It is not unusual to find amongst the ranks of voice actors people who also act in live-action film or television, or on the stage. For those actors, voice acting has the advantage of offering acting work without having to bother with makeup, costuming, lighting, and so on.

A common practice in animation voice casting not widely known to the general public is to have young boy-character roles read by women. This goes all the way back to Gracie Lantz as Woody Woodpecker, and continues with Elizabeth "E.G." Daily as Tommy Pickles on Rugrats and All Grown Up today. June Foray, even as a senior citizen, can still faithfully voice Rocket J. Squirrel. This can be especially useful if an ad campaign or a developed series is expected to run for a few years, because the female voice characteristics do not change as drastically through adolescence as do those of the male.

Some notable voice actors