could understand what he was saying.
Melanie Lynskey - Two and a. half men ( Kiwi!) and all our Aussie actors - Margot Robbie, Chris and Liam Hemsworth, Toni Collette , Rachel Griffiths, Sarah Snook ....etc etc. Need I go on!
@@ulricaandrae4381 True, but this list doesn't make sense anyway. Number 16 is Daniel Davis and he's also just an American putting on a British accent, using his normal voice.
@@ulricaandrae4381 yeah, it's close, we could also say that she missed Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Trilogy, American Psycho or Terminator Salvation, a Welsh actor able to use a very believable American accent
I can't believe you didn't add Damien Lewis to this list. His protrayal as Major Dick Winters in Band of Brothers and Bobby Alexrod in Billions were superb.
I was familiar with Laurie from both Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie (not to mention his Friends cameo) well before I ever saw him on House. And yet afterwards I still get caught off guard whenever I hear him talk in his natural accent.
18:00 his American accent is so good, it even fooled the shows creator. Apparently another british actor auditioned and when the director saw Hugh Laurie he said and this has been quoted quite a bit by now: "This is what I want. An American guy" Also from what I could see he even kept the American accent during on set interviews and the like.
@@seancassidy9897 I think Aussies have a kind of 'hybrid dialect.' Not in terms of audio but chronologically. If a Brit moves to the USA, after about 10 years he starts to sound Australian, at least to me.
I’ve always found situations like John Barrowman to be kinda fascinating lolol. I have a close friend who is Scottish by birth, but spent much of her life here in the Bahamas. Normally, she speaks with a pretty neutral North American accent, but once she’s had a few too many drinks, the Glaswegian in her hilariously comes out in full force 🤣 First time I noticed this, I was SO fuckin confused because I had no idea she was originally a Scott lolol
Craig Ferguson, naturally a glaringly obvious Scot accent, I most/first knew him on The Drew Carey Show with a British accent, such that his Scot accent always bumps me, LOL! My father was amusingly something like Barrowman. As an accountant he had a side business doing taxes at tax time, he'd see clients at his home office, his speech patterns would mimic his clients (only example I can remember is for Jewish clients he'd speak a la Mel Brooks or Jackie Mason). Obviously not mocking him, clearly seemed unconscious and automatic. I've noticed I have similar tendencies but I tend to catch it when within earshot of other people, otherwise I have a need to mimic vocal patterns and line deliveries I like. :)
@@niceguy169 lolol I loved in one episode of Drew Carey when Craig Ferguson started doing an impression of Sean Connery 🤣 A Scotsman doing an impression of an Englishman doing an impression of a Scotsman. Brilliant can’t even describe it ❤️
The actor who played Apollo (Jamie Bamber) in Battlestar Galactica (2004) is an English actor who sounded very much American when he did Apollo! He had a lot of people totally fooled.
Here’s a list of 20 actors who sound completely different from the characters they play, showcasing their incredible versatility and acting range: Tom Hanks - Known for his American, everyman roles, Hanks’ natural voice is far from the wholesome, everyman tone he often uses on screen. His Forrest Gump and Cast Away personas are far from his real-life voice, which is more neutral and normal. Meryl Streep - Streep's ability to mimic various accents is unmatched, but her real voice is far from the many characters she’s played, like her British accent in The Devil Wears Prada or her Australian one in The Hours. Christian Bale - Bale is famous for his extreme physical transformations, but his voice changes drastically from role to role. In American Psycho, he sounds sophisticated and menacing, while his real voice is far more laid-back and British. James Earl Jones - Famous for his deep, booming voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars, Jones’ real voice is much less imposing and more gentle, though still rich and full. Emma Stone - Known for her high-pitched, bright voice, Emma Stone’s actual voice is much deeper, more measured, and naturally less bubbly. Matthew McConaughey - The Dallas Buyers Club actor is known for his deep, Texan drawl on screen, but his real-life voice is not as thick, showing his impressive ability to adapt to characters. Daniel Day-Lewis - Known for his intense method acting, Day-Lewis’s roles like There Will Be Blood and Lincoln showcase completely different accents and cadences compared to his real, London-born voice. Idris Elba - Elba’s gritty American accent as Stringer Bell in The Wire is impressive, but his British accent is so distinct, it’s hard to imagine him in that role without it. Hugh Laurie - The British actor is best known for playing Dr. Gregory House with an American accent. Laurie’s real voice is much more charmingly British, showing his adaptability. Charlize Theron - In Monster, Theron famously adopted a deep, gruff voice for her role as Aileen Wuornos. In real life, she speaks with a smooth South African accent. Johnny Depp - Depp’s roles, like Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, sound nothing like his own voice, which is more normal, even though his accents are always unique and varied. Gwyneth Paltrow - Known for her roles in films like Shakespeare in Love, Paltrow often uses a British accent in her roles, yet her natural voice is distinctly Californian. Hugh Grant - Best known for his charming, somewhat stuttering British roles in romantic comedies, Hugh Grant’s real voice is more refined, without the fumbled stammer of characters like in Notting Hill. Lupita Nyong’o - Nyong’o’s turn as Nakia in Black Panther requires an American accent, while her real voice is unmistakably Kenyan, adding a layer of depth to her versatility. Alan Rickman - Rickman’s iconic deep, authoritative voice in roles like Die Hard and Harry Potter is a stark contrast to his softer, less pronounced natural speaking voice. Tessa Thompson - As Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, Thompson uses a gritty, strong accent, but her natural voice is much lighter and more refined. Zoe Saldana - Known for her roles in Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy, where she plays alien characters, Saldana’s natural voice is much softer and more delicate than the fierce warriors she often portrays. Keanu Reeves - Often associated with his calm, somewhat monotone voice in roles like The Matrix, Reeves’ off-screen voice is surprisingly more animated and emotive. Bryan Cranston - Famous for his role as Walter White in Breaking Bad, Cranston’s voice as the drug kingpin is gravelly and intense. His real-life voice, though, is far lighter and friendlier. Scarlett Johansson - Known for her sultry, deep voice, especially in roles like Her and Lost in Translation, Johansson’s actual voice is much higher-pitched and softer than the husky tones she uses in her characters.
