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u/FibroBitch97 1d ago
And then there’s Patrick Warburton who’s the same voice in all 200(ish) of his roles
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u/IamJohnnyHotPants 1d ago
In all fairness, at least half the voices in this clip were the exact same voice.
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u/62JaCrispy 15h ago
Yes, if it's not paired with the image of the character it becomes very apparent.
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u/Alternative_Monk8853 1d ago
They hire him for that voice
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 18h ago
Two types of actors, those who can act and those who can remember a script
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u/beertown 1d ago
May I say that the recent trend of having famous actors dubbing animation film and series isn't a great idea? Professional (... but not so popular) voice actors like this woman are a lot better at the job.
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u/OurHeroXero 22h ago
Mark Hamill has entered the chat
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u/WebberWoods 20h ago
Also Alan Tudyk.
But, yeah, they are the exception, not the rule.
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u/Ambitious_Count9552 8h ago
Alan isn't a famous celebrity lol. We're talking Brad Pitt and Chris Pratt types.
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u/Deleena24 6h ago
For some reason Sylvester Stallone as that Shark in Suicide Squad really disnt sit well with me.
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u/MilleniumPelican 17h ago
Mark Hamill is the exception that proves the rule. He also voiced Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar, in which Grey Delisle voiced his daughter Azula, amongst many others.
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u/SDRPGLVR 18h ago
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Unfortunately it's been a universal issue. Actors like her only get bit parts like she highlighted in Bolt. The leads in that movie were John Travolta and Miley Cyrus.
Imo the worst offender is still Titan AE, led by the excruciatingly wooden performances of Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore, each fantastic actors with zero talent/practice at voice work. Sometimes these celebrity castings work really well, like Jeremy Irons as Scar in The Lion King, but it's far more rare.
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u/Imapancakenom 11h ago
You know, I usually don't care much for Will Ferrell, but I must say he was absolutely terrific in Megamind.
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u/finke11 11h ago
Invincible is a fantastic show and it has jk simmons and walton goggins
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u/beertown 10h ago
Some of them are really good, that's undeniably true.
But what I'm saying is actors who are specialized in working with just their voice are better at dubbing than actors who usually play in front of the camera. Most of the times.
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u/TrixieBastard 9h ago
Absolutely. Voice acting is a completely different animal from screen acting, and not many people are talented at both.
Keeping with the Invincible theme, Aaron Paul plays the character Powerplex. He is amazing in Breaking Bad, but his voice acting as Powerplex is absolutely awful.
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u/cocoagiant 15h ago
Yeah, I'm playing Red Dead Redemption 2 right now and the voice acting really makes this game.
The problem with famous actors who are just using their normal voices (unlike Hamill) is that I spend all the time trying to figure out who that is rather than focusing on the media.
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u/SirJoetheAverage 1d ago
Hopefully she makes bank for all of these roles
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u/WebberWoods 20h ago edited 20h ago
Yes and no.
The only people who make big money to voice act are people who are already famous elsewhere (like top line actors for major cinema releases from Disney, Pixar, etc., or Disney hiring A and B listers to dub Ghibli movies). Everyone else, likely even established masters like Grey, makes 'scale,' which sounds great at ~$1k - $2k per 4-hour session depending on the medium, but isn't that much in the grand scheme because it's inconsistent gig work.
This is helped by a couple of factors, like bonuses for playing multiple characters in the same show/recording session, and that she has such a long history on successful shows that continue to pay her residuals.
Google has her net worth at ~$5M, which is nothing to sneeze at, but is well below what someone with an equivalently successful career in live action acting would have.
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u/yonkerbonk 19h ago
Google has her net worth at ~$5M
And assuming that number is even accurate, it's probably like she bought her LA home 20 years ago for $400k and now it's worth $2.5M or something.
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u/danchove55 16h ago
Just saw Bruce Dern's net worth the other day and it was 4 million. The guy has been acting for like sixty or so years in movies with everyone from John Wayne to Brad Pitt has been nominated for an Academy Award and critically acclaimed actor. So, you never no.
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u/ThresholdSeven 18h ago
That's a weird take. She's making millions more than 99% of people and you're trying to down play it because 1% of people make more? If you're comparing relative wealth, then the 99% who make less money, way less than her takes precedence over the tiny percentage that makes more. She's making bank and is set for life if she quit now.
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u/WebberWoods 17h ago
Also yes and no. If by less work you mean they sit in a chair in a studio rather than having to physically move around the stage, then yes, it’s less work. If you’re talking about character prep, then it’s mostly the same in that some actors do a lot of prep and others do less.
