10 Notable Names With At Least One Recurring TV Voice Role
8. Whoopi Goldberg
Love it or hate it, there's no debate that Captain Planet and the Planeteers left a sizeable carbon footprint on '90s animation. Of course, on rewatch the episodes might seem a tad clunky, the voice acting might come off flat from time to time, and the messages and morals are DEFINITELY heavy-handed. But any kid who watched during the original run and says they don't remember the theme song word for word (which should have been used at the beginning of each episode, not the end, by the way) is not being honest with themselves. In spite of being very much a product of its time, the show's heart was always in the right place.
Additionally, the cast was stacked. Well, in the first season, at least.
Amidst some of the most reliable hands in the voice acting spectrum, Captain Planet and the Planeteers was bolstered by more familiar names like LeVar Burton and a bevy of villains voiced by the likes of Ed Asner, Meg Ryan, Jeff Goldblum, Martin Sheen, Sting (the Police frontman, not the wrestler) and Whoopi Goldberg, who would portray Gaia, the personification of Mother Earth for 60 episodes from 1990-92.
Following Season One, only Burton and Goldberg would reprise their roles. Upon her departure from the show in 1993, Goldberg's Gaia would be handed to Margot Kidder for the remainder of the series run to 1996. As most fans of Superman will tell you, that's not too shabby a substitution.