Cross-Regional Voice Acting

Voice acting is usually done locally in a single recording studio due to the fact that it's easier and cheaper to rely on actors from the area in which the studio's based. It also keeps the audio quality consistent, as all the voice actors will be using the same microphones with the same settings and environment, so there'll be no risk of one character having clean, crispy audio quality and the other sounding like they recorded their lines through two bean tins connected by a string. However, this is not always the case. If a work uses two studios based in different areas, then they have access to actors from both regions. To say nothing about home studios for personal use. Please note, this is not about an actor from one region doing work in another, this is about two regions being used in the same work.

See also International Coproduction.

Companies with multiple studios.

• Nickelodeon may use a multiple Los Angeles and New York voice actors due to it having a studio in both Los Angeles and New York.
• NYAV Post, owning both New York and Los Angeles studios, practically specialize in these.
• Etcetera Group owns one office building in Miami. As such, they've arranged at least two actors (Luis Carreño and Maria Jose Estevez) to record from there, allowing them to keep their roles after emigrating.
• The Kitchen, using both Miami and Venezuela studios for dubbing, has done this a few times.
• TV Group Digital has studios in two of Brazil's biggest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
• Okratron 5000, a Texas-based studio owned by Christopher Sabat, opened a Los Angeles branch (Okratron West) in 2017, during production of the Dragon Ball Super dub, to allow some Los Angeles based Dragon Ball alumni (Sean Schemmel, Kyle Hebert, etc.) to reprise their roles without actually having to fly to Texas. The aforementioned series also features Brian Drummond, the voice of Vegeta in the Ocean Productions dub of Dragon Ball Z, voicing Copy Vegeta, with Drummond having recorded his role at a studio in Canada. L.A.-based Matthew Mercer also lends his voice to recurring rival Hit.
• Sound Cadence Studios, a Texas-based dubbing studio is known for utilizing actors not just from the general Texas are, but also from other regions in North America, particularly New York and Los Angeles. They have even used international voice talent, especially when sourcing authentic non-American accents like in The Prince of Tennis. They opened a second studio in Los Angeles in 2022.
• Side UK, a London-based studio known for producing the English language audio tracks for games like Xenoblade Chronicles 1, Ni no Kuni, and Final Fantasy XIV (from the Heavensward expansion onwards), opened up an Los Angeles-based studio, called Side LA, in 2017. Since then, some of their projects, notably Cyberpunk 2077, Triangle Strategy, and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, have featured a mix of UK and L.A.-based voice talents.
• The Ocean Group, based in Canada, has two studios: Ocean Studios in Vancouver, and Blue Water Studios in Calgary, with Blue Water being used as more of a non-union alternative studio for clients with smaller budgets. Occasionally, in the 2000s, they would collaborate on projects (mainly video games) that would utilize both studios for role reprisals. However, since around the 2010s, this has become more prominent, with Ocean's Vancouver studio often collaborating with Blue Water, resulting in a mix of Vancouver and Calgary talents in most productions. Examples include the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam series, the Tobot series, and World Trigger. Several actors affiliated with both studios have also worked with numerous other regions both in Canada (usually with Toronto's voice pool) and worldwide, with more specific examples listed below.
• Iyuno does this with some of their Dutch dubs of TV series (such as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and The Ghost and Molly McGee) with recording being split between their Amsterdam studio and their Brussels studio, using both Dutch and Flemish actors. This is averted for films, for which they produce separate Netherlands Dutch and Flemish Dutch dubs.

Two companies/regions working together.

General Examples

• This is nothing new for The Muppets and the various other productions by Jim Henson, having done this as far back since Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince with Canadian actor Carl Banas voicing Sweetums. Later productions take advantage of the Toronto-area puppeteering pool, with Gordon Robertson making regular appearances in Henson productions since Fraggle Rock. Both The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth use a mix of the American puppeteers and UK-based voice actors for the characters.
• The Transformers franchise is no stranger to this occurring:
  • The video game based off of Transformers: Armada features Garry Chalk and David Kaye reprising their roles as Optimus Prime and Megatron, while L.A. voice actors Daran Norris voices Red Alert and Cyclonus, Dublin James voices Hot Shot and Matthew Yang King plays Unicron; with Starscream's voice actor, Matt Harrington, being based out of Melbourne House's home country of Australia.
  • The Transformers Film Series would do this two ways. For the original American releases, Hugo Weaving would record his lines as Megatron in Australia. On the foreign front, Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen would feature Frank Welker voicing Soundwave in the Italian, Castilian Spanish, and French dubs of the film. Though plans were made for other languages with his credit also appearing in the German and Latin-American Spanish releases despite them using different actors for the end product.
  • Transformers: Cyberverse and its video game Battlegrounds, while recorded in New York, features voice work from Toronto-based actor Tony Daniels (credited as Mike Rose for the former due to the non-union status of the show) as several characters; including both Teletraans, Kup, Croaton, Drift and Lockdown. Battlegrounds also adds in the L.A.-based Kellen Goff in the cast as Hyperdrive and some unit voices.

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• Cartoon Network's "Powerhouse" era Cartoon Cartoon Fridays host segments and CN City bumpers kept the voice actors from each show. This resulted in the Vancouver-based Ed, Edd n Eddy voice actors and the New York-based Courage the Cowardly Dog voice actors interacting with the Los Angeles-based voice actors of the other shows on the network.
• PBS Kids' Cross Through promos and interstitials during the 2000s, such as the "Ready to Learn" promos, generally kept the voice actors from each character's show. This resulted in actors from at least three talent pools — Los Angeles, Montreal and Vancouver — all recording new audio for their intended roles for these spots, along with New York-based puppeteers playing characters from Sesame Street and Between the Lions.
  • Like its parent block, the PBS Kids Sprout Sprout Diner videos generally kept the voice actors from each character featured's show, which resulted in actors from Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, and London (along with Dallas-based Dean Wendt voicing Barney the Dinosaur) all recording new audio for their roles.
• The Kids' WB! Cross Through bumpers generally kept the voice actors from each characters' respective shows, resulting in at least three talent pools — Los Angeles, Vancouver and New York — all recording new audio for their intended roles for these spots, with some archived audio from the Japanese version of Pokémon: The Series thrown in for the likes of Charizard and Pikachu.

