42 Favourite Voice Actors and Actresses
by Random_as_Pie | created - 07 Jun 2014 | updated - 07 Jun 2014 | PublicBecause I like the Number 42, that's why. I also have loved cartoons as far back as I can remember and will love them until the day I die. These are in the order that I think of them. Some of them are part of my childhood, some are ones I admire now, and some fall into both categories.
1. H. Jon Benjamin
Actor | Archer
Harry Jon Benjamin is an American actor, voice actor and comedian from Worcester, Massachusetts who is known for playing Bob Belcher from Bob's Burgers, Sterling Archer from Archer, the Mothmonsterman from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a trainer from Not Another Teen Movie, a Can of Vegetables from Wet ...
2. Tara Strong
Actress | Batman: The Killing Joke
Tara Strong began her acting career at the age of 13 in Toronto, Canada. She landed several TV, film, and musical theater roles as well as her first lead in an animated series as the title role of "Hello Kitty." After a short run at Toronto's Second City theater company, she moved to Los Angeles ...
3. Fred Tatasciore
Actor | Team America: World Police
Fred Tatasciore is a voice actor/animator known for his work in film, television and games. He can be heard regularly on Fox's "Family Guy," "American Dad," and "The Cleveland Show." He plays Aaarggggh! and many characters on the new show, "Trollhunters" (for Netflix by Guillermo Del Torro), For ...
4. Megumi Hayashibara
Actress | Paprika
Megumi Hayashibara was born on March 30, 1967 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Paprika (2006), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) and Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998). She has been married to Amiya Masaharu since April 30, 1998. They have ...
5. Tiffany Grant
Actress | Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni
Tiffany Grant was born on October 11, 1968 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) and Azumanga Daioh: The Animation (2002). She was previously married to Matt Greenfield.
6. Steve Blum
Actor | Star Wars Rebels
With hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Veteran Voice Monkey Steve Blum is best known as the voice of "Spike Spiegel" from Cowboy Bebop, "Wolverine" from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, X-Men Anime and more),...
7. Tabitha St. Germain
Actress | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Tabitha St. Germain (also known by the alias of Paulina Gillis) is a Canadian actress. She has made the transition from stage work to voice work, and has since become one of the core voice actresses working in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As Paulina Gillis, she won a Dora Award in 1995 for ...
8. Jim Cummings
Actor | Winnie the Pooh
Born James Jonah Cummings on November 3, 1952, he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio.
Sooner or later, he moved to New Orleans. There, he designed Mardi Gras floats, was a singer, door-to-door salesman, and a Louisiana riverboat deckhand.
Then Cummings moved to Anaheim, California, where he started his ...
9. Frank Welker
Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Frank Welker was born in Colorado. He followed his dream to California, and started a voice acting career which has spanned over five decades and hundreds of credits. Frank has worked with fellow voice actors Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, Don Messick, Heather North, and Stefanianna Christopherson on ...
10. Maurice LaMarche
Actor | Futurama
Maurice LaMarche is a Canadian-American comedian and voice actor from Toronto. He is most well-known for voicing Brain from Pinky and the Brain, Lrrr, Morbo and Calculon from Futurama, Estroy from Evil Con Carne, Mr. Big from Zootopia, King Agnarr from Frozen, Mr. Freeze from Batman: Arkham City, ...
11. Ashleigh Ball
Actress | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Ashleigh Ball is a Canadian voice actress and musician from Vancouver. As a musician, she is primarily known as a singer and flutist for the alternative rock band "Hey Ocean!" (2004-). As a voice actress she is primarily known for voicing two of the main characters of the long-running fantasy ...
12. Andrea Libman
Actress | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Andrea Libman is a Canadian actress from Toronto. She has often worked as a voice actress in animated works. Her best known roles were the regular characters Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie in the long-running fantasy series "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" (2010-2019) and most of its spin-offs.
Her ...
13. John DiMaggio
Actor | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
John DiMaggio is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and producer from Plainfield, New Jersey. He is best known for voicing Bender on Futurama, Jake the Dog on Adventure Time, King Zøg on Disenchantment, The Joker from Batman: Under the Red Hood and Jerry Jumbeaux Jr from Zootopia. He can ...
