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@@wilmamieremet I don’t think there was any confusion about his nationality. The poster was complimenting Laurie's ability to pull off a fake-sounding British accent when as an Englishman he is well able to speak in a real British accent.
I grew up with Catherine O'Hara from Home Alone and Beetlejuice, so was familiar with her real voice. However, once you hear Moira's accent, you can't unhear it!
Daniel Davis (who played Niles in The Nanny) should’ve been on this list. His British accent is so perfect that it’ll surprise you to know that he’s American. Some people even thought he had a better British accent than his co-star Charles Shaughnessy, who is actually British!
I watched The Nanny in French, dubbed. When I watched the original English version, Fran Drescher's character's voice was so horrible that I only watched it once. Then, when I heard her in a fairly recent interview, I was much relieved to hear that her natural voice was not the same. I was expecting her to be in this list.
When they showed The Nanny in Britain people wrote letters complaining Charles Shaughnessy's British accent didn't sound real and said he should get Daniel Davis to teach him how to do a proper accent, they actually thought Daniel was British and Charles was American.
James Marsters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel. His British accent is so convincing, even some British fans were shocked when they first heard his native, North California voice. And he managed it with vampire teeth!
The first time I saw Melissa Rauch was in True Blood. Shortly after I saw her in TBBT and couldn't believe it was the same actress! The fact that she can sound exactly like Howard's mom is so perfect on so many levels!
they did another list where they mentioned that she took lessons with a vocal coach to get rid of her natural nasally tone and almost got fired from "the beautician and the beast" because of it.
Yeah, she did an exaggerated version of her own real speaking voice for The Nanny. She speaks somewhat nasally and with a New York accent in real life, and she just made it more nasally and more New York for the part.
james mcavoy is another one, i don't think i've ever heard him play a role with his native scottish accent. the fact that he plays 29 different characters in "split" and NONE of them sounds like his real voice is incredible.
You can hear a version of his Scottish accent in 'Filth'. It's not quite his natural voice as he's masking his native Glaswegian brogue beneath to sound more like a denizen of Edinburgh - 40 miles away!
_i don't think i've ever heard him play a role with his native scottish accent_ When he hosted _Saturday Night Live_ there was a sketch where he and Kate McKinnon play Scottish air traffic controllers, and his Scottish brogue is so thick that the pilot (played by Mikey Day) begged for him to stop being so Scottish 😆
YES ... #1 is Megan, but I implore anyone to go and watch the pilot episode of "Will & Grace," as the voice she first used as Karen was much closer to her actual voice and as the series progressed, it became the "cut-throat, high-pitched" voice we have come to know and love!!
I know! And it was also her own decision to change her voice. She was born to play that part. I wasn't really watching for Will & Grace. Karen, Jack and Rosario, that's more like it ^^
Agreed. The fact that Jodie Comer didn’t even make the list is a travesty! She’s a vocal chameleon and anyone who’s seen her in Killing Eve and heard her speak in her native accent for the first time would be surprised she sounded nothing like Villanelle.
How is Steve Urkel not on this list? He should be number 1 as far as I'm concerned. Jaleel White's real voice is so different from Urkel's you'd think it was two different people if you just heard the voices.
When Bernadette first appeared on Big Bang Theory her voice wasn't nearly as high pitched as it became in the later seasons. Kinda like with the girl from Brooklyn Nine Nine, Melissa Rauch adjusted the voice over time.
Rauch and Beatriz use their natural voices for their smaller TV roles, Rauch as Summer on True Blood (six episodes) and Beatriz as Sonia on Modern Family (four episodes).
You missed Jesse Spencer. He's Australian who played the American fire fighter Matt Casey in Chicago Fire, and is also known for House MD. What's even more hilarious is that twice during his run on Chicago Fire he had to basically fake his Australian accent.
Three of the actors from CBS's _Without a Trace_ (2002-2009) weren't American but their American accents were flawless: Anthony LaPaglia (Aussie), Poppy Montgomery (Aussie), and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (British).
A couple of honorable mentions from older TV shows: (1) David Ogden Stiers, aka Major Charles Emerson Winchester on "MASH". His Boston accent was fake, but he could do other accents just as convincingly. I didn't know until a few years ago that he was the voice of Cogsworth in "Beauty and the Beast". (2) Ken Curtis, aka Festus on "Gunsmoke". His nasal southern twang was fake, and he had a beautiful singing voice. Before he took on the role of Festus, he was lead singer with the Sons of the Pioneers, and before that, he was a vocalist for Tommy Dorsey.
Mischa Collins should've been on here for his portrayal of Castiel on Supernatural! Cas' voice is so much deeper and more gruff than Mischa's and it's such a huge part of the character 🙌🏽
My mom was born in Scotland, so all my relatives on that side spoke with a Scottish accent. I learned to imitate it at a young age, to the point where I've fooled actual UK citizens that I was born in Scotland as well. And my Sean Connery voice won me a contest once :)
I was absolutely floored when I first heard Hugh Laurie speaking in his native dialect! All those medical terms, and he never slips up once! Also, the first time I heard his natural speaking voice was on the episode of Friends when he's on the plane with Rachel...classic!