Anime

• Thanks to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the use of multi-regional voice casts saw a temporary boom in dubs produced by Funimation and Crunchyroll, and they remain more willing to consider some out-of-region voice talent for certain projects. Even before then, Funimation had occasionally flown in talent from out of town to work on their dubs, including Blue Gender, Fullmetal Alchemist (both the 2003 anime and Brotherhood adaptations), One Piece, My Hero Academia, and Trigun: Badlands Rumble to name a few.
• Bayonetta: Bloody Fate was dubbed by New Generation Pictures in Los Angeles; however, voice director Jonathan Klein flew to London to record lead voice actress Hellena Taylor at a different studio there.
• Blood: The Last Vampire has one voice cast shared between both Japanese and English versions, with the American Army personnel being voiced by Los Angeles voice actors while everyone else is played by Japanese talent.
• The English dub of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners uses a mix of Los Angeles and UK voice talent much like the game itself, plus Ian James Corlett and Emi Lo (Canadian and Texan, respectively) as Pilar and Lucy.
• The English dub of Love Live! has a cast of Los Angeles-based talent with Dallas-based Caitlin Glass voicing Maki Nishikino.
• While the English dub of My Hero Academia primarily uses Dallas-based voice actors, each of the movies in the series feature L.A.-based VAs in key roles for each film:
  • My Hero Academia: Two Heroes features Erica Mendez as Melissa Shield, Ray Chase as David Shield, and Keith Silverstein as the film's villain, Wolfram.
  • My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising features Johnny Yong Bosch as the villain Nine.
  • My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission features Ryan Colt Levy as Rody Soul, Cristina Valenzuela as Pino, and Robbie Daymond as the villain Flect Turn.
• Seasons 1 of Ikki Tousen was dubbed by New Generation Pictures in Los Angeles. Season 2 was dubbed by Headline Studios in New York with a different cast. When Funimation picked up Seasons 3-4 (and the short movie), they brought back New Generation Pictures to reassemble their better-received Season 1 cast, however, seperate recordings were also done in New York at DuArt Film & Video to allow actors that voiced the new characters in Season 2 to reprise their roles. Seasons 5-6 (and Shin Ikki Tousen OVA) were later dubbed in a similar fashion.
• The English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Rebuild of Evangelion has a bit of a history with this:
  • The original 1996-1997 English dub of the TV series was entirely recorded in Houston by ADV Films, but Manga Entertainment took over the license for the films Death/Rebirth and End of Evangelion, which were dubbed in 2001 by Los Angeles-based Gaijin Productions. Most recording was in L.A. since many of the voice actors had re-located (Spike Spencer as Shinji, Amanda Winn-Lee as Rei, etc), but some recording was done at a seperate studio in Houston for some actors still living there (Tiffany Grant as Asuka, Tristan MacAvery as Gendo). Allison Keith (Misato) had briefly re-located to New York, but flew to L.A. to reprise her role.
  • Averted with the original Funimation English dub of the first three Rebuild films, which were entirely recorded in Dallas (with a few ADV actors traveling to reprise their roles, and Allison Keith recalls doing some pickups in Houston), as well as the Netflix dub of the original series and Death/Rebirth and End of Eva, which were recorded at VSI Los Angeles with a distinctive cast.
  • For the Amazon Prime dub of all four Rebuild films, Dubbing Brothers USA in Los Angeles handled the dubbing, but some recording also happened at professional studios in other regions to allow voice actors from the original ADV/Manga dubbing to reprise their roles. Also, the COVID-19 pandemic was making traveling difficult at the time, so Spike Spencer recorded out of Gold Coast, Australia (where he was living at the time), Allison Keith and John Swasey (who had taken over as Gendo) recorded out of Houston, Tiffany Grant recorded out of Atlanta (where she had since relocated), Kimberly Yates (Hikari) recorded out of New York City, and Brett Weaver (Toji) recorded from his home studio in Austin.
• When dubbed into English, One-Punch Man was voiced by Los Angeles-based voice actors, with one notable exception: Dallas-based Christopher Sabat as Vaccine Man, a villain whose design was inspired by Piccolo, whom Sabat also voices. Additionally, Marieve Herington (Tatsumaki during Season 1), while residing in L.A. at the time, originally came from Toronto.
• The English dub of Pokémon: The Series for a long time has recorded primarily in New York, however in later years some seasons, including Pokémon the Series: Black & White, featured voice work by non-New York talents like Cristina Vee, Kira Buckland, and Lucien Dodge. This came to a head with Pokémon Journeys: The Series, when production of the dub moved to Los Angeles to accomdate voice director Lisa Ortiz's decision to move to there, with new studio Iyuno Media Group/Iyuno-SDI Group partnering with Goldcrest Post of New York City to dub the show. The new characters introduced in Journeys are voiced by Los Angeles-based talent, while returning characters are voiced by the same New York-based talent that had voiced them prior, and incidental voices are split between both parties. This state of affairs has continued on with the dub of Pokémon Horizons: The Series, where as a result of being the first union dub of the franchise, it led to more well-known voice actors from both parties to join as well (Larry Kenney, Lori Alan, Crispin Freeman, David Kaye, Lizzie Freeman, SungWon Cho, etc.).
• A Japanese example occurs in Pop Team Epic's "JAPON MiGNON" sections, which utilize French voice actors Fanny Bloc and Christine Bellier for Popuko and Pipimi respectively. Bellier would be replaced by Kaycie Chase for the specials. The English dub retains this despite everything else being translated.
• The English dub of Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, the sequel to Inuyasha, was dubbed by Bang Zoom in Los Angeles, however most of the Vancouver-based talent that dubbed Inuyasha reprise their roles through a seperate studio there.