14. Tom Kenny
Actor | SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom Kenny grew up in East Syracuse, New York. When Tom was young he was into comic books, drawing funny pictures and collecting records. Tom turned to stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. This led to appearances on every cable show spawned by the stand-up epidemic of the '80s and '90s as ...
15. Tom Kane
Actor | Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Tom started doing voiceover work professionally at the age of 15, in his hometown of Kansas City. By the time he got out of college he had done several hundred commercials, then he moved to Hollywood and started landing Movie Trailers, Network Promos, Games, Feature Films and Cartoons.
First came ...
16. Peter Cullen
Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Peter Cullen is a Canadian-American voice actor who is widely known for voicing Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise as well as the Michael Bay film series. He is also known for providing the vocal effects of the Predator from the 1987 film of the same name, Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh, ...
17. Aya Hirano
Actress | Death Note: Desu nôto
Aya Hirano was born on October 8, 1987 in Nagoya, Japan. She is an actress and composer, known for Death Note (2006), Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006). She has been married to Masashi Taniguchi since January 3, 2024.
18. Nicole Oliver
Actress | Wonder
Nicole Lyn Oliver was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from York University, a Masters Degree in Communication from Royal Roads University, and additional training from the British American Drama Academy in Oxford and London. She was a prominent member of the Union of...
19. Claire Margaret Corlett
Actress | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Claire Margaret Corlett (also: Claire Brown) is a Canadian-born actress from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is primarily known for voice roles in animation: her first demo was recorded in 2004. She was only 5-years-old at the time. Corlett's first notable role in animation was voicing Sally Brown...
20. Michelle Creber
Actress | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Michelle Creber is an award-winning Canadian actor, voice-actor and singer-songwriter based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Driven and deeply passionate about the performing arts from a young age, Michelle first appeared on stage singing at four years old, booked her first major voiceover gig (Lucy...
21. Harry Shearer
Actor | The Simpsons
Harry Shearer was born in 1943 in Los Angeles, California. His film debut was with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953), followed by The Robe (1953). Probably best known for his Saturday Night Live (1975) gigs, his NPR satire program "Le Show" and The Simpsons (1989)...
22. Hank Azaria
Actor | The Simpsons
Hank Azaria is an American comedian and actor from Queens, New York. He is known for voicing several characters in The Simpsons including Apu, Chief Wiggum, Moe, Bumblebee Man, Lou and Superintendent Chalmers. The latter became well-known due to the "Steamed Hams" scene. He also acted in Godzilla, ...
23. Kristen Schaal
Actress | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Kristen Schaal is an American actress, voice artist, writer, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Mel on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, Louise Belcher on FOX animated comedy Bob's Burgers, and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls. Other notable roles include her appearances as a ...
24. Eugene Mirman
Actor | The Bob's Burgers Movie
Eugene Mirman was born on July 24, 1974 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and writer, known for The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022), Delocated (2009) and Eugene! (2012). He was previously married to Katie Tharp.
25. Dan Mintz
Actor | The Bob's Burgers Movie
Daniel Alexander Mintz is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his role as Bob's oldest daughter Tina Belcher on the animated show Bob's Burgers. As a comedian, he is known for his extremely deadpan delivery, keeping his eyes fixed straight ahead and never looking toward the ...
26. Beau Billingslea
Actor | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Beau Billingslea was born on December 18, 1944 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He is an actor, known for Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), The Blob (1988) and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001). He is married to Cecelia Marie Thompson. They have two children.
27. Jessica Calvello
Actress | Shingeki no Kyojin
Jessica Calvello was born on August 8, 1973 in Webster, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Attack on Titan (2013), Weird Anime Excel Saga (1999) and Go Nagai's New Cutey Honey (1994).
28. Kôichi Yamadera
Actor | Innocence
Koichi Yamadera was born on June 17, 1961 in Shiogama, Japan. He's a graduate of Tohoku Gakuin University & is affiliated w/ Across Entertainment. He's a prolific voice actor that specializes in video games, & TV animation.
