Which Ride or Die actor voiced Mrs. Otterton in Zootopia?

Octavia Spencer voiced Mrs. Otterton in Zootopia.

Mrs. Otterton is the worried wife of Emmitt Otterton, whose disappearance launches one of Judy Hopps’s first major investigations in the film. Her search eventually connects to the mystery of predators becoming unusually aggressive across the city.

Spencer was already an acclaimed dramatic actor when Zootopia arrived in 2016. Her other major credits include The Help, Hidden Figures, The Shape of Water and Ma. She also supplied the voice of the Manticore in Pixar’s Onward, a role that can make her Zootopia performance easy to overlook.

A common mix-up is confusing Mrs. Otterton with other animal characters in Disney’s mammal metropolis. The character is a North American river otter, while Idris Elba voices Chief Bogo and Ginnifer Goodwin voices Judy Hopps. Zootopia’s central mystery uses Mrs. Otterton’s family crisis to introduce the film’s wider themes of fear, prejudice and social trust.