Film

• Most of the Barbie direct-to-DVD films were recorded in Vancouver, but beginning with Spy Squad, the title character was voiced by Los Angeles-based Erica Lindbeck.
  • Averted with Barbie: Star Light Adventure which used an entirely Los Angeles-based voice cast.
• In the Egyptian Arabic dub of Disney's Brother Bear Rutt and Tuke are voiced by Lebanese-based Nedal Soltan and Toni Maalouf, respectively, in an otherwise Egypt-based cast (and unlike the rest of the actors, they speak with their native Lebanese Arabic accents in the dub).
• The 2021 Disney+ original Diary of a Wimpy Kid has mainly an L.A. based voice cast, but a few voice actors are from Vancouver.
• Doug's 1st Movie was mostly recorded in New York, but also featured L.A.-based Frank Welker providing the voice of Herman Melville. The loop group (consisting of Rodger Bumpass, Paul Eiding, Sherry Lynn, Phil Proctor, etc.) was also recorded there as well.
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer used mostly Vancouver-based voice actors but also had Los Angeles-based Susan Blu, Michele Lee, and Cam Clarke.
• The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild does the same thing, while also adding in England-born Simon Pegg returning as the titular character.
• Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen sees many of Texas-based Rooster Teeth's voice actors reprise their roles of RWBY proper, including Funimation alum J. Michael Tatum as Klein and Christopher Sabat as Dr. Watts, while the DC characters are voiced by L.A.-based voice actors.
• The King and I was recorded in Hollywood, but also featured Toronto-based Alexandra and Katherine Lai as Princess Ying and Princess Naomi respectively.
• In a unique twist, Lilo & Stitch had Tia Carrere record her lines as Nani Pelekai in three different cities—Los Angeles, Paris, and Toronto—over the course of two years.
• Many of the Lionsgate-released Marvel animated movies starting with Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow saw the majority of the characters voiced by the Vancouver-based The Ocean Group, with L.A.-based voice actors for only the main roles.
• The Russian dub of Hellboy (2019) was co-produced by Moscow, Russia-based On/Off and Kyiv, Ukraine-based Tretyakoff Production and has a cast comprised of actors from both cities.
• While Toy Story 2 had mostly used a U.S. cast, one of the Luggage Handlers was voiced by U.K. based Andi Peters. John Lasseter allowed him to take the part but due to not having a U.S. passport, had to record his lines in the U.K.
  • Toy Story 3 also used Vancouver-based Jan Rabson vocing Sparks, as Rabson moved out from L.A. years prior, so he recorded as that character there. Rabson also did minor voicework on the previous two films while he was still in L.A. During his last years of his life, Rabson frequently jumped between American and Canadian productions, providing additional voices for other Hollywood animated films such as Horton Hears a Who!, WALL•E, Up, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Monsters University, all recorded while in Vancouver.

Puppet Shows

• It's a Big Big World had a cast of New York-based actors providing the voices for the characters, but Madge the Turtle was voiced by the British Julie Westwood.
• Due to being an International Coproduction, LazyTown uses mostly American voices for the puppets but also Icelandic actor Guðmundur Þór Kárason for Ziggy and the aforementioned British Julie Westwood and British Sarah Burgess respectively voicing Bessie Busybody and Trixie (original run).

Live-Action TV

• Power Rangers saw this a few times thanks to the production of the series moving to New Zealand with Power Rangers Ninja Storm:
  • Thanks to Jason David Frank's not wanting to be away from his family for too long, he was in America when he voiced Tommy whenever he was stuck in morphed and invisible forms.
  • Following the backlash to Andrew Laing's performance as Lord Zedd in Power Rangers Dino Fury, the role was recast with Los Angeles-based Fred Tatasciore in Power Rangers Cosmic Fury.

