I agree. He was unrecognizable in Green Book, both his voice and his mannerisms... and had a PERFECT Italian Bronx accent. I hope he gets the Oscar

Sam Hart I totally agree.

Ill forever love him in The Lord of The Rings and Hidalgo.

He should have played Roland in the Dark Tower movie.

Agreed too.. tot they would cast him in got..

Woah 7?!

@@sandrameesala6804 yep. There is a video where he speaks 7 languages

And he is Dannish!

Wow 7 is ridiculous. 2 hurts my brain.

😂 funny and true

Especially when you compare him to his earlier movies like Wanted and hear how bad he sounded. James McAvoy has come a long way as an actor.

That wasn't him, that was Patricia

Yes another one not mentioned.

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It's Irish with hints of the New york accent. Not just Irish.

I'm not from Ireland, but I have to agree. While DiCaprio has an extensive repertoire of accents he's used in various films, I really don't think he done any of them particularly well. It always just comes off as Leo imitating something. I never watch a movie with him in it forgetting that he is playing a role. Gary Oldman, on the other hand, I didn't know he was Zorg (or the Russian loyalist) until many years later. Such an excellent man with accents. On an unrelated subject, I was happy to see a clip of him from The Graham Norton Show. Best talk show ever.

DUKE NUKEM It was a hideously bad accent. Also his Zimbabwean accent is not very good if you've ever actually met people from Zimbabwe.

ribena1235 To be fair, you're named after a concentrated blackcurrant drink. He who resides in glass bottles should not throw stones ;-)

Not a glass bottle, a 100% recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottle.

He gets plenty of recognition, he is considered one of our times "greats" by most movie buffs. He just doesn't have a spotlight on him at all times, so less media exposure. Thats what he wants, he likes privacy.

Fair enough. I think he should be better known.

Anders Kristensen If anyone has any doubts about Gary Oldman's acting ability, tell them to see "Sid and Nancy". I grew up during the Sex Pistols heyday, and Oldman WAS Sid Vicious. I kept forgetting it was an actor playing him.

Love Gary, he never star in a movie plus he is good at doing all sort of stuff that's why it's hard to tell it's him.

Right, Oldman is a far better actor than he gets credit for, and Downey Junior gets far more credit than he deserves

Not to be rude...who is he?

I think it's less accents for him and more just that he's native in multiple languages. Also, his tortured gurgling is heard at the end of the clip ㅋㅋㅋ

START THE CONVERSATION James Tate iii excuse me??? Watch inglorious bastards please and Django its for your own good

Not even an honourable mention...

So true he did english , german, italian and french with high influence a reflection of characters.

It's always Gary Oldman :)

The exact same for me! I've watched him in dosens of films not realising it was him. Amazing

Gordon Heaney This comment deserves way more likes.

LMAO

W

lol Heaney that was funny.

Gordon Heaney STOP LYING

i love the word polyglot

Viggo is polyhot

Shifty Girl lmfao right tho

So is Daniel Bruhl

and Elvish

Erik Singer?

Lewis changes not only his accent but also his voice itself.

Daniel Day Lewis knows every accent but his own.

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And Leo never nailed any accent in his movies, but he is American, so Americans praise him for it.

+Ottawa3453 And Brad Pitt.

+Ottawa3453 actors who can pull off accents, not speak different languages.

+Crowbar Given that Fassbender's natural accent is Irish, he does English, American and German pretty well

+R2S cawaale aden

+Ottawa3453 Fassebender defo

He's the greatest of all time, so that's a given.

DavidAkhter and daniel day lewis

Yep DDL and Gary Oldman are brilliant, though DDL does it more for his craft so he is quite picky but look at his awards.

Dez Smith and

Yes Daniel Day Lewis is great with accents,but Gary Oldman has done way more films and accents than Daniel

@@torisefford5671 excactly just check out a compilation of Gary Oldman on accents, all completely beyond believable, Kurshanov, Drexl, Dracula, Zorg, Oswald, Flannery, Sid, Gordon, Verger... All have their own voice

Gary Oldman is the GOAT!!

most of the list was questionable, but there could be no doubt that Oldman had to be number 1.

