welcome to Madagascar these actors are
the vocal chameleons of the big and
small screens you know could see would
not be pleased that you’ve been to feed
with this business now you know who I
alright welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 actors who can pull off
foreign accents only hey can you bring
yourself to do better for this list
we’re looking at male actors who have
shown an incredible command of accents
other than their natural one be it
American British or otherwise this
extends to different regional accents
and dialects even if those come from
their home country number 10 Peter
Sellers an English actor like no other
Sellars most famous characters have
ironically been non-english ones he
mastered the look and accent of an
Indian in the party pulled off a lovable
French accent with the clumsy inspector
Jacques Clouseau in the Pink Panther
series in a strange way you know when I
stood – man he’s a we do say a unique
flair for the dramatic and took on three
characters and three accents in the
unforgettable war comedy dr. Strangelove
I do is that why he was a man of mystery
who’s failed personal relationships and
insecurities were as numerous as the
accents he learned well listen how do
you think I feel about his memorable
foreign characters still live on to this
day
and miss the middle part that I can turn
from the weather to enjoying ourselves
it was even a very humorous anecdote
because the way you are laughing just
shows how it enjoyed it number 9 Sacha
Baron Cohen indulge me for one second
pretend that I’m an idiot born in West
London England Baron Cohen quickly
gained fame as a comedian actor and
writer but almost completely four
characters diametrically different from
his actual persona some of his most
famous have included Borat the
journalist from Kazakhstan Bruno the
flamboyant Austrian fashion show
presenter modeling a lot of people’s
signatures they but it’s the hardest job
in the world isn’t that an admiral
general aladeen in the dictator a 2012
comedy in which he fakes an Arabic
accent you had Nadal executed Supreme
Leader do that whether he’s playing a
man or an animated lemur wait I have a
plan unless his name was in the credits
we’d never guess that it’s actually him
let’s go and meet the pansies
number 8 Hugh Jackman though this
Australian hunk has played characters
from the land down under most obviously
and notably for Australia in 2008 his
biggest successes and box-office hits
have been playing American characters
that’s a rare thing the people like us
his first massive hit was in 2000
portraying the mutant Wolverine in x-men
and although an unknown before the
superhero film his became a household
name
overnight sequels in the x-men franchise
as well as standalone films like Real
Steel
relax kid you’ve got a whole life of
fine living a Hetty’s and the prestige
showed that his place in American cinema
won’t disappear anytime soon well then I
guess you’ve got nothing to worry about
do you
number seven Robert Downey jr. born in
Manhattan New York
Downey’s ability to disguise himself
both physically and vocally has proved
to be one of his greatest assets because
they feel what I say
his first oscar-nominated performance
was actually as the British actor and
filmmaker Charlie Chaplin it must be new
as his film career continued he became
proficient at the Australian accent
displaying it notably first for the
journalist Wayne gale in Natural Born
Killers and later as Kirk Lazarus in
Tropic Thunder
okay the nectar is not different than
being a rugby player construction
workers say for the fact that my tools
or the mechanisms that trigger human
emotion though his African American
manner of speaking in the 2008 film is
even more memorable you understand one
real aim I won’t die huh good shot Bobby
mother
number six Colin Farrell you’re now
operating under my supervision the
Dublin born actor has showed off his
Irish lilt in films such as aunt Deane
and in Bruges something but many
American moviegoers were surprised to
learn of his heritage
due to his flawless American inflection
his command of the accent has been shown
time and again in action films like
Minority Report powers always been with
the priests Total Recall you believe
those stories and Miami Vice but whether
he’s holding us at the edge of our seats
or making us laugh with comedy roles
like Bobby pellet in Horrible Bosses yes
not a dog Bobby good boy
one thing’s for sure as far as we’re
concerned for the length of the film he
is American I’m sneezing dust bunnies
goose
number five Viggo Mortensen that’s it
born in New York City New York Mortensen
probably never guessed starting out that
some of his most famous roles would be
playing non-americans
and though his role in the Lord of the
Rings trilogy was an accented one and
probably his most famous perhaps his
greatest accented performance was his
oscar-nominated role as Nikhil illusion
a member of the Russian mafia in 2007’s
Eastern Promises
Thank You Mortensen further demonstrated
that his expertise at accents was not
limited that if I may say sir is an
exquisitely Protestant remark wowing us
with a spot-on
British accent with hints of Austrian
for Sigmund Freud in a Dangerous Method
and his gruff southern accent in Hidalgo
thank you sir that’s number four
Christian Bale this hugely talented and
successful actor was born in Wales spent
his childhood in England and Portugal
and eventually moved to the u.s. in his
teens well I make an honest living it
may be this exposure to different
cultures that equipped him to take on
non British roles this time I only share
my dress
such as his internationally acclaimed
role as Batman in the Dark Knight
trilogy with such ease come on you know
an English actor is good when directors
choose him for films like American
hustle and American Psycho over actual
you know Americans I like to dissect
girls did you know I’m utterly insane
number three Leonardo DiCaprio American