Ed Westwick playing Chuck Bass in gossip girl! And Hugh Laurie is the one actor who I heard his actual accent first but still feel like he portrayal of house was so good it makes me think that’s his accent 😂
Karen was a great number 1. But also Fran extended her already nasal voice to squeek even more than natural. AND Lucille Balls voice was MUCH deeper with Lucy Ricardos on I Love Lucy, especially with time and smoking. But you can notice on the first few episodes of season 1 that she tried to make her voice much higher and squeakier than normal.
Laurie is an accomplished pianist and multi-instrumentalist that includes singing, guitar, drums, harmonica, and saxophone. Around 2009, I saw him with his band perform jazz and blues at the El Rey theater in Los Angeles.
I’m American but I was already a fan of Hugh Laurie’s since the 80s, as I remember him on an episode of The Young Ones and he was also a regular in two different series (seasons) of Black Adder. When House first aired, I was really impressed at how well he did an American accent. He was hysterical in Black Adder. He does comedy extremely well.
Dude. I thought Renee Zellweger was English until like five years ago. I was in shock when I learned that she's American. She really nailed Bridget Jones.
I think there is a difference between raising a pitch to sound comical or less serious, and adopting a true accent which includes nailing vocabulary, intonation and facial expressions. Look for a clip of Juliana Margolis doing upper class British. The transition is otherworldly.
James Marsters…Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv series)…ppl were convinced that man was British…he is from the US and his voice is a tad deeper than the character he played
Jerry Orbach’s French accent as Lumiere is spot on. Also, Colin Morgan! When he won his award for BBC Merlin (who has an English accent) everyone was shocked to hear his Northern Irish accent.
No one would believe Domonic West or Idris Elba were from Baltimore - no one in The Wire had a Bawhlmer accent, except the duty Sergeant who used to tell the cops not to get captured out there. It was the one great flaw of the show.
Gillian Anderson moves between English and American accents with ease. Her natural accent in the UK is English. Kevin Kline, as an elderly, slightly unhinged Englishman, in disclaimer is a revelation.
I thought for sure James Marsters, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, would be on this list. Couldn’t believe it when I first found out he was American.
I'm a Australian but when I travel especially in the UK I accidentally start speaking with the UK accent where I am, it also happens when I'm in New Zealand lol I think that it is from watching too much tv 😂
Daniel Kaluuya has phenomenal range with the American accents he’s taken on. Compared to his native cockney in Across the Spiderverse, the switch up is unreal. Jon Boyega is another good one. But as far as an American who bodies an English accent, Tessa Thompson is pretty damn decent in Thor.
You totally forgot Eamonn Walker... When he played Wallace Boden in Chicago Fire his voice is deep and calm but when I´ve heard him speaking his real voice for the first time I almost fell from the chair. His natural voice (just like in case of Stephanie Beatriz) is few tones higher so he has my utter respect for pulling Bodens voice off. And thanks for putting my two favorite New Zelanders, Rose McIver and Lucy Lawless, on this list :-). If you ever watched Xena, you know Lucy played several more characters there (Xena´s face doubles) and every character had her own special voice. Princess Diana had soft with a hint of naivitee voice, Meg as a battered by life woman had kinda bleaty voice and Leah the virgin priestess annoyingly preaching voice... So another proof of Lucy´s voice acting skills :-).
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Mark Addy, who played quintessential Chicago guy Bill Miller in Still Standing two decades ago. It was jarring the first time I heard his true British dialect.
@@scottalan5282 I dunno about that. I've seen and heard moments where is native Yorkshire accent slips out: especially when Bill shouts "A ha!" I'm not even 100 percent what kind of US accent he's supposed to be doing, whether it be New York, New Jersey, or some kind of Midwestern dialect.
The Jersey girl from Orange is the New Black was incorrect. That's not a Boston accent that's clearly a Jersey accent.
Dan "Larry the Cable Guy" Whitney
John Hillerman on the old Magnum PI show. He did a Brit dialect so well many think he was from there. He's from Texas.
The funny thing about Hugh Laurie as House--the producer was adamant that they hire a "true American". He hadn't heard of Hugh Laurie before so when Laurie found out that they wanted an American, he auditioned with that voice and that accent and the producer said "That's what a real American sounds like!"
Something like that, yes. The interview of the BTS is on RUclips somewhere.
