Marc Thompson
Marc Thompson is an actor, born 1970.
On Daria, Marc Thompson played the idiot and both of the teachers who had to teach him. Kevin Thompson, Anthony DeMartino and Timothy O'Neill are three of that show's most reliable comic engines, and they never once sound like the same performer: the jock is all unbothered volume, DeMartino is permanent barely-contained fury, O'Neill is soft-voiced pastoral concern curdling into panic. Carrying all three inside one series is the working definition of a New York voice actor.
That is the important context. Thompson is a product of the East Coast dubbing industry rather than the Los Angeles animation business, working through Konami Cross Media New York, NYAV Post and DuArt Film and Video, which has historically meant anime dubs, imported children's programming and audiobooks rather than feature work. He took a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1997, the year Daria started.
The list since is enormous and mostly aimed at children: Casey Jones in the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and its games, the title role in Robocar Poli, Megatron in Transformers: Cyberverse, and a stack of Pokemon including Gengar, Krookodile, Primeape, Gliscor and Tepig. He also reads a long shelf of Star Wars audiobooks, among them the Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi series, which is a completely different skill: hours of solo narration with no other actor to play off.
Movies (4)
TV (10)
Where to start with Marc Thompson
Daria is the start, obviously, and it holds up better than almost any American cartoon of its decade because its contempt is aimed at institutions rather than at people. Listen for how little Thompson repeats himself across Kevin, DeMartino and O'Neill. Daria in 'Is It College Yet?' is the send-off, and its credit for him, four characters in one film, is the neatest single summary of the job.
After that, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the good one: a darker, more faithful adaptation than the 1987 cartoon, with his Casey Jones as its best comic relief. Transformers: Cyberverse is worth an episode for the Megatron, because following that particular voice is a thankless assignment and he wisely does not imitate it.
For the small children in your life, WordWorld and Viva Piñata are the gentle end, and Welcome to the Wayne is the odd, ambitious one that deserved more attention than it got.