I remember Cat's voice sounding similar to Ariana's in the first season, before it became exaggerated in subsequent seasons. In fact, you can hear traces of her real accent in Robbie's story in "Who Did it to Trina?"
I think that Fran Drescher has the greatest change in voice of any actress. As the Nanny, she only once, used her natural voice and that was on an episode where she ate a mouthful of Wasabi.
Ya’ll forgot Lana Parilla- The Evil Queen in Once Upon A Time- her natural voice is waaaayyyy higher than Regina’s. Also Tati Gabrielle from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina- same thing. And Daniel Craig from Knives Out- I haven’t seen it yet but he threw me waaaaaay off with his southern accent.
Two American TV actors who played British characters so well that for years I had no idea they were really Americans: the late John Hillerman (Higgins on the original series of _Magnum, P.I.)_ and the late Paul Benedict (the next-door neighbor Bentley on _The Jeffersons)_ - Hillerman was born, raised, and died in Texas, and Benedict was born in New Mexico and died in Martha's Vineyard.
Andrew Lincoln's Georgia accent was so good that when I was watching TWD religiously I could identify actual Georgia natives when I heard them talk. He also did a couple interviews with it, and I never saw Love Actually, so I had no idea he was a Brit for quite a while. Shocked the crap out of me the first time I heard him speak normally.
Reaching way back here... David Ogden Stiers's voice was quite different from that of his most famous character, Charles Emerson Winchester III from MASH.
Hey there! How come you didn't include Daniel Davis from "The Nanny"? His British accent was so perfect people thought it was better than Charles Shaughnessy's!
Megan Mullally also voices Gayle in Bob's Burgers. And she actually sang that Electric Love song in character in the Edison/Topsie episode without using autotune or any other pitch shifting in post.
Billie Piper;s accent as Rose in Doctor Who (first two seasons of New Who) is very different from her real one. She was known before that, so people did know that wasn't her real voice. But, just been re-watching the first season and I did notice how different it is.
Good call! Even though I've heard her real accent multiple times, I can never shake the feeling that the Rose accent is her real one! And, of course, David Tennant has used is Estuary English accent in multiple projects, too; but I can adjust more easily to his native Scottish one.
Thank you, came looking for Damian Lewis, but FORGET Band of Brothers, that was a blip. An excellent blip, but a blip none the less. He was the LEAD American Soldier in Homeland, and Bobby Axelrod on Billions. ----- How, how HOW is he not on this list?
Honorable mention: James Arnold Taylor, who voices Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Clone Wars animated TV series (both the 2003 one and the 2008-2020 one). Despite normally sounding nothing like Ewan MacGregor, he's a dead ringer in the show.
Besides Hugh Laurie the only time I've surprised about an actors accent has been Dominique Provost-Chalkley. I was so astounded to find out she was from the UK and with the lines she was saying, that was hard enough without worrying about not showing your accent and then they had her do a fake british accent totally different from her real one. She's just so talented! 😍
I remember being in complete shock when I heard Idris Elba speak in his native tongue. I only knew him from the The Wire at the time, and the show was so authentic I thought they only cast people from the Baltimore-area, or at least only Americans. A brilliant performance. Remember feeling the same way when I heard Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman speak in their native accent too. That's the magic of acting, I guess.
Most people were very surprised that Peter Dinklage is totally American. He killed his accent on Game of Thrones. A couple of times, in the DVD extras, he used a more posh English accent in the interviews making him have two accents in one show.
You were close with John Barrowman, but David Tennant, uses a british/queen's english accent in most of his shows, including Doctor Who, but uses hi native Scottish accent for interviews for fun. You also have Jodie Comer from Killing Eve (English), Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Galactica (English), Stephen Moyer from True Blood (English) and Matthew Rhys from The Americans (Welsh). The lovely Gillian Anderson is also a gifted bidialectual.
*Damian Lewis???* Band of Brothers, and the LEAD American Soldier in Homeland, and Bobby Axelrod on Billions. ----- How, how HOW is he not on this list?
I was shocked the first time I heard an interview with Ken Curtis, who played Festus in Gunsmoke. He had a normal midwestern speaking voice, with no trace of a southern drawl at all. He was also an excellent singer.
John Boyega (Finn in the last 3 Star Wars films) deserves to be on this list too... he absolutely NAILS an American accent in spite of the fact that his normal accent is decidedly South London (I am Canadian born/raised and now living in London). I had read somewhere that he was British before I saw The Last Jedi (episode 8) but it didn't occur to me that he was anything but American when I was watching the film. I got quite the jolt when I heard the South London come tumbling out of his mouth afterwards.