Most Americans who have seen HOUSE ..to Date believe Hugh Laurie is an American actor😊
If I remember correctly Laurie did an initial interview over the phone for House and then when they met him in person, they were shocked that he’s a Brit
He also kept changing which was his bad leg to see if anyone noticed. In the end he couldn’t give the walk up for ages.
Well, he'd already played Frederick Little opposite Michael J. Fox as a mouse...
So when Stephanie Beatriz auditioned for Encanto, they thought her normal voice was like Rosa's and were going to have her as Louisa. So when they actually heard her voice they gave her Mirabel.
She does EVERYTHING! I actually first saw her in Modern Family as Gloria’s sister 😂. I had no idea she was already a legend by then!
I heard the same! I'd love to see FOOTAGE of her being like that, the higher voice and bubbly personality that drove them to cast her as Mirabel. Even just Encanto recording sessions...
This is odd given that Lin Manuel Miranda is a well known huge fan of Brooklyn 99, and he also cast her in “In the Heights,” and he would have been involved in the casting on Encanto. He definitely knew her real voice.
I had no idea she voiced Mirabel. Makes me love the movie even more now, tbh.
Backwards. SHE went for Luisa and they told her no ma’am you’re Mirabel
I first saw Hugh Laurie on Black Adder. That and House were two completely different realities. Amazing actor.
laurie on friends when he criticizes rachel on the plane ... the one true time someone actually told the truth about her horrid character and idiotic friends ... like seinfeld all the characters were repulsive evil do nothing idiots snobby with no redeeming value, but people think they were good characters
Nobody thought any of the characters on Seinfeld were good people. They were written to be narcissistic and neurotic from day one. People always recognized that.
I first and most know Laurie from Blackadder, one of my favourite shows, :) Saw that in its entirety a few times before I ever saw House, so I always knew House wasn't his normal voice. Always amazed me how completely he hid his accent. (Unrelated, but I heard how limping as House gave him actual issues!)
Blackadder is great, but I fell in love with him as Bertie Wooster with Stephen Frye as Jeeves. Hilarious!
First time I saw House, all I could think is: there is something wrong with this show. I couldn't place my finger on it until I rented the first season on DVD, and the minute I started watching the extras, and someone was doing a behind the scenes, and started talking to House, I shouted Prince Regent. And everything fell into place and was fine.
Daniel Day Lewis - look at the different roles, and accents, throughout his astonishing career. The master of multiple accents - northern Irish (In the Name of The Father), upper class English (A Room With a View) , three different American accents for Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln and then My Left Foot, which was just astounding. Simply the best.
What about Alan Cummings?? He does a flawless American accent but his native Scot voice is so different
im related to him lol, your very right lmfao
Tbh, that's the first person I thought of.
Where? I can think of him in Goldeneye (Russian), X-Men (German/Austrian), and Bernard And The Genie (I think just his OWN accent) off the top of my head. Where does he do an American accent?
@niceguy169 Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. I believe that's actually his FIRST "American" movie.
@@niceguy169 He played a recurring character on The Good Wife and The Good Fight.
One of my favorites is Melanie Lynskey, a New Zealander who has played many American characters and does accents from all around the US very, very, well.
I know I've seen her in SOMETHING with her real accent, I think she was one of the evil (not so evil after all) step sisters in the Cinderella adaptation Ever After with Drew Barrymore? So maybe there? I know her most from Two And A Half Men (with a standard American accent), but also But I'm A Cheerleader.
@@niceguy169 she was in the NZ movie Heavenly Creatures
What about Toni Collette? Why is she always forgotten on theses type of lists? She can pull off multiple different accents and sound convincing American (The Sixth Sense anyone?), but she’s Australian.
Hell United States of Tara, she plays like 5 different people.
I was waiting for her to show up on this list!
She does a fab british accent in about a boy too
Absolutely. I remember seeing her in her earlier films like Muriel's Wedding and Cosi. Then I saw her in Velvet Goldmine and thought, what a shame she can't do a proper American accent. But over the course of her career, she has taken on so many amazing characters that have so many different accents, and she does an amazing job. A few years ago, I revisited Velvet Goldmine and realized she is supposed to be an American trying to sound like a posh Brit. So actually much better than I realized!
She should have been on the top off this list!
Gary Oldman has done so many different accents that he hired a dialect coach to relearn his English accent.
I was surprised when I heard Christian Bale and Tom Hardy speaking in their native English accents as I was used to them speaking like Americans.
Wait. Gary Oldman is not American with an American accent???
@@bethanybody2201 Charlie Hunnam did the same.
@@tqnohe nah, he british
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not? He's from New Cross, London, 5 minutes from where im from. watch him play Sid Vicious and Sirus Black, (those roles are more like his real voice) and Winston Churchill... Hes an exceptional actor and my favourite actor of all time, and has been since I was 13 (27 years) i cried when he won his Oscar @tqnohe
His recent work include Slow Horses. His character is the slovenly and sort of obnoxious boss of a group on outcast MI5 agents. It’s clear he relishes the role. Such a fun show!
The narrator talks too much, let the different voices play more or show more voice clips or let the dialogues play longer.
Ikr
First time watching a mojo video huh?
They always do lol
Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock on Daredevil. Such a soft British voice in real life.
He’s northern a geordie (from Newcastle)
He also does an amazing Irish accent. I first saw him on Boardwalk Empire. I got hooked immediately.
