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213 cast members · 63 with popularity data
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1
David Attenborough
Narrator
· 3 eps
29.0
#31 overall
2
Harrison Ford
Narrator
· 1 eps
11.3
#154 overall
3
Sigourney Weaver
Narrator
· 1 eps
4.9
#844 overall
4
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
4.8
#874 overall
5
Stacy Keach
Narrator
· 8 eps
4.5
#965 overall
6
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice)
· 16 eps
3.9
#1,284 overall
7
John Lithgow
Narrator
· 6 eps
3.5
#1,496 overall
8
Keith David
Narrator
· 1 eps
3.1
#1,804 overall
9
John Hurt
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.9
#2,065 overall
10
Stockard Channing
Self - Bible Reader
· 1 eps
2.5
#2,477 overall
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self - Host
· 5 eps
2.4
#2,534 overall
12
Roy Scheider
Narrator
· 3 eps
2.4
#2,582 overall
13
Rebecca De Mornay
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.4
#2,630 overall
14
F. Murray Abraham
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.2
#2,843 overall
15
Oliver Platt
Narrator
· 2 eps
2.2
#2,899 overall
16
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator
· 8 eps
1.9
#3,477 overall
17
Derek Jacobi
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
· 1 eps
1.7
#3,848 overall
18
Héctor Elizondo
Narrator
· 1 eps
1.7
#3,858 overall
19
Samuel West
Humphry Davy
· 1 eps
1.7
#3,976 overall
20
Shirley Henderson
Mileva Maric
· 1 eps
1.6
#4,022 overall
21
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator
· 1 eps
1.5
#4,390 overall
22
Jim Carter
Narrator
· 1 eps
1.0
#6,388 overall
23
Simon Callow
Galileo
· 1 eps
0.9
#7,039 overall
24
Joe Morton
Narrator
· 2 eps
0.7
#8,734 overall
25
John Benjamin Hickey
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.7
#8,807 overall
26
Frances O'Connor
Emma Darwin
· 1 eps
0.7
#8,844 overall
27
Sally Kellerman
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.6
#9,734 overall
28
Henry Ian Cusick
Charles Darwin
· 1 eps
0.6
#9,865 overall
29
Anton Lesser
Voltaire
· 1 eps
0.6
#9,870 overall
30
Hal Linden
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.6
#10,382 overall
31
Jay O. Sanders
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 39 eps
0.6
#10,542 overall
32
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Percy Julian
· 1 eps
0.4
#13,264 overall
33
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Antoine Lavoisier
· 1 eps
0.4
#13,816 overall
34
Corey Johnson
Narrator
· 4 eps
0.3
#14,850 overall
35
Kathryn Walker
· 2 eps
0.3
#14,866 overall
36
Alex Macqueen
Chater
· 1 eps
0.3
#15,655 overall
37
Brian Greene
Host
· 7 eps
0.3
#16,373 overall
38
Aidan McArdle
Albert Einstein
· 1 eps
0.3
#16,605 overall
39
Peter Thomas
Narrator
· 5 eps
0.2
#18,366 overall
40
E.O. Wilson
Himself
· 1 eps
0.2
#18,454 overall
41
William Hootkins
Voice of Methuselah
· 1 eps
0.2
#18,539 overall
42
Steven Robertson
Michael Faraday
· 1 eps
0.2
#19,906 overall
43
Roger McGough
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.2
#21,626 overall
44
Neil Ross
Narrator
· 17 eps
0.2
#21,690 overall
45
Mark Oliver Everett
Himself
· 1 eps
0.2
#23,021 overall
46
Richard Donat
Narrator
· 5 eps
0.2
#23,417 overall
47
Emily Woof
Lise Meitner
· 1 eps
0.1
#24,988 overall
48
Bohdan Poraj
Francis Crozier
· 1 eps
0.1
#27,347 overall
49
Alan Yentob
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.1
#29,357 overall
50
Nigel Bennett
Sir Charles Lyell
· 1 eps
0.1
#31,765 overall
51
John Fraser
Inquisitor
· 1 eps
0.1
#32,092 overall
52
Darri Ingolfsson
Godfred Hansen
· 1 eps
0.0
#40,206 overall
53
Jan Maxwell
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.0
#42,680 overall
54
Demetri Goritsas
Narrator
· 3 eps
0.0
#43,070 overall
55
Ty Glaser
Marie Anne Lavoisier
· 1 eps
0.0
#46,398 overall
56
Craig Sechler
Narrator
· 19 eps
0.0
#47,224 overall
57
Michael Scott
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.0
#48,509 overall
58
Jeremy Akerman
Parslow
· 1 eps
0.0
#50,362 overall
59
Jere Shea
George Soper
· 1 eps
0.0
#54,415 overall
60
Tom Magliozzi
Host
· 1 eps
0.0
#57,435 overall
61
Philip Herbert
Count de Amerval
· 1 eps
0.0
#57,619 overall
62
Vladimir Pozner
Host
· 1 eps
0.0
#61,687 overall
63
Ray Magliozzi
Host
· 1 eps
0.0
#63,286 overall
64
Richard Smith
Host
· 4 eps
—
65
Bray Poor
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
66
Lance Lewman
Narrator (voice)
· 24 eps
—
67
Ted Marcoux
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
68
Kenichi Nakamaru
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
69
Shu Morino
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
70
Jamie Effros
Narrator
· 4 eps
—
71
Eric Meyers
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
72
John Mckenzie
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
73
Rushmore DeNooyer
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
74
Stefanie E. Frame
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
75
Rob Tinworth
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
76
David Slavin
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
77
Brendan Fleming
Hermann Einstein
· 1 eps
—
78
Stephen Noonan
Marat
· 1 eps
—
79
Robert Styles
Newman
· 1 eps
—
80
Di Trevis
Baroness de la Garde
· 1 eps
—
81
James Tovell
Manson
· 1 eps
—
82
Christian Pedersen
Gustav Wiik
· 1 eps
—
83
Scott Handy
Isaac Newton
· 1 eps
—
84
Anthony Garner
Sir John Franklin
· 1 eps
—
85
Maureen Bennett
Lady Franklin
· 1 eps
—
86
Thom Fell
James Fitzjames
· 1 eps
—
87
Corey Conradi
Roald Amundsen
· 1 eps
—
88
Marian Tomas Griffin
Mary Mallon
· 1 eps
—
89
Gene Galusha
Narrator
· 6 eps
—
90
Jeremiah Kissel
Narrator
· 5 eps
—
91
Calvin Sims
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
92
C. Scott Willis
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
93
Edd Gasper
Narrator
· 2 eps
—
94
Laura Nardi
Maria Celeste
· 1 eps
—
95
Alexa Jago
Voice of Maria Celeste
· 1 eps
—
96
Cornelius Garrett
Voices of the Ambassador and Castelli
· 1 eps
—
97
Tony Kahn
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
98
Rena Baskin
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
99
John Hockenberry
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
100
Robert Krulwich
Correspondent
· 1 eps
—
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