formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6210 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek
| Message 65 of 98 04 May 2008 at 3:21am | IP Logged |
georgedick wrote:
William Camden wrote:
The German actress Franka Potente (best-known film probably Lola rennt) spoke
good English when interviewed on British TV. I believe she also knows French and Italian. |
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Her best known films in the US now are probably the Bourne Identity series! In which she also spoke great English...
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She was fantastic in Der Krieger und die Kaiserin. I had a slight crush on her, so I rented all her movies. ;)
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Nocturne Diglot Groupie Italy Joined 6147 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishB2 Studies: Korean, Swedish
| Message 66 of 98 20 July 2008 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
moisa wrote:
I heard Jodie Foster can speak mandarin and french. A french speaker and I saw her speaking in french in a making of and my friend told me she speaks like a french from Paris, no foreign accent at all. |
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I am fairly sure she has quite good knowledge of Italian, too. I saw her on an Italian TV programme, and while she said she was uncomfortable with her Italian speaking skills and for that reason she answered in English, she was perfectly able to understand the interviewer without any translation.
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sarguy Groupie United States Joined 6564 days ago 59 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 67 of 98 22 July 2008 at 2:46pm | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
georgedick wrote:
Add Viggo Mortensen to the list... He's staring in major movie that just
came out in Spain, Alatriste. According to IMDB, he "speaks fluent English,
Spanish and Danish, but he also speaks Swedish and Norwegian reasonably
well."
Here he is being interviewed on a Spanish news program.
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According to wikipedia he "is fluent in English, Danish and Spanish, and conversant in Norwegian. He also speaks French, Italian and Swedish reasonably well."
It was also mentioned earlier in this thread that he was the Swedish national hockey team's interpreter at the '80 Olympics, so if Swedish is really his weakest language, as the list suggests, I'm really impressed! |
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I wonder if, after his performance in "Eastern Promises", he picked up more Russian. That movie reignited my interest in learning Russian....
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Alvinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6233 days ago 828 posts - 832 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish
| Message 68 of 98 26 July 2008 at 10:02pm | IP Logged |
Joaquim de Oliveira, a Portuguese actor who acted in important films like "Behind Enemy Lines", "Desperado" and so on....
English, French, Italian, Spanish and German
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206862/
Elisha Cuthbert, the sweet blond girl who acted in "The Girl Next Door" and "24" speaks English and French, as she was born in Canada and grew up in Montreal....
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193846/bio
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jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5976 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*
| Message 69 of 98 27 July 2008 at 10:06am | IP Logged |
Chyna from WWE speaks English, Spanish, German and French.
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sajro Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5995 days ago 129 posts - 131 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 70 of 98 28 July 2008 at 7:42pm | IP Logged |
Does anyone know of any young (<20 y/o) thespian polyglots?
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 71 of 98 08 August 2008 at 4:57am | IP Logged |
It may not make him a polyglot, but Tommy Lee Jones uses quite a lot of Spanish at the start of Men In Black. He is trying to identify an alien among a group of Mexicans crossing into the USA illegally and finds one who doesn't understand Spanish. Because he isn't Mexican, he is an alien called "Mikey".
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Alvinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6233 days ago 828 posts - 832 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish
| Message 72 of 98 08 August 2008 at 2:29pm | IP Logged |
Tom Cruise's performance in "Mission Impossible" he speaks Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin and writes in German.....
Pierce Brosnan in "007" speaks Russian....
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