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@@BettyBordello He's from London and has a pretty standard Southern accent. Maybe you're thinking of Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy?
@@RedPanda525you know that England is part of Great Britain, right?
Gillian Anderson did an American accent 30 years ago when she starred as Agent Dana Scully on the X Files . I didn't know she was British 'til I saw her on a episode of Top Gear
She isn't British, but she does switch effortlessly (and possibly subconsciously) between accents.
Wow, just wow. Fact check fist before posting.
I BELIEVE that she was born in America but grew up in England. So I think she has the “dialect” thing mentioned. She played Margaret Thatcher in the Crown which got me curious and why I even know this. She has lived there for years at this point, so has reverted to a British accent.
What I always noticed back during X Files days was how soft spoken and serious Sculley was. In interviews, Gillian was outgoing and friendly
She’s actually British AND American. Her parents are American and Gillian herself was born in Chicago. When she was only about a year old, her family moved to London. So she spent her formative years growing up in London and had a London accent. Then when she was 11 years old her family moved back to the states (I think she moved to upper Midwest.) As a result she picked up an American accent (she was still a kid so it was pretty easy). So she is similar to John Barrowman in that she’ uses two different accents. But she’s originally American.
I’ve heard her say when she’s around British people, she automatically uses her London accent. But when she’s around American, she naturally uses her American accent.
I mean, she's literally American.
Bob Hoskins did such a great gruff, tough guy American accent in Who Framed Roger Rabbit that the voice fits his face better than his original British accent. He was from Suffolk, England. RIP.
Damn I never knew this. Watched that movie 1000 times as a kid. 😢RIP indeed
Never knew this either. First movie I saw him in was Long Good Friday, so I always thought he was cockney from birth.
Wonderful actor. I really enjoyed his performance in Maid in Manhattan, too.
Came here to say this. Thank you for sharing it! Bob Hoskins' real accent is almost cockney. Really tough to understand and he did the American accent in Who Frame Roger Rabbit perfectly.
I completely forgot he was British.
You wouldn’t know it to see him in Mermaids with Cher, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci.
I had no idea that Niles was actually from Arkansas! Such talent!
I remember hearing that so many thought Daniel Davis’s accent was so good as Niles that it made the British accent of Charles Shaughnessy (who played Mr. Sheffield) sound fake even though he actually is British.
I never watched the show, but from these clips his accent sounds terrible.
same! Always thought he was a Brit
He played James Moriarty on Star Trek. He also used a British accent for that role too.
James Marsters - Spike on Buffy
John Hillerman - Higgins on Magnum PI (the real one)
David Ogden Stiers - Dr Charles Emerson Winchester III on MASH
all three of these were better than your #1.
John Hillerman's accent in Magnum really wasn't very good, maybe to an American, but as a Brit I would only give it 6 out of 10
@@debm3041 Agreed, he was clearly putting on an english accent (not badly, but identifiably).
You forgot Fran Drescher also from the Nanny.
i heard that she trained to able to change her voice and that was her original voice
@@superandrew2000Her voice got higher and more nasally as the show went one, because she was really leaning into it. It isn’t THAT obnoxious. If you watch her on extended interviews, or in early work like This Is Spinal Tap.
@@superandrew2000 Correct, Fran Fine speaks with the voice Drescher had before she spent a not so small fortune on Voice and Dialect coaches and Speech Therapists.
Wait, she doesn’t actually have that squeaky voice?
The actor they highlight from that program has a terribly fake British accent to my ears.
Peter Dinklage playing Tyrion Lannister in Game Of Thrones. Totally convinced me with his English accent, and I'm English!
Was an iffy accent.
@@rossshepherd9836 bruh WTF could you do better?
I'm British, and his accent was spot on
@@lionelgrisbane-ud87. Wait. So you're saying if I can't do a better accent then I have to distrust my ear and say it's great? So, if I do a better American accent than Arnold Swarzenegger, who is shit at accents, then my shit American accent is deemed good?
Do you see the flaw in asking "could you do better"?
@@rossshepherd9836 hey buddy, you got three English people on this small thread saying his accent was spot on, vs. you (are you even English??) saying it’s not. Sit this one out.
Bronson Pinchot from "Perfect Strangers" deserves a mention.
He narrates a lot of audio books and you'd never guess you were listing to Balki Bartokomous.
Yvonne strahovski from Chuck. The actress nailed an American accent but she is Australian. In the show, she spoke briefly in her natural accent. Go Sarah go.
Australian actors definitely have a talent for perfecting the American accent. I can't even count how many Australian actors I thought were American for a long time until I found out they weren't. From Simon Baker, to Anthony LaPaglia, Isls Fischer, Mel Gibson, Liam Hemsworth (oddly I knew from the start that his big brother Chris is Australian), and many more I can't even think of right now.
I saw Yvonne in an Australian series where I heard her speak in her natural Aussie accent. It was weird. I remember also hearing Simon Baker speaking in his Australian accent for the first time when he was a guest on the Ellen Degeneras Show. That was weird too.
