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** CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg justifies the practice of hiring celebrities for voice over roles by explaining that most on-camera actors give more "human" performances to characters, while regular voice actors try to come up with too goofy of voices, which is not what he wants.
*** Which is a [[Kick the Dog|pretty big slap in the face to professional voice actors]].
* [[Pixar]] doesn't do this as blatantly as Dreamworks, but they're still very guilty of this trope. All of their films have a cast of familiar faces much better known for on-camera work, assuming they've done any animation at all (beyond appearances on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''). Their only lead actor to date with extensive voice acting experience is [[Edward Asner]], and even he is [[The Mary Tyler Moore Show|no stranger]] to [[Lou Grant|live action]]. (''[[WALL-E]]'' is an exception to this trend, for obvious reasons.) To their credit, at least after the original ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' ("Starring [[Tom Hanks]] and [[Home Improvement (TV series)||Tim Allen]]!") they haven't been [[Billed Above the Title|shouting this tendency from the rooftops]], unlike Dreamworks.
* Disney also does this outside of the [[Disney Animated Canon]], as evidenced with their American dubs of [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s films and the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series (though the latter also employs many regular voice actors as well, considering that there's [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]).
** Speaking of Disney, ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' had [[Michael J. Fox]] as Milo Thatch, '''[[Leonard Nimoy]]''' as the king of Atlantis, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001258/: James Garner] as Rourke, and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001815/: Jim Varney].
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* [[The Emperor]] Uriel Septim VII in ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'' is voiced by [[Patrick Stewart]]... and also doubles as [[Dead Star Walking]].
** And Martin is voiced by [[Sean Bean]].
** Patrick Stewart also provided the voice for Professor Xavier in both of the ''[[X
*** Considering Stewart played the role in the X-Men movies made BEFORE the games, this can hardly count? It makes perfect sense to bring in the same guy as a newer audience associates with the role.
** Back to ''Oblivion''. [[The Dragon]] Mankar Camoran is voiced by [[Terence Stamp]].
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** And then subverted with his role as Mace Windu on the ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' TV series being played by Terrence Carson.
* Former child star Andrew Lawrence was the voice of T.J. Detweiler in ''[[Recess]]'' ([[The Other Darrin|from season two onwards]]). Eerily enough, at the time, T.J. looked ''just like him''!
* Chester McBadbat from ''[[The Fairly
* [[Mark Hamill]] has actually become more recognized for being a voice actor than he has for being Luke Skywalker in ''[[Star Wars]]''. He moved onto voice acting in the first place because he was failing as an on-screen actor. He's earned particular recognition for his role as [[The Joker]] in various media.
* Early episodes of ''[[Captain Planet]]'' had such big names as [[Meg Ryan]], [[Martin Sheen]], Sting, [[Jeff Goldblum]] in various villainous roles and [[Whoopi Goldberg]] as Gaya, although by the second and third seasons these had been replaced by professional voice actors.
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