Best Voice Acting Debuts

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In this thread, we talk about voice actors' first main roles, on any kind of animation.

My choice would definatly be:

Katie Crown as Izzy from Total Drama Island

It's always pretty hard voicing an energetic character, but she's no ordinary energetic character, it looked like a hard role, and how Katie pulled it off was amazing in terms of humor and how fans say that Izzy technically has two voices in one. But yeah, hopefully, I would like to see Katie in more roles.

Katie wasn't exactly a nobody before TDI, she was in a comedy group around 2006, and there's a lot of videos featuring her in Youtube (just put "Katie Crown", and there's a couple of videos of her involved).

Honorable Mention:

Melissa Davis as Kurumi Momose from Pani Poni Dash!
 
Kari Wahlgren as Haruko (Fooly Cooly)

I'm not sure if this was her first true VA role, but it was her first anime, and admitted to Haruko being a sentimental favorite when I emailed her about it. Her Haruko role was a lot of fun to watch, and she had to have had a lot of fun delivering the lines of such a crazy character.

Basically, the more I watched shows that featured her, the more Kari became a favorite of mine.
 
Nancy Cartwright as Gloria Glad

Who would have thought in 1980 that Nancy's debut as Richie Rich's girlfriend on Saturday mornings would lead her to play a yellow-skinned mischief maker for 20 years on Sunday nights?
 
Ooh, I didn't know Katie Crown was a voiceover rookie. She does a great job giving Izzy her manic energy, a huge reason she's my favorite character on TDI.
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I never thought a topic like this would ever pop up, but since it has...

Nathan Ruegger as Baby Plucky

The "Tiny Toons" episode, "The Potty Years", is pretty memorable, not only for Baby Plucky's exclamations, but for Ruegger's deliveries of said exclamations. He did a fine job, though I can't imagine how he got the part. ;)
 
"I want to FLUSH IT. AGAIN!"

That line was delivered so beautifully in that episode. It made me cry with laughter and awww on his childish stubbornness. Agrees fully.
 
Is any voice acting debut topic complete without Mark Hammil as the Joker. Sure he was an actor for about twenty years at the time but the Joker put him back on the map, a smaller map but still.
 
Going old school, Janet Waldo made her mark as the voice of Judy Jetson, leading to several more characters in the Hanna-Barbera franchise.
 
I'd have to also go with Dana Snyder in Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Dana did some theather work before hand but ATHF was his first actual prefomrence in a cartoon and he became actually quite good at it. He has one of those signature voices that dosen't have a terrible load of range (hear him once and you can pretty much nail any other role he does) but he defintley has a lot of talent especially in his debut in ATHF. Pretty much any line he has said on that show is either funny or was deleivered in such a way that it actually seemed funny. Which takes talent to make a jerk character like Master Shake still so hilariously while still being a stupid *******.
 
No that was not her first role. I am not sure if she did any voice over roles before this, but Janet was the voice of Jenny the ditzy babysiter in a couple of Tom And Jerry cartoons. One of which was the very last Hanna Barbera produced Tom And Jerry cartoon.

As for my choice, I am very impressed with Tara Strong's (I am impressed with her entire career) early voice over roles as a child actress in canada, thought I am not sure exactly which role was her first, but I know she started out doing canadain cartoons. (Ironic, but I thought Izzy from TDI was Tara intionally, maybe that is a good omen for Katie Crown's career, especially starting out in a canadian show) She was one of those Koppa twins in Super Mario Brothers 3, and she played the lead human heroine role in the Care Bears Nutcracker special.

Cree Summer is another one like Tara that started doing doing voice overs as a child in forign cartoons and had a successful career. I think her first role was Penny on Inspector Gadget. So starting out in canadain cartoons can launch careers, so that is something the cast of TDI can look forward to.

I agree with dub c, Kari Wahlgren if awsome too.
 
Now it seems that I'm still trying to figure out which show Nicole Sullivan got her break as a rookie VA, and I can say that it's not The Secret Saturdays, Kim Possible, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Family Guy, or even Clone High. So Nicole must have gotten her break from somewhere.

Anyone want to figure that one out?

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Baby Blues. It was originally supposed to air in 1998, but it was delayed for nearly 2 years. That would make it the first VO role she landed in an animated series.

But Nicole's "big break" is a no-brainer: MadTV. It was an instant hit and a ratings success, and Nicole's many performances as various original characters and celebrity impressions obviously caught the eye/ear of a VO agency.

Wikipedia credits her as providing a voice in the 1997 video game "Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny"" but Wikipedia also incorrectly credits her as the voice of Suzie Kokoshka on "Hey Arnold".

But her first voiceover roles were actually on Mad TV on some of the animated sketches they aired, like "CLOPS". I can't think of any specific ones at the moment though.
 
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