Yeah I mean just look at Hugh Jackman
I think Misha Collins from Supernatural would have been a good pick. His natural voice was so high pitched in comparison to the angel at the beginning, but the more he did it, the more his actual voice changed, like today, where his voice is only slightly higher pitched
Was thinking the same thing
He also has a pretty solid Russian accent too
@@CapnRiggs2k5 Well, he is of Russian descent
@@CapnRiggs2k5 I know I've heard it
Agreed. When I saw the title of this video, he was the first person I thought of.
How is Hugh Laurie NOT number 1?
Right!? He’s the first person I think of on this topic. I wasn’t familiar with him prior to House, so when I heard him in an interview for the first time my mind was blown. 🤯😅
With Hugh at #1, Lincoln at #2 makes sense. 😅
Agreed!
IKR! When I saw this vid pop up, I for sure would've thought he was #1. I remember when I first heard his real accent. It was during the series finale of house and they had a whole pre-show. My mind was completely, 10000% blown hearing his English accent for the first time. I felt hoodwinked! Bamboozled! And I loved it lol.
Agreed!!!!
Hello? Where was John Hillerman who played Jonathan Quayle Higgins on Magnum, PI???? He played the uptight British Higgins flawlessly all the while being from Houston, TX. There was even an episode where Higgins went undercover as a gentlemen from Texas. He played an Englishman pretending to be a Texan brilliantly. RIP, dear man.
John Hillerman, the pride of Denison, Texas. He may have lived in Houston, but he was a Denison native.
@@Kate-yv2or Thanks for sharing!!! 🙂
I was going to add his name as well. I don't know what season it was when I found out that Hillerman wasn't British.
Actual Brits were sure he was one of them.
I was blown away when I had found out that the late John Hillerman, Higgins on the Tom Selleck Magnum series was actually a Texan. His British accent was amazing.
That blew my mind. I thought my whole life was a lie for a brief moment! He was flawless.
Colin Farrell nailed The Penguin (in more than just voice, his transformation was incredible)
Another Colin Farrell performance worth mentioning would be as Stu Sheppard in the movie Phone Booth.
Megan Mullaly as Karen Walker= LEGENDARY! One of the best comedic characters in TV History.
james marsters should be on here at least an honorable mention
agree!
Absolutely
Hell yeah!!!
His start as Spike in the second season of Buffy was pretty rough, but he worked on the accent (I understand Anthony Stewart Head helped out) and it sounded completely natural by the end. It also sounded perfect when he guest starred on Torchwood as Jack's crazy ex.
Just coming to say this, his actual American accent almost sounds wrong.
Andrew Garfield as Spiderman is English, Renee Zellwegger is a Texan Bridget Jones. Cate Blanchet can do any accent and is an Aussie, so is Barbie, Harley Quinn, Margot Robbie. The list is very long and more worthy than most of these picks.
@mikehzz9848 Meryl Streep can instantly do any accent she hears.
@@justindenney-hall5875 That lady is incredible.
@@DrakeN-ow1im Fact Fiend did a video about her being able to do that.
Most aussies - especially those who grew up in the more british accented cities, like Adelaide, and pursued training - can pull off a massive range of accents.
Melissa Rauch’s actual voice is different from her character Bernadette from TBBT. Paul Reubens’s actual voice doesn’t sound like his character Pee-wee Herman’s voice.
I love the Hallowe'en episode after Howard came back from space, he mocks her, and she goes DEEPER than her normal voice, equally far the other way, with "I don't sound like that", I always LOVE the delivery of THAT line. :)
You missed Christian Bale. He has quite a range when it comes to voices and accents.
I could do without Lung Cancer Batman
How did Rue McClanahan (aka Blanche Devereaux) miss the cut. Her Deep South accent fools me big time when you hear her speak normally
Her accent on that show was over the top and didn't sound like real southern women.
Not surprising to those of us who knew her from the show Maude
From his name and appearance, I had always assumed Anthony LaPaglia was a New York Italian-American. It blew me away when I heard him interviewed. What an actor!
I just recently found out he's from Australia
what about James McAvoy and Alan Cumming both Scottish.Cumming played an American Crisis Manager on The Good Wife with a flawless American accent.
Cumming also had a passable German accent in X2. But his Scottish brogue is an absolute delight to hear on The Traitors.
yess finally some James mcavoy recognition!!
Long time I thought Alan is American
David Suchet, who played Hercule Poirot on the long-running TV show, has a much deeper voice than he uses for the character. And of course no Belgian accent.
I read that Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero (who played Amy Santiago) were really concerned that, since TV shows rarely cast two Latina women in a mixed ensemble, one of them would be imminently fired. So they worked to make the two characters as different as possible so that neither could be considered superfluous. I do wonder if Rosa's gradually deepening voice was a product of that.
Suchet is amazing!
The late great jean Stapleton all in the family, Vicky Lawrence Mama's family, Jasmine Guy a different world
Those were some great transformations especially Jean Stapleton she sounds so soft spoken.
I missed David Tenant. A lot of these people I didn't know.
Just watched a Dr Who with him and finished 5 mins ago. Great actor. So bizarre to see him hosting Have I Got News For You, for instance, and him use his REAL voice! Haha. Also he's basically a comical porno verion of the Dr in the remake of the movie Fright Night.
The fun part of this is that David had issues with pronouncing the "oo" sound in an English accent. Russel T. Davies trolled him by making him say "A Judoon platoon upon the moon".
I loved David Tennant as the Doctor. When he starred in Broadchurch, his Scottish accent was so strong I had to put the subtitle function on the TV so I could understand what he was saying.