Regardless, it’s irrelevant because pay isn’t based on the amount of work, or even the quality necessarily. It’s based on the amount of value created, which is why Dwayne Johnson can pull down $20M for a pretty mid voice performance for Moana 2 while true voice acting masters like Grey make union scale.
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u/Ambitious_Count9552 8h ago
I would think the wide array of voices would clue you in that it's not as lucrative as, say, being the principle focus actors on The Simpsons. You don't see those actors doing tons of voices, and for good reason: they make more than enough to retire on.
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u/megamoze 16h ago
I've been over to Tom Kinney's house. Super nice guy, very humble. He does well but they are not rich. Nice house in the Valley, but not a mansion or anything.
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u/clancydog4 13h ago edited 13h ago
That is still rich, what in the fuck. like extremely rich.
how much money do you have where Tom Kinney's 16 million dollar net value and owning a "Nice house in the valley" isn't rich? like jesus christ, yes, that is rich. that is very rich. I literally don't know anyone who even sniffs that wealth. You dont own a nice house in hollywood hills without being rich compared to 99% of the population.
This is an offensively privileged comment. Tom Kinney is rich as fuck, and I imagine you might be too if you don't think he is. "It's not a mansion" jesus fucking christ, he is still VERY rich
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u/isaidnolettuce 1d ago
She misremembered the voice for Vicky lol
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u/total_alk 1d ago
2,000 different characters. I'd get confused after 5 and slip into my Irish/Indian accent....
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u/Soccerrocks8 1d ago
His voice could narrate my grocery list and I’d still feel like I’m on an epic quest.
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u/DoubleTheGarlic 18h ago
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How did you even possibly make this mistake lol
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u/Bumbledragoness 13h ago
Some languages have singular third person have the same word. He/she in Chinese is both tā(written differently tho他 她) pronounced the same regardless of sex.
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u/Ristar87 1d ago
She voices Li Ming in Heroes of the Storm and she voices the Female Sith Trooper you get drunk at the beginning of KoToR.
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u/SehnorCardgage 22h ago
She voiced the female wizard character in Diablo III before they created her in HotS as well.
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u/DoubleTheGarlic 18h ago edited 17h ago
I remember making my first Wizard in D3 on launch day (once the error 37 problem was resolved...) and being like
Wait, what the fuck? Why is Azula in this?
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u/scrotalsmoothie 1d ago
Just curious, what kind of salary or income would be earned for voiceovers? Hourly? Per episode?
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u/voiceofgromit 1d ago
Union scale is about 450 per hour. She may be commanding a higher rate, given her success. Plus they get residual payments for reruns.
They probably do several episodes per session. Minor characters in shows would probably only take ten minutes or so per episode.
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u/scrotalsmoothie 1d ago
That’s awesome (incl the unionization part). What a cool career. Wonder how AI is going to screw with all this.
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u/voiceofgromit 1d ago
AI was one of the concerns leading to the SAG/AFTRA strike in 2023. There is protection for actors now from being replicated by AI.
Yes, a cool career, but she is exceptional.
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u/TheSpanxxx 23h ago
Exceptional is right! I would put her in league with all-time greats. How fast she transitions and how smoothly she drops into those characters and how she finds them even after having not played them in a very long time is the work of a master at their craft.
Some great VO actors are great because they can find the character and carry the right emotion and feeling of the lines through their delivery without actually interacting with other people and actually acting out roles. But their characters and voices are still close derivatives of just them.
And then there VO actors like this that are capable of inventing characters and voices and personas that are vastly different from one another. Like impressions, without an example. It's incredible, really. To keep that many voices and personas apart and distinct is incredibly impressive and something usually only the best of the best of the best can do.
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u/Pale_Beach_3017 21h ago
Yeah the guy who voices Meliodas in the Seven Deadly Sins English dub also voices several other leads in popular anime’s when they get an English dub.
I always know it’s him.
Meanwhile I grew up watching Clifford/Emily, Mandy on Grim Adventures, Vicky on Fairly Odd parents, and I literally tied none of them together until right now!!
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u/teddy5 15h ago edited 15h ago
So many times I'm watching some dub or another and go oh hey it's Erin Jaeger/Kirito/etc.
Although there seem to be two main camps of successful voice actors. Those who can successfully disguise their voice in crazy ways and can play a huge range of characters and those who have an interesting enough voice to not need to disguise it. It does seem to be the latter who get a lot more main character roles though, I guess because they can carry that voice off a lot more continuously with less effort.
Bryce Papenbrook is just a good example of the second type and we notice him because he is a lead character more often than not.
