Who voices Sonic in the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog?

Ben Schwartz voices Sonic in the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog. Schwartz performs the voice of the fast-talking blue hedgehog, while James Marsden plays human sheriff Tom Wachowski, Sonic’s ally in the story.

The film was directed by Jeff Fowler and adapted Sega’s video-game character for a live-action and computer-animated adventure. Sonic arrives on Earth while fleeing danger, then teams up with Tom as the government recruits the eccentric scientist Dr. Robotnik, played by Jim Carrey, to track him down. Schwartz also supplied Sonic’s facial motion-capture performance, helping shape the character’s on-screen expressions.

The movie’s production became notable before release because audiences strongly criticized Sonic’s original trailer design. Paramount delayed the film and redesigned Sonic to look closer to his game appearance. The revised film opened in 2020 and became the first entry in a film series. Fans sometimes confuse Schwartz with earlier game-era voice actors such as Roger Craig Smith and Jason Griffith, but those performers voiced Sonic in other media and games, not the 2020 feature film.