Cate Blanchett has joined the long line of celebrities to lend her acting talents to animated film.
While in Cannes this week Cate has been promoting her new film, How to Train Your Dragon 2, where she portrays the voice of Valka, the long lost mother of the animated features hero, Hiccup.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter the two-time Oscar winner said she was excited about the project from the start.
“I saw the first How to Train Your Dragon film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating,” she told THR.
The mother-of-two boys said when director, Dean DeBlois asked her to come on board she jumped at the chance.
“I said, absolutely, because the whole process of trying to bring something to life in advance of the animation – purely with your voice – I found it a really interesting challenge.”
Have a look and see which other actors have been behind some of the most recognisable characters in animated cinema.
Cate Blanchett dazzled on the red carpet even as she posed next to a dragon from the film.
Cate plays Hiccup’s long lost mother, Valka in How to Train Your Dragon 2.
America Ferrera is the voice of Hiccup’s love interest, Astrid in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
Angelina Jolie was the voice of the feline-fatale Tigress in the animated Kung Fu Panda films.
Betty White as Grammy Norma in Dr Seuss’s The Lorax.
Adorable Dory in 2003’s Finding Nemo is voiced by funny woman Ellen DeGeneres.
Shrek 2’s Fairy Godmother come to life with the voice of British actress Jennifer Saunders.
Kristen Bell was the voice of Anna in Frozen.
Pint sized Jada Pinkett Smith is the huge voice behind Gloria the hippopotamus in the DreamWorks animal animation franchise, Madagascar.
Helen Mirren performed the voice of the Dean Hardscrabble in Monsters University.
Julia Roberts as Hova, the nurse ant in the 2006 film, The Ant Bully.
Kristen Wigg joins Cate Blanchett and America Ferrera on the cast of How to Train Your Dragon 2 as the voice of Ruffnut.
Lucy Liu lent her pipes to the character of Viper for Kung Fu Panda 2.
Emma Thompson play’s Merida’s mother, Elinor in Brave.
Cameron Diaz voiced heroine, Princess Fiona in the Shrek franchise.
Julie Andrew’s lends her posh pipes to voice the Queen in Shrek the Third.
Mandy Moore played Rapunzel in the animated film Tangled.
Demi Moore was the voice behind exotic Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Sarah Silverman voices Vanellope in 2012’s Wreck it Ralph.
Meryl Streep voiced Felicity Fox, Mr. Fox’s wife in the Fantastic Mr Fox.
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