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Charles Martinet Steps Back from Voice of Mario

Shigeru Miyamoto at a future date.

Martinet is the franchise. He began voicing Mario in 1991 at trade shows as a 3D Mario head on a screen that would talk to people. He voiced the character again in several smaller titles within the next few years. His first major Mario series game was Super Mario 64 in 1996. Martinet has voiced Mario and other characters in numerous mainline games and spinoffs since.

Although Martinet did not voice Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, he had cameo roles as Giuseppe (who says Mario's iconic "Woohoo!" in the film) and Mario's dad.

Martinet played Magenta in Dragon Ball Super franchise.

Source: Nintendo's Twitter via Gematsu