most flawless on screen american accent?

[acealive1]

just off the top of my head..... bob hoskins ( didnt know he was english til a couple of years ago) simon baker boris kodjoe (coulda fooled me) rachael taylor carrie-anne moss matt doran(mouse from the matrix) hugo weaving cillian murphy anyone else got anything? im just wondering how or why sam worthington gets so much work. his accent just slips right through plain as day. love his acting but come the fuck on.

[MoonSylver]

Hugh Laurie (aka House). Great actor. Talented guy all 'round. (I've heard people say he sounds like he's doing a Nicholson impersonation. I don't hear it). Christian Bale.

[acealive1]

Hugh Laurie (aka House). Great actor. Talented guy all 'round. (I've heard people say he sounds like he's doing a Nicholson impersonation. I don't hear it). Christian Bale. very nice ones. i thought hugh was american til i saw him on leno. i was shocked cuz certain words are a dead give away. bale had me as well.

[Purge]

Bale for sure. He really did walk and talk like one of those Wall Street douchebags in AP.

[Yojimbo]

It is weird how the British actors can do an american accent so well, yet none of the American actors seem to be able to do a British accent at all. Pitt comes to mind. (I realize that there are different accents that Americans kind of lump into the catchall category of "British" but still none of the American actors seem to be able to replicate any of them with any sort of believability)

[MoonSylver]

It is weird how the British actors can do an american accent so well, yet none of the American actors seem to be able to do a British accent at all. Pitt comes to mind. I thought his Italian accent in "Inglorius Basterds" was pretty good... "Bon-joor-no!" "Grat-zi!"

[acealive1]

Bale for sure. He really did walk and talk like one of those Wall Street douchebags in AP. gary oldman needs some work tho........ when he yelled in the dark knight, his accent ripped right through

[bassman]

gary oldman needs some work tho........ when he yelled in the dark knight, his accent ripped right through True Romance. Gangsta."White boyee"

[Tricky]

I think the cast of "Band of Brothers" did a stirling job considering a lot of the guys playing americans were actually Brits. And of course Andrew Lincoln seems to be doing a good job in "the walking dead". I'll agree that Americans cant do British accents very well though, it seems they all think we talk like 1940's RAF pilots or upper class twits, and they never manage regional accents which there are a lot of in the UK.

[acealive1]

I think the cast of "Band of Brothers" did a stirling job considering a lot of the guys playing americans were actually Brits. And of course Andrew Lincoln seems to be doing a good job in "the walking dead". I'll agree that Americans cant do British accents very well though, it seems they all think we talk like 1940's RAF pilots or upper class twits, and they never manage regional accents which there are a lot of in the UK. i KNEW he was a brit! i had my suspicions when he first opened his mouth. eh oh well. oh one more. hugh jackman. GREAT accent

[Tricky]

i KNEW he was a brit! i had my suspicions when he first opened his mouth. eh oh well. Here he is (much younger) in the role that made him famous in the 90's as "egg" in This Life, speaking in his native accent

[acealive1]

Here he is (much younger) in the role that made him famous in the 90's as "egg" in This Life, speaking in his native accent

[wayzim]

Emma Thompson as a Hilary Clinton clone in Primary Colors. She also did a more neutral accent for then hubby, Kenneth Branaugh's Reincarnation flick Dead Again, for which he also did some kind of gumshoe dialect. Maggie Smith usually does Southern drawl, like in Divine Secrets of The YaYa Sisterhood. Brian Cox (The original Hannibal Lector in Michael Mann's Manhunter ) has done alot of Hollywood films with assorted American accents. The best Brit impersonation by an American actor(at least according to his English Costars )was Brad Dourif as Wormtongue in The Lord of The Rings;The Two Towers. He never broke character during the shoot so folks never realized he wasn't. Wayne Z ---------- Post added 22-Nov-2010 at 09:45 PM ---------- Previous post was 21-Nov-2010 at 08:56 PM ---------- Emma Thompson as a Hilary Clinton clone in Primary Colors. She also did a more neutral accent for then hubby, Kenneth Branaugh's Reincarnation flick Dead Again, for which he also did some kind of gumshoe dialect. Maggie Smith usually does Southern drawl, like in Divine Secrets of The YaYa Sisterhood. Brian Cox (The original Hannibal Lector in Michael Mann's Manhunter ) has done alot of Hollywood films with assorted American accents. The best Brit impersonation by an American actor(at least according to his English Costars )was Brad Dourif as Wormtongue in The Lord of The Rings;The Two Towers. He never broke character during the shoot so folks never realized he wasn't. Wayne Z Oh, and I did want to mention Toni Collette in The Sixth Sense for a spot on Philly accent, as well as Cate Blanchett in 'The Aviator. ' who did a bang up job as Katherine Hepburn, opposite Leonardo DeCaprio's Howard Hughes. Wayne Z

[Danny]

i cannot fathom how people think house is a good american accent, thats the voice i do when i'm being sarcastic about a character from an american tv show.

[acealive1]

i cannot fathom how people think house is a good american accent, thats the voice i do when i'm being sarcastic about a character from an american tv show. good as in the regular accent doesnt creep through