Americans usually are much can be said
about the talent of this multiple
oscar-nominated actor but his skills in
the accent Department are highly
regarded no matter what part of the
United States his characters may come
from he gets the inflection every time
whether it’s for Frank Abagnale and
catch me if you can or Jordan Belfort in
the wolf of Wall Street I gave them each
a thousand bucks and told them what
Nikolas and Donna the naked disaster
DiCaprio has even gone non-domestic for
his characters portraying a white
Zimbabwean in Blood Diamond and an Irish
born New Yorker in Gangs of New York to
great effect fine you what in the hell
that meant I’d be inclined to take
offense number two Daniel day-lewis
I like our judges now the winner of more
Oscars for Best Actor than any other
actor ever necessary hindrance it’s no
surprise that he has also made our list
for his excellent grasp of various
accents every day though born in London
England
some of day-lewis’s best performances
have been of non-english characters
including Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln and
Daniel Plainview in there will be blood
milkshake whether he’s playing a
protagonist as in the last of the
Mohicans suppose there are women and
children alone on the farms not yours or
an antagonist such as in gangs of New
York there can be no denying that
day-lewis can be whatever he chooses to
be I’m
New York don’t you never come in here
empty-handed again you gotta pay for the
pleasure of my company before we unveil
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions like I said me and I was
getting married November I just take
that fanger yours and point out on this
here map where this part is being held
this is hard for me because I am the
source of all your troubles and like the
snows of yesteryear gone from this earth
jolly good sir once so mother to raise I
got breast implants is that human eyes
er or not number 1 Gary Oldman Dean is
that fast and forbidding a new you we
dare you to find an accent that Oldman
cannot do in his long and storied career
the English actor has played a Russian
loyalist in Air Force One I’m not sure
that’s gonna comfort an American police
officer in the Dark Knight trilogy sir
the Joker card had traces of your DNA a
Transylvanian vampire and Bram Stoker’s
Dracula even a dreadlocked
racially mixed up villain in true
romance I know I’m pretty
in fact with so many accents in his
repertoire he’s recently claimed to have
lost his original accent needing
coaching to get it back so I had a voice
coach too I had to brush up my English
regardless of that the fact is that you
never quite know what to expect when
walking into an Oldman movie well what
do you say and that’s the way we like it
do you agree with our list which actor
do you think has the best command of
foreign accents I suspect that wouldn’t
be too much trouble for you for more
great top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
the vocal chameleons of the big and
small screens you know could see would
not be pleased that you’ve been to feed
with this business now you know who I
alright welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 actors who can pull off
foreign accents only hey can you bring
yourself to do better for this list
we’re looking at male actors who have
shown an incredible command of accents
other than their natural one be it
American British or otherwise this
extends to different regional accents
and dialects even if those come from
their home country number 10 Peter
Sellers an English actor like no other
Sellars most famous characters have
ironically been non-english ones he
mastered the look and accent of an
Indian in the party pulled off a lovable
French accent with the clumsy inspector
Jacques Clouseau in the Pink Panther
series in a strange way you know when I
stood – man he’s a we do say a unique
flair for the dramatic and took on three
characters and three accents in the
unforgettable war comedy dr. Strangelove
I do is that why he was a man of mystery
who’s failed personal relationships and
insecurities were as numerous as the
accents he learned well listen how do
you think I feel about his memorable
foreign characters still live on to this
day
and miss the middle part that I can turn
from the weather to enjoying ourselves
it was even a very humorous anecdote
because the way you are laughing just
shows how it enjoyed it number 9 Sacha
Baron Cohen indulge me for one second
pretend that I’m an idiot born in West
London England Baron Cohen quickly
gained fame as a comedian actor and
writer but almost completely four
characters diametrically different from
his actual persona some of his most
famous have included Borat the
journalist from Kazakhstan Bruno the
flamboyant Austrian fashion show
presenter modeling a lot of people’s
signatures they but it’s the hardest job
in the world isn’t that an admiral
general aladeen in the dictator a 2012
comedy in which he fakes an Arabic
accent you had Nadal executed Supreme
Leader do that whether he’s playing a
man or an animated lemur wait I have a
plan unless his name was in the credits
we’d never guess that it’s actually him
let’s go and meet the pansies
number 8 Hugh Jackman though this
Australian hunk has played characters
from the land down under most obviously
and notably for Australia in 2008 his
biggest successes and box-office hits
have been playing American characters
that’s a rare thing the people like us
his first massive hit was in 2000
portraying the mutant Wolverine in x-men
and although an unknown before the
superhero film his became a household
name
overnight sequels in the x-men franchise
as well as standalone films like Real
Steel
relax kid you’ve got a whole life of
fine living a Hetty’s and the prestige
showed that his place in American cinema
won’t disappear anytime soon well then I
guess you’ve got nothing to worry about
do you
number seven Robert Downey jr. born in
