31 Celebrities You Had Absolutely No Idea Voiced Some Of Your Favorite Animated Characters (2025)

Are you one of those people who are absolutely impossible to watch animated movies with? Because I sure am. I spend the whole time annoying everyone around me as I scour IMDb and loudly announce that yes, I was right, Matthew Broderick does voice Simba. Bless Prime Video, and its incredible feature that shows who’s in the cast onscreen when you click. But there are still times when I fail to spot the voice actor and am rendered speechless once I realize exactly which celebrity made an appearance as, like, an animated fish or something. So here are 33 times that I was completely gagged when I found out the voice actor of a cartoon, so you can be as shocked as I was. 1. Matt Damon as Spirit, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 2. Neil Patrick Harris as Steve the Monkey, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 3. Ariel Winter as Sofia the First, Sofia the First 4. Beyoncé as Queen Tara, Epic 5. America Ferrera as Astrid, How To Train Your Dragon 6. Zach Braff as Chicken Little, Chicken Little 7. Willem Dafoe as Gill, Finding Nemo 8. Jay Leno as The Crimson Chin, Fairly OddParents 9. Catherina O'Hara as Sally, The Nightmare Before Christmas 10. Ariana Grande as Princess Diaspro, Winx Club 11. John Ritter as Clifford, Clifford the Big Red Dog 12. James Avery as Shredder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 13. Donald Glover as Marshall Lee, Adventure Time 14. Anne Hathaway as Little Red Riding Hood, Hoodwinked! 15. Steven Yeun as Mark Grayson, Invincible 16. Rihanna as Tip, Home 17. Tina Fey as Lisa, Ponyo 18. Jason Segel as Vector, Despicable Me 19. Joaquin Phoenix as Kenai, Brother Bear 20. Neil deGrasse Tyson as Waddles, Gravity Falls 21. Billy Joel as Dodger, Oliver & Company 22. Will Arnett as Batman, The Lego Batman Movie 23. Nicole Scherzinger as Sina, Moana 24. Mark Hamill as Firelord Ozai, Avatar: the Last Airbender 25. Matthew Gray Gubler as Simon, Alvin and the Chipmunks 26. Kathryn Hahn as Doc Ock, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse 27. Nicki Minaj as Sugilite, Steven Universe 28. Taylor Swift as Audrey, The Lorax 29. Miley Cyrus as Penny, Bolt 30. Elijah Wood as Wirt, Over the Garden Wall 31. Christian Bale as Howl, Howl's Moving Castle 32. Drake as Ethan, Ice Age: Continental Drift And finally, 33. Martin Scorsese as Sykes, Shark Tale Are there any I missed out that shocked you to your core? Don't forget to let me know down below. References