Video Game

• Baldur's Gate III features a voice cast made up mostly of British VAs with three notable US-based exceptions: Matthew Mercer as fan-favorite ranger Minsc, J. K. Simmons as the villain Ketheric Thorm, and Maggie Robertson as the murderous Orin the Red.
• In BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, the original Japanese release included a dual-audio option for the RWBY characters to signify their status as a Western-produced property.
• Borderlands would start off as a fully Texas-voiced production until Tales from the Borderlands cast actors from Los Angeles to round out (or replace) the characters. Subsequent games would utilize L.A. talent in various roles going forward.
• Capcom is fond of doing this whenever they can.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 3 enforced this with the Japanese version, with the Marvel characters only being playable in English. Japanese voice tracks were considered for them before producer Ryota Niitsuma decided against it, claiming that speaking Japanese didn't fit their image. On the English side of things, the Vancouver-based Paul Dobson reprised his role as Doctor Doom from Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, and later voiced Shuma-Gorath, in an otherwise Los Angeles-based cast. The earlier entries in the franchise also mixed Toronto and Tokyo actors.
  • Several Resident Evil entries utilizing Claire Redfield brought back Alyson Court to reprise the role, with the rest of the characters recorded in Los Angeles.
  • Street Fighter III would pull this in 3rd Strike, casting Toronto area actors Len Carlson, Lawrence Bayne, and Francis Diakowsky in various roles amongst the otherwise Tokyo-based cast.
  • Street Fighter X Tekken features dubbed voice actors from all over the world, including L.A.-based (Kyle Hebert as Ryu, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Nina, Debi Derryberry as Pac-Man, etc.), Dallas-based (Dameon Clarke as Rolento, Mike McFarland as Paul, etc.), Vancouver-based (Brad Swaile as Jin), and even Tokyo-based native English speakers (Lisle Wilkerson as Christie).
• Tekken started leaning hard into this beginning with Tekken 4 as characters are voiced by VAs speaking their characters' native languages. As such, the games feature voiced dialogue in Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, French, German, Brazilian, and even animal sounds.
• Dissidia Final Fantasy features dub voice actors primarily based out of Los Angeles, in addition to one Dallas-based talent: Christopher Sabat as Garland, a role he would reprise in the sequel, the 2015 follow-up, and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (albeit in a different form).
  • This also happens with any crossover with Final Fantasy XIV and (in the inevitable future) Final Fantasy XVI, due to having a London-based dub casts and the other games having American dubs.
• Super Smash Bros. features voice actors from various regions across the world in the roles of its famous roster members. To list all the characters would take a long time, but to provide a few succinct examples, the game has VAs from the US (Mario and company, Sonic the Hedgehog, various Fire Emblem characters), England (dub voices for Shulk and Pyra/Mythra), and Japan (Pikachu and some other Pokemon, Cloud and Sephiroth, Marth and Roy prior to Ultimate). Even accounting for voice actors that change between the international and Japanese releases of the games, each title still has a mix of vocal talent from different parts of the globe.
• The 2009 remake of Punch-Out!! utilized a global cast of actors for Little Mac's opponents, including Juan Amador Pulido (Spain) as Don Flamenco, Richard Newman (Canada) as Bear Hugger, Lorst Haxton (Germany) as Von Kaiser, Kenji Takahashi (Japan) as Piston Hondo, and Christian Bernard (France) as Glass Joe. Additionally, Takashi Nagasako (also Japan) does a Role Reprise for Donkey Kong's Guest Fighter appearance.
• The Super Mario Bros. games were for a very long time recorded primarily in Seattle, Washington (with Japanese voice actors and Nintendo employees voicing certain characters such as Yoshi and Donkey Kong), but starting with Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, the Los Angeles-based Kate Higgins has provided the voice of Pauline, and L.A. voice actors have been used more frequently since. In 2023, the also L.A.-based Kevin Afghani would take over from Charles Martinet as Mario and Luigi, while Giselle Fernandez would replace Deanna Mustard as Princess Daisy, and the Texas-based Dawn M. Bennett would take over as Nabbit. Additionally, Kenny James would continue to reprise his role as Bowser after moving to Texas in 2019.
  • In terms of subseries, the WarioWare series was also largely recorded in Seattle for many years until 2018's WarioWare Gold replaced most of the cast with Los Angeles-based talent such as Stephanie Sheh as Mona and Kat, Erica Lindbeck as Ashley, and Robbie Daymond as Mike, Orbulon, and Young Cricket, with Charles Martinet still voicing Wario in Seattle. Martinet would be replaced by Kevin Afghani in 2023's WarioWare: Move It!, thus averting the trope entirely.
• The original Ratchet & Clank games had this, as while they were recorded primarily in Los Angeles, David Kaye, the voice of Clank, recorded his lines as Clank from Vancouver, Canada. This no longer applies from Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction onward, as Kaye has been living in Los Angeles since then. The movie also uses this, with most of the non-celebrity supporting roles and minor parts being recorded in Vancouver, home of Rainmaker Entertainment.
• Ubisoft is well-known for doing this in some of their bigger titles, such as the Assassin's Creed series featuring actors from Los Angeles, Montreal and Italy (and in later games, British and Irish voices). The Far Cry games also begin doing this with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, which features several notable voice actors from Los Angeles while Far Cry 5 and Far Cry: New Dawn would further include voice talent from Toronto, Vancouver, and Texas among its "Additional Voices" credits. For Honor takes it even further and includes Japanese voice talent like Kenji Nomura and Mitsuki Saiga as various unit voices.
• When the Fire Emblem series started to add full voice acting outside the FMVs starting with Fire Emblem: Awakening, a couple titles utilized voice actors from both Texas and Los Angeles.
  • Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, the 3DS remake of Fire Emblem Gaiden, while having most of its cast being L.A.-based, features a few Texan VAs: Alexis Tipton as Clair and Palla, Chris Patton (formerly Houston-based prior to moving to LA) as Kliff, Caitlin Glass as Mathilda, Ian Sinclair as Berkut, and Monica Rial as Mila.
  • Fire Emblem Engage takes it further, with three of the above mentioned VAs returning in different roles (Alexis as Lucina, Ian as Bunet, and Monica as Anna), a few more Crunchyroll/Funimation alumni join the cast as well: Justin Briner as Clanne, Brittney Karbowski as Citrrine, Dani Chambers as Timerra, Ricco Fajardo as Pandreo, Trina Nishimura as Etie, and Elizabeth Maxwell as Zephia. Additionally, Alfred's VA, Nick Wolfhard, is originally from Vancouver, Canada.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 uses Britain-based talent for every character by virtue of being dubbed in England. The only exception is for the crossover DLC involving Elma from Xenoblade Chronicles X, whom the Texas-based Caitlin Glass reprises her role as.
• Most of the voice acting for Robo Cop Rogue City was done in the UK with Peter Weller, returning as Murphy, as the only returning American-based actor. Part of the The Other Darrin treatment for the others can also be attributed to the deaths of Robert DoQui (Sgt. Reed), Dan O'Herlihy (the Old Man), and Mario Machado (Casey Wong), and the retirement of Nancy Allen (Lewis).
• When Sega decided to switch the Sonic the Hedgehog voice cast from New York-based 4Kids Entertainment to Los Angeles-based talent, Mike Pollock (the voice of Eggman) was the only one to not be recast, as he was willing to fly out to reprise his role (as well as Sega not being able to find anyone who fit the character as much as him).

