"If we had some sort of machine which could imitate any voice, we'd only need one voice actor." "We do; it's called 'Billy West'." —FuturamaDVD Commentary

Characters known for a wide range of voices.

Bonus points if the person is able to avertLarynx Dissonance andNot Even Bothering with the Accent, but it's not vital.

The nameMan of a Thousand Voices comes from a nickname given toMel Blanc, who was responsible for nearly every classicLooney Tunes male character.

InReal Life,Voice Actors with this ability are known for voicingLoads and Loads of Characters. Basically if you can't say "Hey, It's That Voice!", odds are, it was one of these people. Fact is, the industry is incredibly small, and there just aren't enough actors to cover all the exponentially increasing amount of characters and projects created each year. Being versatile is required. The vast majority of voice actors and vocal work don't create "voices" but is largely using their own natural voice with slight tonal changes, pitched up or down. Thus it is still possible for aPigeonholed Voice Actor to ironically also have "a thousand voices," just people aren't aware of their versatility. In fiction, this is not necessarily the case.

Canoverlap withTalking to Himself, if the actor does multiple roles on the same show.

Compare and contrast withVoice Changeling, which involves having multiple people voice one character. Not to be confused withVoice of the Legion.

Real Life

Just choose a few key roles to give an idea of the actors' ranges. Save large lists for the actors' own pages.

Danish

• Lars Thiesgaard has beenPumbaa,Dexter,IM Weasel,Johnny Bravo,Pegleg Pete,Piglet,Gargamel,The Red Guy,Professor Utonium,Bob the Builder,Scooby Doo,the Tasmanian Devil (as well as Porky Pig andBugs Bunny),Don Karnage,Top Cat,The Joker,Yoda,Barney Rubble, andPinky... amongMANY others.