Gillian Anderson is also bi-dialectal. Born in the US, to US parents, moved to and grew up in Britain, moved back to the US and now naturally and subconsciously switches between accents depending on who she is talking to.
She’s living in the UK again these days, has since X-Files originally ended. She did an interview during the second run of the show and she was struggling a bit to sound American. People used to think she was faking the British accent but she’s not.
I've been a fan of Toni Collette since I first saw her in Emma in like, 97? It wasn't until 20freaking21 when I realized she's not American, she's AUSTRALIAN 🤯😓 How did I never find this out?? She's such a phenomenal actor! Same with Melanie Lynsky... had no idea she's from NZ!
I was also thinking Jasmine Guy who played Whitley Gilbert in "A Different World" should have been mentioned. Her southern accent for the character was very convincing. When she guest appeared on Fresh Prince, I was amazed at hearing her real voice.
None of them, really. Hugh Laurie... I remember him using his real voice on Friends on that episode when Ross got married to Rachel. Sorry... Emily...😂 Also another actor as an honorable mention... Anthony LaPaglia. He was on Fraiser and Without a Trace.😊
DAMIAN LEWIS people!!! Oh my, how could this actor not be in the top 2? Flawless American accent, people were absolutely gobsmacked when realising that he's a Brit with a clear British accent. Remember Band of Brothers, Homeland and Billions
Mike Judge Beavis & Butt-Head (1993-2011;2022-) and King Of The Hill (1997-2010) Hank Hill and Beavis and Butt-Head changed my life forever 2 decades ago
I've been watching House lately, so I had already known years ago that it wasn't his native accent. Anyone who had seen the live action version of 101 Dalmatians will remember him as Jaspar where he used his native accent. You may not have realized it was him in 101 Dalmatians, but Hugh taking the spotlight in House really could've convinced anyone if they hadn't seen him before.
I can't believe you left out Matthew Rhys! I watched him for years on The Americans before I ever heard his natural voice in an interview, and I was BLOWN AWAY!
Marina Sirtis, I only saw her on "Star Trek the next generation," then one day on a collectors edition VHS, she was being interviewed, and where the hell did that london accent come from
Honorable mentions: Linus Roache from "Law and order" and Maxwell Caulfield from "The Colbys" - Two fine British actors who absolutely NAILED the American accents on their respective shows.
Naveen Andrews mostly known for his role of Sayid in Lost should've been on this list, he had an Iraqi accent on show and you would never tell the actor is actually British
Fun Fact: for Encanto, Beatriz was originally brought in to read for the tougher older sister Luisa, Because the casting director thought her natural speaking voice was Rosa Diaz
She could've easily played both Mirabel AND Luisa and made them sound distinct - of course that would've probably been too much and Jessica Darrow was perfect as Luisa. But Stephanie is amazing - I still think it's incredible that she was in labour while recording the way too aptly titled song "Waiting on a Miracle".
The late Joseph Mascolo would always speak in that Italian accent when on the set of Days of Our Lives, a number of his costars were surprised to find out he didn't actually talk that way.
Okay, how does Mischa Collins not make this list? He's similar to the girl from Brooklyn 99? Where he makes his voice much deeper as Castiel than what he sounds like in real life!
There was that TV show Charmed back in the 90's but there was a remake from 2018-2022. Madeline Mantock who played Macy Vaughn on the remake is British but spoke with an American accent. Very convincing. You wouldn't know she was British until you saw an interview with her.
Misha Collins (Castiel in Supernatural), James Marsters (Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel) and Hugh Laurie (Dr. Greg House in House MD) were the first that came to mind!
6:35 Rauch is one of two _Big Bang Theory_ stars to voice Harley Quinn, with Penny star Kaley Cuoco voicing Harley Quinn in the eponymous animated series.
You showed John Barrowman playing alongside David Tennant but David Tennant’s vocal change was more surprising to me. For years I thought he had an English accent until I heard him talking in his usual Scottish dialect.
a very America-centric collection. Pity you didn't include David Suchet from TV's (definitive) Agatha Christie's Poirot. His natural voice is quite deep, but, because Poirit works with his brain, he raised his voice. Addd that to the other quirks he portrayed and you have a classic perfomance.
Which actor’s real voice shocked YOU the most? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 10 TV Characters Who Had Small Roles But Big Impacts - th-cam.com/video/l0bTLG1HRm8/w-d-xo.html
I think Dove Cameron and Ariana Grande have high pitched voices when they play their character.
Damon Harrimen is amazing as Dewey Crowe in Justified. As a Southerner it was so good I had no clue he was from Australia.
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce on Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel. I legitimately thought he was British for the longest time.
6:05 I've been watching the Big Bang and 6:15 I love how she yells 6:25 BROOOOOO WHATTTTTTTTTTYTTYTTTT that is NOT her voice
How about Jean Stapleton as Edith. Famke Janssen who I don't believe speaks the American language.
Laurie goes one better. In one episode House fakes a British accent. He perfectly nailed an American faking a British accent.
