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Which actor/actress is the best at an accent other than their own?

Posted on 2/16/25 at 11:45 am
Posted by Demonbengal
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 11:45 am
I was watching a movie with Karen Gillen and realized she is really good with the American accent. It got me thinking who are the best of the best at this. Thoughts? Rules must be followed.

Posted by TT9
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 11:48 am to
Daniel Day Lewis
Posted by Freauxzen
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 12:08 pm to
DDL
Gary Oldman has done some unique ones and ben pretty natural
Christian Bale
Posted by PuertoRicanBlaze
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 12:09 pm to
Jon Bernthal as Shane. Absolutely nailed the blue collar south Georgia accent.
This post was edited on 2/16/25 at 12:18 pm
Posted by TigerFanatic99
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 12:23 pm to
Collin Ferrell has a really think natural accept that he can make just disappear. It floors me every time I see him in an interview.
Posted by deeprig9
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 12:33 pm to
Ruth Langmore actress, I forget her name.

When I first started watching, I thought they cast the girl straight out of a Bartow County GA Waffle House. She's from Brooklyn.
Posted by tylerdurden24
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 12:38 pm to
Timothy Olyphant does a pretty good southern accent for being from Hawaii.

Cheating because he’s from Georgia but Walton Goggins in interviews vs his accent as Boyd Crowder is fantastic.
Posted by RollTide1987
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 12:48 pm to
Gary Oldman. Easily.

Posted by Porter Osborne Jr
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 12:48 pm to
Hugh Lauri in House

Benedict Cumberbatch in Dr. Strange
Posted by gumbo2176
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 1:08 pm to
Not an actor, but nobody near as close to Mel Blanc------The Man of !000 Voices.
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 2:19 pm to

Jody Comer is a scouser, but she's known for faking a bunch of other accents. You never really hear her real accent except in interviews.

Posted by BHTiger
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 3:14 pm to
Mel Gipson
Damen Lewis
The lady that play Beth Dutton
Posted by udtiger
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 3:55 pm to
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Gary Oldman. Easily.


He did other (mainly American) accidents for so long he had to relearn his British accent.
Posted by Laugh More
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 6:42 pm to
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Hugh Lauri in House


Great call. Love this bit too:

Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 6:48 pm to
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He did other (mainly American) accidents for so long he had to relearn his British accent.


This has happened to a few actors off the top of my head, most notably Mel Gibson. You'd never know he was an Aussie today.

Jax Teller also lost his English accent and in English roles he sounds like an American doing a bad impression.
Posted by dirtsandwich
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 7:22 pm to
Tom Bosley has an incredible downeast accent as Sheriff Amos Tupper in Murder, She Wrote. And that’s despite the fact that there is a distinct possibility the character was not born in Maine.
Posted by blueboy
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 7:24 pm to
RDJ's British accent is pretty good.
Posted by ghoast
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 8:01 pm to
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Collin Ferrell


Totally thought he was American and from the South when Tigerland came out… totally nailed it… great movie too.
Posted by Demonbengal
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 9:23 pm to
I don’t even really think about Colin Farrell, but he is pretty good at various American accents.
Posted by abellsujr
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 10:54 pm to
A lot of great ones named. I’ll throw Anna Paquin in there who is not a southern chick. She’s from New Zealand. (Born in Canada, but raised in New Zealand). Like Mel Gibson, she talks with an American accent all the time now.
This post was edited on 2/16/25 at 10:57 pm
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