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Multiple Mediums
The voice actors listed here are known for all three of Western Animation, Anime and Video Game categories.
- Laura Bailey - you'll either have her play an innocent, teenage girl like Tohru Honda or a sinister and mature villain like Lust.
- Dameon Clarke provided the voice of Cell from Dragon Ball Z in his imperfect, semi-perfect, and perfect forms, much like his Japanese counterpart Norio Wakamoto. Unlike Wakamoto, though, each voice is very different: high-pitched and raspy for Imperfect Cell, deep and guttural for Semi-Perfect Cell, and something inbetween for Perfect Cell.
- Matthew Mercer is typically cast in roles that use a baritone, but in his web series Critical Role, where he serves as a Dungeons & Dragons game master, he employs a wide range of voices for incidental characters.
- When one thinks David Hayter, one thinks of Metal Gear's Solid Snake, one of the most growlly and guttural in video games. One does not think Lupin III from The Castle of Cagliostro, Captain America from Spider-Man: The Animated Series, or Tamahome from Fushigi Yuugi.
- Yuri Lowenthal. You may think he's typecast into the Kid Hero characters like Ben Tennyson (Ben 10: Alien Force), Simon (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann), and Yuri Shibuya (Kyo Kara Maoh!). However, he's quite capable of doing accents. Compare his British accent for Cornelius (Odin Sphere), Advocat (GrimGrimoire Advocat), Future!Luke (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future) and French accent for Pip Bernadotte (Hellsing). It should noted that he's a polyglot in real life, which can easily explain this.
- Steve Blum. Too many examples to list. If you watch anime dubs, it's almost impossible to not hear his voice at least once in your life.
- Some examples: Orochimaru and Zabuza from Naruto, Jamie from Megas XLR, Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop, Yakky Doodle in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Blunk from W.I.T.C.H., Onizuka and Fujiyoshi from Great Teacher Onizuka.
- And then he gave us Leeron from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. This is nothing short of impressive, and he does an almost creepishly good job out of it.
- He also voices Yamaki and, to the surprise of many, Guilmon from Digimon Tamers.
- Sometimes, he does do cartoon voices as well. Just as an example, prior to voicing Leeron, he voiced Smytus from My Life as a Teenage Robot, destroyer of worlds!
- And how could anyone forget Tom from Toonami.
- What's amazing is, many people know him for the Roger Smith / Yamaki (The Big O and Digimon Tamers, respectively) voice (add a little growl and you get Black War Greymon from Digimon Adventure 02) and think it's all he can do. It's... so not.
- The Green Goblin (The Spectacular Spider-Man), anyone?
- He's Wolverine in almost every non-movie version since X-Men Legends.
- And Oghren from Dragon Age, not to mention he also voiced First Enchanter Irving AND Gorim (from the Dwarf Noble Origin). That's three developed/named characters in the same game.
- Maybe Oghren's looking for the Milkman from Psychonauts?
- Grunt in Mass Effect 2.
- Starscream from Transformers: Prime.
- Cyrus, Martellus, Eliphas, the Vindicare Assassin, and at least two of the multiplayer heroes from Dawn of War and its sequel.
- Don't forget Amon from Legend of Korra.
- Before all of these, you've got him doing a decent German accent for The Dig.
- And you can't forget about Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII.
- Ben Diskin is considered to be a Spiritual Successor to Steve Blum. In one game alone, Fire Emblem Fates, he voices three different characters with three distinct voices; a Battle Butler with a British accent, a youthful magician, and a ninja with a voice that could easily be mistaken with Blum's.
- Scott McNeil, who has gone from #1 mutant badass (X-Men: Evolution) to mysteriously wise yet absent father (Fullmetal Alchemist) to a sleazy strip club owner and a devout Muslim fundamentalist (both from Broken Saints) to robotic butt monkey to robot deadpan snarker (Beast Wars) to one half of a quirky duo of minions (ReBoot), to a METAL BAWKSE crazed psychopath (Dawn of War).
