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49 Surprising Celebrity Voices Hiding in Famous Cartoons

October 27, 2023

Cartoons often require voices — and not just any specialist voiceover performers, but celebrities! As many celebrities as possible! Even if they’re sort of just hidden in the role! Here are some of the craziest hidden celebrities in animated works…

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David Arquette

David Arquette is Skully. JAKE NEVER LAND PIRATES As arguably the most annoying member of a renowned family of thespians, David Arquette has put his talents to perfect use as a screechy parrot named Skully in the Peter Pan spinoff for toddlers called Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Bonus: Teri Hatcher was on the show as a gargantuanly-schnozzed lady pirate named Beatrice LeBeak, and Sharon Osborne voiced Captain Hook's Mommy. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Roseanne Barr is Kraang Prime nickelodeon. TEENAGE! MUTRAT NINE TURTLES Of all the big stars who showed up to voice characters in the most recent reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Kelly Hu, Cassandra Elvira Peterson, Sean Astin, and Corey Feldman), none were bigger (and more inexplicable) than Roseanne Barr. She played Kraang Prime, a villain that's basically a bulbous pink squid stuffed into a robot suit. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Wayne Brady is Clover Disney Sofia the First Wayne Brady, the improvisationally. gifted yet oft-maligned star of Whose Line is it Anyway? has been keeping himself busy playing Aaron Burr in the Chicago production of Hamilton. But not before he tried to toughen up his image a bit by playing a cute little Bunny named Clover on Disney's Sofia the First. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Ben 10

Michael Dorn is Dr. Vicktor. BEN 10 After playing Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation for years, Michael Dorn got a gig playing the nefarious Dr. Vicktor in Ben 10 (which must have been a relief from sitting in a makeup chair to look like a diseased prune every day). He's also lent his Voice to everything from Marvel and DC villains to Daffy Duck antagonists. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Jon Heder is Oskar Greason STAR Disney vs The FORCES of Evil Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder may be under the radar right now, but he's keeping things offbeat on Disney's star VS. The Forces of Evil. He provides the Voice of keytar-loving high school dropout Oskar Greason and is otherwise just so goldarn quirky. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Christian Slater is Ushari. Disney THE LION GUARD The finest Jack Nicholson impersonator of the 1980s plays a bad-tempered cobra named Ushari in a Lion king spinoff called The Lion Guard. Just as in the film Very Bad Things, Slater's character is a bloodthirsty villain, but thus far the snake has not murdered any prostitutes. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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DID You know THAT ZAZUFROM THE LION KING IS VOICED BY... NONE OTHER THAN THE COMEDIC GENIUS, ROWAN ATKINSON, KNOWN FOR MR. BEAN?! CRACKED — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Trolls

It's hard to tell through the autotune, but the naked, glitter-farting Guy Diamond in Trolls is played by The Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar. GRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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A show about merpeople that focuses on social development for preschoolers might be the last place you'd expect to hear rocker Ozzy Osbourne's voice. Yet... The metal madman appeared on Bubble Guppies as villain Sid Fishy, in an episode about ocean pollution. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Audrey in The Lorax was played by none other than Taylor Swift. In a film with musical numbers by Ed Helms, Betty White, Rob Riggle, and more, how many songs did Tay Tay perform? Exactly none. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Alyssa Milano

ALYSSA MILANO IS THE VOICE OF POISON IVY... in the series Young Justice. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Susan Sarandon voiced Dr. Wong in the classic Rick MORTH AND episode Pickle Rick. CRACKED — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Scarlett Johansson voiced Princess Mindy, the daughter of King Neptune, in The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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The Rugrats Movie

Reptar from The Rugrats Movie was actually voiced by... .Busta Rhymes. CRACKED.com COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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CRACKED.c Don Cheadle voiced Donald Duck in the season one finale of DuckTales when Donald swallowed a voice modulator that made him able to speak with a normal voice. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Both the old and adult version of Finn on Adventure Time was voiced by none other than... Jonathan Frakes aka William T. Riker of the Star Trek franchise. GRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Jaleel White

Jaleel White is best known for his role as Steve Urkel. He is also the voice of Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog (1993-1994) CRACKED.COM COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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POOP in THE EMOST MOVIE WAS VOICED BY SIR PATRICK STeWART. When asked about the role, Stewart quipped: It's been a lifelong preparation. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline is the voice of Mr. Fischoeder in Bob's Burgers. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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We all know Zach Braff as the adorkable doctor in Scrubs. He also played the Marshall adorable titular character in chicken Little. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Rugrats

Spike, the Pickles' family dog in Rugrats, is voiced by Bruce Willis in Rugrats Go Wild. NICKELODEON RugRatS CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Howie Mandel

The voice behind our favorite gremlin Gizmo is comedian Howie Mandel. GREMLINS GRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Mulan's commanding officer, Li Shang, is voiced by B.D. Wong..d but his performance of I'll Make A Man Out of You is by former teen hearthrob and CRACKED.COM Dancing With The Stars champion Donny Osmond. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Sean Penn

The non-talking, big. red bird Terence from The Angry Birds Movie who only moans and grunts was voiced by Sean Penn. CRACKED.com COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Kathy Bates