English

• In the industry,Frank Welker is known as the real king of this—just checkhis IMDB filmography. It's easier to list what hehasn't done than to try and list everything he's worked on. (Incidentally, a joint venture search on IMDB between Mel Blanc and Frank Welker shows they've shared credits 22 times.)
  • He even came close to voicingScrappy Doo.^[1]
  • TheFuturama cast and crew used Frank to do most animal voices on the show, and often commented on their awe of his ability to portray, in a single take, an entire flock of geese.
    • Apparently, Welker is so good at doing animal sounds that some studios hire him just to do that. Chances are, if you're watching a cartoon and there's an animal in it that makes a sound it's Welker.
    • Welker once appeared onManny The Uncanny and did a capuchin monkey distress call.And he got a reaction from actual capuchin monkeys.That's how good the guy is.
    • For these reasons he's one of the highest grossing film actorsof all time by a margin of just under a billion US dollars (albeit not adjusted for inflation). Impressive.
  • In an interview with a voice actor on aTransformers DVD (he was the voice of Megatron and Soundwave, among others), he says that Welker could perform a call on a pay phone—the coin dropping in the slot, the ringing, the operator, and both sides of the conversation—with ease.
    • Here's a scene from an early episode of the original series. Except for Thundercracker (voiced by John Stephenson),every single character is voiced by Welker, including one scene where he's essentially throttling himself. Outside of that scene, Starscream (Chris Latta) is the only Season One Decepticon not voiced by Welker.
• Abridged Series have shown this cool trait can be more common than we thought. It's not universal, but still all over the place.
  • Little Kuriboh ofYu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
  • Lanipator ofYu Yu Hakusho AbridgedandDragon Ball Abridged
  • MasakoX and Vegeta3986 ofNaruto the Abridged Series
  • GanXingba ofAvatar the Abridged Series
  • InSailor Moon Abridged, KrisRix fits this trope best, doingZocite, Beryl, Molly, Ami,Mina, Andrew, andRaye.
  • Fullmetalraz of TheLighthawk Force and Fullmetalforce.
  • TokuTenshi ofWedding Peach Abridged.
  • Hbi2k ofhisnumerousabridgements
  • Unwardil ofLast Exile Abridged
  • ShadyVox and xthedarkone ofYu-Gi-Oh GX the Abridged Series fame
  • Purpleeyeswtf ofCode MENTandNone Piece.
  • The Azure Crow of Gurren-Lagann The Satire as well as a surprisingly good Fandub ofDigimon Xros Wars (though he's not alone about the latter, and he doesn't do as many voices asLittle Kuriboh, but he still does pull off quite a number of voices with ease).
• Charlie Adler is apparently just as proficient at playing young boys (and evengirls!) as he is at playing burly, arrogant, older men.
• SeveralFUNimation voice actors:
  • Many of theFUNimation's veteran voice actors who are currently working in LA (and the they still work with Funimation from time to time) have very wide vocal ranges.Troy Baker,Laura Bailey,Kyle Hebert, andVic Mignogna are some of the top examples.Travis Willingham, however, is an interesting case. While hisGuttural Growler andBadass Baritone oftentypecast him intoLawful GoodAuthority Equals Asskicking characters, he is slowly getting out of his typecasting ever since he moved to LA. In fact, it's generally agreed that Travis's vocal range improved when he moved to LA.
  • Christopher Sabat does many, many voices inDragonball Z: Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha,Shenron, General Silver, Kami, King Piccolo, Zarbon, Jeice, Burter, Recoome, Guru, Korin, Mr. Popo, and far more extra characters.
    • He's also General Cross Marian ofD.Gray-man, Rome ofAxis Powers Hetalia, Roronoa Zoro ofOne Piece, and Kuwubara ofYu Yu Hakusho.
    • CHRISTOPHER SABATWILL KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN!
    • THE ABILITY TO DO MANY VOICES HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN IN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!
  • Along with Chris Sabat, we also haveBrina Palencia,J Michael Tatum,Chris Ayres,Colleen Clinkenbeard,Mike McFarland andTodd Haberkorn.
  • ManyADV Films/Sentai Filmworks based voice actors who worked with Funimation also have this.Luci Christian,Monica Rial,Blake Shepard, andBrittney Karbowski are your best examples. Heck evenChris Patton himself, who is typecast into theTroubled but Cutepretty teenage boys does have a wide vocal range.
• Trey Parker and Matt Stone are known to voice every male characters inSouth Park (with a few exceptions), as well as pretty much every overdubbed voice in their movies. Interestingly, the results vary between Man of a Thousand Voices andHey, It's That Voice!, since although they are both capable of performing very different voices, they sometimes don't even bother trying.Keep in mind most of the characters are 9-10 year old children.
• Yuri Lowenthal. You may think he'stypecast into theKid Hero characters likeBen Tennyson,Simon, andYuri Shibuya. However, he's quite capable of doing accents. Compare his Persian accent withthe Prince; a British accent forCornelius,Advocat,Future!Luke; and a French accent forPip Bernadotte. It should noted that he's apolyglot in real life, which can easily explain this.
• Michael Bell. Lampshaded in theSoul Reaver 2 outtakes where Rene Auberjonois describes Michael as "The man of many voice." to which Michael responds "I'm the man of one voice you just think its a thousand."
• Jeff Bennett. An extreme case isThe Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, in which he plays nearly every character other than theThree Amigos.
• Mel Blanc. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester T. Cat, Tweety Bird, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales... do I really need to continue?
  • Just one more:JETSOOOOOOON!YOU'RE FIRED!
  • And Yosemite Sam. That took cords ofsteel.
  • Don't forgetHeathcliff.
  • He even voicedJack Benny'scar.
• Steven 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 fromNaruto, Jamie fromMegas XLR, Spike Spiegel fromCowboy Bebop, Yakky Doodle inHarvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Blunk fromWITCH
  • And then he gave us Leeron fromTengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. This isnothing 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 fromDigimon Tamers.
  • Sometimes, he does do cartoon voices as well. Just as an example, prior to voicing Leeron, he voiced Smytus fromMy Life as a Teenage Robot, destroyer of worlds!]]
  • And how could anyone forget Tom fromToonami.
  • What's amazing is, many people know him for theRoger Smith/Yamaki voice (add a little growl and you getBlack War Greymon) and think it's all he can do. It's... so not.
  • TheGreenGoblin, anyone?
  • He'sWolverine in 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 Noble Dwarf Origin). That's three developed/named charactersin the same game.
    • Maybe Oghren'slooking for the Milkman?
  • Grunt inMass Effect 2.
  • Starscream.
• Daws Butler:
  • Elroy Jetson
  • Yogi Bear
  • Quick Draw McGraw
  • Snagglepuss
  • Multiple incidental characters onRocky and Bullwinkle
• Matt Chapman, one of the co-creators ofHomestar Runner, manages to voice almost all the characters for the site. It's easier to list who hedoes not voice (Marzipan, voiced by his sister-in-law, Missy Palmer,the Poopsmith's singing voice by John Linnel ofThey Might Be Giants, and the characters as portrayed in the Cheat'sflash cartoons by Matt's brother Mike).
  • It's especially impressive when one of his characters impersonates another and you can tell which is impersonating which.
• Cam Clarke is one of these. Just a few of his varied roles include:
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 - Leonardo, Rocksteady, Mung, OverDrive
  • Metal Gear Solid - Liquid Snake
  • Tales of Symphonia - Kratos Aurion
  • Snoopy The Musical - Snoopy
  • Timon and Pumbaa - Simba
  • World of Warcraft - Blood Elf Male, Malygos
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) - He-Man
  • Killer7 - Andrei Ulmeyda
• Jim Cummings
• Jim Dale, the reader for the U.S. audiobook editions of theHarry Potter books. He won an award for managing to come up with a fewhundred unique character voices forHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
• June Foray. She's been doing voice work steadily since 1943.Chuck Jones said of her: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc is the male June Foray."
  • Granny for most of theLooney Tunes shorts using that character. (though Granny was played in the pre-1955 shorts by Bea Benaderet)
