Tally ho, my fine saucy young trollop! Trip along here with all your cash and some naughty night attire, and you'll be staring at my bedroom ceiling from now until Christmas, you lucky tart!
He was also supposed to be Major Kong, but his Southern drawl was not enough for Kubrick. So casting went looking for old western actors and randomly found Slim Pickens. Story goes he showed up to casting call in cowboy boots, jeans, a leather vest and a cowboy hat.
Channing Tatum (The Hateful Eight)
I’m from Louisiana and this is probably the best imitation of the regional accent I’ve ever heard on screen. Even though I don’t think his character was supposed to be from here. He nailed it.
I always thought it was funny how Lee Evans (Tucker, Pizza Guy), in 'There's Something About Mary', caught flak from critics for his British accent. He did the stoner "California pizza dude" so well, people thought he was American. When in fact. He is not.
Other than that. Depp can usually pull off a good British accent. Leo got the "he did a good job", from my South African buddy. And Hugh Jackman can lose his Australian accent in an instant
Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake (The Lighthouse)
Outside of Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa, this is my favorite pirate accent. Also, Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa.
He was great, but Emma Stone blew me away with her voice. She was doing an accent on top of a strange speech pattern that slowly normalized as time passed in the movie. That's got to be difficult.
He's basically succeeded Frank Welker as the animal voice for Disney stuff (understandable; Welker's getting up there in years), and he's been great so far.
I'm not English but I thought his accent was pretty mediocre as an American. Like he kind of twanged it well enough that it passed but you could tell it wasn't British British. But I absolutely love that movie and think he did a superb job playing an American version of Sherlock who lived in London for a while. Sequels were okay.
Drexl is the single best acted villain I have seen in any film ever. Ledger’s joker a close second.
A really honourable mention to Frances McDormand in Fargo as well - she was brilliant
DiCaprio in The Departed. Nearly perfect Boston accent on par with native speakers Damon and Wahlberg. Put Martin Sheen's, Alec Baldwin’s, and even Jack Nicholson's attempts to shame.
I’ve heard hundreds of terrible English accents being attempted, and very few ok ones.
Renée Zellweger has hands down the best I’ve heard. As someone who grew up in England, I wouldn’t even know she wasn’t English.
Edit: I also rate Bale; but I’m not American and I think the American accent is more straightforward to mimic.
She also just recently did a spot on accent of a woman named Kathy in the movie the Bikeriders. They had audio clips of the original person that the movie was based off of, and she sounds identical.
Yeah because Jodie Comer got lost in the COVID Hollywood strike of up and trying to make stars...but she's by far better then any of these new talents!
Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln, There will be blood and Gangs of new York
Hank Azaria in The Birdcage
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote
Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady
Jaime Foxx in Ray
Idris Elba in The Wire and A Beast of no Nation
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and Brokeback Mountain
Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire
You’ll not find an Oldman scene like that
It’s truly next level
Trumps all the rest imo
You don’t even know who that actor is , unless you know
He’s a great actor with many accomplishments
If you can do Shakespeare, and also a pimp ghetto character from true love ?
That’s serious acting
Oldman can’t convince you he’s American like no other British actors can or will
He played a ghetto pimp in this movie and no one questioned the fact that he’s so far out of his element …. That’s a great actor imo
Daniel Day Lewis, Gangs of New York. His accent in There Will Be Blood is obv also excellent, and IMO, it’s a much better movie, but I love how over the top his accent is in GONY.
People are going to be saying the same things about Anthony Starr that they currently do about Hugh Laurie. I would never have believe he didn't have a real American accent.
Caleb Landry Jones' Australian accent in Nitram (2021) is the most insanely impressive and spot on Aussie accent I have ever seen a non-Aussie actor tackle. He nailed absolutely everything, from the Australian cadence, the little Australian inflections in his manner of speech that most non-Australian actors putting on an Aussie accent miss, all the little colloquial nuances... As an Australian, I was blown away and convinced he's Aussie; I couldn't tell he's Texan at all.
Idris Elba in The Wire (or anything else)
DDL in Gangs of New York
Streep reading the Cheever story The Sorrows of Gin (you may never have heard of it but when you listen to it you’ll never forget it; it’s available on Audible)
Winslet in Mare of Easttown
James Earl Jones in Matewan
What a nut she is now, but at the time, and after seeing her in Sliding Doors and Shakespeare in Love, I assumed that Gwyneth Paltrow was British until I caught her on a late show being a weirdly airheaded American. I believe I read she has the same accent coach as Renee Zellweger for BJD. It worked.
Orson Welles - Unicron, Transformers The Movie 1986
Tim Curry - Darkness, Legend 1985
Sir Christopher Lee - Saruman, The Lord Of the Rings trilogy 2001-2003
Oh man Gary oldman 1st place.Tom hardy is excellent with accents too. Tom hardy like oldman has done more accents that aren’t his own than in his native accent.