Web Animation

• FreezeFlame: All of the voice actors are located on different parts of the world: AverageToaster19, Popplio Power, Swoldow EVGRB, Carmen, YuriHaru567, gamesnathanlikes, Quantum, Kelly Nora Queen, BluePastels, GengarOfTheOpera and AzUrArInG are located in different parts of the United States, FreezeFlame22 and Mononerd are located in the United Kingdom, Cowabunga is located in Canada, YoshiEgg95 is located in Germany, and Bassi-Kun 99 is located in Spain.
• Rooster Teeth's productions do this frequently:
  • RWBY has utilized a mix of Texas and Los Angeles actors from Volume 3 onwards. Prior to this, Seattle-based Jen Taylor would be the only example (Barbara Dunkelman, who voices Yang Xiao Long, is Montreal-born, but records in Texas as part of the in-house cast), voicing the series' Big Bad Salem.
  • Camp Camp would have L.A.-based Travis Willingham as Cameron Campbell, with the rest of the voices done in-house in Texas.
  • gen:LOCK advertised itself by having big-name actors in the leads, all recorded in different regions. Notably, David Tennant (Dr. Weller) and Maisie Williams (Cammie) recorded out of the UK and Kōichi Yamadera (Kazu, and RoboShogun and Kazu's dad for Season 2) recorded out of Japan. The rest were recorded either in L.A. or Texas.
  • Downplayed with Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy, utilizing a mostly Los Angeles cast with Jake Tillman voicing Optimus and Sophia Isabella voicing Arcee from New York, and Gray Haddock voicing Spinnister and Miles Luna voicing Cliffjumper in-house at RT's Texas studio.
• Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Most of the voice cast for this series is based in the show's native Australia including creators Luke and Kevin Lerdwichagul as SMG4, Shroomy, and Fishy Boopkins respectively, Celeste-Notley Smith and later Lottie Bourne as Tari, James Bailey as SMG3, and Jessica Fallico as Belle Fontiere, but also includes the likes of Los Angeles-based Lizzie Freeman and later UK-based Elsie Lovelock as Meggy Spletzer and the Irish-Australian Wolfychu as Melony, with archived recordings of Seattle-based Charles Martinet used for Mario and Luigi.

Web Video

• angelarts' VA Let's Play Earthbound: angelarts utilized over forty voice actors who were located in different parts of the world. For the main characters alone, PixelPrattleXP (Poo) and MechaMichealis (Giygas) were based in the UK, LuckyJack020 (Ness), HylianOni (Jeff), and Hype VoiceActing (Pokey) were based in different parts of the United States, and Schaly (Paula) was based in Canada.

