[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies

[Missy Gallant]

Charlotte Roberts wrote:
> <snip>
> Ralph Fiennes-very dramatic as Voldemort, though I find his voice
isn't "cold" enough as depicted in the books. <snip>

Carol responds:

That's an interesting point. Book!Voldemort' s voice is described not
only as cold but as high-pitched (for a man's), and his laughter is
also high-pitched, as if, along with the humanity he's lost with each
soul bit placed in a Horcrux, he's lost some manliness, too, in the
best sense of that unfashionable word, which has nothing to do with
being "macho" (or ruthless or even powerful). (Certainly, he'll never
be a father, which, I think, lowers him on the scale of manliness in
JKR's eyes, the best men in her books being the best fathers or father
figures).

Who (which British actor) could capture that coldness, not only in
personality but in voice, and produce a high-pitched, scary, laugh
that curdles the blood without sounding like Helena Bonham Carter's
Bellatrix Lestrange or Margaret Hamilton in "The Wizard of Oz"?

Thoughts, anyone?

He's too old- but I think Anthony Hopkins could pull it off.  He can certainly do cold voice.

Also, maybe James Marsters (who isn't British, but does the accent well).