- To elaborate on the Beast Wars example, he voiced Dinobot and Rattrap, who feuded constantly throughout the series, so he's arguing with himself for about five minutes in every season one and two episode. He also played the ridiculously noble Silverbolt and the Ensemble Dark Horse Waspinator.
- Every character Kari Wahlgren has done has a completely distinct voice. Seriously, compare Fuu (Samurai Champloo) to Raine (Tales of Symphonia) or Anemone (Eureka Seven). Even the characters that are relatively similar sound completely different, such as her Jeanne (Jeanne d'Arc) and her Ashe (Final Fantasy XII).
- Tabitha St. Germain. She's voiced dozens of different characters across two and a half generations of My Little Pony according to The Other Wiki. And then there's all the anime and Canadian animation roles she's had, check out her demo video
on her website. Shana (Shakugan no Shana)? Roberta (Black Lagoon)? Naomi Misora (Death Note)? Nazz (Ed, Edd n Eddy)? Heloise (Jimmy Two-Shoes)? All her. Also on Martha Speaks, she's everyone from the title character (a talking dog) to an 18-month old baby to an 80-year old lady. If that's not range, I don't know what is!- Case in point for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In Season 2, whenever there was a new female character to voice, it's probably her that did it. Including Luna's return and Derpy Hooves. She also acts as a stand in for Tara Strong (who voices the main character Twilight Sparkle) for the group recordings, a part of her extensive work that by definition is never seen on the show proper.
- In the episode "Baby Cakes", she was Cup Cake and her son, Pound Cake. Could you tell?
- She has also been credited for voicing a gravy boat in "Keep Calm and Flutter On".
- In Rated "A" for Awesome, she voiced every female character that wasn't Thera (Chiara Zanni) or her mom (Kathleen Barr), as well as a few male characters.
- As is the case with most Canadian voice actors, Lee Tockar hardly ever does the same voice twice. He voiced George of the Jungle, Doktor Frogg (League of Super Evil), Genghis (Tex Avery), and Flux (Hulk), among others.
- He also provided the voices for Makuta and Pewku in the first BIONICLE movie, Mask of Light (and provided Makuta's voice again in the second movie, Legends of Metru Nui). To put it in perspective: Makuta was the main antagonist of the franchise for years; Tockar gave him a very deep, menacing and gravelly voice. Pewku is a female crab who doesn't really speak, but her animal noises are much higher-pitched than Makuta's lines (as one might imagine).
- Kelly Sheridan has voiced Action Girl Sango, iconic toy Barbie, and once demonstrated that a Heel–Face Turn could be demonstrated by a shift in vocal tones to the point that some people initially thought that Starlight Glimmer was voiced by different actresses pre and post Heel–Face Turn. She also served as Tomboy Ukyo Kuonji early in her acting career, and one of the two Nanas in the anime Nana.
- Alex Ness was one of the writers for the Skylanders series (more specifically the Toys for Bob games) as well as a voice actor for quite a lot of characters. He can sound wacky as Chompy Mage or Noodles or loud and bombastic like as Lightning Rod or Tae Kwon Crow or having a robotic filter added like for Drobot, Blaster-Tron and Drill-X, and even then, he can give characters who are in the same category distinct voices. Other characters include Double Trouble, Broccoli Guy, Brawlrus, and Chill Bill. However, in an 2021 interview with Ness, he says that he quit at Toys for Bob following the series' hiatus and started working as a boxing coach, meaning he has to yell a lot. This resulted in him losing the ability to recreate some of the voices, like for Tae Kwon Crow.
Celebrities
Celebrities (specifically live action actors) are listed here.
- Mark Hamill. When your two most famous roles are Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) and the frikkin Joker (Batman: The Animated Series), you know you're an all-around versatile actor. Also, check out this clip of him appearing on The Muppet Show; he imitates both Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear near-perfectly. And to think the guy's been typecast as villains in most of his career.
- Robin Williams in his groundbreaking role as the Genie in Aladdin. Anybody got a complete list of all the impersonations and accents he does?
