Oh my god, it's...! (Voice Acting)

[Smeggs]

I've been playing Peace Walker HD version quite a lot recently, and there was one niggling thing I had up with the game, and that was that I recognised the voice of The Boss, but I had no idea from where.

Then I watched Family Guy and realised that the voice of The Boss (Lori Alan just in case you want to know/don't believe me and want to check) also voices...

(Diane Simmons just in case you were unaware)(She also voices Pearl from Spongebob Squarepants)

And I can't believe I didn't realise it before. So I ask, has this ever happened to anyone else?

You've just toally ruined The Boss for me now.

I'm never going to be able to watch that scene where Snake kills her in Snake Eater without hearing Tom, "Now here's Ollie Williams with the weather."

 

[Andy Shandy]

I've been playing Peace Walker HD version quite a lot recently, and there was one niggling thing I had up with the game, and that was that I recognised the voice of The Boss, but I had no idea from where.

Then I watched Family Guy and realised that the voice of The Boss (Lori Alan just in case you want to know/don't believe me and want to check) also voices...

(Diane Simmons just in case you were unaware)(She also voices Pearl from Spongebob Squarepants)

And I can't believe I didn't realise it before. So I ask, has this ever happened to anyone else?

You've just toally ruined The Boss for me now.

I'm never going to be able to watch that scene where Snake kills her in Snake Eater without hearing Tom, "Now here's Ollie Williams with the weather."

Let me ruin it for you even more The voice of Ollie Williams (Phil La Marr) also voices Vamp in MGS2 and MGS4 - although admittedly the voices are rather different. But it did lead somebody to make this video.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Terrence Stamp in Halo 3. Fucking epic as Truth.

Also, Steve Downes in Season 2 of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

 

[Eddie the head]

Let me ruin it for you even more The voice of Ollie Williams (Phil La Marr) also voices Vamp in MGS2 and MGS4 - although admittedly the voices are rather different. But it did lead somebody to make this video.

Oh yeah, he also dose Hermes Conrad from Futurama.

 

[BoogieManFL]

Things like that happen a lot to me, especially different games made by the same developer. You can hear the same person doing their voice a little different and such. It's interesting and I every time I get that feeling when a voice is familiar to go look into it, usually it's right.

I'm pretty sure (forgot to check the name of the show) that a nature show I saw on the Discovery Channel was voiced by one of the voice actors from Oblivion, the guy that did some of the Elf voices.

I also recognized Vette's voice from Star Wars the Old Republic from somewhere only to discover she did Mission Vao's voice in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and a bunch of other star wars stuff.

Also from SWTOR, I'm pretty sure the guy who does Andronikis' voice is the same guy who did Oghren from Dragon Age.

Just a few of the recent ones that I've noticed. It's always good to recognize voice actors that you like. I always notice Kevin Michael Richardson, my favorite voice actor. He was badass as Sarevok from Baldur's Gate.

 

[Fuhrlock]

Also from SWTOR, I'm pretty sure the guy who does Andronikis' voice is the same guy who did Oghren from Dragon Age.

Steve Blum is in just about everything, and once you start noticing him you will never stop. Just off the top of my head from recent games I've played/seen Grunt and that traitor guy wilson in mass effect 2, one of the Haggars in rage, Sinamoi in Dead Isle amongst others. Considering the amount of anime voice acting he gets, I feel bad for aspiring voice actors knowing at some point you're probably going to lose a job to this guy lol.

I notice quite alot of voice actors these days between games, I blame bioware games because they love re-using voice actors. Just off the top of my head Simon Templeman plays Loghain, Han'gerrel and grand moth Kilran (seems he's got a thing for powermad leaders), Jennifer Hale is fem-shep and the female trooper, Claudia Black as Morrigan and Darro'Xen and many others I recognise but don't want to do them disservice by not remembering the VA full name.

 

[soren7550]

The only instance I can think of right now when I was watching Avatar (Airbender, not Cameron) with the boyfriend, and as one of the characters is talking, I say to him "She sound really familiar." He doesn't recognize her and after hearing her say a few more lines, I say to him "I think it might be Jennifer Hale." After hearing another line from her, I yell "It is Hale!"
Boyfriend doesn't think it is, so I pull up the Avatar wiki and whadya know, it is her (I know she does a lot of voice work, but still).

 

[Diablo2000]

Jill Valentine in Resident Evil 5 is voiced by that chick that was the pink ranger in "Power Ranger in Space". (That by checking wikipedia I discover her name to be Patricia Ja Lee)

That fucking thing blew my mind, now I can't see Jill without a ridicously pink rubber suit... Also Capcom didn't help my case by transforming her into a fucking Tekken character.

 

[Clinky]

Let me ruin it for you even more The voice of Ollie Williams (Phil La Marr) also voices Vamp in MGS2 and MGS4 - although admittedly the voices are rather different. But it did lead somebody to make this video.

Oh yeah, he also dose Hermes Conrad from Futurama.

And the eponymous character from 'Samurai Jack'. And Osmosis Jones in the spin-off TV series. And Jamie-O from Hey Arnold. And Jazz from Transformers Animated. And Bolbi Stragnofsky from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. And Hector Con Carne and Dracula in the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

... What? I like his voice acting.

