This person has been in several movies and does voiceovers for cartoons as well, one show in particular that catches my attention when I’m not binge watching family guy. She started off acting in movies such as Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice, Friday, and in 2005 Miss Congeniality 2, her name is Regina King. Regina King grew up in Los Angeles and eventually graduated from University of Southern California. Regina has been nominated and won several awards for best actress and outstanding performance throughout her career.

Her past has been filled with success and so is her future, from 2005 until 2014 Regina worked on the television series “The Boondocks” where she played the voice of two young boys Riley and Huey, Riley being the little boy who thinks he’s bad but just is always all talk, and his older brother Huey who is very laid back, smart, and knows every form of Karate and Taekwondo there is.

What I like is that Regina is able to bring such life to the 2 boys and you would never know it was a woman who talked for them. That’s one of the things that can be so fascinating about voice acting, it’s not uncommon for men to play little girls or for women to play little boys, in fact the actors for the cartoon show the Rugrat’s were all women except the one man who spoke for Chuckie, so playing opposite rolls isn’t something new. It’s a career with no limitations.

Just a little video of Regina King Recording lines for Riley and Huey

Interesting Documentaries

Hey everyone, so I thought I would share a little with you guys a documentary that I watched not too long ago that I found to be pretty interesting, especially seeing how it was just all about voice overs.

The documentary is called “I Know That Voice” directed by Lawrence Shapiro back in 2013. The film is a 90 minute film about being in the voice over industry, several voice actors and actresses such as they man who speaks for SpongeBob Tom Kenny, PowerPuff girls Tara Strong, and Seth Green, along with others talk about the first cartoons and little bit about how the man how came up with voice of bugs bunny became one of the main influences for artist today.

Throughout the film they also talk about themselves how their careers got started and how they came up with some of the voices that they can do.

I always find it interesting to learn about others and their creative processes or how they take a part and decide “I want this character to sound like this” and then it eventually becomes one of the most popular/funniest voices on television at the time.

Below is just the “I Know That Voice” were a few of the actors are reading scripts in some of their most well know character voices.
I would like to know what you guys find interesting, what’s your favorite cartoon or voice actor, let me know in the comments.

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