Gotta see that one! 😅
Hugh Laurie is British not American
@@wilmamieremet I don’t think there was any confusion about his nationality. The poster was complimenting Laurie's ability to pull off a fake-sounding British accent when as an Englishman he is well able to speak in a real British accent.
@@karenwelch7232 watch Hugh's early stuff like Fry and Laurie, or even Blackadder. no American accent in sight (or earshot).
Not just his accent but his character was so different from his character on Black Adder, it's hard to believe it was the same person.
I remember watching The Nanny, and later finding out Daniel Davis is American, as his British accent for Niles was really good
I was also surprised to learn that "Niles" was not really British. In fact, after his Star Trek appearences, I thought he'd make a good Doctor Who...!
Really? I'd always thought he was British.
Charles Shaughnessy ( a true brit) received hate letters saying how fake his accent was and that he should sound more like Daniel Davis ( an American)
@@edf18wow's I didn't know that.
HE’S AMERICAN?!
“Hugh Laurie was fairly well known in Britain” - understatement of the year 😂
Yes! "fairly" LOL!!!
😂
'Mericans 😂
Laurie as Bertie Wooster is my favourite
I remember standing in line at grocery store and seeing TV guide cover saying "Hugh Laurie America's series actor" my jaw dropped.
I grew up with Catherine O'Hara from Home Alone and Beetlejuice, so was familiar with her real voice. However, once you hear Moira's accent, you can't unhear it!
Bebes!
@@alyssapower5823 I always say Baby that way thanks to Moira😅
Daniel Davis (who played Niles in The Nanny) should’ve been on this list. His British accent is so perfect that it’ll surprise you to know that he’s American.
Some people even thought he had a better British accent than his co-star Charles Shaughnessy, who is actually British!
100% - where was Fran Dreschler aka Fran Fine from The Nanny also?
I watched The Nanny in French, dubbed. When I watched the original English version, Fran Drescher's character's voice was so horrible that I only watched it once. Then, when I heard her in a fairly recent interview, I was much relieved to hear that her natural voice was not the same. I was expecting her to be in this list.
@@MuddyLaBoue Fran Dreschler should have been on the list too!
When they showed The Nanny in Britain people wrote letters complaining Charles Shaughnessy's British accent didn't sound real and said he should get Daniel Davis to teach him how to do a proper accent, they actually thought Daniel was British and Charles was American.
@kenlompart9905 Oh yes, I would LOVE to see the guy from Arkansas try to teach the freaking BARON SHAUGHNESSY how to do an English accent! 😂😂😂
Jean Stapleton, who sounds very different from when she played Edith Bunker on All in the Family.
Yes a huge miss here…
James Marsters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel. His British accent is so convincing, even some British fans were shocked when they first heard his native, North California voice. And he managed it with vampire teeth!
Alexis Denisoff did a much better English accent. James got 80% of his accent down, but Alexis got 100%. (I'm from the UK) ❤
@@CleoS-vx5pd According to Wikipedia, he studied at LAMDA and worked in the UK for several years. I think that really must have helped.
@@CleoS-vx5pd Answer: The day I learned Alexis Denisof was not English. Question: What is today?
He does a damn good job
@@CleoS-vx5pd I dunno. I'm from the UK too and growing up, I immediately pegged Alexis' accent as fake, but was completely fooled by James.
@@CleoS-vx5pd Alexis lived in the UK for thirteen years.
The first time I saw Melissa Rauch was in True Blood. Shortly after I saw her in TBBT and couldn't believe it was the same actress! The fact that she can sound exactly like Howard's mom is so perfect on so many levels!
I keep forgetting the Hugh Laurie is British. In House he nailed the American accent, and did a great job in the show
And yet, never won an Emmy. unbelievable.
To me he'll always be Bertie Wooster.
@@rwwilson21so true
@@rwwilson21 yeah, that always pissed me off too
I've never really watched House, think i've only seen 1 episode. But i've grown up watching Hugh Laurie in his comedy days on British tv lol .
Noticed Fran Drescher was not on this list. I met Fran in early 2018... and that THICK New York accent is REAL!!
they did another list where they mentioned that she took lessons with a vocal coach to get rid of her natural nasally tone and almost got fired from "the beautician and the beast" because of it.
I saw her doing a video for Vogue a few years back. Her voice is still about 95% "The Nanny". She seems like good people, too.
Of any cast member of The Nanny, her co-star Daniel Davis (Niles) should’ve been on here.
It surprised me learning that he’s not British!
Yeah, she did an exaggerated version of her own real speaking voice for The Nanny. She speaks somewhat nasally and with a New York accent in real life, and she just made it more nasally and more New York for the part.
james mcavoy is another one, i don't think i've ever heard him play a role with his native scottish accent. the fact that he plays 29 different characters in "split" and NONE of them sounds like his real voice is incredible.
He has a Scottish accent in ‘The Last King Of Scotland’.
