David Kaye
David Kaye voiced the incredible Predacon leader, Megatron, during the Beast Wars and follow-up saga Beast Machines. When the Transformers moved into its Unicron Trilogy phase, Kaye continued his evil streak, voicing the big-bads Megatronand Galvatron in the Armada, Energon and Cybertron series.
Famed for villainous characters, Kaye showed he too was capable of great Transformation in 2007, when he switched sides to portray the Autobot hero and franchise leading-bot, Optimus Prime in the fan-favourite series, Transformers Animated.
As if his iconic leader roles weren’t enough, Kaye has also voiced numerous other Transformers over the years, including Lugnut, Grimlock and Warpath in Transformers: Animated; Hardshell in Transformers: Prime; and Hammerstrikeand Slashmark in Robots in Disguise.
Truly, no matter when you became a Transformers fan, you will almost certainly know Kaye’s voice!
(And if Transformers is not your thing, somehow, Kaye has also starred in X-Men: Evolution, Ben 10, Inuyasha, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing – and is widely recognised as the narrating voice for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Whew!)