Pretty much any British and Australian actor who has done American television, Freddie Highmore, Charlie Heaton, etc. Same with movies.
Stephanie, like Encanto ?
Most of them are good. Ben Kingsley and Liam Neeson need a little practice. And Sean Connery's American dialect is ATROCIOUS.
@@stephaniegormley9982 But what about Connery's "Russian" accent (The Hunt for Red October)? ;P
@@thmarth Thank you. I forgot about that one. Even worse. But at least they didn't give him a Oscar for that.
100% Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving….so many.
Melanie Lynskey - Two and a. half men ( Kiwi!) and all our Aussie actors - Margot Robbie, Chris and Liam Hemsworth, Toni Collette , Rachel Griffiths, Sarah Snook ....etc etc. Need I go on!
What about Simon Baker, in The Mentalist and The Guardian?
You missed Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, he is an American actor who fooled many with a his British accent in Game of Thrones
The voice sounds the same though
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True, but this list doesn't make sense anyway. Number 16 is Daniel Davis and he's also just an American putting on a British accent, using his normal voice.
@@ulricaandrae4381 yeah, it's close, we could also say that she missed Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Trilogy, American Psycho or Terminator Salvation, a Welsh actor able to use a very believable American accent
@ Bale has been my crush since i was 11. I know who he is ☺️
I wasn’t impressed by his accent tbh. He tried too hard. It was a mess to my ear.
I can't believe you didn't add Damien Lewis to this list. His protrayal as Major Dick Winters in Band of Brothers and Bobby Alexrod in Billions were superb.
Alex O'Loughlin from Hawaii 5-0 is a huge shock too from his American Steve McGarett to his decidedly Aussie actual accent.
Gillian Anderson...her ability to switch between an american and british accent is effortless
Rachel Griffiths from Six Feet Under. Nailed it!
I was familiar with Laurie from both Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie (not to mention his Friends cameo) well before I ever saw him on House. And yet afterwards I still get caught off guard whenever I hear him talk in his natural accent.
Great List. Before "House", I first saw Hugh Laurie in "Stewart Little" and as an adviser in "The man in the Iron Mask".
Omg, for years, i thought that House looked so familiar! Thx for makeing it picture perfect. No wonder I love both Stuart Little and House.
I just thought the same thing, I saw the Stuart Little movies before House was made
Kelly Rielly who plays Beth Dutton on Yellowstone?
I’m floored you didn’t include Matthew McFadyen, from Succession’s playing the most perfect basic midwestern accent.
18:00 his American accent is so good, it even fooled the shows creator. Apparently another british actor auditioned and when the director saw Hugh Laurie he said and this has been quoted quite a bit by now: "This is what I want. An American guy" Also from what I could see he even kept the American accent during on set interviews and the like.
James Marsters!! Most Buffy fans have no idea he's American, not British. You'll need to do another list! :)
I was fooled.
most American fans. His British accent was horrendous :D
About as authentic as Dick VanDyke
I was waiting for him to pop up!
@@nicknick6788 - Dick Van Dyke is a legend! But his accent was pretty darn bad.
Having Catherine O’Hara on this list was a stretch. Swap her out for Nyambi Nyambi on Mike & Molly.
You forgot Maia Mitchell. She’s originally from Australia and spoke with a fluent American accent on The Fosters
And in the Teen Beach Movies
Simon Baker from tv show The Mentalist he’s Australian
It's interesting how so many Australians can affect a good American accent.
@@kevwwong It seems a lot easier for them - they don't have the tells that British actors sometimes have.
@@seancassidy9897 I think Aussies have a kind of 'hybrid dialect.' Not in terms of audio but chronologically. If a Brit moves to the USA, after about 10 years he starts to sound Australian, at least to me.
Ariana Grande from ‘Victorious’ and ‘Sam&Cat’ her character Cat has a high pitch voice, but in real life her natural voice is deep
And Wicked. I is phenomenal!
KJ Apa who played Archie Andrews on Riverdale is from New Zeleand and sounds very different from his real voice
Cool list! Amazing talents.
I’ve always found situations like John Barrowman to be kinda fascinating lolol. I have a close friend who is Scottish by birth, but spent much of her life here in the Bahamas. Normally, she speaks with a pretty neutral North American accent, but once she’s had a few too many drinks, the Glaswegian in her hilariously comes out in full force 🤣 First time I noticed this, I was SO fuckin confused because I had no idea she was originally a Scott lolol
Honorable mention to fellow Scot, David Tennant, who pulls off the English accent so very well.
Craig Ferguson, naturally a glaringly obvious Scot accent, I most/first knew him on The Drew Carey Show with a British accent, such that his Scot accent always bumps me, LOL!
My father was amusingly something like Barrowman. As an accountant he had a side business doing taxes at tax time, he'd see clients at his home office, his speech patterns would mimic his clients (only example I can remember is for Jewish clients he'd speak a la Mel Brooks or Jackie Mason). Obviously not mocking him, clearly seemed unconscious and automatic. I've noticed I have similar tendencies but I tend to catch it when within earshot of other people, otherwise I have a need to mimic vocal patterns and line deliveries I like. :)
@@niceguy169 lolol I loved in one episode of Drew Carey when Craig Ferguson started doing an impression of Sean Connery 🤣 A Scotsman doing an impression of an Englishman doing an impression of a Scotsman. Brilliant can’t even describe it ❤️
Nice story. Love it when things like that happen!