You can hear a version of his Scottish accent in 'Filth'. It's not quite his natural voice as he's masking his native Glaswegian brogue beneath to sound more like a denizen of Edinburgh - 40 miles away!
_i don't think i've ever heard him play a role with his native scottish accent_
When he hosted _Saturday Night Live_ there was a sketch where he and Kate McKinnon play Scottish air traffic controllers, and his Scottish brogue is so thick that the pilot (played by Mikey Day) begged for him to stop being so Scottish 😆
@@jalabi99 Literally no-one in Scotland calls it "brogue". It's a complete Americanism.
Also, David Tennant. I'm English, and didn't realise for years he was Scottish.
YES ... #1 is Megan, but I implore anyone to go and watch the pilot episode of "Will & Grace," as the voice she first used as Karen was much closer to her actual voice and as the series progressed, it became the "cut-throat, high-pitched" voice we have come to know and love!!
I know! And it was also her own decision to change her voice. She was born to play that part. I wasn't really watching for Will & Grace. Karen, Jack and Rosario, that's more like it ^^
Hate that voice. Gives me a migraine
It's the same as Bernadette in TBBT. Her first time in the role, her voice sounds much deeper.
She had the same voice in an episode of Frasier
She was unrecognizable with her voice
How Jodie Comer isn’t #1 is beyond me.
Watch Killing Eve and then watch an interview of her. She’s a vocal chameleon!
Agreed. The fact that Jodie Comer didn’t even make the list is a travesty! She’s a vocal chameleon and anyone who’s seen her in Killing Eve and heard her speak in her native accent for the first time would be surprised she sounded nothing like Villanelle.
Don't forget Jodie in Free Guy, where she switches accent back and forth effortlessly.
Good call. A proper Liverpudlian, she is!
Only nobody cares so
Good shout they missed that one.
How is Steve Urkel not on this list? He should be number 1 as far as I'm concerned. Jaleel White's real voice is so different from Urkel's you'd think it was two different people if you just heard the voices.
Absolutely agree! He was so animated and funny with playing Steve (Hi Lauraaaahhh!!!)
It Became a bit high pitch in season 5
When Bernadette first appeared on Big Bang Theory her voice wasn't nearly as high pitched as it became in the later seasons. Kinda like with the girl from Brooklyn Nine Nine, Melissa Rauch adjusted the voice over time.
Rauch and Beatriz use their natural voices for their smaller TV roles, Rauch as Summer on True Blood (six episodes) and Beatriz as Sonia on Modern Family (four episodes).
I swear Sheldon changed his voice aswell , he either went more southern or less southern.
You missed Jesse Spencer. He's Australian who played the American fire fighter Matt Casey in Chicago Fire, and is also known for House MD. What's even more hilarious is that twice during his run on Chicago Fire he had to basically fake his Australian accent.
Eamon Walker on Chicago Fire is another one too
@@garethreece I knew I forgot someone 😅
@garethreece Yeah I had no idea he is English and I am English.
I remember Walker from " Till Death do us part" he played 'Winston' and" The Bill".
Bernadette's voice evolved as the character was first bored of Howard then weird and smiley when around him then a straight up savage to anyone
Three of the actors from CBS's _Without a Trace_ (2002-2009) weren't American but their American accents were flawless: Anthony LaPaglia (Aussie), Poppy Montgomery (Aussie), and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (British).
I never would've guessed Melissa Rauch's voice wasn't that high in real life. She has quite a talent.
It's nowhere near that screechy to start with - it worsens substantially during the first couple of years.
You can hear her regular voice in Night Court (the reboot)
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They really missed a golden opportunity when they didn't use Melissa Rauch for live-action Harley Quinn.
@@etherealcelesteShe played Harley Quinn in a Batman animated movie though
A couple of honorable mentions from older TV shows:
(1) David Ogden Stiers, aka Major Charles Emerson Winchester on "MASH". His Boston accent was fake, but he could do other accents just as convincingly. I didn't know until a few years ago that he was the voice of Cogsworth in "Beauty and the Beast".
(2) Ken Curtis, aka Festus on "Gunsmoke". His nasal southern twang was fake, and he had a beautiful singing voice. Before he took on the role of Festus, he was lead singer with the Sons of the Pioneers, and before that, he was a vocalist for Tommy Dorsey.
Y'all could have included Rue McClanahan to this list. She sounds nothing like her character Blanche Devereaux from the Golden Girls.
Sounded. ☹
7:37 Not only is hugh laurie an impressive voice actor, but his blues singing is jaw-dropping aswell.
That song he does in the pilot of Fry and Laurie called Mystery is outstanding! ROFL
@Corsina he was good in that, but look up his music. It's a whole different vibe.
@@NotJamy Yes, I've listened to much of his music. One of my favorites is Unchain My Heart.
@Corsina omg me to!
His jazz St James’s Infirmary is cool
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Brad Garrett as Robert Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond should definitely be on this list
but brad garrett sounds like that in all of his roles...?
