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* Tom Wilson and Mary Steenburgen reprised their roles of Biff Tannen and Clara Clayton-Brown for ''BackToTheFuture: The Animated Series.'' Doc, however, was voiced by Dan Castellaneta. The Telltale games, however, feature Christopher Lloyd himself as Doc Brown.

* ''MassEffect'' and ''MassEffect2'' stick mostly with "regular" voice actors for most of their casts, but have a few celebrities in each. SethGreen, Lance Henriksen and [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Marina Sirtis]] qualify for the [[MassEffect1 first game]], and Green is joined by ClaudiaBlack, [[TheMatrix Carrie-Anne Moss]], [[{{Chuck}} Yvonne Strahovski]], [[BattlestarGalactica Tricia Helfer]] and [[TheWestWing Martin]] [[ApocalypseNow Sheen]] in the second.

* Speaking about doing the voice of Optimus Prime in the live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies, Peter Cullen remarked that it was great to be working with "the old crew" again (a couple of the voices for the live-action movie were done by the original voice actors), but pointedly made the comment that he "wished he could have worked with FrankWelker again." A subtle TakeThat over the fact that Megatron was voiced by [[TheMatrix Hugo Weaving]] for the live-action movies, given that Frank Welker voiced Soundwave, Ravage, and Devastator in ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' (whom Optimus never meets, for different reasons[[hottip:*:Namely, Soundwave never goes to Earth and [[spoiler:Optimus dies; by the time he's revived, Ravage and Devastator were both killed gruesomely]]]].).

* ''MassEffect'' and ''Mass Effect 2'' stick mostly with "regular" voice actors for most of their casts, but have a few celebrities in each. SethGreen, Lance Henriksen and [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Marina Sirtis]] qualify for the first game, and Green is joined by ClaudiaBlack, [[TheMatrix Carrie-Anne Moss]], [[{{Chuck}} Yvonne Strahovski]], [[BattlestarGalactica Tricia Helfer]] and [[TheWestWing Martin]] [[ApocalypseNow Sheen]] in the second.

* ''{{Coraline}}'' has Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian [=McShane=] and KeithDavid on the cast, however they're barely featured on anything other than the behind-the-scenes featurettes. Also, though most people assumed that the casting of Hatcher is for promotional purposes (because the movie's target audience obviously consists of ''DesperateHousewives'' fans), her voice acting turns out to be SoCoolItsAwesome.

** Don't forget KeithDavid as Captain David Anderson.

** Don't forget Keith David as Captain David Anderson.

* {{Pixar}} doesn't do this as blatantly as Dreamworks, but they're still very guilty of this trope. All of their films have a cast of familiar faces much better known for on-camera work, assuming they've done any animation at all (beyond appearances on ''TheSimpsons''). Their only lead actor to date with extensive voice acting experience is EdwardAsner, and even he is [[TheMaryTylerMooreShow no stranger]] to live action. (''{{WALL-E}}'' is an exception to this trend, for obvious reasons.) To their credit, at least after ''Toy Story'' ("Starring TomHanks and Tim Allen!") they haven't been [[BilledAboveTheTitle shouting this tendency from the rooftops]], unlike Dreamworks.

* DreamworksAnimation in particular is guilty of this trope. Name one movie of theirs that doesn't have celebrities voicing the characters. They also market these actors ''very'' heavily; if they get a particularly big name, he or she will be BilledAboveTheTitle.

* ''MassEffect'' and ''Mass Effect 2'' stick mostly with "regular" voice actors for most of their casts, but have a few celebrities in each. SethGreen, Lance Henriksen and [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Marina Sirtis]] qualify for the first game, and Green is joined by [[{{Farscape}} Claudia Black]], [[TheMatrix Carrie-Anne Moss]], [[{{Chuck}} Yvonne Strahovski]], [[BattlestarGalactica Tricia Helfer]] and [[TheWestWing Martin]] [[ApocalypseNow Sheen]] in the second.

* DreamworksAnimation in particular is guilty of this trope. Name one movie of theirs that doesn't have celebrities voicing the characters.
* {{Pixar}} does this a lot, though they're rather tame compared to Dreamworks. For the most part they don't use the actor's names in marketing.

* Dom [=DeLuise=] was a celebrity before getting into voice acting, being a favorite of MelBrooks. Unlike a lot of celebrities though, he actually ended up sticking with voice acting for the rest of his life, along with live action roles.

* Dom [=DeLouise=] was a celebrity before getting into voice acting, being a favorite of MelBrooks. Unlike a lot of celebrities though, he actually ended up sticking with voice acting for the rest of his life, along with live action roles.

* ClancyBrown is Mr. Krabs on SpongebobSquarepants and Neo Cortex in some of the CrashBandicoot games.

* ClancyBrown is [[SpongebobSquarepants Mr. Krabs]] on Spongebob Squarepants and [[CrashBandicoot Neo Cortex]] in some of the Crash Bandicoot games.

* ClancyBrown is [[SpongebobSquarepants Mr. Krabs]] and [[CrashBandicoot Neo Cortex]] in some of the games.

* ''MassEffect'' and ''Mass Effect 2'' stick mostly with "regular" voice actors for most of their casts, but have a few celebrities in each. SethGreen, Lance Henriksen and [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Marina Sirtis]] qualify for the first game, and Green is joined by [[{{Farscape}} Claudia Black]], [[TheMatrix Carrie-Anne Moss]], [[{{Chuck}} Yvonne Strahovski]], [[BattlestarGalactica Tricia Helfer]] and [[TheWestWing Martin Sheen]] in the second.