@@niceguy169you realise a Scottish accent is a British accent?
Gary Oldman should have been on the list.
@jeffboerger5676 He did so many American roles he lost his British Accent and had to relearn it.🤣
The actor who played Apollo (Jamie Bamber) in Battlestar Galactica (2004) is an English actor who sounded very much American when he did Apollo! He had a lot of people totally fooled.
Here’s a list of 20 actors who sound completely different from the characters they play, showcasing their incredible versatility and acting range:
Tom Hanks - Known for his American, everyman roles, Hanks’ natural voice is far from the wholesome, everyman tone he often uses on screen. His Forrest Gump and Cast Away personas are far from his real-life voice, which is more neutral and normal.
Meryl Streep - Streep's ability to mimic various accents is unmatched, but her real voice is far from the many characters she’s played, like her British accent in The Devil Wears Prada or her Australian one in The Hours.
Christian Bale - Bale is famous for his extreme physical transformations, but his voice changes drastically from role to role. In American Psycho, he sounds sophisticated and menacing, while his real voice is far more laid-back and British.
James Earl Jones - Famous for his deep, booming voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars, Jones’ real voice is much less imposing and more gentle, though still rich and full.
Emma Stone - Known for her high-pitched, bright voice, Emma Stone’s actual voice is much deeper, more measured, and naturally less bubbly.
Matthew McConaughey - The Dallas Buyers Club actor is known for his deep, Texan drawl on screen, but his real-life voice is not as thick, showing his impressive ability to adapt to characters.
Daniel Day-Lewis - Known for his intense method acting, Day-Lewis’s roles like There Will Be Blood and Lincoln showcase completely different accents and cadences compared to his real, London-born voice.
Idris Elba - Elba’s gritty American accent as Stringer Bell in The Wire is impressive, but his British accent is so distinct, it’s hard to imagine him in that role without it.
Hugh Laurie - The British actor is best known for playing Dr. Gregory House with an American accent. Laurie’s real voice is much more charmingly British, showing his adaptability.
Charlize Theron - In Monster, Theron famously adopted a deep, gruff voice for her role as Aileen Wuornos. In real life, she speaks with a smooth South African accent.
Johnny Depp - Depp’s roles, like Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, sound nothing like his own voice, which is more normal, even though his accents are always unique and varied.
Gwyneth Paltrow - Known for her roles in films like Shakespeare in Love, Paltrow often uses a British accent in her roles, yet her natural voice is distinctly Californian.
Hugh Grant - Best known for his charming, somewhat stuttering British roles in romantic comedies, Hugh Grant’s real voice is more refined, without the fumbled stammer of characters like in Notting Hill.
Lupita Nyong’o - Nyong’o’s turn as Nakia in Black Panther requires an American accent, while her real voice is unmistakably Kenyan, adding a layer of depth to her versatility.
Alan Rickman - Rickman’s iconic deep, authoritative voice in roles like Die Hard and Harry Potter is a stark contrast to his softer, less pronounced natural speaking voice.
Tessa Thompson - As Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, Thompson uses a gritty, strong accent, but her natural voice is much lighter and more refined.
Zoe Saldana - Known for her roles in Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy, where she plays alien characters, Saldana’s natural voice is much softer and more delicate than the fierce warriors she often portrays.
Keanu Reeves - Often associated with his calm, somewhat monotone voice in roles like The Matrix, Reeves’ off-screen voice is surprisingly more animated and emotive.
Bryan Cranston - Famous for his role as Walter White in Breaking Bad, Cranston’s voice as the drug kingpin is gravelly and intense. His real-life voice, though, is far lighter and friendlier.
Scarlett Johansson - Known for her sultry, deep voice, especially in roles like Her and Lost in Translation, Johansson’s actual voice is much higher-pitched and softer than the husky tones she uses in her characters.
James Masters and Alexis Denisof as Spike and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce respectively in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Kelly MacDonald does a spot on West Texas drawl in "No Country for Old Men".
How about Kevin McKid as Owen Hunt in Grey’s anatomy.
Ed Westwick playing Chuck Bass in gossip girl!
And Hugh Laurie is the one actor who I heard his actual accent first but still feel like he portrayal of house was so good it makes me think that’s his accent 😂
When GoT first came out, I thought Peter Dinklage was British until I saw him in an interview.
I just knew Melissa Rauch would be in this when I saw the title 😊
The esteemed and late Andrew Sachs as "Manuel from Barcelona" in Fawlty Towers 💕
It blew my mind when I found out he voiced 'Horse' on the English dub of the old 80s show Monkey Magic.
This should definitely be a running series of videos. So many great actors to list
Karen was a great number 1. But also Fran extended her already nasal voice to squeek even more than natural. AND Lucille Balls voice was MUCH deeper with Lucy Ricardos on I Love Lucy, especially with time and smoking. But you can notice on the first few episodes of season 1 that she tried to make her voice much higher and squeakier than normal.
I really think that smoking ruined Lucy's voice though
Niles, from the nanny, caught me off guard NOT having an accent lol
Jaleel’s Urkel also evolved quite a bit as his voice changed through adolescence and could no longer pull off the original incarnation.
probably can't do his Sonic voice, either, huh?