  • Rocket J Squirrel/Natasha Fatale/Nell Fenwick/ any other female role (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
  • Cindy-Lou Who in the originalHow the Grinch Stole Christmas
  • Jokey Smurf (The Smurfs)
  • Granny Gummi (Adventures of the Gummi Bears)
  • Witch Hazel. Both theDisney oneand theLooney Tunes one.
• Paul Frees
• Michael Winslow is a special case, in which he doesn't do only voices, but sound effects as well. His appearances inPolice Academy are just a showcase: watch him performLed Zeppelin's"Whole Lotta Love".
• OnThe Simpsons alone,Dan Castellaneta,Harry Shearer andHank Azaria fit this trope.
  • Dan's range in particular made him a good choice to replaceRobin Williams as the voice of the Genie in the sequel and TV spinoff ofAladdin.
    • A good choice in the sense that he could sound like like Robin Williams. Unfortunately, he hae none of Williams' humor or spontaneity resulting in a very dull genie character who only happened to sound like Robin Williams.
• Tom Kenny was once actually called this at a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards show, where he served as an announcer. He's worked as a main or supporting character on just about every animated series to ever come out ofNickelodeon orCartoon Network.
  • One notable example isTransformers Animated, where he not only voices Starscream, but also half a dozen of his clones, each with their own personality quirk. (Slipstream, the female clone, is played by Tara Strong, who is also on this page.)
• Seth MacFarlane, who voices pretty much all the major male characters inFamily Guy, and two of the main characters inAmerican Dad. Just...see this Hulu commercial. He can also sing in all of his voices.
• While many people don't realize it due to hisbaritone voice relating to badasses,Crispin Freeman has a very wide vocal range. CompareKyon,Orange,Hideki,Koichi,Alucard, andShizuo.
• Tress MacNeille ,Kath Soucie,Grey DeLisle andTara Strong. Basically any American cartoon will have one of these four voices in it at some point. If a character is female and in an American cartoon, it's one of them. (Unless she's Asian, in which case it'sLauren Tom, or ifblack,Cree Summer.)
• While thecharactersGrey DeLisle's put in are very much pigeonholed, her range is anything but. Rarely do any of her voices sound alike (except when they scream).Sam sounds nothing likeMandy who sounds nothing likeFrankie orVicky (orthe other Vicky).
  • An extreme case isDan Vs., where Grey voices nearly every minor female character and nearly every child.
  • The comparison that breaks brains: Grey DeLisle has voiced bothAzula andTootie. How more varied can you get?
• Tara Strong has been heard as10 year old boy Timmy Turner, gothic superheroine RavenTeen Titans as well as the minor characterKitten, Twilight Sparkle inMy Little Pony Friendship Is Magic,Genki Girl Rikku inFinal Fantasy X,split-personalitiedDark Magical Girl Elisa/Ursula inMetal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Ben Tennyson onBen 10, Presea onTales of Symphonia, both Toot Braunstein and Princess Clara onDrawn Together, Truffles and additional voices inChowder, and evenBatgirl. She's possibly best known as Bubbles fromThe Powerpuff Girls. Despite voice acting not typically being a very lucrative career, she's done so many voices that she's able to afford a large house in Los Angeles (as seen onTake Home Chef).
  • Also known to stand-in forother voice actresses when a singing role is required, as exemplified when she stood in forMila Kunis' voice of Meg Griffin onFamily Guy when Megwas required to sing extensively.
• Scott McNeil, who has gone from#1 mutant BadAss tomysteriously wise yet absent father toa sleazy strip club owner and a devout Muslim fundamentalist (both characters in the same series) torobotic butt monkey to robot deadpan snarker to one half ofa quirky duo of minions, toa METAL BAWKSE crazed psychopath.
  • To elaborate on theBeast Wars example, he voiced Dinobot and Rattrap, who feuded constantly throughout the series, so he's arguing with himself for about five minutes in just about every season one and two episode. He also played the ridiculously noble Silverbolt and theEnsemble Darkhorse Waspinator.
• Julie McWhirter
• Don Messick
• 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:
  • Audrey Hepburn inMy Fair Lady.
  • Deborah Kerr inThe King and I andAn Affair to Remember.
  • Natalie Wood inWest Side Story.
• Rob Paulsen has a voice credit list a mile long, butRaphael sounds nothing likeYakko Warner or Pinky, who sounds nothing likeJack Fenton, who sounds nothing likeSaber Rider, who sounds nothing likeSal Maroni. The Maroni voice does sound like a deeper, scarier, and slightly Brooklyn version ofTechnus, though.
  • AndAnomen sounds nothing like those characters listed above.
  • His normal voice sounds rather like Raphael.
  • He also plays as Cyborg Ninja/Grey Fox in theMetal Gear Solid remakeThe Twin Snakes.
    • Many of his characters are recognizable by their smart aleck attitude. Well, except for the gun crazy, time-traveling, macho redneck,Officer Buck Tuddrussel...
• Pat Fraley has one of the longest credit lists ever, and he is so proficient in voice acting that he beat out several talented nominees like Bob Bergen for the voice over lifetime achievement, which takes at least25 years or more to be nominated for. Considering that he did the voices forKrang, General Traag, Baxter Stockman, Burne Thompson and many other characters all on the same show,and sometimes in the same scenes, his award was definitely earned with his vast talent.
  • He's also Marshall Moo Montana onWild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa.
• Although not yetprolific as such,Michelle Ruff has admirable range and completely avoidspigeonholing herself. Among others, she does the deliciously snarkyEtna, theKuudereAvril, serious nobleRukia, the emotionlessYuki, the ditzyTsukasa, and nervous heroineAlicia.
• Beyond cartoons,Peter Sellers' initial fame as a radio performer was built on this, whether he was doing celebrity impersonations or character roles. InThe 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. WhenSpike Milligan - who had roughly as many characters as Sellers - was absent, Sellers could do all of them himself. Whenhe was absent,four performers had to be brought in to substitute for all his roles.
  • Truth in Television;Michael Bentine, his colleague onThe 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.
• John Stephenson
• Leonard Weinrib ofInch High Private Eye and DFE'sRoland and Rattfink.
• PutBilly West in a room, give him a script and a mike and you can do a complete show with 20+ individual voices. InFuturama alone he was the Professor, Fry, Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Nixon and half of any background/supporting characters you see. And all of this after he first came to public attention as the voice of both Renand Stimpy after John Kricfalusi had to give up the role of Ren when he got fired.
  • Billy West seemed to have actively set out to become one, claiming to have been heavily influenced by Mel Blanc, Dawes Butler and Don Messick.
  • Also notable is that his already impressive range also includes voices that you could swear they were digitally edited, like a semi-reccuringEnergy Being fromFuturama. But nope, that flangy alien voice is all from Billy's mouth.
• LikeBilly West above,John Dimaggio has developed a wide range of voices himself. Fromrobots to psychoticpenguins,mad scientists and bikers toaliens, evenannoyingTalking Animalsidekicks, this dude has been around the curve more than once.
  • He's also grizzled space marineMarcus Fenix and a talented beatboxer. Anytime there's beatboxing done onFuturama, it's all him.
  • He was the voice of Hak Foo inJackie Chan Adventures, replacing Jim Cummings from the second season on. And you can hardly tell the difference.
• Maurice LaMarche as well. Most ofFuturama's aliens are voiced by Maurice (Kif, Morbo, Lrrr, etc.) as are a few robots (Calculon, Hedonism-bot) and a kick-ass narrator ("You watched it! You can't un-watch it!")
  • He's alsoThe Brain. Basically, the man does the greatestOrson Welles impersonation of all time.
  • Similar to theMichael Bell joke above, LaMarche has admitted on one Futurama commentary that Lrr, Morbo and the Horrible Gelatinous Blob are all the same voice.
    • MORBO MOCKS YOUR TROPE ANALYSIS!
  • In one episode ofThe Critic, he did 29different characters. It's a 22 minute show.