@@dietotaku so he uses his deep voice in voice over work now but in his real life his voice is higher and slightly nasaled.
He sounds like Fred Gwynn aka Herman Munster in real life.
@@jk-76 haha he actually does an impression of Gwynn in one of the bloopers
Definitely!
His voice is kinda deep, but no where as draggy as Robert's.
I had such a crush on Brad then!
Megan Mullaly used her Karen voice again when she played Elizabeth in "Young Frankenstein" on Broadway and it was iconic! 😂
Mischa Collins should've been on here for his portrayal of Castiel on Supernatural! Cas' voice is so much deeper and more gruff than Mischa's and it's such a huge part of the character 🙌🏽
My mom was born in Scotland, so all my relatives on that side spoke with a Scottish accent. I learned to imitate it at a young age, to the point where I've fooled actual UK citizens that I was born in Scotland as well.
And my Sean Connery voice won me a contest once :)
How did this become about you?
Pretty much any British and Australian actor who is on American television.
Agreed, Hugh Laurie was the first person I thought of, and then Thomas Jane.
Yeah pretty much , it also what a good actor they are to morph into any accent and voice.
I was absolutely floored when I first heard Hugh Laurie speaking in his native dialect! All those medical terms, and he never slips up once! Also, the first time I heard his natural speaking voice was on the episode of Friends when he's on the plane with Rachel...classic!
Hello, can we be friends, I live in Austin Texas, what about you😊😊😊😊
"You were, in fact, on a break."
@@kaylapounds1359 😆😆😆
Surprised Charlie Hunam did not make the list for SOA
I remember Cat's voice sounding similar to Ariana's in the first season, before it became exaggerated in subsequent seasons. In fact, you can hear traces of her real accent in Robbie's story in "Who Did it to Trina?"
yes and also Dove cameron when she played LIV
Ariana got a actual voice as Cat
Pedro Pascal has said in interviews that the accent he used as Oberyn Martell is pretty much a spot-on recreation of his father’s accent
I think that Fran Drescher has the greatest change in voice of any actress. As the Nanny, she only once, used her natural voice and that was on an episode where she ate a mouthful of Wasabi.
Fran Drescher should have been number one on the list
Her voice was hell annoying.
Ya’ll forgot Lana Parilla- The Evil Queen in Once Upon A Time- her natural voice is waaaayyyy higher than Regina’s. Also Tati Gabrielle from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina- same thing. And Daniel Craig from Knives Out- I haven’t seen it yet but he threw me waaaaaay off with his southern accent.
to be fair, daniel craig's accent in knives out is so cartoony foghorn leghorn that i think most of us knew it was an affectation.
@@dietotaku ...True. Very true. I think I was so shocked that I skipped past the fakeness of it and just got excited because it was "Southern".
Two American TV actors who played British characters so well that for years I had no idea they were really Americans: the late John Hillerman (Higgins on the original series of _Magnum, P.I.)_ and the late Paul Benedict (the next-door neighbor Bentley on _The Jeffersons)_ - Hillerman was born, raised, and died in Texas, and Benedict was born in New Mexico and died in Martha's Vineyard.
Andrew Lincoln's Georgia accent was so good that when I was watching TWD religiously I could identify actual Georgia natives when I heard them talk. He also did a couple interviews with it, and I never saw Love Actually, so I had no idea he was a Brit for quite a while. Shocked the crap out of me the first time I heard him speak normally.
You forgot James Marsters(Spike) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bob Morley(Bellamy) from the 100
I thought for sure that Melanie Lynsky would be on this list. When I heard her actual voice, I was SHOCKED!
Reaching way back here... David Ogden Stiers's voice was quite different from that of his most famous character, Charles Emerson Winchester III from MASH.
Hey there! How come you didn't include Daniel Davis from "The Nanny"? His British accent was so perfect people thought it was better than Charles Shaughnessy's!
Megan Mullally also voices Gayle in Bob's Burgers. And she actually sang that Electric Love song in character in the Edison/Topsie episode without using autotune or any other pitch shifting in post.
Where's Misha Collins as Castiel? There is an extreme distinct difference there.
Yes he belongs on the list
Also Jensen as he dropped his voice down to sound more like John!
Lucy Lawless. For a long time, a lot of Xena fans didn't realize she was a Kiwi 😮
And then there were some of those Xena doppelgangers Lawless also played during the show's run who sounded wildly different
Honorable mention to Harry Shum Jr. His Magnus Bane voice in 'Shadowhunters' is very different from his real one. 😊
Billie Piper;s accent as Rose in Doctor Who (first two seasons of New Who) is very different from her real one. She was known before that, so people did know that wasn't her real voice. But, just been re-watching the first season and I did notice how different it is.
Good call! Even though I've heard her real accent multiple times, I can never shake the feeling that the Rose accent is her real one! And, of course, David Tennant has used is Estuary English accent in multiple projects, too; but I can adjust more easily to his native Scottish one.
