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List of actors who have played characters from the American South
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This is a list of famous portrayals of characters from the Southern United States in English in film, audio and television - mainly, actors who perform a southern accent. These performances are notable in that they are often considered the standard for Southern archetypes or stereotypes within and outside of the United States.
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- Jeff Foxworthy from the You Might Be a Redneck If... comedy albums
- Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
- Jessica Tandy as Miss Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy
- Vivien Leigh (film) and Jessica Tandy (play), as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and various other actors in Steel Magnolias
- Reese Witherspoon as Danielle Trant in The Man in the Moon
- Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Smooter in Sweet Home Alabama
- Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit
- Kelly Clarkson as Kelly Taylor in From Justin to Kelly
- Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Johnny Cash and June Carter in the film Walk the Line
- Andy Griffith playing a fictionalized version of himself (Andy Taylor) in the The Andy Griffith Show.
- Larry Hagman as J.R., Patrick Duffy as Bobby, and various other characters from the Texan soap opera Dallas
- Dukes of Hazzard
- Faye Grant as Tattie McKee in State of Grace
- Sandy Cheeks in SpongeBob SquarePants
- Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey Brooks in Zoey 101
- Michael Nesmith ('Mike') as a television-inspired version of himself (A native Texan) on the musical sitcom The Monkees
- Crystal Bernard as Helen Chapel-Hackett on the sitcom Wings. And also as K.C. Cunningham in the 1982-1983 season of the sitcom Happy Days.
- In American Idol, so far all five winners are natives of the American South: Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, and Taylor Hicks. Some finalists are also noted for their Southern personalities: Clay Aiken, Bo Bice, Kellie Pickler, Bucky Covington.
- Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Jason Earles as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana, Robby Stewart, and Jackson Stewart - in Hannah Montana, a family from Tennessee, transplanted to Los Angeles. They portray a fictionalized version of the real-life Cyrus family, loosely based.