• All threeFuturama voice actors mentioned above have referred to fellow voice (and live action) actor Dave Herman as one of these as well. In addition to providing the voices of recurring characters like Scruffy, Roberto, and Mayor Poopenmeyer, he's often the "go-to" guy for incidental and secondary characters. Billy West in particular has praised him for being able to create unique and often hilarious voices for characters that only appear for a few seconds of screen time.
• Paul Winchell, both as a ventriloquist and as a cartoon voice actor.
• Watch theBleach dub. You won't even tell thatYoruichi,Tatsuki, andUruru all havethe same voice.
  • And try to match those voices withHaruhi Suzumiya's voice!
  • Not to mention you can barely recognize her voice asKonata Izumi.
  • For those not in the know,Wendee Lee.
• Phil LaMarr voices just about every black character in western animation, in addition to a variety of other roles.
  • Including aRomanian bisexual immortal with a knife fetish
  • Including aSamurai named Jack
  • Includinga giant freaking robot who's freaking giant even by giant freaking robot standards.I am... OMEGA SUPREME! (in season three anyway, but even that shows off his range - you'd have to see the credits to tell that Omega's voice had changed.)
  • Once again shows amazing range as Count Veger inJak 3.
    • And voices Sig in the same game.
    • Elsewhere in the series he provides the voices of G.T. Blitz and Duke Skyheed.
  • His black guy roles are pretty diverse as well, including theJamaican, thedeep-voiced black guy, theyoung, squeaky voiced high-schooler and... uh...Dracula, a very old, black Dracula.
  • He voices quite a few animal characters inMy Gym Partners a Monkey.
  • And now he's voiced a Cajun: oneRemy Lebeau
• Jennifer Hale. She does so many voices that nearly every show she appears in features hertalking to herself. Despite being pigeonholed in Videogame Voice Acting, she has amuch wider range of roles in animation, fromAction Girls to villainous children, to even Cinderella.
• There's a lady who voices over a hundred talking household items inBlue's Clues. She holds the world record for themost voices ever done in a single TV show.
• OnYouTube, there's Jared a.k.aThe Man of 100 Voices, in which he did exactly 100 voices in around 4 minutes and 2 seconds. Later, his record was best byBrock "McGoiter" Baker- who's also made dozens of other funny videos showing his impressive range- by over 10 seconds plus one extra voice. And then,of course-The Man of One Million Voices. Some of those voices were better than others, though that's to be expected.
• Corey Burton, most famous for Brainiac fromSuperman: The Animated Series (andJustice League, andLegion of Super-Heroes) but also frequently variousTransformers.
  • Including theCreepy Monotone of Shockwave, though theTransformers Animated version of Megatron sounds more recognizable if you last heard him as Brainiac.
  • Stan Freberg also recruited him to replace Paul Frees (one of the all-time great voice actors) as the narrator for hisUnited States of America record after Frees' death.
  • He's also Dale fromChip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers. That's right, Dale is the new Megatron.
  • He also does ameanChristopher Leeimpression.
• Egoraptor (Arin Hanson) and Tomamoto (Joshua Tomar) are well-known voice actors on the Internet, particularly on Newgrounds. Egoraptor is most famous for his "Awesome" Shorts, and Tomamoto is known for his Fandubs, both of which showcase their ridiculous range.
  • In the Newgrounds series the Decline of Videogaming, Egoraptor voices all three of the Evil Developers and Shigeru Miyamoto... all of whom have different voice pitch and word pronunciation. They don't sound alike at all.
  • This is turnedUp to Eleven when Arin voiced Kanji Tatsumi,who's heavily implied to be gay, in the Persona 4 Hiimdaisy Comic Dub. The group goes to save Kanji in the TV, and when they find him they see his Shadow Self, who says in a stereotypical gay man's voice,"I'm Kanji Tatsumi and I enjoy naked men. Oh yeah~". Seriously, you wouldn't even know it was him.
• The creators ofThe Venture Bros, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, in addition to doing all the writing, concept art, and most of the producing/directing, also do the voices of a ridiculous amount of characters in-show, from main characters to bit pieces. A bit less range than some of the names here, but if you do 90% of the voice acting on one show, you deserve to be here.
  • Publick deserves special mention - he voices fifteen characters on his own and does most of theTalking to Himself sequences.
• Bob Bergen. Has voicedLupin III, Porky Pig and otherLooney Tunes characters on a number of occasions, and is Lucas Arts' choice of voice actor for Luke Skywalker.
• Lorne Lanning, creator of theOddworld series, is the voice of everyPlayer Character and mostNPC's.
• Dee Bradley Baker. Pretty much anything non-human in any American animation will be voiced by him (for example, the monsters inBen 10, Perry ofPhineas and Ferb, and Appa and Momo ofAvatar: The Last Airbender). He has also voiced numerous minor human characters, such as about ten different characters inSpongeBob SquarePants andThe Fairly OddParents.
  • He's alsoA monument to all of your sins.
  • AndOlmec. Oh yeah!
  • He also voices the Co-op robots in Portal 2.
• Itsjustsomerandomguy, creator ofI'm a Marvel And I'm a DC. Besides doing all the male voices on the series, hisBlog TV conferences have featured him showing off some more of his range, like almost all of the Muppets.
• Mark Hamill. When your two most famous roles areLuke Skywalker and the frikkinJoker. you know you're an all-around versatile actor. Also, check outthis clip of him appearing onThe Muppet Show; he imitates both Kermit the Frogand 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 inAladdin. Anybody got a complete list of all the impersonations and accents he does?
• Linkara. In a typical review he'll have about four or five voices for narrating the comic, himself, and then an appearance from one of his other four characters.
  • While we're on aboutChannel Awesome, Doug Walker himself. He can pull off a naive child, women,ALF, an opera singer, and a baritone British villain, all in one review! It's even more impressive when his face is off-screen or over another character!
    • Case in point.
  • Benzaie. Watch any of his "Let's Fap" videos; you don't know funny until you've heardKermit the Frog reciteHentai dialogue.
• James Arnold Taylor is well known to have large flexibility in voice acting. He voice acting ranges fromKeet Tidus fromFinal Fantasy X to Ratchet fromRatchet and Clank, Obi-Wan Kenobi fromStar Wars: Clone Wars,Green Arrow fromBatman the Brave And The Bold, the titular character ofJohnny Test, and Wooldoor Sockbat fromDrawn Together. He's a man of thousands of voices, andmakes you wonder why hisAnime roles are very small and limited.Listen for yourself to believe it!
• Oddly enough,Ben Affleck. 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 ofThe Sum of All Fears, he did his impression ofMorgan Freeman for Freeman himself, whose response was, "You ever do that again, I'll kill you."
• On radio,Bob & Ray fit this trope perfectly between them, double-handedly maintaining the illusion of a large supporting 'cast' (maleand 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 byMaria Darling.
• Chances are, if you play a video game,Nolan North is in it. He's even played black guys at times.
• Eddie Murphy. SeeComing to America andThe Nutty Professor for an idea.
• Despite his range going from sweet and innocent to rough and serious characters,Will Friedle has played a good number of roles himself. Some of his characters even play homage to his other roles.
• Chester Lauck and Norris Goff voiced almost every single male character inLum and Abner. The only exceptions in the recurring cast were The Narrator and Dr. Withers.
• SomehowTony Oliver can voiceLupin III,Lancer,Bat from theFist of the North Star movie, and Keiichi from theAh! My Goddess! movie in English and they don't sound one damn bit alike.
• Every characterKari Wahlgren has done has a completely distinct voice. Seriously, compareFuu toRaine orAnemone. Even the characters that are relatively similar sound completely different, such as herJeanne and herAshe.
• Daran Norris has played both the wicked Vincent from theCowboy Bebop movie and the idiotic Cosmo fromFairly Oddparents, as well as Spotswoode fromTeam America: World Police, Belze inGod Hand, andMad Scientist Rodyle inTales of Symphonia.
• Nicholas Briggs has played the voice of many different alien species since the 2005 revival ofDoctor Who, inluding the Daleks (particularly notabe with The Cult of Skaro), Cybermen, Judoon and the Nestene Consciousness.
  • Nick Briggs does thecreepiest, 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!"