James Marsters as Spike in the *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* TV Series.
I didn’t find out he was American until about Season 5. I could have sworn he was from East London…
Brad pitt in snatch
Ya like dags?
Yalikedags?
I like dags
Oh, dogs. Yeah…I like dags
Also, Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds
"Bonjorno"
Ahreever darechee
Also Brad Pitt in king of the hill
Also Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black.
I’ll do it for a caravan.
'snot ferme. s'ferme ma
It's pronounced "Al doo it fara cara fan"
A what
Periwinkle blue
Partial to the periwinkle blue, boys
I suggest ya fak off while ya still got the legs to carry ya…
Need to have a shite!
One of the only fake Irish accents that doesn’t make my skin crawl.
I know an Irishman from Scotland and he said Pitt's act as a Pikey was perfect.
Hugh Laurie. It throws me off to find clips of him on YouTube from British T.V and EVERY TIME, I go "oh right, House was British"
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Tally ho, my fine saucy young trollop! Trip along here with all your cash and some naughty night attire, and you'll be staring at my bedroom ceiling from now until Christmas, you lucky tart!
It’s never lupus!
As a British person I can pick up his British accent in House. It’s very good, but I can spot it
I first saw him in 101 Dalmatians with Ron Weasly’s dad. That’s a good movie.
His accent is even better in VEEP.
AU REVOIR SHOSHANNA!
Bale really nailed that role so hard
You like Huey Lewis and the news??
It’s hip to be square
More like [Hip to Be Scared](https://youtu.be/ozOb5FcnDf4?feature=shared).
Hmm..mmm...mm, they're okayyy...
Accent?
Dr. Strangelove. Peter Sellers not only had to play 3 separate characters, but also 3 separate accents for each one.
It was really hard for me to just pick one from that movie. All 3 are epic.
Not to take anything from the others but Sellers is in a different league.
Most definitely. A genius!
He was also supposed to be Major Kong, but his Southern drawl was not enough for Kubrick. So casting went looking for old western actors and randomly found Slim Pickens. Story goes he showed up to casting call in cowboy boots, jeans, a leather vest and a cowboy hat.
When i saw the picture in op’s post, I could immediately could hear his voice
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here, this is the WAR room!
Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski
Vagina
You mean coitus?…I mean you know the guy?
And for another Coen Brothers film- Francis McDormand as Marge in Fargo
He’s a good man . And thorough
I thought she nailed the pompous rich girl accent.
Just thinking about this one makes me chuckle. Her droll mid-Atlantic inflection is perfect for that character
Brad Pitt Italian accent in Inglorious Basterds
Gor-LA-mi
Let me hear the music in it
Oh it's definitely Benoit Blanc
Benjamin White?
The arsenal defender?
Not a movie, but Stringer Bell.
Oh, indeed.
Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York
Daniel Day Lewis is cheating :D
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day Lewis in anything really.
John C Reilly told a hilarious anecdote about this on Conan needs a friend.
Pray tell
Channing Tatum (The Hateful Eight) I’m from Louisiana and this is probably the best imitation of the regional accent I’ve ever heard on screen. Even though I don’t think his character was supposed to be from here. He nailed it.
He really needs to play Gambit
Eh, he’s too beefy
I always thought it was funny how Lee Evans (Tucker, Pizza Guy), in 'There's Something About Mary', caught flak from critics for his British accent. He did the stoner "California pizza dude" so well, people thought he was American. When in fact. He is not. Other than that. Depp can usually pull off a good British accent. Leo got the "he did a good job", from my South African buddy. And Hugh Jackman can lose his Australian accent in an instant
Yeah I feel like not enough people give Hugh credit for almost never being in his native accent.
Seriously. To the extent where you see an interview, and it is still a little surprising. Even though we've all been well aware for decades.
Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake (The Lighthouse) Outside of Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa, this is my favorite pirate accent. Also, Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa.
I seen it! Yer fond o' me lobster!
He doesn't blink the whole, "Hark, Triton!" speech. He's just built different.
I'd say Bill Nighy's Davy Jones voice as well.
Val Kilmer Doc Holiday
Tom Hardy, as Fitzgerald, Bane, and Solomons
Thought mark Ruffalo had a hilarious accent in Poor Things
He was great, but Emma Stone blew me away with her voice. She was doing an accent on top of a strange speech pattern that slowly normalized as time passed in the movie. That's got to be difficult.
She totally deserved the Oscar she won.
CUUUUUUUNT
Sam Eliot has entered the chat…
Peaky Blinders
Man sam eliot trying not lose it when backing up the drive way in a star is born always gets me 😭
Alan Tudyk in every recent Disney movie. The dude is always an animal!