@@ppvk2610 it is said that Oldman does a different accent for every movie he is in. The exception is the Dark Knight trilogy because he is the same character for all three movies.

its missing loads of actors. eddie murphy, robin williams should be on before sasha baron cohen by the way. added to that, Peter Stormare and many dramatic actors who are simply so seemless you might forget they are in the movies should be on here. Eddie Marson, stephen graham, Forest Whitiker etc.

Christopher Waltz should have definitely made the list.

Only fans of Cillian know this 👊

Even I was wondering where the hell was Cillian Murphy!!! Not even as an honorable mention!!! 😭

i am a brummie and can confirm that his accent is shit

Agree!

He had a good accent in Anthropoid

CptObvious boy have I got news for you

DDL would be number one.

Eagle Racer same with Damien Lewis of Band of Brothers, Life and Homeland

Eagle Racer Damn right.

And they have to do the accent for so long and always the same! Pretty skilled. How embarrassing if you are an actor and then one time do the accent super weird and everyone looks at you quietly.

Best American accent by a non American ever!!! It blew my mind when I found out he was British

Agree. I didn't know he was English until later.

I agree most people watching this video have probably never heard him speak his native tongue and would be surprised he should easily be top 5

+Julianwilson3 Yeah, Idris Elba suprised the hell out of me when I found out he was actually british.

+Alain Saint Surin People make a lot of hype [not to say I'm much better of course over actors like ELBA and HUGH LAURIE maintaining their accent for several seasons but it 's helped immensely by the the fact that they're surrounded by said accent !! not taking away from them their both great talents another two BRITS in the spotlight!!

+Alain Saint Surin A "'hood" accent...maybe. I will say that you can definitely tell who the Baltimore natives were versus those that weren't and Idris Elba fell into this category easily. He was completely devoid of a Baltimore accent. This was definitely difficult to discern since so many of the main characters didn't even attempt a Baltimore accent. If you look at the characters like Snoop and D'angelo, you can definitely tell that they've spent a lot of time in B-more.

have you seen him in Prometheus, he has a southern American accent and is pretty damn good at it.

That's Mojo for you...idiot narration ruins it. Yap yap yap, and it's about accents but don't hear them.

WatchMojo only exists to show you their list. If you want to see the movie watch it on your own.

@@vchris5378 dumb comment. The list isn't even about movies. It's about actors who can do foreign accents, except they don't show them doing the foreign accents.

@@boplax123 COOL

@@vchris5378 Totally missed the point

True. He should have received a mention at least. How the eff does Brad Pitt get a mention and not a peep about Alfred Molina? Mojo is trash. Oldman does deserve 1st place they got that right - but come on.....

I loved him as Zorg. He's really amazing in everything he does. Check him out in The Professional.

You damn right!

Hes utterly amazing

They choose his air force one russian over the viktor reznov from world at war... ridiculous

He was also the best Beethoven I've seen on screen.

Agreed. He is an amazing actor. I've loved his work since I was a kid.

He does every east European accent perfect 🤣

True.

Agreed

So agreed!

Yes, my favorite kinds of actors. Ones you have to look at the credits and be like..."What!? That was him!? It took me a bit to realize Gary was in Batman!

No kidding, both excellent.

@@vofcups2836 Woah you watched the video?! No way!

@@jasonk7130 oh well whatever, forgot it was from this clip. If you notice my first comment was 2 weeks prior, I didn't rewatch it.

Gary Oldman himself doesn’t know what he sounds like, lol.

He also speaks french very well :)

He also speaks french very well :)

SenatorSmeagol thanks for informing me didn't know he could speak french ,but it doesn't surprise me ,he is a man of many crafts he also is a musician and a writer.

Fun fact, He dubbed himself in Hidalgo for the spanish version.

adriana adriana he actually pulls off a very very good french accent.. he lately starred in a movie about my Country's Independence called "Loin des Hommes/ Far From Men" check the trailer if you want to hear em' rock dem french accents :p

Neither does he, apparently! (lol from that Graham Norton clip)

"Sirius"ly...

Preach

Someone You Know you’re absolutely correct. The accents he pulled off in “Split” should have landed him on this list easily

Someone You Know I was going to say a similar thing about David Tennant

So true! McAvoy was superb in Split! A real tour de force!

True!

Someone You Know yes! I expected to see him on the list. He is a lot better than most of these actors with his proficiency in accents

I was literally about to say the same thing.

