Reblog from Tumblr: Amazing speech accent audio archive

siegel:

Click to hear a speech sample, read from the same piece of text, anywhere in the world.

I like this website, too. Although it won’t help you nail an accent all on its own. You have to do some serious research by watching documentaries, TV, listening to local radio from your desired accent-region.. But a GREAT resource.

Thanks for the reminder and the link siegel

Character Typing Survey

It is good practice to get familiar with your "type" as an actor.

What is a "type"? It is the character/persona that the you are identified as. For example: Meg Ryan was always type-d as the "Quirky girl-next-door"; Angelina Jolie the "Femme-Fatale"; Joan Allen is a "W.A.S.P."; Jack Black might be a "Crazy, funny, fat guy"; Terrence Howard "Leading man with an edge"; Luiz Guaman "Latino character-type", etc.

Continued: Character Typing Survey | The NYC Actor