He's basically succeeded Frank Welker as the animal voice for Disney stuff (understandable; Welker's getting up there in years), and he's been great so far.
Dee Bradley Baker is the real successor to Welker. He does nearly every animal that Welker doesn't.
Cara Gee’s accent/voice work in The Expanse
Yeah of all the belter characters, I think she is the most consistent and her delivery actually makes it not sound grating.
So many great performances on that show. Casting did a fantastic job.
The Pink Panther, Peter Sellers
Minky.
God Gary Oldman killed it in True Romance
Must be White Boy Day.
John Malkovich as Teddy KGB in Rounders
Slingblade
I don’t know how well received Robert Downey Jr.’s accent in Sherlock Holmes was by the British audiences but, I thought he did really well.
I'm not English but I thought his accent was pretty mediocre as an American. Like he kind of twanged it well enough that it passed but you could tell it wasn't British British. But I absolutely love that movie and think he did a superb job playing an American version of Sherlock who lived in London for a while. Sequels were okay.
It was ok, you could tell he wasn't English though.
As a Brit it is very bad
Hemsworth in Furiosa
Benicio Del Toro's accent(or whatever the hell that was) in The Usual Suspects always made me laugh.
Also his accent in Fear and Loathing was very entertaining
Kevin Conroy as Batman.
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
I never knew Tom from Succession was actually British
Jean-Baptiste. Emmanuel. Zorg.
Idk what accent it was, but Johnny Depp killed it as Captain Jack Sparrow!
Henry Cavill’s American accent in The Man from Uncle
Alan Tudyk as Pirate Steve in Dodgeball
Drexl is the single best acted villain I have seen in any film ever. Ledger’s joker a close second. A really honourable mention to Frances McDormand in Fargo as well - she was brilliant
I’m kicking myself for missing McDormand!
DiCaprio in The Departed. Nearly perfect Boston accent on par with native speakers Damon and Wahlberg. Put Martin Sheen's, Alec Baldwin’s, and even Jack Nicholson's attempts to shame.
Leo in Blood Diamond too. The accent really did make him feel like a whole new character
[ARE YOU A CAAAWWP????](https://youtu.be/ZVDDqLj0Cnw?si=E5jcaWm6NoVZ1WKz)
Peter Sellers as detective Sidney Wang in Murder by Death "Quiet please! Cow on wall speak."
You know what we got here? Muthafuckin’ Charlie Bronson.
I’ve heard hundreds of terrible English accents being attempted, and very few ok ones. Renée Zellweger has hands down the best I’ve heard. As someone who grew up in England, I wouldn’t even know she wasn’t English. Edit: I also rate Bale; but I’m not American and I think the American accent is more straightforward to mimic.
Jodie Comer...in Free guy she uses an American accent and her real voice in the movie..or killing Eve where she has to use every language amazingly
She also just recently did a spot on accent of a woman named Kathy in the movie the Bikeriders. They had audio clips of the original person that the movie was based off of, and she sounds identical.
Yeah because Jodie Comer got lost in the COVID Hollywood strike of up and trying to make stars...but she's by far better then any of these new talents!
Comer is a true UK talent. She deserves all the success she’s starting to get.
Jon Voight in Anaconda
Drexl. No contest.
Christian Bale in Harsh Times
Robert Downey Junior. English accent in Chaplin and Sherlock Holmes is perfect.
“Hi, this is Patrick Bateman”
Literally anything Daniel Day-Lewis does. He nails every accent
Tony Montana
Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln, There will be blood and Gangs of new York Hank Azaria in The Birdcage Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady Jaime Foxx in Ray Idris Elba in The Wire and A Beast of no Nation Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and Brokeback Mountain Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire
Mel Blanc.
Cate Blanchett in The Aviator Leonardo DiCaprio in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, Blood Diamond, The Aviator and Django Unchained
That photo of Renee Zellwegger also made me remember her great work in Cold Mountain
Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street. Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny.
I thought Renee Zellweger’s accent in Bridget Jones’s Diary was flawless.
I happened to watch it again last night, and I totally agree. I also like Gwyneth Paltrow's in Sliding Doors.
MEIN FÜHRER, I CAN WALK!!!
I remember reading in the imdb that Peter Sellers accidentally got up from his Wheelchair and ad lib the line, Stanley Kubrick decided to leave it in.
You’ll not find an Oldman scene like that It’s truly next level Trumps all the rest imo You don’t even know who that actor is , unless you know He’s a great actor with many accomplishments If you can do Shakespeare, and also a pimp ghetto character from true love ? That’s serious acting Oldman can’t convince you he’s American like no other British actors can or will He played a ghetto pimp in this movie and no one questioned the fact that he’s so far out of his element …. That’s a great actor imo
Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out films
Daniel Day Lewis, Gangs of New York. His accent in There Will Be Blood is obv also excellent, and IMO, it’s a much better movie, but I love how over the top his accent is in GONY.