 

[DustyDrB]

There are two video game characters' voices in this video (both from the same game series), though you may only be able to tell one because the other is singing backup. Guess who?

Spoiler

It's FemShep and Ashley Williams:

And I totally stumbled on that video by accident. I still like Scooby Doo, but only the old stuff.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

Also from SWTOR, I'm pretty sure the guy who does Andronikis' voice is the same guy who did Oghren from Dragon Age.

Steve Blum is in just about everything, and once you start noticing him you will never stop. Just off the top of my head from recent games I've played/seen Grunt and that traitor guy wilson in mass effect 2, one of the Haggars in rage, Sinamoi in Dead Isle amongst others. Considering the amount of anime voice acting he gets, I feel bad for aspiring voice actors knowing at some point you're probably going to lose a job to this guy lol.

I notice quite alot of voice actors these days between games, I blame bioware games because they love re-using voice actors. Just off the top of my head Simon Templeman plays Loghain, Han'gerrel and grand moth Kilran (seems he's got a thing for powermad leaders), Jennifer Hale is fem-shep and the female trooper, Claudia Black as Morrigan and Darro'Xen and many others I recognise but don't want to do them disservice by not remembering the VA full name.

Its not just Bioware. Voice Acting is a pretty small group of actors so they tend to get around. You get rare exception of famous live actors doing something but that is rare andd is usually there as a selling point. Some of them really get around. Steve Blum, Yuri Lowenthal and Jonny Young-Bash are three big names. It does really suck for people who try to get into this stuff and get beat out by people who have been there a really long time. Though it does make sense. Experience wins every time in these sort of situations and I don't know how well a lot of them get paid. I doubt its a extremely large sum. I'm sure its decent money though.

My favorite though has to be Anderson narrating a recent episode of Community. That was golden.


Yeah. He nailed it.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I am very rarely surprised by connections like this because I follow voice actors more than I follow actual actors.

 

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Lee Sin from League of Legends is voiced by David Wenham. IKR?

 

[NeutralDrow]

I almost did a spit take when I was playing Family Project and suddenly realized that crazy old guy Hiroshi is voiced by Norio Wakamoto.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I had to look up the Halo actors when I suspected Lord Hood was played by the same guy who voiced Slade in Teen Titans.

I discovered Ron Perlman that day.

 

[saluraropicrusa]

Ahh yeah. These three being voiced by the same guy . . .

i had a "wow this is weird" moment in my humanities class this semester when we watched a video about Islam narrated by Keith David. he does have a very cool voice though.

just now i've been watching TotalBiscuit's WTF of Final Fantasy 13-2, and realized Lightning is voiced by the same woman who voiced Liara in Mass Effect. that was weird.

realizing Tim Curry played the cat king in The Cat Returns was pretty funny.

i have moments like this all the time--even with live action things because sometimes i'll be like "I KNOW THAT ACTOR" but not be able to remember where i've seen him/her before.

 

[Bat Vader]

I recognize Steven Blum whenever he voices a character. I must admit I was really surprised when I found out that Mark Hamill voiced The Joker in Batman: The Animated series and the Arkham games.

I think the actor that voiced Solid Snake and Naked Snake also voices the Jedi Knight in The Old Republic. He also wrote the screenplay for Watchmen.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

I almost crapped myself when I found out the guy who did Axel's voice from the english dubs of Kingdom Hearts also does the voice of Reno from the english dubs of Final Fantasy 7.

When ever I watch FF7: Advent Children all I think about is Axel being Reno.


I also read about it and the KH devs said they did it intentionally.

 

[Deadyawn]

Ahh yeah. These three being voiced by the same guy . . .

Dammit, you ninja'd Keith David.
Although I was actually going to include Decker from fallout.

Also Steven Blum. He is in EVERYTHING. I'm not joking, seriously.
He's in: Batman arkham asylum (killer croc), bulletstorm (Grayson), call of duty, command and conquer, Company of heros (intel and base commander), dead island, dead rising, destroy all humans, doom 3, dragon age origins (ohgren), fallout new vegas, god of war, guild wars, halo 3 (brutes), halo reach, lego batman (as almost all the villains), mafia 2, mass effect 2 (grunt, wilson, shadow broker), metro 2033, mortal kombat, neverwinter nights, protoype, psychonauts, quake 4, rage, saints row 3 (as the frickin ZOMBIE), a shitload of star wars games and a whole lot more. It's insane.
Oh and those were just games. He does voices for a bunch of other things too.

 

[hazabaza1]

I also have a sneaking suspicion a few of the Assari from ME3 are "the boss" from saints row 3

Female voice 1? Yeah, that's Laura Bailey. Coincidentally, any game with Laura Bailey in it instantly has a redeeming factor even if it is awful simply because of Laura Bailey.

Also, Shinobu from No More Heroes series? Yeah, that's Ashley.

I also really fuckin' love Liam O'Brien. That man can do angry, growly, suave, posh, whatever. I would go so gay for his voice.