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Voice Actors who are completely different than you pictured them

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Is... Is that jiminey cricket??? :O
 
Not sure if this counts. Well, if you didn't picture them being famous....

then Kingdom Hearts has a lot of notable VAs which may be surprising.

Jesse McCarthy
Hayden Penitterre (Don't know how to spell it)
Haley Joel Osmet
Leonard Nimoy
Others...
 
I found it interesting that Albert Wesker and Legion from Mass Effect were done by the same dude, I don't really have much to add I'm just enjoying reading through the thread :)

EDT: Wait, Charles Martinet voiced Paarthurnax? Mind f'ing blown
 
Not sure if this counts. Well, if you didn't picture them being famous....

then Kingdom Hearts has a lot of notable VAs which may be surprising.

Jesse McCarthy
Hayden Penitterre (Don't know how to spell it)
Haley Joel Osmet
Leonard Nimoy
Others...

Wasn't Lance Bass(s?) Cloud and Mandy Moore was Aerith? At the time those names kinda meant something to teen girls.
 
Wasn't Lance Bass(s?) Cloud and Mandy Moore was Aerith? At the time those names kinda meant something to teen girls.

Yeah, there's definitely a bunch. I was just going off the top of my head. David Gallagher from 7th Heaven was bigger in '01 too.
 
Wasn't Lance Bass(s?) Cloud and Mandy Moore was Aerith? At the time those names kinda meant something to teen girls.

Lance Bass was Sephiroth for only the original KH. Steve Burton, an actor perhaps best known for his work on General Hospital, has been Cloud since the original KH. If I recall correctly Mandy Moore was only Aerith in the first KH as well.
 
Not a video game, but:

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To clarify: A man who looks like this can make Mickey Mouse’s voice come out of his body.

Other example:
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Having beaten the game today, Wonder Green from Wonderful 101 was a surprise, had no idea he was voiced by Kari Wahlgren (who's pretty prolific, you might know her best as Ashe from Final Fantasy XII). I mean, I could pick out Tara Strong and Yuri Lowenthal doing goofy accents immediately, but I guess I never even imagined that Wahlgren's voice would be coming out of a fat French middle school kid's mouth.

Call me crazy.
 
Quinton Flynn voices a few characters in Valkyria Chronicles, specificllay the old man at the graveyard.

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I still have a hard time believing that Troy Baker, who looks like a Final Fantasy character come to life, voiced Joel in The Last of Us and did such an exceptional job at it.

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He actually looks more like Joel and Booker in other pics though. That is just a bad picture of him.
 
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Keith Silverstein

He also gets to the cloud district very often

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+ a bunch of other Skyrim NPCs

+ a bunch of other video game and anime roles that I'm not familiar with.
 
The VA for Raziel was a fairly older guy and he even spoke about how some people would be so excited to meet him only to find out.........it's an old guy! He joked with the VA of Kain that he should go to one of the cons dressed all out in skin tight black clothing to goth it up.

It was hilarious stuff.

He even mentioned how they sent a copy of the first Soul Reaver to him and he couldn't even get across a stream. He didn't have the capability to control the character on screen and his daughter would have to do everything.

Funfact: The daughter in question plays the possessed girl in The Last Exorcism and its sequel.

SPEAKING OF WHICH
Phil Lamarr!

AKA Marvin from Pulp Fiction ("I just shot Marvin in the face!")
 
For some reason I never imagined Kratos to be voiced by a black guy.

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For a long time I always thought Kratos WAS black because of his voice actor, I kinda still imagine that he is black. TC Carson was awesome in Living Single when I was a kid
 
Raziel from Soul Reaver.

Here's a clip on youtube with him doing some VA work with Tony Jay! It's from the stuff that was on SR2.

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I hadn't seen that in a long time. It really brings a sense of nostalgia to watch it again.


I know everyone knows that Mark Hamill is The Joker, but watching him BE the joker while recording caught me right off guard.

This video from Batman: Arkham City is great to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6zqFsYuhX4

That's absolutely marvelous. Thanks for sharing.


He looks like a black version of Jeff Goldblum

That made me laugh out loud.
 
I dunno, it's pretty close in comparison to some of the others listed already:

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Funny thing is my custom haircut/beard for Trevor matches the original more. I was playing around with the haircuts and that one felt the most right. I never saw his picture until today :P
 
Troy Baker for me as well. Looking like Snow in that pic is probably a coincidence and maybe the reason they chose him to voice Snow anyway?

And now that someone mentioned it, Gabranth surprises me too. Good stuff!

Not surprised at voice actor and character likeness at all though in the case of Naughty Dog's stuff. It's standard practice to draw in features of the original voice actor. Disney do it a lot, as well as other animated features/products.
 
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