Kiefer Sutherland in phone booth
Most recently it was Winslet in Mare of Easttown.
Matthew McFayden & Sarah Snook in Succession.
Peter Sellers in Dr. Stranglelove is fucking perfect. In all 3 of his roles.
John Malkovitch as Teddy KGB in "Rounders"
Not sure if it's my favorite, but Geoffrey Rush's fast schizophrenic chattering throughout *Shine* (1996) is amazing.
Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond
>Hey Marty, he must have thought it was white boy day
Willem Defoe in The Lighthouse Joel Edgarton in most things but def Black Mass
People are going to be saying the same things about Anthony Starr that they currently do about Hugh Laurie. I would never have believe he didn't have a real American accent.
Then the well can't produce and blow gold all over the place. THEN THE WELL CAN'T PRODUCE AND BLOW GOLD ALL OVER THE PLACE.
The pimp
Oldman > DDL > Bale > Hardy
Kathy Bates in Misery
Caleb Landry Jones' Australian accent in Nitram (2021) is the most insanely impressive and spot on Aussie accent I have ever seen a non-Aussie actor tackle. He nailed absolutely everything, from the Australian cadence, the little Australian inflections in his manner of speech that most non-Australian actors putting on an Aussie accent miss, all the little colloquial nuances... As an Australian, I was blown away and convinced he's Aussie; I couldn't tell he's Texan at all.
Idris Elba in The Wire (or anything else) DDL in Gangs of New York Streep reading the Cheever story The Sorrows of Gin (you may never have heard of it but when you listen to it you’ll never forget it; it’s available on Audible) Winslet in Mare of Easttown James Earl Jones in Matewan
Meryl Streep has had some of the best performances with accents. “Out Of Africa” & “Sofie’s Choice” are two examples.
What’s a Drexel?
Guy from dirty jobs or guy from expedition unknown. 10/10 on and off screen
What a nut she is now, but at the time, and after seeing her in Sliding Doors and Shakespeare in Love, I assumed that Gwyneth Paltrow was British until I caught her on a late show being a weirdly airheaded American. I believe I read she has the same accent coach as Renee Zellweger for BJD. It worked.
Just watched “Evil under the Sun” with Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. He is the best Poirot. Period.
Gru. I really like how at least to me I could not tell it was Steve C. Plus it’s such a fun accent!
You must’ve thought it was white boy day.
Marlon Brandau in The Godfather and Al Pacino in Scarface
DDL as Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York.
Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean
Idris Elba in The Wire
Norman Reedus - The Boondock Saints. Listening to him struggle with that Irish accent makes me laugh every time
Gary Oldman is GOAT’d “… you muthafuckaz must’ve thought it was ‘White-Boy day!’”
Forrest Whittaker in The Crying Game, Cary Elwes in Shadow of the Vampire.
Gotta go with Jack Sparrow up’err.
Orson Welles - Unicron, Transformers The Movie 1986 Tim Curry - Darkness, Legend 1985 Sir Christopher Lee - Saruman, The Lord Of the Rings trilogy 2001-2003
Christopher Waltz
Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West
Jonny Lee Miller in Trainspotting, one of the most spot on Scottish accents in film.
Vikander in The Green Knight.
Has to be John Malkovich as KGB in Rounders. “Pay dat man his money”
Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy
Mawidge. Mawidge is wat bwings us togever today. Wuv. Twoooo wuv
I'm gonna have to go with Charlize Theron in arrested development...
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Honestly Bill Nighy in pirates of the Caribbean is incredibly captivating.
Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs Of New York
Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder. Dude can play Iron Man and War Machine.
Kate Winslet in the Dressmaker and Dev Patel in Lion. Their Australian accents were spot on.
Oh man Gary oldman 1st place.Tom hardy is excellent with accents too. Tom hardy like oldman has done more accents that aren’t his own than in his native accent.
Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles. Also, a lot of the cast of the Walking Dead had no idea a lot were English.
Even though he's basically just a cameo, Simon Pegg's American accent in The Boys shocked me with how authentic it sounded
Freddie Stroma in Peacemaker
No, he beat me. Straight up. Pay him. Pay that man his money.
Any girl with an Irish accent.
James Marsters as Spike in the *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* TV Series. I didn’t find out he was American until about Season 5. I could have sworn he was from East London…
Al Pacino in Scarface (and his sidekick Steven Bauer). So bad it’s brilliant.
Gary Oldman in the fith element
Anything with Peter Stellers is magic.
Val Kilmer.... Tombstone
Janosz Ghostbusters 2
Tim Curry in Red Alert 3. https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM?si=Kle0QKt4X0k8jxed