Western Animation

• Nelvana series utilizing Celebrity Voice Actors always fall under this, with the lead characters being recorded from Los Angeles and the rest of the cast being in Toronto. Examples include Moville Mysteries (starring Frankie Muniz), George and Martha (starring Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin, the latter of whom is Canadian by citizenship), Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (starring Kristin Davis and Tony Jay, the latter of whom was British-born), and the first two seasons of Braceface (starring Alicia Silverstone, who serves as executive producer).
• Several DiC shows, such as the 2003 incarnation of Strawberry Shortcake, were mainly recorded in Omaha, Nebraska, but some characters were voiced by the children of the Los Angeles-based production crew.
• This happens with many Canadian animated productions done in Ottawa, with a number of them using talent from Montreal, as Montreal and Ottawa are a 2-hour drive from each other (which also results in Ottawa-based talent showing up in productions done in Montreal). However Toad Patrol is a notable case, as in addition to a mix of both Montreal and Ottawa talent it uses the Toronto-based Bryn McAuley and the Vancouver-based Long John Baldry.
• Another Ottawa-recorded show, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin features both Phil Baron and Will Ryan, both L.A.-based, returning as Teddy and Grubby respectively from the book series, as well as appearances from Montreal actors Rick Jones and Terrence Scammell in additional roles.
• American Dad!, besides having UK-born Patrick Stewart as Bullock, utilized Toronto-based Robert Tinkler in a handful of bit parts in the early seasons.
• The Amazing World of Gumball was mostly recorded in London with a cast of North American expats and British actors doing American accents, though Gumball, Darwin, and Anais were voiced by L.A.-based child actors.
• Archie's Weird Mysteries had L.A.-based America Young voicing Betty Cooper in an otherwise Omaha-based cast.
• Arthur began in Montreal, but in later seasons, more Toronto voice actors joined the cast. Muffy's voice actress, Melissa Altro, also moved from Montreal to Toronto. The movie Arthur's Missing Pal Also throws in several non-union Los Angeles voice actors, including Wendee Lee and Doug Stone (who was born in Toronto) into the mix. Most of the celebrity guest stars who appeared on the show were also based in Los Angeles and recorded their lines from there.
• Atomic Puppet features Eric Bauza, who is based in Los Angeles (though formerly from Toronto himself), as both the titular character and Joey Felt. The show otherwise uses Toronto-based actors for the rest of the cast.
• Baby Looney Tunes: Most of the voices were provided by actors in Vancouver, with June Foray reprising her role as Granny in Los Angeles.
• Blue's Clues & You! features Traci Paige Johnson reprising her role as Blue from the original series in New York, but the majority of the rest of the cast is Toronto-based.
• Bubble Guppies utilized voice actors from both New York (such as Chris Phillips, Doug Preis, and Ashley Albert) and Los Angeles (such as Kari Wahlgren, Fred Tatasciore, and Candi Milo).
• Butterbean's Cafe is mainly recorded in New York, but features Los Angeles-based Anna Vocino and Kari Wahlgren in minor roles.
• Caillou used a mainly Montreal-based voice cast, but in Season 1, the titular character was voiced by Bryn McAuley, who's based in Toronto.
• Camp Candy is a unique case, as the first two seasons were recorded in Vancouver, while the third and final season was recorded in Los Angeles. However, a few US-based voice actors still did voice work in Los Angeles recording for the first two seasons, such as the show's star (John Candy, who was Canadian by birth), Maurice LaMarche (also Canadian by birth), Charlie Adler, and Pat Fraley.
• Captain N: The Game Master was recorded in Vancouver, but also featured Frank Welker and Levi Stubbs in Los Angeles providing the voices of Game Boy and Mother Brain respectively. A minor example also happened between regions within Canada, as the voices from the The Legend of Zelda (1989) cartoon recorded in Toronto reprised their characters for the crossover episodes with that show.
• Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot was recorded in Los Angeles but the episode "Bully Exposed" also featured Chiara Zanni recording from Vancouver.
• The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! has Martin Short, who currently resides in Los Angeles but was born in Canada, voice the titular character in a wholly otherwise Toronto-based cast.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog was mainly recorded in New York, but featured Los Angeles-based voice actors including Jim Cummings, Kath Soucie, Will Ryan and B. J. Ward providing the voices of the Great Fusilli, Little Muriel, The Duck Brothers and Tulip respectively.
• The Cramp Twins had L.A.-based Kath Soucie and Tom Kenny as the two titular twins and some incidental parts, and Vancouver-based actors for the rest of the cast.
• Cyberchase is primarily recorded in Toronto, while Celebrity Voice Actors Christopher Lloyd and Gilbert Gottfried have voiced Hacker and Digit in Los Angeles and New York (the latter prior to his death in 2022), respectively. This also applies to Creech's voice actress Stephanie Beard, as she moved from Toronto to Los Angeles during production, so she now records her lines from L.A. starting with "Jimaya Jam" in season 6. Most of the occasional celebrity guest stars who appeared on the show were also based in either Los Angeles (Tony Hawk, Danica McKellar, Matthew Broderick, Rico Rodriguez) or New York (Jasmine Guy, Al Roker, Bebe Neuwirth, Geoffrey Holder, Philip Bosco, Jane Curtin), so they recorded their lines from those places respectively.
• The shows of the DC Animated Universe are recorded in Los Angeles, although Michael Donovan and Phil Hayes did voice work for some episodes in Superman: The Animated Series, while Ian James Corlett did voice work for a couple episodes of Justice League.
• Dora the Explorer was mostly recorded in New York, but some episodes featured L.A.-based Dee Bradley Baker providing animal sound effects.
• The Dragon Prince is mainly recorded in Vancouver, but also features L.A.-based Jack DeSena and Jennifer Hale as Callum and Domina Profundis respectively, as well as Toronto-based voice actors including Tyrone Savage, Deven Mack, Julie Lemieux and Ana Sani providing the voices of Lain, Pharos, Akiyu and Lucia respectively.
• DuckTales (2017) was primarily recorded in Los Angeles. The two major exceptions were David Tennant (Scrooge) and Catherine Tate (Magica DeSpell) who are both based in the UK. David Tennant has stated he's also recorded his guest appearances on Family Guy and Star Wars: The Clone Wars from recording studios in the UK over the phone.
• The Fairly OddParents!: The German dub was recorded in Cologne, though Timmy's original voice actor, Hannes Maurer, and Cosmo's actor, Norman Matt, are both Berlin-based.
• Toronto-based Bryn McAuley voiced April Patterson in the 2000 For Better or for Worse TV series, which was otherwise recorded entirely in Ottawa. Additionally, Terrence Scammell voiced John Patterson in the same show, reprising his role from the previous specials (voiced entirely in Montreal).
• On Franklin, the title character's dad is notable for being voiced by the Vancouver-based Richard Newman whereas the rest of the cast is entirely Toronto-based.
