Episode 259: Ian Hanlin

Ian Hanlin’s long list of voice credits includes an egg pirate, a black-furred anthropomorphic hedgehog, and an entire cadre of well-coiffed superheroes. Ian voiced Thor in LEGO Marvel Avengers: Loki in Training, Owen Grady in LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar, Ant Man in LEGO Marvel Avengers: Time Twisted, The Purple Pie Man in Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City,  Lance Richmond in LEGO: Nexo Knights, and Mr. Pocket in Polly Pocket, and can currently be heard as Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic Prime. In late 2022, he won the award for Best Voice Performance at the 2022 UBCP/ACTRA Awards for his work in Angry Birds: Summer Madness. In this rollicking conversation with Sabrina Rani Furminger, Ian describes how he found his voice, the joys and challenges of voicing heroes with great hair, and what he did early in his career to make an engineer to say, “Well, you really Christian Bale-d the shit out of that.” Episode sponsors: UBCP / ACTRA