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Often turn out to be examples of [[Ink Suit Actor|Ink Suit Actors.]] See also [[Pop Star Composer]] for the musical equivalent.
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* Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, and Alan Tudyk come together once more in ''[[Halo|Halo 3: ODST]]''. Yes, Bungie Studios is mostly staffed by [[Firefly|Browncoats]].
* [[Trope Codifier|Codified]] by [[Robin Williams]]' role as the Genie in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. Also an instance of [[Ink Suit Actor]].
* [[Dreamworks Animation]] is notorious for this trope. Name one movie of theirs that ''doesn't'' have celebrities voicing the characters. They also market these actors ''very'' heavily; if they get a particularly big name, he or she will be [[Billed Above the Title]].
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** ''[[Skyrim]]'' has quite the list of these. See the [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim/Trivia|Trivia]] page for the full list. Notably, Esbern (the narrator of the trailer) is voiced by [[Max Von Sydow]]. Unfortunately some of Esbern's lines were voiced by another actor who tried and failed to imitate von Sydow.
* ''[[The Critic]]'' and ''[[Duckman]]'' both were star-vehicle toons, for Jon Lovitz and Jason Alexander respectively.
* Speaking about doing the voice of Optimus Prime in the live-action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movies, Peter Cullen remarked that it was great to be working with "the old crew" again (a couple of the voices for the live-action movie were done by the [[The Transformers (animation)|G1]] voice actors), but pointedly made the comment that he "wished he could have worked with [[Frank Welker]] again." A subtle [[Take That]] over the fact that Megatron was voiced by [[The Matrix|Hugo Weaving]] for the live-action movies, given that Frank Welker voiced Soundwave, Ravage, and Devastator in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' (whom Optimus never meets, for different reasons.<ref>Namely, Soundwave never goes to Earth and {{spoiler|Optimus dies; by the time he's revived, Ravage and Devastator were both killed gruesomely}}</ref>). Nevertheless, [[Transformers Prime|Cullen got his wish granted]].
*** ''Dark of the Moon'' adds another example: [[Leonard Nimoy]] as Sentinel Prime.
** Long before that, ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]''. Hoo boy. The movie practically advertised itself by actors alone: [[The Breakfast Club|Judd Nelson]] as Hot Rod, [[Monty Python|Eric Idle]] as Wreck-Gar, Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron, [[Airplane!|Robert Stack]] as Ultra Magnus, and '''[[Orson Welles]] as Unicron'''. [[The Other Darrin|All of them ended up replaced in the TV episodes following the movie]]. The TV show and movie did, however, have the late Scatman Crothers as the voice of Jazz, plus John Moschitta as Blurr.
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* Disney did it as early as 1951 with ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', casting Jerry Colonna and Ed Wynn as the March Hare and the Mad Hatter, respectively (both were legendary radio stars at the time).
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' franchise enjoys using celebrities for voice actors, usually people who are already experienced voice actors. Most notably, [[Mark Hildreth]], the T.V. Actor, as Heero Yuy in [[Gundam Wing]], as well as [[Matt Hill]], the world-saving athlete, as Kira Yamato in [[Gundam Seed]].
* Several characters in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' were voiced by the stars of ''[[Star Trek: The
** He didn't appear often, but Brent Spiner turned in a very mischievous Puck ([[The Fair Folk|bizarre]] Puck is apparently more typical of Spiner's roles).
*** In fact, quite a few ''[[Star Trek]]'' alumni turned up: Avery Brooks, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Kate Mulgrew, Nichelle Nichols and Colm Meaney (not to mention some who were in the movies, like Paul Winfield and David Warner). [[wikipedia:List of Gargoyles cast members#Star Trek connection|The Other Wiki now has a full list of actors who worked both on Star Trek and Gargoyles.]]
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* 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.
** Also of note is that [[Tom Cruise]] was attached to voice Cap, but it didn't work out.
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* A notoriously bad live-action example was the English-language dub of Roberto Benigni's ''Pinocchio'' (2002), which used an [[All-Star Cast]]: Breckin Meyer as Pinocchio (whom ''Benigni'' plays onscreen), Glenn Close as the Blue Fairy, and in the supporting roles David Suchet, [[Monty Python|John Cleese, Eric Idle]], Topher Grace, Queen Latifah, Cheech Marin, Eddie Griffin, Kevin James, James Belushi, and Regis Philbin. The quality of the performances varies wildly and no one's work escapes the [[Hong Kong Dub]].
* [[Claudia Black]] made a surprise appearance in the North American dub of ''[[Steel Angel Kurumi]]''.
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