I find it insulting that James Marsters from Buffy the vampire Slayer was not mentioned! I spent my whole childhood thinking that man was British 😂😂
Chuck from gossip girl should be on here I had no idea he was British
Laurie is an accomplished pianist and multi-instrumentalist that includes singing, guitar, drums, harmonica, and saxophone. Around 2009, I saw him with his band perform jazz and blues at the El Rey theater in Los Angeles.
11:09 why does the RUclips progress bar say "Rose Macgregor"?
I’m American but I was already a fan of Hugh Laurie’s since the 80s, as I remember him on an episode of The Young Ones and he was also a regular in two different series (seasons) of Black Adder. When House first aired, I was really impressed at how well he did an American accent.
He was hysterical in Black Adder. He does comedy extremely well.
He also plays a mean Blues piano and occasionally Ragtime. A very talented chap.
Idris Elba was in my favorite episode of Absolutely Fabulous. As a new man of the night the ladies hire ;)
13:00 Lucy Lawless in Eurotrip is such a treat.
Very clearly US centric, given the number of actors who use accents (e.g., David Tennant) but aren't known for US TV.
Yeah! The US version of "Broadchurch" and the unsold pilot "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer"? Terrific.
David Tennant's Doctor Who had me fooled for at least a couple of seasons. Those wily scots!
Dude. I thought Renee Zellweger was English until like five years ago. I was in shock when I learned that she's American. She really nailed Bridget Jones.
The guy who plays Buck on 911. Totally different from his regular voice!
Oliver (Jones) Stark. He's also from the UK.
I think there is a difference between raising a pitch to sound comical or less serious, and adopting a true accent which includes nailing vocabulary, intonation and facial expressions.
Look for a clip of Juliana Margolis doing upper class British. The transition is otherworldly.
Charlie Hunnam from Sons Of Anarchy
I second this! Totally was blown away that this wasn't his normal dialect as Jax!
I knew him from Queer As Folk before SoA so seeing and hearing him as Jax was an eye opener lol
James Marsters…Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv series)…ppl were convinced that man was British…he is from the US and his voice is a tad deeper than the character he played
Hank Azaria is probably the best voice-man in Hollywood.
Jerry Orbach’s French accent as Lumiere is spot on.
Also, Colin Morgan! When he won his award for BBC Merlin (who has an English accent) everyone was shocked to hear his Northern Irish accent.
Sayid from Lost. dude sounds like a badass on the show, but like a chipmunk in real life
Really? Never heard him in real life, I'll have to look that up
No one would believe Domonic West or Idris Elba were from Baltimore - no one in The Wire had a Bawhlmer accent, except the duty Sergeant who used to tell the cops not to get captured out there. It was the one great flaw of the show.
And Snoop! Also Spider
How did Simon Baker (The Mentalist) not make this list? American on the show, Australian accent in every day life!
Owain Yeoman who plays Rigsby on the same show has a very distinctive Welsh accent in real life.
Gillian Anderson moves between English and American accents with ease. Her natural accent in the UK is English. Kevin Kline, as an elderly, slightly unhinged Englishman, in disclaimer is a revelation.
Because Barrowman lived in both Scotland and Illinois, he can speak both accents. I met his sister, who lives in Wisconsin, and she can do the same.
I thought for sure James Marsters, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, would be on this list. Couldn’t believe it when I first found out he was American.
Jordan Gavaris' real accent is night and day from his character Felix on Orphan Black. Honorable mention for sure!!
You can say this for Tatiana Maslany as well.
Out of all the clones, Cosima is the closest to her actual speaking voice.
I'm a Australian but when I travel especially in the UK I accidentally start speaking with the UK accent where I am, it also happens when I'm in New Zealand lol I think that it is from watching too much tv 😂
Happy monday night, Rebecca, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well
The voice actors for Elmo 😅, the tellie tubbies lol😂
It would be nice to hear more of their voices and much, much, much less narration.
Johnny Depp is another good one. He does great accents too
Anna Friel on Pushing Daisies was a shock as well. Anna sounds nothing like Chuck.
Daniel Kaluuya has phenomenal range with the American accents he’s taken on. Compared to his native cockney in Across the Spiderverse, the switch up is unreal. Jon Boyega is another good one. But as far as an American who bodies an English accent, Tessa Thompson is pretty damn decent in Thor.
You totally forgot Eamonn Walker... When he played Wallace Boden in Chicago Fire his voice is deep and calm but when I´ve heard him speaking his real voice for the first time I almost fell from the chair. His natural voice (just like in case of Stephanie Beatriz) is few tones higher so he has my utter respect for pulling Bodens voice off.
And thanks for putting my two favorite New Zelanders, Rose McIver and Lucy Lawless, on this list :-). If you ever watched Xena, you know Lucy played several more characters there (Xena´s face doubles) and every character had her own special voice. Princess Diana had soft with a hint of naivitee voice, Meg as a battered by life woman had kinda bleaty voice and Leah the virgin priestess annoyingly preaching voice... So another proof of Lucy´s voice acting skills :-).
Also, Jesse Spencer from Chicago Fire. He’s Australian.
So actors and actresses can do different accents and voices? Wow. Mind blown. Who knew this was possible???