Its not that hard to achieve a black belt in that system. From experience, I know this.

But at the same time, achieving a black belt means he won't need as much tuition to make the stances work. Ok, the art itself is different, but he will have some basics, and the right body shape. His audition tape was doing a kata (I think, and maybe even bunkai) in his gi. The reason he got the part was due to his skill, nothing to do with his ethnicity. Although, he has only been training for three years, which isn't really that much. I mean, in shotokan karate (WAYYYYY different I know), it takes at least five years of training to become a somewhat good black belt. With a good instructor. When you attend at least thrice a week. Without fail.

But to come back to topic:
I feel actors need not be the same ethnicity as the character. Yes, it is wrong to put a caucasian into the role just because of his skin tone in the same way as it would be for a job in marketing. But if the caucasian actor is better than the applicants of the actual race, then i don't find it an issue.

Who here has seen Die Hard? Can you think of any way IRL that Bruce Willis would have been able to take out Rickman and his crew? This is suspension of disbelief, and is why films and tv and theatre are awesome. Really, does it matter about the ethnicity of the actor if their acting is good enough to make you enjoy the film?

And to avoid trouble, none of this is to be taken personally, I am not trying to snipe at anyone, any race, any religion or anything. So if i offend, I apologise in advance. Race is a touchy subject

I reckon colin farrell could pull off marcone. He's five ten, so i dunno about pulling off any size (i can't remember if we have a quote on marcone's size), but he is fantastic as an actor, and really does make you believe.

Lee-Ann Liebenberg as Lash. She's the tattoo faced woman in Doomsday, and she exuded danger and loving it.

Can you imagine though.. waiting 5000+ years for Harry Dresden. I mean, that's some serious hang ups.

That explains , cuz it was "FINALLY! what took you so long dresden?"
Although that works equally well for molly being titania, as mab now claims harry.

My own little addition - Molly is mentioned as having a nice pair of breasts. Makes more sense to be mab's opposite then.
I'm sorry, but somebody had to

Somebody should set up one of those elimination brackets for this purpose.

I concur, but know nothing useful to help achieve it.

As for your choice - the men nail it, i think you got the majority of them perfect. Harry, nic, ferrovax, billy and rashi - maybe, but the rest hit it.
The females - some are exact, but i just get the feeling that there is way too many good looking women around harry with that cast. I mean, i'd always imagined some a bit more realistically good looking, rather than movie star perfect, but the attitudes from what i know match the characters.

I had wondered about Tony Robinson for Bob's voice. HE can have the right combo of intelligent and annoying, but thats just my two cents, helluva lot of work gone in to your choices.