KING OF HILL THE One of the most memorable one-time characters was the flirty policewoman who CRAME put the moves on Hank. She was voiced by Kathy Bates. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Frozen's Grand Pabbie the Troll King is voiced by Ciaran Hinds Game - of Thrones' King Beyond the Wall, Mance Rayder. Hinds says parents sometimes introduce him to their kids with, This is Pabbie, and the kids look at him and go No it's not. CRACKED.co — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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LeVar Burton, AKA Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, voiced Captain Planet's Kwame. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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90's tv series Twin Peaks was a major influence on the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls, which is why creator Alex Hirsch contacted Agent Cooper himself, Kyle MacLachlan, to play the Bus Driver in the series finale The role was only 3 lines long CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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You probably know by now that Nicolas Cage voiced Peter Parker/Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider- Verse. But did you know that the blond- haired version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the beginning of the movie is Chris Pine? CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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David Letterman

Beavis and Butt-head wander into the desert and run BEAVIS into otwo-suspiciously BUTTHEAD DO familiar men! AMERICA Butt-head's biological father was played by David this famous dill hole... Letterman CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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SHIRCK BOISON Doris the ugly stepsister in the Shrek series is played by Larry King. He found voicing a woman to be kind of weird. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Sigourney Weaver

FUN WIN letter UF WALL.E The spaceship's computer in WALL-E was voiced by Sigourney Weaver. Maybe it was to keep aliens away. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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HAYDEN PANETTIERE KAIRI IN KINGDOM HEARTS PRINCESS DOT IN A BUGS LIFE FAIRY PRINCESS WILLOW IN SCOOBY-DOO AND THE GOBLIN KING The Nashville star has lent her voice to a few animated productions and games since an early age. It seems she likes playing the role of a princess! GRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Stephen Colbert

Rick Mary CRACKED COM AND Zeep, the genius scientist of the microverse that powers Rick's car, is voiced by Stephen Colbert. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Grand Theft Auto V

If you turn on the radio in GTAV, there's a good chance you'll hear some voices that sound familiar. Kenny Loggins hosts J. B. Smoove hosts Los Santos Rock Radio. Chakra Attack. Cara Delevingne hosts Danny McBride hosts CRACKED.COM Non-Stop-Pop FM. Beyond Insemination. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Two Hollywood legends played emperors in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Sean Bean as Patrick Stewart as Martin Septim. Uriel Septim VII. CRACKED — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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TEEN FTANS GO! Darkseid, one of DC's most powerful villain, is voiced by Weird Al Yankovic in Teen Titans Go! CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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CRACKED .COM SOUTH PARK BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT featured MIKE JUDGE as the unmuffled voice of Kenny McCormick. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Edmund, the parody character of Edward Cullen in The Simpsons Tweenlight segment from Treehouse of Horror XXI, was voiced by Daniel Radcliffe credited as 'Daniel Ratfink' CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Avatar

CRACKED.COM VATAR Ming, the friendly prison guard who brought Iroh extra food rations and his favorite jade tea when he was detained by the Fire Nation, was voiced by tennis superstar Serena Williams. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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MOANA CRACKED.COM Everyone knows that Dwayne The Rock Johnson was the voice of Maui. But, did this villager sound familiar? IF so, YOU MIGHT BE A FOOTBALL FAN, BECAUSE HE WAS VOICED BY FORMER PITTSBURGH STEELERS PLAYER TROY POLAMALU. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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GRACKED.COM MIGHTY EAGLE FROM THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE WAS VOICED BY PETER DINKLAGE. IN HIS OWN WORDS, HIS CHARACTER HAS A MIGHTY EGO AND IS BIT OF AN EAGLE- MANIAC. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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David Faustino is Dagur the Deranged, ORAGONS RIDERS OF BERK What's David Faustino, the actor who played Bud Bundy on Married With Children, up to nowadays? He's deranged. As in Dagur the Deranged, leader of the Beserker Tribe in the TV version of How to Train Your Dragon. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Sarah Chalke is -Beth smith Rick Meet AND Sarah Chalke entered our lives first on Roseanne, and then as Elliot on Scrubs. Nowadays she plays Beth Smith, a dedicated (and occasionally homicidal) veterinary horse surgeon on Rick and Morty. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Lacey Chabert is Zeta the Sorceress ShiMMeR. nickelodeon Shines & Lacey Chabert (the Party of Five actress who wasn't Neve Campbell or Jennifer Love Hewitt) is currently taking a break from starring in movies about Christian dating sites to play Zeta the Sorceress on an aggressively cutesy cartoon for little girls, Shimmer and Shine. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Dabney Coleman is the Mayor HBO IMPIRE Pound Puppies Dabney Coleman, the man America most loved to hate in the 1980s (aside from J.R. Ewing), has found a cushy gig for his golden years. He, along with fellow elder thespian Betty White, got gigs on the newest incarnation of Pound Puppies, which is based heavily on the WWII POW sitcom Hogan's Heroes (seriously). CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Star Wars

Sarah Michelle Gellar is Seventh Sister STAR WARS REBELS Sarah Michelle Gellar might not be slaying vampires as Buffy anymore, but she still sates her wanton bloodlust as the Seventh sister Inquisitor on Star Wars Rebels. Bonus: Her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., plays a Jedi named Kanan Jarrus on the show. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Mindy Cohn is Velma SCOOBS-DOO! While only one actor has ever voiced Scooby Doo's Fred (Frank Welker), the role of Velma has been the responsibility of a number of actresses. And before Kate Micucci (of Garfunkel and Oates) took up the reins just recently, for years it was Mindy Cohn, who played Natalie on The Facts of Life. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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