• A rare Live Action example: Enver Gjokaj fromDollhouse. The show involves people getting new minds implanted into their brains, and with him,Voices Are Mental got takenUp to Eleven. Him implanted withTopher's personality wasjust hilarious.
• Mr. Doctor of Devil Doll has been called this.
• Nancy Cartwright: perhaps best known asBart Simpson, also voicesNelson, Ralph Wiggum, and Todd Flanders, along withChuckie Finster,Rufus,Margo Sherman, and a host of other characters.
• Brendan O'Brien, in the originalCrash Bandicoot trilogy alone, voicedCrash Bandicoot,Doctor Neo Cortex (before Clancy Brown took over),Doctor Nitrus Brio,Doctor N. Gin,Tiny Tiger andPinstripe Potoroo.
• Roger L. Jackson is least famous for his best known role as the voice ofGhostface in all 4 movies, in contrast with Mojo Jojo ofThe Powerpuff Girls. He's done over 100 video game roles, as many named characters as extras, including (at least 8) distinct characters throughout theSam and Max series.
• Go to youtube and watch any video that featuresGaara speaking in the english dub. Now do the same thing forLloyd. Both are voiced byLiam O'Brien.
  • He also voicesVayne inMana Khemia.
• Sadly, Jim Ward doesn't get nearly as much coverage as his skill deserves. He's the resident Voice Deity/ConspiracyTheorist onThe Stephanie Miller Show, and gets plenty of requests for his imitations of Wolf Blitzer, Kim Jong Il, and Tom Brokaw. He's also the voice actor ofDiamondhead, XLR8, Wildvine,Chet Ubetcha,Captian Quark,Maximillian Strauss, Baron Isaac Abrams, Brother Grünfeld Bach,andbackgroundvoicesindozensofotherworks.
• Lani Minella is definitly one. She's been voicing video game characters since 1994, IMDB lists at least 400 acting credits to her name. She's been inStarCraft,Diablo,World of Warcraft,Nancy Drew, well, it would be easier to list the games she isn't in.That video really shows her talent.
• Tabitha St Germain. She's voiced 15 different characters (and possibly more, we're not sure) across two and a half generations ofMy Little Pony according toThe Other Wiki. And then there's all the anime and Canadian animation roles she's had, check out herdemo video on her website.Shana?Roberta?Naomi Misora?Nazz?Heloise? All her. Also onMartha Speaks she's everyone from the title character (a talking dog) to an 18-year old baby to an 80-year old lady. If that's not range I don't know what is!
  • Case in point forMy 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 glorious return and Derpy Hooves. She also acts as a standin forTara 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.
• As is the case with most Canadian voice actors, Lee Tockar hardly ever does the same voice twice. He voicedGeorge of the Jungle,Doktor Frogg,Genghis,Makuta andFlux among others.
• Keith Ferguson inDawn of War II does the voice of the Heretics, the Commisar, Plague Marines, various Orks including the Grot, and the ranger Rohnan from the Eldar Campaign in Retribution. He also does the voice of Bloo fromFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
• The comedian Adam Hills (ofSpicks and Specks) is Australian, and is able to imitate various Australian local accents, as well as American, Welsh, Irish, Scootish, British, posh British, Cockney, Glasgow, Canadian, and many,many more, to the point that if he ever did voice acting, he wouldeasily become this trope.
• Octopimp - AKA Master Yorgi - ofYouTube fame can play a good chunk of theHomestuck cast, most famously Gamzee and Tavros.
• David Kayeis simply amazing—and those are just the roles he's played in Transformers cartoons.
• Harry Partridge usually voices every character to appear in his cartoons himself.every one.
• Phil Hendrie, who in addition to being a radio personality and actor, has also voiced numerous characters inKing of the Hill,Futurama,Rick and Morty,The 7D,F Is for Family as well in as a few live-action series as well.

