8 Actors Who Have Played An Insane Amount Of Nationalities

4. Gary Oldman

Nationality: English Notable Roles: Air Force One (Russian), Immortal Beloved (German), Dracula (Romanian/Transylvanian), American (True Romance), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Dutch), Jesus (Roman) Listen to Gary Oldman talking in an interview in his "native" accent nowadays and one thing is made clear: he's sort of lost his English voice, presumably as a result of all the accents he's done for movie roles, and the fact that he's spent so many years going between the UK and the US (something similar has happened with Christian Bale's somewhat irritating "transatlantic" accent). Oldman is renowned for his array of acclaimed bad guy performances, of course, most of which occurred in the '90s, though he's recently made an effort to play more "kid-friendly" characters, as witnessed by roles in Harry Potter and Batman. When you think of Gary Oldman, then, the likelihood is that you think of him doing an accent, playing a character from some distant part of the world. So whereas his American accent was officially mastered in movies like Leon, True Romance, State of Grace, Romeo is Bleeding and Murder in the First, Oldman has unleashed a whole host of European characters with well-researched and idiosyncratic accents and mannerisms, the best of which include Air Force One (Russian), Immortal Beloved (German), and Dracula (Romanian/Transylvanian). What's perhaps most impressive, though (and the reason he makes the list), is Oldman's ability to unleash regional accents with absolutely conviction. He doesn't do just one "British" accent, or one "American" accent - each and every one of his roles is tailor-made to the region that his character hails from, which makes his filmography one of the most diverse and eclectic in movie history.