There were many things about her that stayed with me: her smile, her accent, her wrinkled hands.
Natasha, who was at the Democratic convention this year, was irked to meet people there who laughed at her accent.
Meghann Holmes also tries to modulate her accent, but for professional reasons.
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Boynton grew up singing with her family and got sick of hearing that she should only sing country music because of her accent.
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If her accent reflects her German origins and decades living in England, her tone expresses undiluted enthusiasm for the objects she gets to study and elucidate to students, faculty and the public at large.
She had two months working with Zellweger before filming started on Bridget Jones's Diary, comprising lessons in the morning followed by afternoons out together in London when the actress was forced to keep up her accent.
"Some people never, ever heard her own accent until we finished the film, " says Berkery.
Her singing is fragile but fetching, her Czech accent completely convincing, and she's even a halfway decent piano player.
She has a gentle manner that at times borders on vulnerability, and she is incredibly soft-spoken, despite her Estuary accent.
"I'm very sensitive to noise, " she said in her Yorkshire accent, before apologizing for having to change things about before she could start properly.
"Come on, guys, let's go, " she barks in her British accent.
Zellweger later worked undercover in a publishing house using her English accent, and also maintained it on set for the entirety of the film's shoot.
Governor Sarah Palin, with her thick Alaskan accent, laid out the case for her and John McCain's election this November while showing some of the aggressiveness of a competition-driven "hockey mom".
The daughter of immigrants from Palermo, Italy, Lauper was born in the New York borough of Queens and raised in Brooklyn, acquiring her signature thick accent.
Vergara is unapologetic of her looks, accent and culture.
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Between Bonham Carter's natural, rather posh English accent and her character's disability (which causes slurred speech), it's hard to understand her at times, so you really have to pay attention.
The rest of the festive top five was filled by American artists - although Britney Spears does attempt a British accent in her duet with Will.i.am, Scream And Shout, which was at number three.
On a recent visit to the House of Blues and Jazz, the tall, blond hostess was dressed in a floor-length evening gown, with a bright red hat angled down the front of her face and an intriguing Russian accent.
He also creates two decent female roles - the club's manager Marian - an ex-"Swing Kid" interned before the war for her love of American music - and waitress Elke, who hides her disgust for her nation behind a brash American accent.
Berkery and her students start with nothing and build an accent from its essential parts.
And also, even though Luna can have any sort of accent - the girl who plays her does need to be resident in the UK or Ireland.
It was just crazy rambling about her believin' and Simon knockin' -- but the accent came out in full force, which is all that matters.
She speaks with a thick accent and disarming warmth that at first seem at odds with her polished coiffure and star-studded address book.
But around here, no one can wear just one hat, and we all regard Susan, whose tinge of a southern U.S. accent (by way of Alabama) masks the fact she spent much of her childhood in South Korea, as the readiest of resources.
One day, she rode on horseback to fetch her brother, who was working at Ten Chimneys, when she saw a tall, handsome woman with a British accent.
The thematic structure permits the queen dialogue with her inner child, and on press night "Lilibet" was played remarkably forcefully by Nell Williams, with an accent so accurately plummy it was practically fruit salad.
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