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Disney's Onward Is Filled With Famous Voices You'll Definitely Recognise

19/12/2019 - 01:45 PM

The cast of Disney's Onward [1] is packed with top-tier talent, including more than a few stars who are no strangers to the Disney fold. Two of the lead actors are Marvel superheroes, while another voiced one of the original Pixar heroes in the days before the company fully merged with Disney. The magical new adventure [2] focuses on two brothers who get more than they bargained for [3] when they try a spell to talk to their father, who died years ago. We're used to Disney/Pixar projects having amazing casts along with their amazing animation, but this one really takes the cake! Keep reading to see which stars you recognise will be voicing the characters in Onward.

Tom Holland as Ian Lightfoot

The Spider-Man star plays Ian Lightfoot, a teenage elf who, along with his older brother, botches a spell to bring back his late father for 24 hours and goes on a quest to fix it. This isn't Holland's only voice role so far: he's also voicing characters in Spies in Disguise and in Doolittle, the latter of which is reuniting him with Avengers costar Robert Downey, Jr.

Chris Pratt as Barley Lightfoot

Pratt plays the older brother to Holland's character, putting the two Avengers costars in the same film once again. His other upcoming project is The Tomorrow War, a sci-fi action flick slated for later in 2020.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Laurel Lightfoot

Louis-Dreyfus's role as Barley and Ian's mother isn't her first Pixar voice role: you might recognise her voice as Princess Atta in A Bug's Life. Of course, she's best known for her TV work, particularly on Seinfeld, Veep, and The New Adventures of Old Christine, which have won her a combined 11 Emmys (eight of which are for acting).

Octavia Spencer as Corey

The Oscar winner (for 2011's The Help) voices a restaurant-owning Manticore in the new movie. She's starred in plenty of notable movies over the years, including Hidden Figures, the Divergent series, and The Shape of Water. Like costar Holland, she's done back-to-back voice roles in this movie and Doolittle.

Lena Waithe as Specter

Waithe has been having a very good few years. She became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy award for outstanding writing for a comedy series, for a 2017 episode of Master of None. This year, her film Queen & Slim is being widely applauded as one of the top films of the year.

Ali Wong as Gore

After years of excellent work, Wong hit the mainstream this year thanks to her Netflix rom-com Always be My Maybe. She's also a series regular on the comedy American Housewife, and she landed a still-mysterious role in the upcoming superhero movie Birds of Prey.

Mel Rodriguez as Colt Bronco

Rodriguez is definitely one of "those guys" you've seen in a lot of projects, even if he's never quite hit the A-list. His best-known roles are probably Nurse Patsy de la Serda on the HBO comedy Getting On, Todd Rodriguez on the Fox comedy The Last Man on Earth, and Marco on Better Call Saul.


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