French

• Roger Carel is (or has been)Asterix,ALFC-3PO,Winnie the Pooh (and Rabbit and Piglet),Captain Caveman,Basil of Baker Street, and a whole bunch ofHanna-Barbera and/orDisney characters.
• Canadian French actor Richard Darbois isBatman,Captain Harlock,the Genie,Oogie-Boogie,the Kurgan,Barf,Hook,Madmartigan,Buffalo Bill,Buzz Lightyear andShan-Yu. He also doubledHarrison Ford, Richard Gere andJeff Goldblum, among others.

Hungarian

• Gyula Szombathy voices (or has once voiced)Donald Duck,Goofy, Goofy's narrator,Porky Pig,Pepe Le Pew, Grandma Puckett inHoodwinked,Frasier Crane,Popeye, Kaa fromThe Jungle Book, Scuttle fromThe Little Mermaid, Fagin fromOliver and Company, Gizmoduck fromDuckTales (1987), Mambo fromTeen Titans, Mung Daal fromChowder, and Billy the rat fromCat City (Macskafogó). He also voicesSteve Martin in thePink Panther movies.
• István Mikó voicesWinnie the Pooh, Genie fromAladdin, Quasimodo inThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ray fromThe Princess and the Frog, Bernard fromThe Rescuers, Archimedes fromThe Sword in the Stone, Barney Rubble in one of the several dubs ofThe Flintstones and is the official Hungarian voice ofRobin Williams.
• József Kerekes voices Peter Griffin fromFamily Guy, Donkey from theShrek franchise, Dale from Chip and Dale, Wildcat fromTale Spin, Barney Rubble from a VHS-onlyFlintstones dub, Lumpy Space Princess inAdventure Time, Pesto fromAnimaniacs, Drix fromOzzy and Drix, Roquefort fromThe Aristocats, Chester fromKids Next Door, Jimbo Kern fromSouth Park's early seasons, Kowalski fromMadagascar and itsSequel andspin-offs, and is the official Hungarian voice ofJim Carrey.
• Gábor Seder provides the voices forFuturama's Bender, Quagmire fromFamily Guy, Heatblast, Ghostfreak and probably a bunch of other aliens inBen 10, Dr. Blowhole fromThe Penguins of Madagascar, all life-stages of Emrick the Petalar and about half the Lizard army inThundercats 2011. There's way more, but those are in his regular voice.
  • How about Logan fromBig Time Rush, Angel fromBuffy the Vampire Slayer, Slips Python fromMy Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Mike fromTotal Drama: Revenge of the Island?

