Which raises another question. Are there examples of a “star” (as opposed to a professional voice actor) doing a voice role and changing their voice from their regular speaking voice? The only one I can think of offhand is George Clooney doing the “voice” of Sparky on South Park.
What do we do with actors whose regular speaking voice was supplanted by a character’s voice (e.g.: Gilbert Gottfried)?
Seth McFarlane is a picture of this since Brian is pretty much his regular voice.
Really? Cause I remember seeing her in “Twilight Zone- The Movie” before I knew she did the voice and recall thinking “She sounds just like Bart Simpson!”
It’s just perfect for the characters he does. It’s got that ultra-ultra-dense-testosterone-y quality.
Brock Sampson from The Venture Brothers is the best representation of this.
You can hear Bart in Nancy Cartwright’s voice, but she’s putting a pretty hefty amount of change into it to become Bart; it’s not at all the same voice. Yeardley Smith (and Julie Kavner) are the same; you can hear a strong similarity but they are NOT using their normal voice. Smith is the closest, doing little more than just making her voice higher.
By contrast, Seth MacFarlane does not change his voice at all to play Brian Griffin. That’s his speaking voice.
I saw Dan Castellaneta on Married…with CHildren and somehow I knew he was the voice of Homer Simpson. It’s not the voice that’s the same, but the inclination.
He played a guy whose husband was dating Peg. Very good too.
Mila Kunis always sounds like Mila Kunis. And I don’t think I’ve ever heard H. Jon Benjamin credited with voicing a role that didn’t sound like Coach McGuirk/The Master of All That Is Arcane/The Devil, Father of Lucy.
Regina King. It was really weird to hear Huey Freeman selling “Always” pads and tampons. I watched the ER series finale last night and I found it hard to take Ernest Borgnine seriously. I kept hearing Mermaidman saying, “EEEEEEEVIL!” in the background.
Sarah Vowell, who voiced Violet Parr in The Incredibles, didn’t seem to change much at all from her ‘on air’ voice for NPR.
Frankly, no adult female should have a voice like that. None.
Seth Rogen was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight, & said he gets voice acting jobs, but tells them they’d better want a voice that sounds exactly like he speaks, because he doesn’t do voices.
Mr and Mrs Incrediblewith Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible and Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl were very close to their normal speaking voices.
Jennifer Tilly put something extra into her voice for Monsters, Inc., but I’m not sure exactly what to call it. To quote Roger Ebert:
It’s a great review.
Does Adam West sound like Adam West?
True. Although ironically, Brock is probably the least stupid character he’s ever played. Compared to The Tick, Joe, or Barkin, he’s a genius.
Didn’t John Leguizamo use a different voice for the sloth in Ice Age?
All this talk of Family Guy got me to looking up clips on Youtube and almost forgetting to include Patrick Stewart in The Simpsons (as the Number One of the Stonecutters) and American Dad’s CIA chief.
If you bring Patrick Stewart into your recording studio, you want The Patrick Stewart Voice. Although it would be pretty hilarious to advertise that Patrick Stewart is guest-starring on your animated show and then have him voice a shrill little geek.
All of Phil Hartman’s Simpsons characters were sort of an ‘on’ version of his real voice. Same pretty much goes for Jon Lovitz. When Stephen Colbert does voiceover, it sounds like him doing a slightly higher pitched voice. I’m not sure why that is.
Katey Sagal as Leela on Futurama sounds a lot like her character on Married with Children, but I’m not sure that that is her real voice.