His voice-acting debut was in the OVA Megazone 23 as the motorcycle-riding ...
29. Mel Blanc
Actor | Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Mel Blanc, known as "The Man of Thousand Voices" is regarded as the most prolific actor to ever work in Hollywood with over a thousand screen credits. He developed and performed nearly 400 distinct character voices with precision and a uniquely expressive vocal range. The legendary specialist from ...
30. Romi Park
Actress | Hagane no renkinjutsushi
Ms. Park is among the newer voice actors in the anime industry. She is of Korean descent and was born in Edogawa, Tokyo in 1972. Among her works is for the TV series Digimon Adventure 02 (2000), in which she is the voice of Ken Ichijouji/Digimon Kaizer, and Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Fullmetal ...
31. Daisuke Ono
Actor | Shingeki no Kyojin
Daisuke Ono was born on May 4, 1978 in Sakawa, Japan. He is an actor and composer, known for Attack on Titan (2013), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012) and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven (2015).
32. Mark Hamill
Actor | Star Wars
Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - a role he reprised in Star Wars: Episode VII - ...
33. Rob Paulsen
Actor | Animaniacs
Robert Paulsen is an American voice actor and singer from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for voicing Raphael in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Yakko Warner in Animaniacs, Pinky in Pinky and the Brain, Carl Wheezer in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Hadji in Jonny Quest, Donatello in the ...
34. Billy West
Actor | Futurama
William Richard Werstine is an American actor and radio personality with autism and ADHD. He grew up in both New Jersey and Boston. He became a regular cast member of the Howard Stern show. He became known for The Ren & Stimpy Show, Futurama, Doug, Space Jam and several commercials featuring the ...
35. Don Messick
Actor | The Last Unicorn
Don Messick is a legendary voice actor who spent his entire adult-hood in entertainment. He started out wanting to be a ventriloquist. Thankfully for cartoon lovers that career didn't pan out. How do you think his potential career would've stacked up against Edgar Bergen and later, Paul Winchell? ...
36. Unshô Ishizuka
Actor | Wolf's Rain
Unshô Ishizuka was born on May 16, 1951 in Katsuyama, Japan. He was an actor, known for Wolf's Rain (2003), Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) and Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998). He died on August 13, 2018.
37. Jennifer Hale
Actress | Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Jennifer Hale is a Canadian-American voice actress and singer who voiced Commander Shepard from Mass Effect, Samus Aran from Metroid Prime, Killer Frost from Injustice: Gods Among Us, Gladys from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Trinity from The Matrix: Path of Neo, Princess Morbucks, Sedusa ...
38. Michael Bell
Actor | The Transformers: The Movie
Michael Bell is an American voice actor who is known for voicing Gleeman Vox from Ratchet: Deadlocked, Raziel from The Legacy of Kain video game series, Chas Finster and Dru Pickles from Rugrats and several Smurfs from The Smurfs cartoon. He also voiced in The Transformers: The Movie, Challenge of ...
39. Cathy Weseluck
Actress | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Cathy Weseluck is a Canadian actress and comedian of Russian descent. She has worked frequently as a voice actress for Ocean Productions, a Canadian media production and voice acting company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Weseluck has provided voice acting for both original animated series ...
40. Wally Wingert
Actor | Fainaru fantajî sebun adobento chirudoren
Wally Wingert is an American voice actor, collector and comedic actor from South Dakota. He is most well-known for voicing the Riddler in several Batman video games and cartoons, dozens of characters in Family Guy, Ant-Man from Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Almighty Tallest Red and Mortos der...
41. Kath Soucie
Actress | Rugrats
Katherine Elaine Soucie is an American voice actress, born in New York City, New York, USA. One of the most well known voice-over actors working today, Kath Soucie began her career in New York as a theatrical actress. While Kath has been the voice of many campaigns and award-winning commercials, it...
42. John Roberts
Actor | The Bob's Burgers Movie
Emmy nominated John Roberts provides the voice of Linda on the Emmy winning FOX animated prime time comedy Bob's Burgers. He has appeared several times on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Watch What Happens Live, IFC's Comedy Bang! Bang!, Archer and The Awesome's. He's currently touring ...
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