BikouTenma You do realise canada is part of the continent America, just not the USA? education people

Girtalir You do realize Canadian is a seperate Nationality, right? Education people. By your logic, Mexicans and Canadians are the same because the nations are all within the same interlocking continent.

Exactly hahahah a lot of Canadians can pass for Americans though as far as accents go but that is about it.

Girtalir The only people who carry the nationality "American" are people from the USA. Look it up.

And the hair.

He's also perfectly fluent in Spanish, having grown up in Venezuela and Argentina.

Hell, he actually speaks like 5 languages

@@chardensama over 7 I think. Catalanyan (I don't know how to write that in english correctly 😅), arabic, danish, french, spanish, Italian, can't remember the others

Mi pesadilla fue escucharlo hablar Español, acento argentino. My biggest nightmare was hearing Viggo talk spanish, argentinian accent

And perfect argentinian and danish

***** Captain* Jack Sparrow

***** I was just thinking that maybe they copied his style for this character

***** I was just thinking that maybe they copied his style for this character

Could be. Johnny Depp definitely did mix different characters in order to get the character right.

***** I could see him as Walter White

mvann5 Yeah, I can't believe he didn't even get a mention! Especially looking at the fact, that even the producers of House thought he was an American after watching his audition vid.

Hugh Laurie would have been in my top 5. And Downey Jr. for his English accent in Sherlock Holmes

mvann5 I was going to mention him too!

:)

*Canadian

Yes the great director Stephen Frears. My favourite film of his was "My beautiful laundrettte" with Daniel Day Lewis. And several of the "Comic strip" series. 😃

Stryker Of Enyo You forgot Quenya and Sindarin! 😄

He learned to speak with a Spanish Leonese Accent in Spanish for Alatriste

Viggo Mortensen does Russian accent much better thаn Gary Oldman. there was not anything in the Oldman's speech in this scene that would sound like Russian accent

Stryker Of Enyo he can also speak elvish

And Swedish probably

And French in Freddie The Frog (a.k.a. Freddie As F.R.O.7).

And NZ English in Ender's Game.

***** I'm surprise too. Didn't know he was in it either.

Murica ain't got no ack-seyent! Were MURICAN!!

THANK YOU! And also otto frank from Anne Frank

fantastic !!!!!

The guy needs more praise.

Who?

Except that bozo whos in love with Tom Hardy.

a bit late...but fully agreed. I mean the guy had to take classes to get his english accent back

And to pull it off so well lol

😂😂👍

Da Bear Fan they forgot Chadwick boseman

😘😂

You know who can do a South African accent? Someone from South Africa. No offence but the standard accent that Hollywood assigns to South Africa represents approximately 2% of the population, and that is not even taking regional nuances into account.

I'm with you Karma. There's 11 official languages in SA and each language has about 10 different inflections each depending on the province.

@@Karma-qt4ji Agreed. But, have you heard Andy Serkis? Sounds like he's straight out of Krugersdorp.

WTF, can you say spoiler alert

salchichadegrasa Oh sorry... um.. SPOILER ALERT! there :)

That's all I wanted. Thank you:)

salchichadegrasa You're welcome :)

Well, maybe but that "Transylvanian" accent was wrong :)

Yes! Kevin Spacey!

+Gabriel Brownawell In the closet.

Ariel L Alan Rickman could do British AND English accents!?! Well that's absolutely remarkable!

Good one - and German! Die Hard - Hans Gruber

Ariel L rip

Don't forget that he speaks Danish too :)

WANTZiN That´s what I said : "He is fluent in many languages". :-)

I love Viggo Mortensen! Especially on "Eastern Promises"! Trully an underrated gem.

I'm a Viggo fan, but in a way, to have a guy like him on the list who's multi-national in many ways and a polygot is kind of like cheating. ;) (But I'd still put him on the list lol )

He speaks English, Danish, Spanish, French and Italian, and understands Norwegian and Swedish. FFS he can even speak some Catalan.

Yes his performance was amazing as Sid, then he turns around and plays Beethoven in My Immortal Beloved.

Yeah aye. But he doesn't say aboot instead of about. He would be hilarious with a Baston accent though. LOL

I'm American and IMO Boston is the worst accent worse then jersey and more annoying then a Minnesota/Fargo accent. I wonder if foreigners can tell the diff.

