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Eight Foreign Actors with Great American Accents watch!

unrealitymag.com — Foreign actors often have to sound like they were American born and bred. Sometimes the cover-up is so good, that you might not have known that they were foreign at all.

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  • doiveo, on 11/04/2008, -0/+107missing Christian Bale!!!
  • bjorna, on 11/04/2008, -1/+88Dugg for House
  • inactive, on 11/04/2008, -1/+42Dugg for digging House.
  • karmaghost, on 11/05/2008, -0/+36Visit a foreign country and voila! you sound different than everybody else!
  • spepin, on 11/05/2008, -0/+34Hugh Laurie's is awesome. It weirds me out to hear him speaking normally on talk shows.
  • theImmodiumGuy, on 11/04/2008, -0/+30One cannot have watched Black Adder and take Hugh Laurie seriously after that. His American accent is quite good, though.

    Jamie Bamber, on the other hand, shocked the hell out of me. Very well done accent.
  • Zephyr618, on 11/05/2008, -0/+27Dugg cuz Hugh Laurie is awesome!
  • AlexPod, on 11/05/2008, -1/+28Why the hell wasn't Christian Bale on this list? American Psycho and Batman he sounds like he was born in America...
  • NoDivision, on 11/05/2008, -0/+22Gary Oldman needs to be on this list. True Romance, Leon the Professional, Batman series anyone?
  • GoodbyeHorses87, on 11/05/2008, -0/+21dugg for digging digging house
  • estee0703, on 11/05/2008, -1/+22Has everyone forgotten that Heath Ledger is an Aussie?
  • inactive, on 11/05/2008, -1/+19Digg for digging the guy who dugg House.
  • NathanialBurrer, on 11/05/2008, -0/+17I honestly did not believe that House was Hugh Laurie, who I remember from Jeeves and Wooster growing up.

    *****. For me, anyway.
  • leerayIG88, on 11/04/2008, -3/+19How can i have a foreign accent?
  • shagg187, on 11/05/2008, -0/+16Seriously. I read the title and I said to myself "DUGG FOR CHRISTIAN BALE!"
    Sadly, that's not the case...

    Guess even the creator of the list doesn't know he's non-american lol
  • kuwan, on 11/05/2008, -0/+15It's never Lupus.
  • ZigVicious, on 11/05/2008, -0/+15I dugg you because you dugg someone who dugg someone for digging House!
  • bonk2k, on 11/05/2008, -0/+14He has an atrocious American accent.
  • madeingermany, on 11/04/2008, -6/+20What? The Governator isn't on that list? ;)

    All eight come from "English"-speaking countries.
  • LonesomeFighter, on 11/05/2008, -1/+15anyone else find the youtube clips to not work for them? or are they just experiencing the start of the digg effect on their site?
  • inactive, on 11/05/2008, -0/+14Dugg for everybody showing so much support for House by digging House.
  • estee0703, on 11/05/2008, -0/+13That's beside the point
    He had a great American accent in the films he was in before he passed
  • inactive, on 11/04/2008, -1/+14Anthony Lapaglia.
  • offtone, on 11/05/2008, -0/+13Why don't I have sound on the videos?! C'mon YouTube... You have ONE JOB!
  • YankeeSR23, on 11/05/2008, -0/+13I am not getting any sound from them. the video plays and all but there is NO sound at all.

    Is that what is happening to you guys too?
  • DiggzDE, on 11/05/2008, -0/+11Holy Crap. I never noticed.

    Christian Bale interviews:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9B0SxqqShs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9IAIgilfXg

    Damn....
  • PhilliesBlunt, on 11/04/2008, -4/+14Boo! Neither Dominic West or Idris Elba are on this list. Buried.
  • inactive, on 11/05/2008, -0/+10Ok, now name 8 american actors who can pull off a British accent. Or even an Aussie accent. Oh that's right...there aren't any. Well, no one other than Dick Van Dycke of course. He's brilliant!!
  • BustaWolf614, on 11/05/2008, -0/+9What about Hugo Weaving? He was great as Agent Smith.
  • AnimalTaglits, on 11/05/2008, -1/+10buried for no bale
  • diulei, on 11/05/2008, -0/+9Well in our defense, much of the world has grown up watching Hollywood movies and therefore listening to American English. Most Americans probably can't name 5 foreign movies they've watched in their lifetimes.
  • Zeroxysm, on 11/05/2008, -0/+9Yep, not working for me either.
  • Tollboi, on 11/05/2008, -0/+8e⋅mo⋅ti⋅con : an abbreviation or icon used on a network, as IMHO for “in my humble opinion” or :‑), a sideways smile face, to indicate amusement.

    (the winky one means sarcasm)
  • ncapone, on 11/05/2008, -0/+8What about Bob Hoskins?
  • kleptomaniac, on 11/05/2008, -0/+7For anyone who watched band of brothers, Damian lewis.
  • Cjaiceman, on 11/05/2008, -0/+7WTF?!?

    They forgot Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah from NBC’s Chuck)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWTNu3T44Tg

    She is just gorgeous and a great actress.
  • punchinelli, on 11/05/2008, -10/+17Have you forgotten that Heath Ledge can't talk because he's dead?
  • ScottMcIntyre, on 11/04/2008, -2/+9Great to see James McAvoy- star of 'The Last King of Scotland- on the list. He covers his Scottish accent well when he's playing an American.
  • caitlinwoodward, on 12/04/2008, -0/+7Naomi Watts.
  • carterx, on 11/05/2008, -0/+6First time I seen him speak in his native accent was on Jay Leno and surprised the hell out of me. Amazed that he sound so different on the show with him in real life.
  • Cenobite, on 11/05/2008, -0/+6Jay Leno. He's actually originally from Khazakstan.
  • rivalius13, on 11/05/2008, -0/+6HEY! Daniel Day Lewis is Irish! Well, Irish enough for us to claim him.
  • TheStrangeBrew, on 11/05/2008, -0/+6No Idris Elba aka Stringer Bell from The Wire?

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=idris+elba&i ...

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=idris+elba&i ...
    WARNING 2nd link NSFW (Language).

    Buried....
  • abravo56, on 11/05/2008, -0/+5Yeah, I watched the Peter Schiff video with no problem right before these, and I get no sound for them. I'm baffled.
  • inactive, on 11/05/2008, -2/+7Doing an American accent is a piece of piss. I'm British and can do a pretty good American accent.

    But man seeing Hugh speak in his real voice was just weird as hell... O.o...Maybe he has Lupus?
  • flidge, on 11/05/2008, -2/+7yeah im with the geezer above who said about hugh laurie in blackadder, he was a classic. his friend from his university called "strangely brown"

    seems us brits do yank better than the yanks :D
  • InfernoX, on 11/05/2008, -0/+5What is it supposed to be "default english"?
  • doiveo, on 11/05/2008, -0/+5His accent is THAT good.
  • Baskins, on 11/05/2008, -0/+5Actually, if you've ever watched Alias (Sark) or Heroes (Adam Monroe) you might not have realized that David Anders was born/raised in Oregon.
  • guise, on 11/05/2008, -0/+5Don't forget Aidan Gillen
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