Emmanuel Curtil (born February 7, 1971 in Charenton-le-Pont) is a French voice actor.
He is most notable as the most recurring French dubbing voice of Jim Carrey (starting in 1994 with Ace Ventura and The Masknote ), Kyle Chandler, Dean Cain (including Superman in Lois & Clark), Mike Myers, Johnny Knoxville and Sacha Baron Cohen. His most famous animation dubs include adult Simba in The Lion King and Goofy since 2012.
He became an actor in 1980, when his mother signed him up at the Parisian Cours Simon acting school. In 1982, he played Gavroche in a film adaptation of Les Misérables. A few years later, voice actress Barbara Tissier invited him to become a voice actor at the SOFI studio. In the following years, his vocal range became wider.
His sister, Sylvie Jacob, is also a professional voice actress.
Some of his voice roles include:
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Anime
- Galaxy Express 999 as Tetsuro (Teddy)
- Ganbare, Kickers! as Masaru Hongo (Benny Fox) and Hikaru Uesugi (Lenny Newman)
Films - Animation
- Anastasia as Dimitri
- Bambi as Adult Flower (third dub)
- Barbie movies:
- Barbie in the Nutcracker as the Nutcracker
- Barbie as Rapunzel as Prince Stefan
- A Christmas Carol (2009) as Ebenezer Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Past, and the Ghost of Christmas Present
- Cinderella II: Dreams Come True as the baker
- Encanto as Pico (his audio was reused in a few foreign dubs)
- The Emperor's New Groove as Kronk
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs as Buck
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius as Hugh Neutron
- The Lion King as Adult Simba
- Mickey's House of Villains as Mike
- The Rugrats Movie as Rex Pester
- Additional voices in NIMONA (2023)
Films - Live-Action
- Jim Carrey
- Ace Ventura duology as Ace Ventura
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues as Scott Riles
- Bruce Almighty as Bruce Nolan
- The Cable Guy as Chip Douglas
- Dumb and Dumber and Dumb and Dumber To as Lloyd Christmas
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Joel Barish
- Fun with Dick and Jane as Dick Harper
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! as the Grinch
- I Love You Phillip Morris as Steven Jay Russell
- The Incredible Burt Wonderstone as Steve Gray
- Kick-Ass 2 as Sal Bertolinni/Colonel Stars and Stripes
- Liar Liar as Fletcher Reede
- The Majestic as Peter Appleton
- Man on the Moon as Andy Kaufman
- The Mask as Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask
- Me, Myself & Irene as Charlie Baileygates/Hank Evans
- Mr. Popper's Penguins as Mr. Popper
- Once Bitten as Mark Kendall
- A Series of Unfortunate Events as Count Olaf
- Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik
- The Truman Show as Truman Burbank
- Yes-Man as Carl Allen
- Mike Myers
- Amsterdam as Paul Canterbury
- Austin Powers sequels as Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard, and Goldmember
- Bohemian Rhapsody as Ray Foster
- The Cat in the Hat as the Cat in the Hat
- The Love Guru as Guru Maurice Pitka
- View from the Top as John Whitney
- Wayne's World duology as Wayne Campbell
- The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland as Elmo (Kevin Clash)
- American Pie as Tom Myers (Casey Affleck)
- Jackass as Johnny Knoxville
- Scream as "The Voice" (Ghostface)
- Super Mario Bros. (1993) as Luigi (John Leguizamo)
Live-Action TV
- Bear in the Big Blue House as Treelo (Tyler Bunch)
- Desperate Housewives as Tom Scavo (Doug Savant)
- Friends (Seasons 1-8) as Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry)
- Lois & Clark as Clark Kent/Superman (Dean Cain)
- Saved by the Bell as Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar)
Video Games
- Broken Sword as George Stobbart
- World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth as Riftblade Kelain and Frostfencer Seraphi
- Warcraft III: Reforged as the Undead Acolyte
Western Animation
- The Angry Beavers as Daggett
- Donkey Kong Country as Funky Kong
- DuckTales (2017) as Don Karnage and Goofy
- F is for Family as Frank Murphy (as of season 3)
- The Fairly OddParents! as Mr. Turner (as of episode 66)
- Funky Cops as Dick Kowalsky
- God, the Devil and Bob as Bob
- French voice of Goofy as of 2012
- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (as of Season 4)
- Mickey Mouse (2013)
- House of Mouse as Simba, Mike, and half the guests.
- Jellystone! as Top Cat, Mr. Jinks and Shazzan
- M.O.D.O.K. (2021) as M.O.D.O.K.
- Mr. Magoo (2019) as Mr. Magoo
- The Penguins of Madagascar as Maurice and Dr. Blowhole
- The Smurfs (2021) as Grouchy Smurf, Gargamel, and Chef Smurf
- Spirit Rangers as Condor
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Saw Gerrera
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) as Leonardo (replacement voice)
Tropes & Trivia in his works:
- The Other Darrin:
- Replaced Emmanuel Jacomy as Austin Powers and Gérard Loussine as Dr. Evil for The Spy Who Shagged Me and Goldmember.
- Replaced Gérard Rinaldi as the voice of Goofy after Rinaldi passed away in 2012.
- The Other Marty: The French dub of Shrek originally had Curtil as the titular character, having recorded his performance for the entire movie and one of the trailers. However, it was eventually decided to replace him with a Celebrity Voice Actor, resulting in Alain Chabat being cast instead for both this movie and all the sequels.