Japanese

• Megumi Hayashibara andHikaru Midorikawa are so prolific that you could probably connect everybody else in anime to them within one or two steps.
  • So every Japanese star gets a Megumi Number?
• Koichi Yamadera, the voice ofSpike Spiegel,Ryouga Hibiki... andDonald Duck. (No, really—that's him in the Japanese version ofKingdom Hearts.) He's also the go-to guy for Japanese dubs of Eddie Murphy andRobin Williams. SeeThe Other Wiki for a fuller listing.
• Hiroki Takahashi may not be the most prolific seiyuu around but he's certainly very varied. Cases in point beingMonster Clown Hisoka fromHunter X Hunter,Genki Guy Kikumaru Eiji fromPrince of Tennis, Superbia "Shouts all his lines" Squalo fromKatekyo Hitman Reborn,Butt Monkey Harima Kenji fromSchool Rumble...and soft spoken Japan fromAxis Powers Hetalia.
• Toshihiko Seki, who can range fromcheerful fun guy toirritable badass to...quack.
• Akira Ishida is another guy that's everywhere but with a lot of range- but in particular, he once did a bit inGintama in which the one character he voices had an elaborate daydream sequence. He literallytalked to himself for something like 10 minutes, all in various male AND female voices. Whoa.
• Wataru Takagi (No, notthat one). In what is quite possibly the greatest showcase of vocal talent inStreet Fighter history, he pullsquintuple-duty as Gen, Birdi, Adon, Zangief, and Sodom in theAlpha.
• Yuichi Nagashima, aka Cho. This guy voicedJaken,Hiroshi Uchiyamada,Elmer Fudd,Brook,Blitzwing,GollumandScooby Doo.
• Aya Hirano is one of the few seiyuus that doesn't get typecast. She went from eccentric withJerkass tendencies (Haruhi fromThe Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) to a obsessed, otaku highschooler (Konata fromLucky Star) to aLes Yay teacher (Yoko fromSchool Rumble's second season) to an almost-godly little girl (Lumière fromKiddy Grade) to aStalker with a Crush (Misa fromDeath Note) to seriousAction Girl (Chiko fromThe Daughter of Twenty Faces).
  • And Dende fromDragon Ball Kai (whichAya Hirano voices) is considered male. (Though Nameks are a one-gender race...)
• Kotono Mitsuishi is known for performing a wide variety of characters, ranging fromSailor Moon andExcel Excel toMisato Katsuragi,Mireille Bouquet,Juri Arisugawa andEbichu.
• Tomokazu Seki has voiced characters ranging fromThe Stoic Sousuke Sagara inFull Metal Panic!, to one ofThose Two Guys Jun Kitagawa inKanon, toManipulative BastardBig Bad Reiji Kageyama inGate Keepers, toHot-Bloodedmecha pilot Domon Kasshu inG Gundam, toAnimal Mascot Mepple inFutari wa Pretty Cure, toLarge Ham Gilgamesh inFate/stay night.
  • Let's not forget he voiced Brandon "Beyond the Grave" Heat inGungrave, as well as in the second game of the video game series,Gungrave: O.D. (Overdose)
    • You're still forgetting Rob Lucci from One Piece, that crazy anime clerk from Lucky Star, and even freaking Viewtiful Joe!
• You'd thinkSanae Kobayashi is pigeonholed as either Tsunderes (Akira fromMy-HiME) or boys (theother Akira, fromHikaru no Go)... Go and say the same when you hear her asNaive Everygirl Kumi Mashiba fromHajime no Ippo, theYandere Lucy/Cutie Nyu inElfen Lied, or the titularAction Girl fromMadlax.
• Chiwa Saitou has, as just an example, voiced aGenkiAction Girl, a perpetually angry member of theQuirky Miniboss Squad, and a villainousSmug Snake, all in thesameshow.
• Daisuke Namikawa is one of the voice actors pegged down in several roles that could be very much grate your skulls, playing theirritatingKatz Kobayashi, therough and wildMichael Trinity, thesuper loud mouthedMiyamoto Musashi or. However, he also had his share of straight, goody-two-shoes heroes such as the main character ofPersona 4,Cornelius or the remake voice ofClaude Kenni. Then, you've got themelancholic,manipulativeBeta BaddieUlquiorra Sciffer or theultra-manipulativeBig Bad Toutaku fromIkki Tousen amongst his portfolio. Then you'll never look at him the same again.
  • He also does dubs of lots of famous actors like Brad Pitt, Anakin Skywalker, Elijah Wood...
  • And he'sLucario.
  • He also voices BOTHNorth and South Italy.
• Toshiyuki Morikawa doesThe Hero roles (Ryu,Takaya aka D-Boy),The Stoic roles (Kyosuke), Evil Bastard roles (Kazuya Mishima,Sephiroth)... very affableHot Shoujo Dad that sounds so light (Forbessi) and loud-mouthed idiots (Nobunaga Kiyota).
• Miyuki Sawashiro is what some people call versatile, she can be voicing spunky boys with an cheery attitude like Milanor fromYggdra Union or Carl Clover fromBlazBlue, a demandingOjou such as Perrine or Shinku or cute bubbly Nekomimi girls likeNike orMint. Younger characters are not her only forte either.Stripperiffic troubledVelvet andLittle Miss BadassWoman ScornedHotarubi would like a word for you.
• Takehito Koyasu has probablyliterally voiced a thousand roles... froma fallen prince who fights for world peace, toa displaced samurai piloting an apocalyptic machine with a lust for fighting.Even a comic relief Ascended Fanboy who wants to shoot fire. So, yeah...
• Try pigeonholingNobutoshi Canna. This man has voicedBadasses in many flavors, from laid back bad asses (Midou Ban,Lancer), scary bad asses (Guts,Axel Almer (not the silly type),Cao Pi) or goof off bad asses (Silly Axel,Tasuki). If that's not enough, he also has twoBruce Lee Clone roles on his resume (Maxi,Lee Pai Long), or someone who sounds like a clown (Nnoitra Gilga). And, oh, you want to know who's behind the voice who yells"LISTEN TO MY SOOOOONGGGG!!!"? Yeah. Him too.
  • He's also pulled off the sensitive young Nowaki inJunjou Romantica, a startling contrast with... well... pretty much every character listed above. Canna's capable of bringing the smoove when called upon.
• Kaori Shimizu manages to completely avoid being pigeonholed. Even though most fans know her for her matured, deep voice of smart women such asAkira,Signum andLamia, she is also capable of voicing cutesy voices starting from the melancholicLain, hystericalLou, and weirdYuri FangirlHiyori.
  • To make things more obvious, she is also capable of switching her voices from the deep one to the cutesy one in a split second (in Lamia/Aschen's case). Pigeonholethat!
  • Not to mention convincingly voicingthe three different personalities of Lain inSerial Experiments Lain. And this is herdebut role.
  • Recently, she has put her name as one of the cast ofTales of Hearts... as someone who is a prime candidate of a soft-spokenMysterious Waif. Whoa.
• Ryotaro Okiayu is certainly one hell of a man hard to peg down on his roles. One second he plays the roles of bumbling men who is often used for comedy relief, one second he plays villainous roles, one second he plays cool-headed guys, one second he playsThe Stoic types, one second he... plays gay-voiced roles.
• Rie Kugimiya is more often aPigeonholed Voice Actor, playing Tsudere characters such asShana,Louise andNagi but when allowed to step outside the Pigeonhole she shows surprising range such asAlphonse Elric and bothDeadpan Snarker Kurosaki Karin andEmotionless Girl Nemu fromBleach
• Sayaka Ohara definitely, despite mostly playingMother, she voicedBeatrice,Yuuko and,Erza
• Jun Fukuyama, has voicedMagnificent BastardLelouch,Extreme MasochistSado Taro,Brilliant but LazyRyner andLarge HamLeopard.
  • Nurarihyon no Mago deserves special mention in showing off his range since he voices both of Rikuo's forms, showing off both theCute Shotaro Boy style that he started out with and the more mature voice that became more prominent after landing his role inCode Geass.
• Ayako Kawasumi, from the stoicSaber to the gentlePrincess Henrietta, then theAlpha BitchSaki Tenjouin.
• Houko Kuwashima is very prolific and has an amazing range, making it hard to find two of her roles that sound the same. Who would have thought thatYurika,Kagura andFllay are all voiced by the same person?
• Katsuyuki Konishi has proven that he can do quite a variety of characters. Fromcold and calculated robot-ninjas to theLeader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime and all the way to the most Badassbadass to ever exist in anime. Coincidentally, all three examples have some kind of leader-role...
• Tetsuya Kakihara has also proven to be able to do a good number of voices. His probably most famous roles areSimon the Digger andNatsu Dragneel, though he's also done a lot of other voices. In particular, check out how he didJin Kisaragi and Hakumen
• Nobuyuki Hiyama should get some credit too. Sure, his voices doesn't differ much between two characters in the same situation, but his sure can go from completely calm to yelling in the most awesome way you'll ever hear within seconds, and drastically change his voice in the process.