• Futurama was primarily recorded in Los Angeles but the episode "Stench and Stenchability" also featured guest star Emilia Clarke recording from London.
• While Gargoyles mostly pulled from the L.A. talent pool, Toronto-based Lawrence Bayne was cast to voice Raven in season 2 and an assassin in the Goliath Chronicles episodes.
• Glenn Martin, DDS consistently uses a cast of Los Angeles actors/actresses. Connor Martin is however voiced by Toronto-based actor Peter Oldring.
• Go Away, Unicorn! featured Los Angeles-based^note though Toronto and Newfoundland and Labrador-born, respectively Chris Diamantopoulos and Jennifer Hale, and Vancouver-based Rebecca Husain in an otherwise Toronto-based cast.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) was almost entirely voiced by Vancouver-based Canadian actors, with the exception of the main character, who was voiced by L.A.-based voice actor Cam Clarke.
• Henry Hugglemonster was recorded in Los Angeles but featured Vancouver-based Chiara Zanni as Cobby Hugglemonster.
• The Incredible Hulk (1996) was recorded in Los Angeles, but also featured Vancouver-based voice actor Michael Donovan as the voice of the Grey Hulk in the second season. He would reprise the role for the 2003 Hulk video game and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Donovan would also provide voice work for other LA-recorded projects such as Fate/Zero as Risei Kotomine and Zouken Matou, The Secret Files of The Spy Dogs as Stahl, and Attack of the Mutant as the Magnificent Molecule Man and Captain Bob.
• Inspector Gadget qualified for this during the Nelvana episodes. While Don Adams (Gadget himself) and Frank Welker (Dr. Claw and Brain) recorded from Los Angeles, the rest of the cast was based in Toronto, including Cree Summer (Penny) who was based there at the time.
  • The CGI series was also recorded in Toronto, while Tara Strong recorded her dialogue for Penny in L.A.
• Jellystone! was recorded in Los Angeles, but also featured New York-based Jim Conroy voicing Huckleberry Hound, Captain Caveman, Paw Rugg, Yahooey and Bingo.
• On Jimmy Two-Shoes, Tabitha St. Germain of The Ocean Group in Vancouver voices Heloise in an otherwise entirely Toronto-based voice cast. Germain also did Ruby’s friend Martha from Max and Ruby and the title character of Captain Flamingo, with both series otherwise using a wholly Toronto-based cast.
• Johnny Test was mainly recorded in Vancouver, but the titular character and some additional roles, including Mr. Mittens and Dark Vegan, was voiced by James Arnold Taylor, recording his lines from Los Angeles. Trevor Devall later moved to L.A. and reprised his roles like Dukey and Mr. Teacherman in the 2021 revival while Toronto-based Deven Mack replaces Scott McNeil as Mr. White and other voices in the revival too.
  • Deven Mack also is the voice of Jet Lazor in Dorg Van Dango, Vangelis Sorcerer in Ninjago, and the titular characters of Super Dinosaur and Sonic Prime, with all series also using a largely Vancouver-based cast. The latter show also includes the Irish Jacksepticeye and the American Valkyrae as part of the cast.
• JoJo's Circus primarily used a Toronto-based cast, but also featured New York-based Madeleine Martin and Noah Weisberg as JoJo and Mr. Tickle respectively. The episode "Seal Fright" also used Vancouver-based Jason Michas as Waldo the Seal.
• Julius Jr. has the titular character voiced by L.A.-based Elizabeth Daily in a wholly otherwise Toronto-based cast.
• Jungle Junction uses a mix of L.A.-based (Billy West and Jess Harnell) and UK-based (Keith Wickham, Janet James and Jimmy Hibbert) actors.
• Canadian actress Katie Crown does this both ways. She voiced in shows like Clarence and Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, as well as Storks while working out of Toronto. When she moved to L.A., she would continue to voice Izzy in Total DramaRama, which was recorded in Toronto.
  • Caitlynne Medrek of Blue Water Productions in Calgary also provides the voice of Dawn in Revenge of the Island.
• The Last Kids on Earth has primarily L.A.-based voice actors like Montse Hernandez, Mark Hamill, and Rosario Dawson, yet also uses Vancouver-based voice actors like Nick Wolfhard, Charlie Demers, and Brian Drummond.
• Let's Go Luna! has L.A.-based Judy Greer voicing the titular character in a wholly otherwise Toronto-based cast.
• Little Bear was mostly recorded in Toronto, but Tutu the Dog was voiced by the Los Angeles-based (but Toronto-born) Tara Strong.
• Little Bill featured a mostly New York-based voice cast, save for Los Angeles-based Madeline Kahn as Mrs. Shapiro and Toronto-based Melanie Nicholls-King as Miss Murray.
• The Loud House mostly uses L.A.-based actors but also features Vancouver-based Ian James Corlett and Toronto-based Samuel Faraci and Bahia Watson doing bit parts in some episodes.
  • The Italian dub was recorded in Turin until halfway through Season 4 and then moved to Milan. Most of the voice cast is formed by Turin-based and Milan-based voice actors (as Turin and Milan are a 1-2 hour drive from each other), but also features three Rome-based voice actors in the main cast: Alessio De Filippis as Lincoln, Monica Volpe as Lola and Elena Perino as Luna.
• The Magic School Bus was mainly recorded in Toronto, with the exception of Lily Tomlin as Miss Frizzle and any guest stars, who recorded in Los Angeles.^note Danny Tamberelli, who replaced Amos Crawley as Arnold in Season 2, was based out of New York and would be flown in to Toronto to join the rest of the kids in their recording sessions. Its successor series, The Magic School Bus Rides Again does much of the same, but adds in Kate McKinnon and Lin-Manuel Miranda to the cast.
• For the final episodes of the cartoons based on The Mask and Ace Ventura, CBS aired a special crossover between the two. This led to the Vancouver-based Michael Daingerfield appearing in the L.A.-based The Mask and the L.A.-based Rob Paulsen and Kevin Michael Richardson appearing in the Toronto-based Ace Ventura.
• ¡Mucha Lucha! utilized both Canadian and American studios, as most of the supporting characters were voiced by Vancouver-based actors such as Garry Chalk, Michael Donovan, Kathleen Barr, Terry Klassen, Scott McNeil, Gabe Khouth, Tabitha St. Germain, Lee Tockar, Alessandro Juliani, Brian Drummond, Kevan Ohtsji, Colin Murdock, Nicole Oliver, Matt Hill, Janyse Jaud, and Samuel Vincent, while the major characters and a few bit roles were voiced by Los Angeles-based actors such as Carlos Alazraqui, Kimberly Brooks, Candi Milo, Jason Marsden, Héctor Elizondo, Freddy Rodriguez, Lee Majors, Frank Welker, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, and Fred Tatasciore.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Tara Strong usually recorded the voice for Twilight Sparkle in Los Angeles after the voices for the other characters in Vancouver were recorded. This also applies to most of the guest stars. Averted with Maurice LaMarche as he traveled to Vancouver to record his lines with the cast there.
• Nella the Princess Knight mainly uses New York-based voice actors from NYAV Post, but one episode featured L.A.-based James Arnold Taylor.
• Nina's World featured Rita Moreno and Miami-based Michele Lepe in a mostly Vancouver-based voice cast.
