45 Actors You Probably Didn’t Know Were the Voices Behind Animated Characters

Here we have yet another Lion King voice actor. Jeremy Irons provided a voice for Scar, one of the most hated animated characters of all time. But Jeremy Irons’s acting career has covered much more than animation and voice-overs. He’s also a Shakespearean actor!

With credits in plays like Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing, Jeremy Irons surely has quite the acting range. While Shakespeare isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, there’s an entire generation of The Lion King fans that now know Jeremy Irons’s name thanks to the massively popular animated film.