10 Actors Whose Voices You Want To Steal As Your Own

4. Alan Rickman

The first time most of us heard Alan Rickman's astonishing, deep, purring voice was as the evil German terrorist proving to be a pest to Bruce Willis in 1988's Die Hard. His voice is as cold and unforgiving as ice. It is simply as if Rickman was born to play villains. Since Die Hard, his most famous and critically praised performances as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series were largely down to his amazing voice. When reading the books we could only hope that whoever was cast as Snape had a voice like Rickman's, and now we can't imagine anyone else playing him. Just you try to imagine someone else sounding as deliciously sinister when telling his class of students to "turn to page three-hundred and ninety-four." It's a threatening, dark voice that screams intelligence and menace in the most sophisticated of ways without ever wasting a single syllable. It demands so much respect that it didn't even matter that Rickman wasn't that great of a singer in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. Then again, it would take a brave director to tell Rickman that his voice isn't good enough.