- He pretty much almost never uses this talent in voice acting, but Williams' co-star Gilbert Gottfried had an incredible voice range which he displayed in his standup routines. Some of his impressions included Jerry Seinfeld, Groucho Marx, James Mason and Richard Burton. Shockingly, his famously screechy voice isn't his real voice.
- He pretty much almost never uses this talent in voice acting, but Williams' co-star Gilbert Gottfried had an incredible voice range which he displayed in his standup routines. Some of his impressions included Jerry Seinfeld, Groucho Marx, James Mason and Richard Burton. Shockingly, his famously screechy voice isn't his real voice
- Oddly enough, Ben Affleck, despite his only voice acting role to date being the protagonist in DreamWorks Animation's Joseph: King of Dreams. He has a habit of impersonating one of his co-stars in every movie he does, and some of them say it's freaky how good he is. Just as an example, on the set of The Sum of All Fears, he did his impression of Morgan Freeman for Freeman himself, whose response was, "You ever do that again, I'll kill you."
- Eddie Murphy. See Coming to America and The Nutty Professor for an idea.
- Bryan Cranston is most well known for playing Hal in Malcolm in the Middle and Walter White in Breaking Bad, both of which have him speaking in baritone. Before those two roles, however, he also did voice acting, showing off a very broad range: including the cartoonishly high-pitched voice he used for two monsters-of-the-week in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and changing on the fly to Funny Bruce Lee Noises as Fei Long in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.
- Pedro Pascal sometimes acts with a fake accent, such as when playing the Dashing Hispanic-like Oberyn Martell in Game of Thronesnote or when he adopted a Southern Gentleman persona as Agent Whiskey in Kingsman: The Golden Circlenote . Given that Oberyn marked Pascal's Star-Making Role, many a fan has expressed surprise that the actor doesn't usually speak English with a Spanish accent. The Mandalorian proved that he could also put on a deep, raspy voice.I don't even know what my fucking natural accent is. I spent 20 years in New York, and if I'm back there I start to sound like everyone around me in Brooklyn.
Miscellaneous
People who don't fit into either of the aforementioned categories go here.
- Michael Winslow is a special case, in which he doesn't do only voices, but sound effects as well. His appearances in Police Academy are just a showcase: watch him perform Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love."
- Jim Dale, the reader for the U.S. audiobook editions of the Harry Potter books. He won an award for managing to come up with a few hundred unique character voices for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and a place in Guinness World Book of Records. And to top of it off, Dale's recording for the final Harry Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, would nab him a Grammy win!
- Opera-singer Marni Nixon, who was known among Hollywood insiders for her talent at "ghosting" other actress' voices, often was left uncredited. In particular, she sang for:
- Beyond cartoons, Peter Sellers' initial fame as a radio performer was built on this, whether he was doing celebrity impersonations or character roles. In The Goon Show — where everyone voiced multiple roles, major and minor — he voiced Major Bloodnok, Bluebottle, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne and Henry Crun out of the major characters alone. Sellers could also substitute for absent performers and their characters as needed. When Spike Milligan - who had roughly as many characters as Sellers - was absent, Sellers could do all of them himself. When he was absent, four performers had to be brought in to substitute for all his roles.
- Truth in Television; Michael Bentine, his colleague on The Goon Show, complained that after speaking to Sellers for a while, you would find him speaking to you in your own voice, completely unconsciously, and would only stop if this was pointed out to him.
- On radio, Bob & Ray fit this trope perfectly between them, double-handedly maintaining the illusion of a large supporting 'cast' (male and female) plus endless one-shot guest-stars.
- Check the credits of any UK/Canadian children's series with a female or little boy character; chances are s/he's being voiced by Maria Darling.
- Chester Lauck and Norris Goff voiced almost every single male character in Lum and Abner. The only exceptions in the recurring cast were The Narrator and Dr. Withers.
- Nicholas Briggs has played the voice of many different alien species since the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, inluding various distinct Dalek voices (particularly notable with The Cult of Skaro), the Cybermen, the Judoon, the Nestene Consciousness and Skaldak the Ice Warrior.
- Nick Briggs does the CREEPIEST, most nightmare fuellish Dalek voice ever: Dalek Caan in Stolen Earth/Journeys End.
