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====Voice acting==== Curry has appeared in many animated television series and films, starting with the performance of the [[Serpents in the Bible#Eden|Serpent]] ''[[The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible]]'' (1988). Curry won a [[Daytime Emmy Award]] for his performance as [[Captain Hook]] in the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] animated series ''[[Peter Pan and the Pirates]]'' (1990β1991). His longest-running animated role was as Nigel Thornberry in ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' (1998β2004), which ran for five seasons on [[Nickelodeon]]. Curry became the voice of [[Palpatine|Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious]] in ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)|Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' upon the death of [[Ian Abercrombie]]. Other notable animated television roles include MAL in ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'' (1991β1996), Zimbo in ''[[Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]]'' (1994β1997), King Chicken in ''[[Duckman]]'' (1994β1997), Dr. Anton Sevarius in ''[[Gargoyles (TV series)|Gargoyles]]'' (1995β1996), Slagar in ''[[Redwall (TV series)|Redwall]]'' (2000β2001), Professor Finbarr Calamitous in ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]'' (2003β2005), [[G. Gordon Godfrey]] in ''[[Young Justice (TV series)|Young Justice]]'' (2012β2013), and The Sorcerer in ''[[Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja]]'' (2012β2014). Most recently on television, he voiced Auntie Whispers on the [[Creative Arts Emmy Awards|Primetime Creative Arts Emmy]]-winning miniseries ''[[Over the Garden Wall]]'' (2014). Curry has also done voice acting in a number of animated films, most notably ''[[FernGully: The Last Rainforest]]'' (1992), [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[The Pebble and the Penguin]]'' (1995), ''[[Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas]]'' (1997) for which he received an [[Annie Award]] nomination, ''[[Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost]]'' (1998), the first [[Barbie]] film ''[[Barbie in the Nutcracker]]'' (2001), reprising his role of Nigel Thornberry in ''[[The Wild Thornberrys Movie]]'' (2002) and ''[[Rugrats Go Wild]]'' (2003), the English dub of [[Studio Ghibli]]'s ''[[The Cat Returns]]'' (2005) and ''[[Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties]]'' (2006). His video game credits include the titular character in ''[[Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers]]'' (1993) and ''[[Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned]]'' (1999), [[Tim Schafer]]'s ''[[BrΓΌtal Legend]]'' (2009), and the first game in the ''[[Dragon Age]]'' series, ''[[Dragon Age: Origins]]'' (2009). Curry's performance as Premier Anatoly Cherdenko in [[live-action]] [[cut scenes]] in ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]]'' (2008), have gone [[Viral phenomenon|viral]] as a [[meme]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-oral-history-of-tim-currys-escape-to-the-one-place-uncorrupted-by-capitalism/ |title=An Oral History of Tim Curry's Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism |date=August 18, 2022 |last=Fyfe |first=Duncan |website=[[Vice Media]] |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> Curry's audiobook work includes his [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated narraton of [[Lemony Snicket]]'s ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', [[Geraldine McCaughrean]]'s ''[[Peter Pan in Scarlet]]'', [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' and the ''[[Old Kingdom (book series)|Abhorsen]]'' trilogy. Curry has done voice over for various advertisements for products and companies such as [[Smirnoff]], [[Cravendale]] and [[Paramount Network]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/347659/video-tim-curry-announces-paramount-networks-killer-classics-month-line-up/|title= Video: Tim Curry Announces Paramount Network's Killer Classics Month Line Up |date= 3 October 2020 |publisher=Dread Central |access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>
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