You should of included Damian Lewis when he played Maj. Richard D. Winters in Band of Brothers.
Thank you, came looking for Damian Lewis, but FORGET Band of Brothers, that was a blip. An excellent blip, but a blip none the less. He was the LEAD American Soldier in Homeland, and Bobby Axelrod on Billions. ----- How, how HOW is he not on this list?
I'm British but you could've knocked me down with a feather when, after watching the entire series, I found out he was also British.
Cara Gee from The Expanse as Camina Drummer really shocked me when I heard her real life voice
You forgot Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker on All In The Family.
I just finished the most recent season of What We Do In The Shadows so I’ve got Kayvan Novak’s accent on the brain! He should be on this list!
Honorable mention: James Arnold Taylor, who voices Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Clone Wars animated TV series (both the 2003 one and the 2008-2020 one). Despite normally sounding nothing like Ewan MacGregor, he's a dead ringer in the show.
How is Cara Gee not on this list??? Her character, Camina Drummer in The Expance, sounds COMPLETELY different than her natural voice!
Besides Hugh Laurie the only time I've surprised about an actors accent has been Dominique Provost-Chalkley. I was so astounded to find out she was from the UK and with the lines she was saying, that was hard enough without worrying about not showing your accent and then they had her do a fake british accent totally different from her real one. She's just so talented! 😍
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Hugh Laurie is also a pretty good blue singer!
Yes, he is!
I remember being in complete shock when I heard Idris Elba speak in his native tongue. I only knew him from the The Wire at the time, and the show was so authentic I thought they only cast people from the Baltimore-area, or at least only Americans. A brilliant performance. Remember feeling the same way when I heard Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman speak in their native accent too. That's the magic of acting, I guess.
Howard Stern played a recording of Gilbert Gottfried talking in his real voice, and it's insane how different he actually sounds.
Christopher Guest in Spinal Tap, Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, and Rene Zellweger in the Bridget Jones movies all were convincingly English.
Most people were very surprised that Peter Dinklage is totally American. He killed his accent on Game of Thrones. A couple of times, in the DVD extras, he used a more posh English accent in the interviews making him have two accents in one show.
You were close with John Barrowman, but David Tennant, uses a british/queen's english accent in most of his shows, including Doctor Who, but uses hi native Scottish accent for interviews for fun. You also have Jodie Comer from Killing Eve (English), Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Galactica (English), Stephen Moyer from True Blood (English) and Matthew Rhys from The Americans (Welsh). The lovely Gillian Anderson is also a gifted bidialectual.
*Damian Lewis???* Band of Brothers, and the LEAD American Soldier in Homeland, and Bobby Axelrod on Billions. ----- How, how HOW is he not on this list?
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These are all so good!!
I was shocked the first time I heard an interview with Ken Curtis, who played Festus in Gunsmoke. He had a normal midwestern speaking voice, with no trace of a southern drawl at all. He was also an excellent singer.
John Boyega (Finn in the last 3 Star Wars films) deserves to be on this list too... he absolutely NAILS an American accent in spite of the fact that his normal accent is decidedly South London (I am Canadian born/raised and now living in London).
I had read somewhere that he was British before I saw The Last Jedi (episode 8) but it didn't occur to me that he was anything but American when I was watching the film. I got quite the jolt when I heard the South London come tumbling out of his mouth afterwards.
Gillian Anderson is also bi-dialectal. Born in the US, to US parents, moved to and grew up in Britain, moved back to the US and now naturally and subconsciously switches between accents depending on who she is talking to.
She’s living in the UK again these days, has since X-Files originally ended. She did an interview during the second run of the show and she was struggling a bit to sound American. People used to think she was faking the British accent but she’s not.
I've been a fan of Toni Collette since I first saw her in Emma in like, 97? It wasn't until 20freaking21 when I realized she's not American, she's AUSTRALIAN 🤯😓 How did I never find this out?? She's such a phenomenal actor! Same with Melanie Lynsky... had no idea she's from NZ!
Same with Anna Paquin.
I was also thinking Jasmine Guy who played Whitley Gilbert in "A Different World" should have been mentioned. Her southern accent for the character was very convincing. When she guest appeared on Fresh Prince, I was amazed at hearing her real voice.
Since she grew up in Atlanta that should not be a surprise.
Jaleel white as Steve urkel
Criminal that you didn't include Jean Stapleton on All in the Family :(
Yvonne Strahovski in Chuck also has an American accent but her actual accent is comple different.
I was hoping to see Brian Baumgartner who played Kevin on The Office.
I personally think that Melissa Ruach should have been #1. The difference in her voice pitch is incredible.
None of them, really.
Hugh Laurie... I remember him using his real voice on Friends on that episode when Ross got married to Rachel.