Caan *insane and giggly*: "I fleeeew into the wilds and fire! I danced and died a THOUSAND TIMES!"- In the intermission of the 2013 Doctor Who Prom on Radio 3, he explained where his different Dalek voices come from. The man can do recognisable impressions of previous Dalek voice artists! (Most obviously his Roy Skelton Dalek, which can shift easily into Zippy from Rainbow if he wants it to.)
- In the Big Finish Doctor Who Destiny of the Doctor audio drama Night of the Whisper, he manages a spot-on Ninth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor and Captain Jack. Not so much Rose, though.
- A rare Live-Action example: Enver Gjokaj from Dollhouse. The show involves people getting new minds implanted into their brains, and with him, Voices Are Mental got taken up a notch. Him implanted with Topher's personality was just hilarious.
- The comedian Adam Hills (of Spicks and Specks) is Australian, and is able to imitate various Australian local accents, as well as American, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, British, posh British, Cockney, Glasgow, Canadian, and many, many more, to the point that if he ever did voice acting, he would easily become this trope.
- Though Adam doesn't quite see it like this - in an anecdote set at the Edinburgh Fringe, he interrupts his own imitation of a Scottish doctor and says "Donkey, what are you doing here?" He then explains, "I have one Scottish accent, and it sounds like Shrek shagging Billy Connolly."
- David Fielding (best known as one of the voices of Zordon (Power Rangers) played 9 characters in the computer game Sanitarium (including the Big Bad and one of the player characters), none of whom sound like each other. He hasn't been in much, but you can't say he lacks range.
- Ronnie Barker and to a lesser extent Ronnie Corbett of The Two Ronnies could pull off a lot of British dialects - just compare "Four Candles" with any of their party sketches, such as "Name Droppers". And just compare Ronnie Barker's character in Open All Hours to his character in Porridge. Its hard to believe they're the same actor.
- In the acknowledgements to the Terry Pratchett nonfiction collection A Slip of the Keyboard, Sir Terry tongue-in-cheek dubs Stephen Briggs "Man of a Thousand Voicesnote ".
- Jim Henson. Also Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Kevin Clash, and, really, most of the Muppet Performers.
- Jerry might have had the biggest voice range of any Muppeteer. Just look at this video (go to 2:00 if you want to skip the introduction). And to really drive the point home, consider the fact that on The Sesame Street Fairy Tale Album, Jerry voices the Count (while telling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears) doing the voices of three other characters, all sounding like different characters while still sounding like the Count.
- Jerry might have had the biggest voice range of any Muppeteer. Just look at this video
- In live theatre, Charlie Ross has performed one-man abridged versions of Star Wars (the original trilogy), The Lord of the Rings and The Dark Knight Trilogy, doing a wide variety of voices all by himself.
- Comedian Maria Bamford is very good at vocal impersonations and uses them extensively in her stand-up. In her YouTube series, she played every character.
- Keith Wickham, besides other programs, voices about half of the cast in the UK dub of Thomas & Friends. From the nasally, high pitched voice of Percy, Skarloey's Welsh baritone, to James' Cockney accent and the Cool Old Guy voice of Edward and the Fat Controller's Yorkshire accent. And a woman.
- Even before Cameron J. Green became a voice actor on Baby Lamb & Friends, he was already a talented impressionist. He uploaded a video pre-transition showcasing his range. In it, he's able to do voices ranging from Bugs Bunny and Big Bird to Mickey Mouse and Miss Piggy. Post-transition, he uploaded a demo reel starring the characters from Sonic the Hedgehog, where he did all of the voices, ranging from gruff characters like Vector, to feminine voices like Rouge, and even Tails.
- Mike Patton, avant-garde/alt metal/pop/opera/noise vocalist is famed for his 6 octave range, which he puts to use in a variety of ways, ranging from extreme guttural shrieks to very soothing melodic croon. Also a voice actor, performing as every single "normal" infected and the Hunter in the Left 4 Dead series, the nightstalkers in I Am Legend, The Darkness, and the anger sphere in Portal.
