Th✱e gaming industry is blessed with some major talent in the form of its voice actors. The work of these performers elevates characters and makes them truly iconic. Being an actor of any sort requires determination and a huge amount of luck, and most of them never see a break.
We've combed IMDb to find the first professional credits of the biggest voices in gaming. All these actors have unique stories to tell, just like their characters - read on to find out how each tale began.
6 💟 Troy Ba🦩ker
Best Known For: Joel (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last Of Us), Booker (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bioshock Infinite)
Arguably the biggest male voice in video games, Troy Baker has been a voice actor for decades. His earliest credit is for the role of Shunjun in the English dub of Yu Yu Hakusho, and his voice can be heard as incidental characters in several Lupin III dubs as well. From 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:One Piece and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fullmetal Alchemist to Naruto and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bleach, ඣBaker probably appeared in the English vers▨ion of your favorite anime from the 2000s.
By the time Baker started regularly working in video games, he was already a veteran voice actor. His performance as Joel in The Last of Us helped make t♕he game a high point in storytelling for any medium, and he continues to work on countless animation and video game projects.
5 ﷺ Ashley Johnson
Best Known For: Ellie (The Last Of Us), Pike (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Critical Role)
Ashley Johnson has been acting since she was a child, playing Crissy Seaver on the 90s sitcom Growing Pains. Her first film was also released in 1990, a testosterone-fuelled Jean-Claude Van Damme flick called Lionheart. In the movie, Van Damme plays an ex-so🍨ldier who enters an underground fightin✱g ring to avenge his brother and pay the bills of his family - including niece Nicole, played by Johnson.
Since then, Ashley has appeared in dozens of well-known series including Recess (Gretchen), Teen Titans (Terra), and Ben 10 (Gwen). In the world of video games, her chief claim to fame is the role of Ellie in The Last of Us, a complex, flawed protagonist that only a master actre🐎ss could pull off - which of course Johnson did to perfection.
4 ܫ Nolan North
Best Known For: Nathan Drake (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Uncharted), Desmond Miles (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed)
Nolan North is among gaming's most prolific voice actors. Before he was haring off to far-flung corners of the world in search of treasure as Nathan Drake or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:battling global conspiracies as Desmond Miles, North got his start on the long-running soap opera General Hospital and its spinoff, Port Charles.
The reporter-turned-stand-up-comedian-turned-actor did seven years as medical intern Chris Ramsey, who once kidnapped his own brother in an attempt to become a vampire (a plot line which isn't even close to the strangest General Hospital has ever seen).
3 🌸 Maggie Robertson
Best Known For: Lady Dimitrescu (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil Village)
Maggie Robertson is a relative newcomer compared to others on this list. Her screen debut was in the award-winning 2017 indie film Nothing To Do, where she played the doctor to the leading characters' dying father.
Since then she captured the Internet's collective hearts (and all the delicious blood inside) as the dangerous and beautiful vampire Alcina Dimitrescu. Her performance netted her a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:2021 Game Award for Best♉ Performance of the Year, and we can't wait to see what she does next.
2 ꦅ ꧙ Charles Martinet
Best Known For: Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi,🍨 and many other Mushroom K🍨ingdom denizens
Charles Martinet has voiced Mario since almost the beginning, and given his choice, he'd like to continue doing so for the rest of his life. Before taking on the role of the world's most famous video game hero, Martinet was working as a film actor. His earliest credit is as a police deputy in the 1986 made-for-TV movie Brotherhood of Justice. The film stars a young Keanu Reeves and Kiefer Sutherland as🅘 high school students who d🔴ecide to fight crime.
Mario was actually Charles Martinet's first voiceover credit. While most gamers heard him voice the plumber for the first time in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario 64 with the now-famous "It's-a me, Mario!," Martinet originally portrayed Mario in the 1991 edutainment title Mario Teaches Typing. His work clearly struck a chord with Nintendo, because he's voiced the plumber ever since.
1 Jennifer Hale 🀅
Best Known For: Commander Shepard (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect), Samus Aran (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metroid Prime)
Jennifer Hale has been acting longer than many gamers have been alive. Her extensive resume dates all the way back to 1988 with the TV movie A Father's Homecoming, which was about a New England boys' school beginning to admit girls. Hale's first video game role was as Kim in the 1991 CD-ROM game Flipper, based on the TV show of the same title.
At a time when the conversation about video games as art largely hadn't even started, Jennifer Hale showed her acting chops in the 1994 adventure game Quest For Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness. As the vampire Katrina, she portrayed a conflicted villain who is among the most memorable characters in tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhe classic Sierra lineup.
