Did you know ? Before breaking into film and television, actor Jonathan Cohen did some dubbing. We could notably hear his voice on Eli Roth in “Inglourious Basterds” or on Brad Pitt in “Burn After Reading”.
No, this is not a lie from Serge the Mytho!
The actor Jonathan Cohen, who we recently saw in Sentinel on Amazon Prime Video (and who is currently working on a sequel to The Flame and the Flambeau) did indeed participate in Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino by lending his voice to Eli Roth in the French version of the feature film.
Indeed, between 2006 and 2015, before experiencing the popularity that he enjoys today and while his career in cinema and television was gradually evolving, Jonathan Cohen set foot in the field of dubbing by playing several American actors. renowned in sometimes important films.
In Tarantino’s famous war film, Jonathan Cohen dubbed the character played by Eli Roth, Donny Donnowitz, aka “the Jewish bear”, formidable deputy of Lieutenant Raine (played by Brad Pitt) and known for hunting Nazis in the baseball bat.
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But in terms of dubbing, this little foray into the Tarantino filmography does not constitute the actor’s only feat of arms.
Over the years, Jonathan Cohen has also lent his voice to Brad Pitt himself (in Burn After Reading by the Coen brothers, while the star is most of the time dubbed by Jean-Pierre Michaël), to Oscar Isaac (in the excellent Inside Llewyn Davis and Ex Machina), to Ryan Reynolds in The Voices, to Mark Ruffalo in Daddy Cool, as well as to the hero of Ninja Assassin, played by South Korean actor Jung Ji-hoon.
On television, the future interpreter of Marc in The Flame also vocally interpreted the character of Ted Prague (played by Matthew John Armstrong in the famous series Heroes).
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Finally, on the animation side, Jonathan Cohen was also able to have fun and slip behind several colorful characters: the extravagant Doctor Nefario, Gru’s right-hand man in the Despicable Me trilogy, the Tope-Là emoji in The Secret World of Emojis, or the digital scammer Spamley in Ralph 2.0.
Did you recognize Jonathan Cohen’s voice on other English-speaking actors or other animated characters?
(Re)discover our interview with the actor for “Ralph 2.0″…