Sorry... Emily...😂
Also another actor as an honorable mention... Anthony LaPaglia. He was on Fraiser and Without a Trace.😊
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DAMIAN LEWIS people!!! Oh my, how could this actor not be in the top 2? Flawless American accent, people were absolutely gobsmacked when realising that he's a Brit with a clear British accent. Remember Band of Brothers, Homeland and Billions
Mike Judge Beavis & Butt-Head (1993-2011;2022-) and King Of The Hill (1997-2010) Hank Hill and Beavis and Butt-Head changed my life forever 2 decades ago
Cartoon voices probably don't count.
Wilmer Valderrama sounds different than Fez from That 70s Show
I forgot about that. When I first saw him on NCIS I couldn't take him seriously. I got over it, but at first, all I could see was a full grown Fez. 🤣
I wish Jennifer Coolidge got an honorary mention in her work in 2 Broke Girls. Her accent is definitely different from her actual voice.
I've been watching House lately, so I had already known years ago that it wasn't his native accent. Anyone who had seen the live action version of 101 Dalmatians will remember him as Jaspar where he used his native accent. You may not have realized it was him in 101 Dalmatians, but Hugh taking the spotlight in House really could've convinced anyone if they hadn't seen him before.
I believe he used an American accent in Stuart Little too.
Go find episodes of Blackadder :)
Not sure if anyone has mentioned Sons of Anarchy actor Charlie Hunnam and his character Jax Teller.
Much better than his attempt at an accent in Green Street anyway. No idea what he was even attempting.
I can't believe you left out Matthew Rhys! I watched him for years on The Americans before I ever heard his natural voice in an interview, and I was BLOWN AWAY!
Karen Gillan deserves to be on this list for Nebula and Ruby Roundhouse.
She's more MOVIE though. She is amazing regardless.
Misha Collins in supernatural.. I love how different he sounds from the show to real life..
Marina Sirtis, I only saw her on "Star Trek the next generation," then one day on a collectors edition VHS, she was being interviewed, and where the hell did that london accent come from
The one that always gets me is Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Galactica. I heard him speaking in his natural accent in an interview and I was shook.
You should watch him in Horatio Hornblower.
Honorable mentions: Linus Roache from "Law and order" and Maxwell Caulfield from "The Colbys" - Two fine British actors who absolutely NAILED the American accents on their respective shows.
Naveen Andrews mostly known for his role of Sayid in Lost should've been on this list, he had an Iraqi accent on show and you would never tell the actor is actually British
James Marsters, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is American! That shocked me.
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Hugh Laurie came out in an episode of Friends with his normal accent. He was on the plane with Rachel as she flying to London to Ross’ wedding.
"This Wine is awful.... Gimme another glass." That caught me off guard. ^^
Fun Fact: for Encanto, Beatriz was originally brought in to read for the tougher older sister Luisa, Because the casting director thought her natural speaking voice was Rosa Diaz
She could've easily played both Mirabel AND Luisa and made them sound distinct - of course that would've probably been too much and Jessica Darrow was perfect as Luisa. But Stephanie is amazing - I still think it's incredible that she was in labour while recording the way too aptly titled song "Waiting on a Miracle".
The late Joseph Mascolo would always speak in that Italian accent when on the set of Days of Our Lives, a number of his costars were surprised to find out he didn't actually talk that way.
Okay, how does Mischa Collins not make this list? He's similar to the girl from Brooklyn 99? Where he makes his voice much deeper as Castiel than what he sounds like in real life!
There was that TV show Charmed back in the 90's but there was a remake from 2018-2022. Madeline Mantock who played Macy Vaughn on the remake is British but spoke with an American accent. Very convincing. You wouldn't know she was British until you saw an interview with her.
Julian McMahon, who's costarred on FBI Most Wanted and a few other shows? He's an Australian born actor.
Catherine O’Hara should be higher up one the list. She’s amazing, iconic, and just one of the funniest people.
Misha Collins (Castiel in Supernatural), James Marsters (Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel) and Hugh Laurie (Dr. Greg House in House MD) were the first that came to mind!
6:35 Rauch is one of two _Big Bang Theory_ stars to voice Harley Quinn, with Penny star Kaley Cuoco voicing Harley Quinn in the eponymous animated series.
One of my favorites is Jane Leeves who played Daphne Moon on Fraiser.
You showed John Barrowman playing alongside David Tennant but David Tennant’s vocal change was more surprising to me. For years I thought he had an English accent until I heard him talking in his usual Scottish dialect.
Same with James McAvoy, I had no idea for a long time he was British, never mind Scottish!
Yvonne Strahovski is another one…she’s Australian and I was stunned.
a very America-centric collection. Pity you didn't include David Suchet from TV's (definitive) Agatha Christie's Poirot. His natural voice is quite deep, but, because Poirit works with his brain, he raised his voice. Addd that to the other quirks he portrayed and you have a classic perfomance.
DS’s story of strategically using a coin for perfecting Poirot’s walk still cracks me up (as it were😉).
David Suchet as Poirot was what *immediately* came to mind when I read the title of this video. Deserves the number one slot on a list like this.