Actually, I believe Wolverine was originally born American, but emigrated to Canada at some point.

dksilentbob Really? Thanks for the info! :)

***** Actually, ya you're right. I just looked it up. I think I was confused because the X-Men Origins movie took liberties with the story and detracted from the canon comic book story line.

His "French" accent sucks.

In Mrs.Doubtfire he was trying an English accent but ended up with a Scottish accent.

yeah but wasn't that the point? the English actor noticed it and pointed out that his accent was off lol

Robin played a Russian in Moscow on the Hudson. Didn't hold a candle to Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises.

Voices, yes. Foreign accents? No. On the other hand, the vast majority of these fail fairly harshly at it too, so...

And Viggo’s Italian in Green Book.

maybe it's just because I speak German and English, but I can still hear his Austrian accent when he plays English/American roles. his french accent is amazing though lol

indeed

Christoph Waltz like Johnny Depp is an extremely limited actor, always playing the same roles. His English is okay, but you can always hear the snarky and arrogant Austrian.

His French is amazing but his Austrian accent is easily recognizable.

His English is ok? You may be talking about just his accent but his ability to use the English language is great especially since its not his first language.

But I think Robert Downey Jr Daniel bruhl and Michael Fassbender are consistently on point.

David Young came here to say this

Yeah well it's in the US Constitution that any time Canada wants to join the Union and become a State they can do so no questions asked. So Canada is basically America.

IceDragon978 All Americans live under the Canadians

Able to join anytime =/= already joined.

Derp McDerpson no shit bro.

Indeed!!!!

I agree! Although he rarely plays anything besides a German (and he's German-Austrian) :P but it also helps that he's fluent in German, French, and English

DasOtello digger.... der ist deutscher ;D Auch wenn er kulturell natürlich Ösi ist...

Wasn't even an honorable mention!? But they show like four scenes from bastards...

he has a German accent in every movie; his characters are even usually German

THANK YOU! I was going to comment “Where the hell is Meryl Streep?!” but read the previous comments first and saw that you brought her up. Again, THANK YOU!

The title is male actors, though? 🤔

+Rensune lolololololollo

+Rensune IKR? I was just thinking that.

***** Hm, yeah. I keep forgetting that. Usually when people say American they're referring to people from the US.

+Oskar Mexicans and "Central" Americans are North Americans. By Americans, Countries universally mean US citizens because they're the only Country in North or South to have America in the Country's name.

***** No, it's not.

And he is half danish

And a fan of san lorenzo

@@karisimonsen9827 Lol dont spread lies pls he 's actually a Dunedain

He is so good at speaking like an Argentinian that I thought he was, until I saw this video!

In fact he played a spaniard caracter in a spanish production with a flawless spaniard accent. Even though his natural accent is argentinian. He doubled himself in Hidalgo with a north mexican/neutral accent.

Well put. Of course he speaks In real life he speaks several of them fluently : English, Spanish, Norwegian and I don't know how many others. Do you?

@@ShirlEllen he speaks French

He speaks 7 languages, English, Spanish (wit an agertin accent), French, Catalan, Danish, Latin and I don't remember the seventh but if you've seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy you'll know he also speak elvish

Viggo knows 7 languages

Fox bought the rights to the film and name...they prefaced with "American roles". Fox studios is based in L.A. and is therefore, an American role because he was instructed to "sound American". They know he's Canadian, but he still portrays him as American sounding. Therefore it is an American role. "Australia" was co-produced by 20th Cent. Fox but was still considered Australian as it was released in Australia and the entire persona was australian.

No duh, dude. And yes, if anything, he's Canadian-American. I get that. You can be Canadian and sound "American". Northern North America is still North America. I know Canadian people who live on the border of NH and VT with Canadian accents as well as those American accents. Same goes for the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. Still, they should have referred to it as a Canadian-American accent or just North American.

yea you're right, they should have. It was a very simple google search away.

a 'Canadian-American' is a term referring to being an american with Canadian parents - 'American-Canadian' is the reverse. the term you are looking for when referring to the accent is "North American-English".