• Nine Noir Lives has voice acting produced by Hermit Collective, the studio owned by Lucas Gilbertson & Carol-Anne Day in Calgary. As such, most of the voice actors are Canadian, with one exception: the L.A.-based SungWon Cho.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes was mostly recorded in Los Angeles, but the Texas-based Stephanie Nadolny voiced K.O. in the first few episodes, and the crossover with Captain Planet and the Planeteers had David Coburn, now based in Paris, reprising the role of that show's titular character.
• PAW Patrol mostly has a cast of Toronto voice talent, as well as the odd actor from another city (for example, Montreal-based Sonja Ball voiced a penguin in one episode).
  • The film has celebrities of L.A. doing voices while the main cast reprised their respective roles from the TV series.
• Most Peanuts animated titles up until the mid-1980s used a mix of child voice actors from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Peg + Cat: Hayley Faith Negrin recorded her lines in Connecticut, while the rest of the cast (except for the celebrity guest stars like Sandra Oh and Misty Copeland) is from Toronto.
• Phineas and Ferb was primarily recorded in Los Angeles, but Ferb's voice actor, Thomas Brodie Sangster, was based in London.
• Pinky and the Brain was recorded in Los Angeles, but also features Vancouver-based Michael Donovan and Phil Hayes doing bit parts in some episodes.
• Powerbirds has Polly voiced by Tara Strong, who's based in Los Angeles. The show otherwise uses Toronto-based voice actors for the main roles.
• ProStars has Toronto-based Ron Rubin providing additional voices in some episodes, in an otherwise Los Angeles-based cast.
• The early work of Rankin/Bass Productions were mainly recorded in Toronto, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), which featured Billie Mae Richards as the titular character. The two sequels were recorded in Los Angeles, but still had Richards reprising her role.
• The English dub of Rainbow Ruby has voice actors from both Vancouver (including Shannon Chan-Kent and Brian Drummond) and Los Angeles (Colleen O'Shaughnessey^note credited as Olivia Charles and Johnny Yong Bosch).
• Montreal-based voice actor Rick Jones, better known for his work on cartoons from Montreal studios Cinar and CinéGroupe, also frequently showed up in Toronto-based productions during the 80s and 90s, including Little Bear, Pippi Longstocking, Care Bears, The Raccoons, Donkey Kong Country, and Birdz. He also voiced four characters, including Czar Nicholas, for Anastasia which was otherwise recorded in Los Angeles.
• The Simpsons has Maggie Roswell now recording her lines as Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover and Luann Van Houten from her home studio in Colorado after returning to those roles since season 14, where she originally left the series due to a pay dispute over her contract not covering her commute to voice acting sessions in L.A. (this led to the show killing off Maude Flanders in season 11 since the crew saw this as a perfect opportunity to open up new storylines for Ned Flanders).
• The English dub of Simsala Grimm switched the voice recording to Ireland for season 2, however the London-based Nigel Greaves and Nigel Pegram continued voicing Yoyo and Doc Croc respectively.
• Skunk Fu! was mostly recorded in Ireland, though the cast also features London-based actors Jules de Jongh and Patricia Rodriguez.
• While Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) had its voice work done in the United States, its sister series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as Sonic Underground, had their voiceovers recorded primarily in Canada, with one notable exception: Jaleel White as the titular Blue Blur.
• Stanley was mostly recorded in Los Angeles, with a few New York-based voice actors such as Corinne Orr and Doris Belack.
• Steven Universe: The Latin Spanish dub, in addition to Maria Jose Estevez (Pearl), has done this twice:
  • For the Crossover episode with Uncle Grandpa, Iyuno • SDI Group; Mexico and the entire Mexican cast returned.
  • After Judith Noguera (Ruby), Stefani Villarroel (Amethyst) and Sixnalie Villalba (Dr. Maheswaran and the Rutile Twins) moved to Chile, they continued voicing their roles in separate recording sessions from home studios.
• Stargate Infinity was mainly recorded in Vancouver, but also involved Los Angeles-based actors Tifanie Christun and Bettina Bush as Stacey Bonner and Seattle Montoya respectively.
• Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City uses a mix of both Toronto (Ana Sani, Bahia Watson) and Vancouver (Andrea Libman, Vincent Tong) talent.
• Street Sharks was one of the first DIC Entertainment productions to use talent provided by the Omaha Theater Company for Young People in Omaha, Nebraska, but it also involved Vancouver talents Matt Hill, Lee Tockar, Garry Chalk, Ian James Corlett and Doug Parker.
• Super Wish uses a Toronto-based cast, but Ronny-Bobby Candle 4's voice actress Stephanie Beard records her lines from the United States, due to Beard moving from Toronto to Los Angeles.
• ThunderCats (2011) has the Japanese and Tokyo-based Satomi Koorogi voicing Snarf, and the New York-based Larry Kenney voicing Claudus. All of the show's other voice actors are L.A.-based.
• The Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons produced in Czechoslovakia mainly used the voice talents of New York City-based actor Allen Swift, but two shorts involved local Prague actress Kutula Zbyňková.
• T.O.T.S. is mainly recorded in Hollywood, but Vanessa Williams voices Captain Beakman from her home studio in upstate New York.
• Totally Spies! played this straight from season 3 onwards, with production moving to Canada, and Jennifer Hale (Sam and Mandy) and Andrea Baker (Clover) still voicing their characters in Los Angeles, with Hale staying on due to dual citizenship. Season 1 also featured appearances from Vancouver-based Ian James Corlett and Toronto-based Tony Daniels as guest characters.
  • It's spin-off, The Amazing Spiez! also used a Toronto-based cast but Tammy's voice actress Stephanie Beard moved from Toronto to Los Angeles shortly before the production of this show, so she records her lines from L.A., unlike the rest of the show's Canadian voice cast. Jennifer Hale and Andrea Baker also reprised their Totally Spies! roles as Sam and Clover respectively from L.A. in "Operation: Dude Ranch Disaster".
• Tripping the Rift features a mostly Montreal-based voice cast with the exceptions of Stephen Root, John Melendez, Maurice LaMarche, the three voice actresses for Six, and the occasional guest star during Seasons 1 and 2.
• Trollz was mostly recorded in Vancouver, with a few L.A.-based actors such as Armen Weitzman, Brian George and America Young, along with London-based Jason Connery.
• Wallykazam has a cast of New York-based talent but they have had people like Alanna Ubach, Jim Gaffigan, or John O'Hurley of Los Angeles to do voices.
• The first season of What's with Andy? played this straight, using Los Angeles-based American voice actors like Tom Kenny, Maurice LaMarche (who was born in Toronto), and Colleen O'Shaughnessey, while the title character was voiced by Vancouver-based Canadian voice actor Ian James Corlett. In seasons 2-3, everyone except Corlett was replaced when the voice cast moved to Montreal.
• Welcome to the Wayne uses a mixture of L.A. and New York-based voice actors.
• Wishfart was mainly recorded in Toronto, but also featured Vancouver-based Brian Drummond as The King of the Underworld.

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