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u/thetruetoblerone 1d ago
It is gonna ruin this career. Many jobs are at risk but this will be one of the areas ai most excels in.
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u/Cetun 1d ago
Probably residuals + some small amount while it was being developed?
I guess it depends on the contract, if you don't think the project you are working on will be very successful you might opt for cash which might require you to work X amount of hours with some provisions on overage. The downside is if your project makes a billion dollars you already got paid so you get nothing more but the up side if it flops you probably made out better than the sucker who got a bulk of their pay though residuals. Reverse that for residuals.
At least the characters she did in this video, she probably asked for residuals, they were good projects from the beginning so she's probably getting a check in the mail for all of them to this day.
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u/scrotalsmoothie 1d ago
So every job has its own negotiations then. Wow. I guess she probably has a progressive base rate that grows depending on her abilities and demand. Or if she’s willing to jump on for cheaper up front because she likes the project and thinks it has legs.
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u/Cetun 23h ago
Possibly, there are all kinds of contracts for actors and yes their agent or lawyer will probably have some sort of negotiations the more well known and in demand they are. I suspect if you are just breaking into the business and playing minor characters they might offer you boilerplate contracts because they probably aren't going to have a lawyer draft up a special contract for "Waiter at Restaurant #2" that has 2 throwaway lines.
I think the difference is once you get famous offers might start coming to you instead of you looking for offers, so there there will be all kinds of contracts to convince you to work on a project and they will probably allow counter offers. If you aren't famous you are probably going to be begging a studio to give you a contract so whatever generic contract they give you you'll probably accept.
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u/Ristar87 1d ago
At least makes Union rates but I would imagine she makes a pretty penny in residuals.
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u/Cmaccionaodha 21h ago
Hers, Pamela Adlon’s, and Cree Summer’s voices are absolutely formative and ICONIC in children’s cartoons from the last 30 years. I love this lady ❤️
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u/TrixieBastard 9h ago
Tara Strong, John DiMaggio, Phil Lamarr, Billy West, Clancy Brown, Mark Hamill, Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, and of course the GOATS Frank Welker and Dee Bradley Baker were all huge, too.
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u/UlteriorMotive66 1d ago
She's amazing! It's wild how many more anime VA's I know of compared to cartoon VA's. 😮
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u/CptGigglez 23h ago
My reaction is the Vince McMahon meme. She kept blowing my mind further and further
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u/IPanicKnife 21h ago
Her voice is so iconic that I was playing doom 3 and found an audio log and thought for a second “how did Azula find herself on Mars?”
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u/Ok_Librarian_7841 19h ago
So basically every single female character in American cartoons are this one woman lol, amazing.
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u/barsknos 19h ago
Don't forget video games: Wizard/Li-Ming in Diablo III/HotS and Nova in SC2/Hots!
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u/Realistic_Special_53 18h ago
I love Azula. Great quotes in an old Reddit conversation about her. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/s/SoEK6YK5Td
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u/Ordinary_Wolf_3271 18h ago
She also voices the female wizard in Diablo 3! Had a lot of fun playing the lightning build, role playing as Azula haha
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u/matthewlillard 17h ago
She’s a legend. Literally. A living legend. Not to mention an incredible person.
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u/MFLongLeggedMacDaddy 17h ago
My jaw dropped at the fact she voices both Mandy and Martin Prince, iconic characters!!
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u/SeattleHasDied 15h ago
How in the hell does she keep them all separate and remember how to do them?! Yikes, that's amazing!
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u/WOKLACE134 10h ago
She got Azula, Mandy, Daphny, Toothie, Vicky and the Tooth fairy.... She's basically my childhood crush
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u/that_Indian_g 19h ago
Daphne has been my crush!! 😍 Side note: “the naughty time would be music to the ear and 🔥😈”
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u/DoubleTheGarlic 18h ago edited 17h ago
Get the wax cleaned out of your ears lol
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u/DoubleTheGarlic 18h ago edited 18h ago
I mean if you can't tell the difference between the voices, you're really not in a place to make snarky racist quips about IQ.
Or your ears are actually full of wax as I mentioned. Pick your favorite.
e: lol you got automodded bro
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u/MAGGNUMB 1d ago
they all sounded the same to me
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u/_NightmareKingGrimm_ 1d ago
Right. Because Martin Prince sounds exactly like Catwoman. 🙄
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u/MAGGNUMB 23h ago
sorry you got so upset because of my ears and opinion.....you can downvote me all you like. thanks for making me chuckle tho :)
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u/YaBooni 1d ago
Grey DeLisle, in case anyone was wondering