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Sarah Michelle Gellar - "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Movie - She gets April voice role

Tuesday 26 December 2006, by Webmaster

After the news that Patrick Stewart would be voicing the villain, Max Winters, in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, the TMNT makers have named four other voices for the CG-animated big-screen return of the butt-kicking mutant turtles.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, who came to fame as the television Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and whose recent film work in The Grudge, The Grudge 2 and The Return have seen her popularity soar, has landed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles voice role of April O’Neil. April O’Neil is the reporter who acts as the liason between the Turtles and the human world.

Also announced for voice roles in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie are Chris Evans (Fantastic Four), who will play the hockey-stick wielding vigilante Casey Jones, Zhang Ziyi as a leader of the bad guy Foot Ninjas, and a cameo by writer-director-actor Kevin Smith. Zhang Ziyi, according to USA Today will give voice to "Karai, who leads an evil army known as the Foot Ninjas into battle against the turtle brothers." Kevin Smith will lend his voice as a cameo role, with his role on screen appearing "as a greasy-spoon chef".

While Sarah Michelle Gellar joins the list of celebrities on the film, the four Turtles, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo, will all be voiced by non-celebrities. TMNT will be released in the U.S. on March 20, 2007.