Manhattan New York
Downey’s ability to disguise himself
both physically and vocally has proved
to be one of his greatest assets because
they feel what I say
his first oscar-nominated performance
was actually as the British actor and
filmmaker Charlie Chaplin it must be new
as his film career continued he became
proficient at the Australian accent
displaying it notably first for the
journalist Wayne gale in Natural Born
Killers and later as Kirk Lazarus in
Tropic Thunder
okay the nectar is not different than
being a rugby player construction
workers say for the fact that my tools
or the mechanisms that trigger human
emotion though his African American
manner of speaking in the 2008 film is
even more memorable you understand one
real aim I won’t die huh good shot Bobby
mother
number six Colin Farrell you’re now
operating under my supervision the
Dublin born actor has showed off his
Irish lilt in films such as aunt Deane
and in Bruges something but many
American moviegoers were surprised to
learn of his heritage
due to his flawless American inflection
his command of the accent has been shown
time and again in action films like
Minority Report powers always been with
the priests Total Recall you believe
those stories and Miami Vice but whether
he’s holding us at the edge of our seats
or making us laugh with comedy roles
like Bobby pellet in Horrible Bosses yes
not a dog Bobby good boy
one thing’s for sure as far as we’re
concerned for the length of the film he
is American I’m sneezing dust bunnies
goose
number five Viggo Mortensen that’s it
born in New York City New York Mortensen
probably never guessed starting out that
some of his most famous roles would be
playing non-americans
and though his role in the Lord of the
Rings trilogy was an accented one and
probably his most famous perhaps his
greatest accented performance was his
oscar-nominated role as Nikhil illusion
a member of the Russian mafia in 2007’s
Eastern Promises
Thank You Mortensen further demonstrated
that his expertise at accents was not
limited that if I may say sir is an
exquisitely Protestant remark wowing us
with a spot-on
British accent with hints of Austrian
for Sigmund Freud in a Dangerous Method
and his gruff southern accent in Hidalgo
thank you sir that’s number four
Christian Bale this hugely talented and
successful actor was born in Wales spent
his childhood in England and Portugal
and eventually moved to the u.s. in his
teens well I make an honest living it
may be this exposure to different
cultures that equipped him to take on
non British roles this time I only share
my dress
such as his internationally acclaimed
role as Batman in the Dark Knight
trilogy with such ease come on you know
an English actor is good when directors
choose him for films like American
hustle and American Psycho over actual
you know Americans I like to dissect
girls did you know I’m utterly insane
number three Leonardo DiCaprio American
Americans usually are much can be said
about the talent of this multiple
oscar-nominated actor but his skills in
the accent Department are highly
regarded no matter what part of the
United States his characters may come
from he gets the inflection every time
whether it’s for Frank Abagnale and
catch me if you can or Jordan Belfort in
the wolf of Wall Street I gave them each
a thousand bucks and told them what
Nikolas and Donna the naked disaster
DiCaprio has even gone non-domestic for
his characters portraying a white
Zimbabwean in Blood Diamond and an Irish
born New Yorker in Gangs of New York to
great effect fine you what in the hell
that meant I’d be inclined to take
offense number two Daniel day-lewis
I like our judges now the winner of more
Oscars for Best Actor than any other
actor ever necessary hindrance it’s no
surprise that he has also made our list
for his excellent grasp of various
accents every day though born in London
England
some of day-lewis’s best performances
have been of non-english characters
including Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln and
Daniel Plainview in there will be blood
milkshake whether he’s playing a
protagonist as in the last of the
Mohicans suppose there are women and
children alone on the farms not yours or
an antagonist such as in gangs of New
York there can be no denying that
day-lewis can be whatever he chooses to
be I’m
New York don’t you never come in here
empty-handed again you gotta pay for the
pleasure of my company before we unveil
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions like I said me and I was
getting married November I just take
that fanger yours and point out on this
here map where this part is being held
this is hard for me because I am the
source of all your troubles and like the
snows of yesteryear gone from this earth
jolly good sir once so mother to raise I
got breast implants is that human eyes
er or not number 1 Gary Oldman Dean is
that fast and forbidding a new you we
dare you to find an accent that Oldman
cannot do in his long and storied career
the English actor has played a Russian
loyalist in Air Force One I’m not sure
that’s gonna comfort an American police
officer in the Dark Knight trilogy sir
the Joker card had traces of your DNA a
Transylvanian vampire and Bram Stoker’s
Dracula even a dreadlocked
racially mixed up villain in true
romance I know I’m pretty
in fact with so many accents in his
repertoire he’s recently claimed to have
lost his original accent needing
coaching to get it back so I had a voice
coach too I had to brush up my English
regardless of that the fact is that you
never quite know what to expect when
walking into an Oldman movie well what
do you say and that’s the way we like it
do you agree with our list which actor
do you think has the best command of
foreign accents I suspect that wouldn’t
be too much trouble for you for more
great top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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