The Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) cast is a voice ensemble led by Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker and Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, with James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Dee Bradley Baker voicing Captain Rex and the clone troopers. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), directed by Dave Filoni, opened in US theaters on August 15, 2008, and runs 98 minutes. According to Screen Daily, three actors carry their roles over from the live action films: Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and Christopher Lee as Count Dooku. Other performers voice the rest of the principal characters. The film is also the first appearance of Ahsoka Tano, whom StarWars.com describes as the 14 year old apprentice of Anakin Skywalker, and the start of Nika Futterman's long run as Asajj Ventress. Below, you will find a note on each of the twelve top billed performers, followed by the casting story and answers to the questions people ask most.
| # | Actor | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Lanter | Anakin Skywalker (voice) |
| 2 | Ashley Eckstein | Ahsoka Tano (voice) |
| 3 | James Arnold Taylor | Obi-Wan Kenobi / 4A-7 / Medical Droid (voice) |
| 4 | David Acord | Rotta the Huttlet (voice) |
| 5 | Dee Bradley Baker | Captain Rex / Commander Cody / Commander Fox / Clone Troopers (voice) |
| 6 | Christopher Lee | Count Dooku (voice) |
| 7 | Nika Futterman | Asajj Ventress / Tee-C-Seventy (voice) |
| 8 | Kevin Michael Richardson | Jabba the Hutt (voice) |
| 9 | Catherine Taber | Padmé Amidala (voice) |
| 10 | Ian Abercrombie | Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious (voice) |
| 11 | Corey Burton | Ziro the Hutt / General Loathsom / Kronos-327 (voice) |
| 12 | Tom Kane | Narrator / Yoda / Admiral Yularen (voice) |
| 13 | Samuel L. Jackson | Mace Windu (voice) |
| 14 | Anthony Daniels | C-3PO (voice) |
| 15 | Matthew Wood | Battle Droids (voice) |
Billing order from the film's credits (TMDB). Actors with a Cinvibe page and characters with a character page are linked.
Matt Lanter voices Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi Knight who takes on Ahsoka Tano as his apprentice in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). In a 2021 StarWars.com feature, Lanter said he had no idea he was auditioning for Anakin, because the part was pitched under the name Deak Starkiller. Dave Filoni asked for his best combination of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, and that reading won him the role.
Ashley Eckstein voices Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), the headstrong young Padawan assigned to Anakin as his apprentice. StarWars.com notes that Ahsoka was introduced in this animated movie, which makes the film her first appearance. Eckstein told the site that Dave Filoni saw a lot of her own personality in the audition, and that how she behaved between takes counted as much as the reading.
James Arnold Taylor voices Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), along with two smaller droid parts credited as 4A-7 and Medical Droid. He was not new to Kenobi in 2008: SYFY Wire reports that he has voiced the prequel era Obi-Wan ever since the Genndy Tartakovsky animated version, and he carried the role into this film's opening battle on Christophsis.
David Acord voices Rotta the Huttlet, the infant son of Jabba the Hutt, in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). The baby's kidnapping drives the main plot, because the Jedi are asked to bring him back to win the Hutts' cooperation. Acord is billed fourth in the TMDB credits for the film.
Dee Bradley Baker voices Captain Rex, Commander Cody, Commander Fox and the rank and file Clone Troopers in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). In an October 2008 interview with Animation World Network, Baker said he starts from a core voice such as Rex and then adds one or two personality traits for each clone, recording them separately so that identical soldiers still sound like individuals.
Christopher Lee voices Count Dooku, the Sith Lord on the Separatist side of the war, in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). Lee had played Dooku in Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), and StarWars.com confirms that he returned to the role for this animated movie. Screen Daily also names him among the three actors reprising live action roles here.
Nika Futterman voices Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), and she also has a smaller credit as the droid Tee-C-Seventy. The film began a long partnership with the character, since StarWars.com noted in May 2025 that Futterman has voiced Ventress ever since the 2008 movie. She told the site that she feels she has become the character.
Kevin Michael Richardson voices Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), where Jabba's infant son is kidnapped early in the story. The need to get the child back is what sends the Jedi on their mission, so the role frames the main plot even though much of the action happens far from him. Richardson is billed eighth in the TMDB credits.
