Other actors with cool voices
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BrooklynBrimstone — 11 years ago(October 11, 2014 09:06 PM)
Just figured out today (I'm mid-way through Season 2 of The Bridge) that the actor playing Lieutenant Wade is the same actor who played Buffalo-freakin'-Bill from Silence of the Lambs (mind = blown!).
I knew his voice sounded eerily familiar but I hadn't seen Silence of the Lambs in many years, so I only just figured the connection out now.
Anyways - I'm a huge fan of actors who have great, iconic voices! I could never figure out why I had this weird attraction to actors like Alan Rickman, Patrick Stewart & Ron Perlman for years until it finally dawned on me that they all have freakin' amazing (& sexy!) voices! Some of them it's just for certain characters though (i.e. Ron Perlman as Vincent on Beauty and the Beast (tv) & as Hellboy), others it's just all the freakin' time!
Here's the list I came up with off the top of my head (I will edit it, if I remember any that I've overlooked):- David Bowie (specially in Labyrinth as Jareth, the Goblin King (swoooon! def. a childhood crush of mine& surprisingly it had nothing to do with the tights - it's all in the voice! And what a lovely voice it is!)
- Benedict Cumberbatch (I don't think I saw him on this list actually - for shame! When listing this awesome actors' best features, his voice should always be #1! Sherlock for the win!)
- Jeremy Irons (yeah, he's on everyone's list for a reason - that sexily raspy voice that even made an animated lion (Scar) sound weirdly 5b4hot. Very confusing for me as a pre-teen!)
- Will Arnett ('Shrimpwith club sauce!' Just watch Arrested Development if you haven't already. What are you waiting for?)
- Michael Wincott (Maybe I have this actor to blame for why I'm always drawn to the bad guys in movies/tv, Top Dollar in The Crow, Rochefort in The Three Musketeers, etc. He made a career out of playing baddies you can't help but secretly root for.)
- Lee Pace (First noticed him in 'Pushing Daisies' & while his voice is pleasant to hear in that show, he's really upped the vocal ante in recent years with his menacing turns in 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' as vain Elf King Thranduil & Ronan the Accuser in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' (he's unrecognizable in the latter, both in appearance & voice!))
K, I'm gunna start lumping them into categories now, otherwise this list'll never end.
British Invasion - Ian McKellan, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Lee, Tom Mison, Alan Rickman, Patrick Stewart, Tim Curry, Tony Jay, David Morrisey, Tom Hiddleston, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Bowie, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christian Bale, John Rhys-Davies, Colin Firth, Zach McGowan, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Hugh Dancy, Ed Westwick, Kenneth Branagh, Clive Owen, Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Sean Bean, Dan Stevens, Matthew Goode, Dominic Monaghan, Theo James, Hans Matheson, Jude Lb68aw, JJ Field, Idris Elba, Rupert Friend, Sting, Marc Warren, John Hurt, Cary Elwes, James Callis, Gary Oldman, Bill Nighy, Rob James-Collier, Charles Dance, Simon Pegg (c'mon in 'Hot Fuzz', you gotta admit his character Nicholas Angel's voice was hot! Basically, any British accent sounds like music to my ears! Clearly, judging by the size of my listand those are just the ones I could think of off the top of my hat!)
Irish Rovers - Michael Fassbender, Colin O'Donaghue, Aiden Turner, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Aiden Gillen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Colin Farrell, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Townsend, Glen Hansard, Jamie Dornan, Pierce Brosnan
Great Scots! - Ewan McGregor, Sam Heughan, Iain Glen, James McAvoy, David Tennant, Billy Connelly, Peter Mullan, Craig Ferguson, Robert Carlyle, Graham McTavish
Merry Old Land of Oz - Hugh Jackman, Chris Hemsworth, Eric Bana, Heath Ledger, Joel Edgerton, Hugo Weaving, Thomas M. Wright, Guy Pearce, Sam Neill, David Wenham, Jason Clarke, Chris Lilley, Geoffrey Rush, Mel Gibson (back when he still had his accent - think early Mad Max films)
Damn Yankees - Christopher Walken, Ron Perlman, James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, Clancy Brown, Alec Baldwin, Lance Henriksen, Bruce Campbell, Lee Pace, Matthew McConaughey, Viggo Mortensen, David Duchovny, Chris Sarandon, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Haysbert, Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, John Cusack, Vincent Price, Bud Cort, John Slattery, Kevin Kline, Jack Huston, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Robbie Benson, Tony Goldwyn, Peter Weller, Kyle MacLachlan, Chris Messina, Sidney Poitier, Christian Slater, Anson Mount, H. Jon Benjamin, Johnny Depp, Andre Holland, Mandy Patinkin, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Danny Huston, Powers Booth, James Franco, Sam Rockwell, James Spader, Patrick Wilson, Bill Murray, Peter Dinklage, Robin Williams, Jon Hamm, Seth MacFarlane
Oh Canada - Kiefer Sutherland, Frank Langella, Will Arnett, Michael Wincott, Christopher Plummer, Joshua Jackson, Bruce Greenwood, Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie, Aden Young, Tahmoh Penikett, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Beach, Brendan Fraser, Colm Feore, Phil Hartman