Nine actors carried 193 episodes of the 1987 series, and between them they voiced more than twenty characters. Meet the cast, hear who played more than one Turtle-verse role, and follow the Turtles from the Fred Wolf cartoon through the Henson creature suits, the 4Kids reboot, Nickelodeon, and Mutant Mayhem.
★ HEAR THE CAST
Every principal 1987 voice actor appears in the show's own title sequence. It is the one clip on this page where you can hear the full cast together.
Opening title sequence, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Fred Wolf Films / Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. Embedded via youtube-nocookie for viewer privacy.
★ INTERACTIVE CAST EXPLORER
Tap any actor for their full character list, a short bio, other famous roles, and (where a photo survives with a free license) their face. A MULTI badge means they voiced more than one character on this show alone.
★ ONE TURTLE, TWO ERAS
Sixteen years after the original series ended, Rob Paulsen returned to the franchise for the 2012 Nickelodeon series, this time as an entirely different brother. He is the only actor to voice two different Turtles across two different eras, and the character he left behind, Raphael, was picked up next by Sean Astin.
See his 1987 card →★ HERO80 NETWORK CROSSOVER
Cam Clarke, the original 1987 Leonardo, later voiced He-Man and Prince Adam in the 2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe reboot, the "200x" series covered in depth over on our sibling site heman.org. Same actor, two different HERO80 properties.
Explore 200x on heman.org →★ THE 1990 FILM
The first live-action film split every Turtle into three separate performers: someone inside the seventy-pound Jim Henson Creature Shop suit, someone driving the animatronic face by remote control, and someone looping the voice in post-production. Casual fans usually only know one name per Turtle. Here are all three.
The blue-masked leader. David Forman performed in the suit, Brian Tochi looped the voice, and Martin P. Robinson drove the radio-controlled animatronic face.
The only Turtle whose performer both wore the suit and voiced the character. Josh Pais won the role because his New York accent and physicality were inseparable from the part.
Michelan Sisti performed in the suit (and cameos as the pizza delivery man), Robbie Rist supplied the surfer-dude voice, and Mak Wilson puppeteered the face.
Leif Tilden performed in the suit, Corey Feldman (the only actual teenager voicing a Turtle) supplied the voice, and David Rudman drove the face.
Performed and voiced entirely by Kevin Clash, one of Jim Henson’s proteges, who had already become the puppeteer and voice of Sesame Street’s Elmo five years earlier, in 1985.
Body actor James Saito wore the bladed armor; David McCharen supplied the booming dubbed voice - the one other 1990 role, besides the Turtles and Splinter, that was actually dubbed by a separate voice actor.
The suits were built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London, one of Henson's last projects before his death, seven weeks after the March 30, 1990 premiere. Full cast and crew, the score, the box office story, and more sit on the dedicated movie hub.
Full 1990 film hub →★ EVERY ERA SINCE
Voiced the role for all 155 episodes across seven seasons.
Also all 155 episodes, from 2003 to 2009.
Later a co-founder and player on Critical Role, and an Emmy-winning voice director.
One actor, three screen credits: billed as "Frank Frankson" for early episodes, then "John Campbell," before finally appearing under his own name.
Green took over partway through the run and stayed through the 2017 finale.
Goonies and Lord of the Rings actor, cast as the muscle of the family.
Also known as Beast Boy in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!
The 1987 Raphael, back in the shell as an entirely different brother. See the callout above.
Also stepped in to voice the original 1987 Shredder in a 2016 crossover episode, after James Avery’s passing.
Previously starred in Good Boys (2019).
His only English-language voice role as Splinter to date.
The Bear star, in her first major animated feature role.
★ SOURCES & PHOTO CREDITS
Cross-checked against Wikipedia, Behind the Voice Actors, Turtlepedia (TMNTPedia), and IMDb full episode credits. The 1990 film's suit-vs-voice-vs-puppeteer split matches our own dedicated movie hub. Actor photography is freely licensed press and convention photography, not AI-generated.