That's not exactly accurate. "African American" certainly doesn't pertain to having an african parent and being American. As you'd be far fetched to find a black person you even know that had parents that weren't born American. Yet the term "African American" is still the correct term. Plus how many generations have to be born into American culture to no longer be considered native to where their families came from? Yet that still wouldn't work because the United States census doesn't recognize generations as a unit of measure. Canadian-American literally means (and this is according to my human geography college course), that they are of direct Canadian descent residing in America, OR are born Canadian citizens, and now reside as US American citizens. They might change things in the future but screw political correctness. My brother was born in Japan, yet he's as white and American as they come. He can be considered Japanese-American if he chooses. He does not. He's also of strong Italian descent. He's still just American. His Dad was born here.

Trouble is the two he's best known for are clichés of Indian and French. Really don't think that counts.

I disagree. His Kiwi accent wasn't on point

The Australian accent is just an evil version of the New Zealand accent (as Bret and Jemaine will tell you).

If we're just talking Top Ten Male Actors of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Hopkins would belong on that list, and very high up. Accents aren't his strength, though. Voice modulation, definitely--amazing!--but not necessarily all that great with accents. Aside from his voice, his brilliance is in his eyes, subtle facial expressions, head tilts, gestures, and--up until his seventies, anyway--his overall body control: his posture, his walk, and so on. One of the best ever who can act the hell out of a scene with his back turned to the camera.

I come from Invercargill, New Zealand, and I can tell you that not only was it on point, but it was on point for the years he was portraying. Children were actually taught a specific accent at the time to more closely imitate the 'Queen's English' as unfortunately back then there was still a huge pressure to be seen as a closely related commonwealth country. Anthony's accent had a perfect mix of Southland drawl and the enforced English inflection that Munro would have had at the time.

Phil Anderson : They are both excellent, but Day-Lewis is the greatest actor of his generation if not all time. Love Oldman as well. Perhaps a draw. Oh, where is Meryl Streep? Would like to see a list of actors who can totally disappear into their roles. Day-Lewis would be on the list, Streep, Christian Bale, and Javier Bardem.

He is the real chameleon actor, right? Not johnny depp...

He is the real chamaleon actor, right? Not johnny depp

Oldman is very good, but Day-Lewis is the true chameleon.

@@mydogdeli Then you haven't seen enough Oldman films. Don't get me wrong; they're both top tier, but Oldman is the absolute king of accents and dialects.

Hugh Jackman is Australian. Wolverine, the Marvel character, is Canadian.

HUGH JACKMAN, YES !!!! BUT NOT WOLVERINE : marvel.com/universe/Wolverine_%28James_Howlett%29 WOLVERINE IS CANADIAN. THE ACTOR HUGH JACKMAN IS AUSTRALIAN. I GET IT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

+Anglo-Sphere MP What is wrong with you?!

+Anglo-Sphere MP No worries. For a bit I was completely sure you were trolling me.

+Saku Cherry Kim Canada is in America.

+AmazingJoe96 Yeah, his accents aren't terribly impressive.

+AmazingJoe96 Oh man check his accent in Peaky Blinders

Alantan ok i haven seen that yet

Alantan It's not bad, but then again, it's him doing a slightly different accent than his native one is, so it's not as impressive as an American actor doing a British accent (or vice versa). Hardy's American accents aren't too bad, they're just not great, is all.

+niptuck117 his accent for john fitzgerald in the revenant was pretty damn good

what about him?

Jorge 42 he is Scottish and does, American, English!

That man is basically gold, His many accents in split alone say it all!

@@Millie226 watch 'Wanted' again, and see if you feel strongly about that

he is on their worst accents list :)

i was going to add that.

despair487 He also played a French man in Les Miserables.

Canada is in North America

Dead Dream Productions I meant that he's not an USA Citizen.

+ShadowDJ94 Right, I get that when you said "he's a Canadian citizen," but you preceded that by stating "he isn't American," which is an inaccurate statement as he is a native to the American continents.

Gets me everytime, I love Colin Farrell. Wish Cillian Murphy & he would do more movies together, those 2 and Tom Hardy.

WM has a major hard on for Johnny Depp, they barely ever give him praise for some reason.

yeah depp, didnt think of him. hes right up there. even though he should and could be doing better films he keeps picking shitty roles. I liked his pick with Black Mass but why go back to captain jack and alice and wonderland movies? whats the guy thinking

+Mikus Aurelius could be contract deal

Cillian Murphy probably isn't as famous as they're going for.

johnny depps actual accent seems liverpoodlian like he was a member of the beatles.