Portuguese

• Márcio Simões does over-the-top characters such asthe Genie,Hades, andDaffy Duck as well asBadasses such asSamuel L. Jackson andJack Bauer.
  • Among his other roles arePeter Potamus,Vlad Plasmius,Stitch, andRay the firefly.
• Guilherme Briggs is usually aLarge Ham - his favorite roles to play wereFreakazoid! andDagget - but he also does serious roles such as Mewtwo fromPokémon,Optimus Prime andDr. Manhattan.
  • Let's not forget that he'sEek! The Cat,Otis the cow,Raj the elephant,Cosmo,Buzz Lightyear,Eduardo,Superman,Coop and many more.
• Alexandre Moreno is also usually over-the-top (Pinky,Puss in Boots, Chris Tucker) or comedic (Adam Sandler andBen Stiller) but does the odd serious role (the first Red Ranger,Michael Corleone, Jude Law).
• Marco Antônio Costa is the voice actor forGeorge Clooney,Brad Pitt,Johnny Depp and also...Plucky Duck,Bonkers D. Bobcat,Hugh Neutron,Rex,Stimpy andWoody Woodpecker?

Spanish

• Jorge "El Tata" Arvizu has dubbed, among others,Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone;Bugs Bunny,Woody Woodpecker,Maxwell Smart (including the 2007 film), andChoo-Choo Benny the Ball.
• Gerardo Reyero was known for using his bass-baritone voice in ultra serious, by-the-book roles (Cyclops fromX-Men, Mamoru "Darien" Chiba fromSailor Moon, Jun Uozumi fromSlam Dunk). That, until he did a fantastic work as the loud, cheerful and energeticLarge Ham Gai-sensei inNaruto, and then theBunny Ears Lawyer Ukitake fromBleach...
  • He's alsoCaptain Hero,The Chief, andGantu.
• You might be able to recognize Patricia "Patty" Acevedo's sweet soprano voicevery easily, but even then, you can't forget she's done young boys (Kissyfur, Yaiba Kurogane fromYaiba, Chaozu fromDragonball Z),Magical Girls (Usagi/Serena fromSailor Moon, Sally fromMagical Sally), sweet yet strong girls (Alexis/Asuka fromYu-Gi-Oh! GX,Lisa Simpson,Lizzie Devine),cynical young ladies (Rosa fromCyborg 009), mother roles (Chi Chi fromDragonball Z), orspoiled little kids (Angelica Pickles fromRugrats), orYanderes (Ryoumou fromIkki Tousen), or even badassAction Girls (Princess Adora akaShe Ra Princess of Power).
• Arturo Mercado has voicedShaggy,Yoda and Lando,Fred Flintstone,the Beast,Ham,Petrie,Darkwing Duck,Simba,Bob the Builder...and many others. He's in his early 70s, and his range is comparable to the aforementioned Jorge Arvizu.

• Trope
• Man of a Thousand Voices
• Abridged Series Tropes
• Unisex Tropes
• Voice Acting Tropes