Help!!! Good Actors from the South?

I am currently working on a project for a class in which I have to "pitch" a new musical. Included as part of the assignment is a requirement to cast the musical. The musical I plan on doing takes place in a small town in Alabama. I cannot stand watching New York/LA actors playing Southerners, so would like my proposed cast to primarily consist of actors from the South. The characters are all WASPs living in 1960's-1970's Alabama in a small town. Any help?

Kyra Sedgewick?

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I don't believe places like Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska qualify as "the South."

Will Blum

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Fred Weller is from New Orleans and I believe Ben Walker is from Georgia.


Also how could I forget, Kyle Dean Massey. Don't know where he's from but he has an accent.

Updated On: 7/23/14 at 03:48 PM

Out of curiosity, Wilmington, whom did I list from Nebraska (which indeed I would not consider the South)?

I am a southerner, born and raised in Atlanta Georgia. I don't think you should under estimate the work of a great actor. I'm sure there are some guys from other places that can do convincing southern accents. I am constantly amazed at British actors and actresses who can play American characters without any detection of their British Accents. And though Vivian Leigh's southern accent was not great, I thought for many years that she was an American Actress. I was surprised to find out that she was British.

Stark Sands and Jeremy Jordan!

Aren't the Fosters from North Carolina? Or Georgia? But Hunter is mid-forties.

Thanks everyone for your help...will be asking about casting the other tracks in a different thread.

Neon - Great suggestions! Didn't even think of them. Don't you think Ben Walker should play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho?

Gaveston - What show were you trying to cast?

Jiff - Notice how I didn't say I was tired of London actors playing Southerners. The Brits have a better grasp on the language because RP is closer to "Southern" than standard American.

Dtz - Of course, Jim Newman...I know him as we went to the same college in Birmingham, AL. Face palm.

Promises - Hunter was in a show similar to my concept, playing a gentleman from my hometown...poorly. So, no.

Norbert was the first to come to mind, given the fact he went to grad school at UA/ASF.

I guess "white WASPy males" mean sassy black women in certain circles.

Kyle Dean Massey