Catherine Taber voices Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) and is billed ninth in the TMDB credits. Screen Daily's August 2008 review names three actors who return from the live action films (Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels and Christopher Lee). Padmé is therefore one of several principal characters voiced in this film by a performer who did not play the role on screen.
Ian Abercrombie voices both Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), a double credit that covers the public face and the hidden identity of one character. The A.V. Club, reporting his death in January 2012, noted that he took over the part in his later years for this film and for its television and video game adaptations.
Corey Burton voices three characters in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008): Ziro the Hutt, General Loathsom and Kronos-327. Screen Daily's August 2008 review mentions his Ziro the Hutt by name. Several actors in this film take more than one part, and Burton's three credits match James Arnold Taylor's and Tom Kane's. Dee Bradley Baker has the most, with four (Captain Rex, Commander Cody, Commander Fox and Clone Troopers).
Tom Kane voices the Narrator, Yoda and Admiral Yularen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). Reporting his death at 64 in May 2026, TheWrap listed Yoda in The Clone Wars among his biggest roles, and said he voiced Yoda throughout the series' run on Cartoon Network and Disney+.
The Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008 cast was built mostly from voice actors, with Dave Filoni central to the auditions for the new leads. Matt Lanter told StarWars.com that he did not know he was reading for Anakin, since the part was pitched as Deak Starkiller, and that Filoni asked for a blend of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Ashley Eckstein has described a similar room for Ahsoka Tano, saying Filoni saw her own personality in the audition and weighed how she behaved between takes.
Why does that matter for this film? Ahsoka had no earlier performance to match, so Eckstein's reading became the template for the character. For the clones, Dee Bradley Baker took a different route, building one core voice (Rex) and adjusting it for each soldier, as he explained to Animation World Network in October 2008.
The star wars the clone wars 2008 page covers the film itself, which runs 98 minutes and was distributed worldwide by Warner Bros, with Lucasfilm Ltd as the production company.
Three actors return from the live action films for Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), and Screen Daily's August 2008 review names them as Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Christopher Lee (Count Dooku). StarWars.com adds that Lee had played Dooku in Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). Matthew Wood is also credited, voicing the Battle Droids.
Other performers voice Anakin, Padmé, Yoda and Palpatine: Matt Lanter, Catherine Taber, Tom Kane and Ian Abercrombie. James Arnold Taylor is a partial exception among the newer voices, because SYFY Wire reports that he had already voiced Obi-Wan in the earlier Genndy Tartakovsky animation. Ashley Eckstein and Nika Futterman both begin their runs here (Ahsoka Tano and Asajj Ventress respectively), and both went on to voice the characters for years.
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| Director | Dave Filoni |
|---|---|
| Writers | Henry Gilroy, Steven Melching, Scott Murphy |
| Producers | Catherine Winder |
| Music | Kevin Kiner |
Matt Lanter voices Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), and he is billed first in the credits. Lanter told StarWars.com that the audition was pitched under another name, Deak Starkiller, so he did not know he was reading for Anakin. Dave Filoni asked him for a mix of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, and that reading got him the part.
Ashley Eckstein voices Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), which is also the character's first appearance. StarWars.com says Ahsoka was introduced in this film as the 14 year old apprentice of Anakin Skywalker. Eckstein has said that Dave Filoni cast her partly because he saw a lot of her own personality in the audition.
Yes, Christopher Lee voices Count Dooku in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). StarWars.com confirmed in 2015 that Lee returned to the role for the animated movie after playing Dooku in Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). Screen Daily also lists him among the actors who reprised their live action roles.
Yes, Samuel L. Jackson voices Mace Windu in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) and is billed thirteenth in the TMDB credits. In its review published on August 11, 2008, Screen Daily named Jackson, Anthony Daniels and Christopher Lee as the three actors returning to the roles they played in the live action films.
Count Dooku, voiced by Christopher Lee, is the main villain of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), and StarWars.com describes him as an evil Sith Lord. Nika Futterman voices Asajj Ventress, and Ian Abercrombie holds the dual credit of Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious. The story is set during the war between the Republic and the Separatists.
Only part of the live action cast returned for Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). Screen Daily reported that Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels and Christopher Lee reprised Mace Windu, C-3PO and Count Dooku. Other actors voice Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padmé, Yoda and Palpatine: Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor, Catherine Taber, Tom Kane and Ian Abercrombie.
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