Question for May 17-23, 2010

[Amby Leigh]

What professional level voice actor do you admire most?

[Y. Chang]

Mippa. She's the best.

[Sapphire]

Charles Adler and Candi Milo.

[Cake Batter]

Grey DeLisle. C:

[Ryusuke]

James Arnold Taylor, Kari Wahlgren and Corey Burton.

[ProjectTrinity]

There's 4 voice actors that I have to do heart-tears to pick, but clearly mine would be Liam O' Brien. I would purchase a not-so-hot anime or game to hear his voice. Especially if it's an evil voice.

[Kennidy]

Crispin Freeman.

[Pi_Face314]

Colleen Clinkenbeard, Eric Vale, and Todd Haberkorn. Excellent actors, all of them, and so wonderful...

[Matt Cruea]

Lucien Dodge.

[Menchi]

Spike Spencer, Joey Hood, Jessica Boone, Cristina Vee, Paul Eiding...to name a few :)

[Subaru-camui]

Vic Mignogna, Hikaru Midorikawa, Romi Paku, Miyano Mamoru, Aya Hirano, Caitlyn Glass, and Laura Bailey =3

[lucawesome]

Steve Blum.

[Aziral]

Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Strong. Yup yup.

[Para_bolic]

Billy West, Crispin Freeman, Nolan North, Steve Blum.

[lionfayt]

The most? Hmmm. I suppose James Arnold Taylor, hands down. (Though, I do admire Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, Dee Bradley Baker, Phil LaMarr, Tress Macneil, Grey Delisle, June Foray, etc etc the list can go on and on)

[Heaven Incarnate]

Richard Horvitz, Jeff Bennett, Mona Marshall, Tara Strong, and John DiMaggio, to name a few.

[TriPredRavage]

If I have to pick just one... I gues it'd be Rob Paulsen. But that's a tough call.

[DarkKnightGrave]

Tara Strong and Colleen Clinkenbeard. <3 ......also Steven Jay Blum and Crispin Freeman.

[Tonberry King]

Laura Bailey, Crispin Freeman, Billy West, and Tara Strong.

[Damaru]

Crispin Freeman; gorgeous voice, prolific, knowledgeable, polite, charming, and talented~

[fantachan]

I can't decide between Laura Bailey and Crispen Freeman. I admire both of them a lot. ^^

[Blue Leader]

That's a tough one... It's probably a toss-up between Cynthia Martinez, Yuri Lowenthal, Kirk Thornton and Jimeson Price. Seriously, don't make me pick between them... it's too hard.:sweat

[Amby Leigh]

Melissa Fahn.... for being able to carry on a career in voice over and stage acting at the same time.

[MissAck]

Tara Strong, hands down.

[Bryson Baugus]

Steve Blum, Mike McFarland, Cristina Vee, Yuri Lowenthal, Laura Bailey, Todd Habberkorn, and and and too many to think of Dx

[halfmillennium]

I'd say the two I admire the most would be Jon Culshaw and Chris Barrie (of course, like a lot of voice actors, they both do a lot of live action acting as well). I got into voice acting through impressions, so it's not a surprise they're both prolific impressionists. Although his live action roles are certainly more famous than his voiceover ones, I'd also say John Simm - I was surprised when I realised the range that guy has (and he's a Northerner).

[Tetsuya94]

Vic Mignogna, Todd Haberkorn, Aaron Dismuke, Hiro Shimono, Mamoru Miyano ^^b

[sparf]

Jim Cummings, David Kaye, Greg Ayers, Lucien Dodge.

Jim Cummings voiced so many of my favorite characters growing up, David Kaye voiced a favorite character in one of the first anime series that I followed, Greg Ayers because he, Tiffany Grant, and Carrie Savage came to my rescue running an AVA Panel (first time, alone, at my first con) at Nekocon 7, and Lucien because he's awesome and still manages to do awesome AVA stuff like Lost Frontier for me :).

[Refi-chan]

I could say the VAs of my favorite bishies for doing such a wonderful job bringing them to life...but when it comes down to it, I think I'd have to say...

Jim Cummings

Just look at his credits! Such wonder! Such diversity! From Pooh Bear to also picking up Tigger with nary a notice to the trained ear of the VA switch. Road Rover villians, the two main characters of Bonkers, a number of notable Rescue Ranger&Darkwing Duck characters, Morroco Mole, and singing for Scar and Rasputen! Only a portion of his work as he's been in many genres, but he's been a part of many of my favorite shows.

[silpheed]

Liam O' Brien and Jamieson Price after hearing those 2 talk in nier that really was the funnist things i ever heard

[Geekums]

Hmm I really love Alyson Court and Cam Clarke.

[Brooke Leeann]

Yuri Lowenthal xO

[JWalker]

there's a handful of names:
Quinton Flynn
Vic Macdurkadurka
Sean Schemmel
Chris Sabat
Johnny Yong Bosch
David Hayter
Cam Clarke
Legendary VA Artist/Musician/Hot-throb DAN GREEN

Ultimately, I think Chris Sabat was THE one cause I use to do the Vegeta voice in high school and at anime club xD

[Rahne]

Kirby Morrow. :)

[Seymour]

Chris Patton
Greg Ayres
Yuri Lowenthal
Christina Vee
Wendee Lee
Quinton Flynn
Michelle Ruff

[ig.]

It's a tossup between Dom Armato and Jenny Sharpe...but don't tell either of them I said that, though! :sweat

[Steven Mane]

Well, the obvious choice is Steven Mane. Then the rest get kind of hazy, but I think I can come up with a few:

Jim Cummings
Cree Summer
Pete Stacker (Here's to you, Real Voice Actor of Genius)
Max Raphael
Edward Herrmann
Jeff Lupetin
Lucien Dodge
Don LaFontaine
Tom Kenny
Grey DeLisle
Rob Paulsen
Sean Schemmel
And a good majority of 4-Kids voice actors

[LG65]

Takaya Kuroda. I could name more, but I like his work a LOT.

[Voiceroy]

I normally avoid threads like this due to the many contacts and relationships I've developed with so many professional voice actors. I just don't want to be accused of "playing favorites." So I'm going to dodge the question about those I "admire most" by listing those who have been the most influential for sparking my interest in voice acting:

Mel Blanc
Daws Butler
June Foray
Bill Cosby
Rich Little
Jonathan Winters
Pat Fraley
Jim Cummings
Frank Welker
Peter Cullen
Corey Burton


Melissa Fahn.... for being able to carry on a career in voice over and stage acting at the same time.That's actually not as difficult as you might think. In fact, there are plenty of pro voice actors who still hold "day jobs." And scheduling VO work around being involved in stage productions is generally not difficult.

[McTricky]

Yuri Lowenthal
Laura Bailey
Johnny Yong Bosch (shush)
Keeley Hawes
Tara Platt
Wendee Lee
Troy Baker
Liam O Brien
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn