Nikita Matthew Hopkins (born 13 August 1991) is an American screenwriter, visual artist, and former
child voice actor and singer who had a career for seven years as the singing and speaking voice of young Roo in six movies and videos of ''
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard.
The first collection of stories about the character w ...
''. Hopkins is one of the rare voice actors in entertainment media to begin as a child.
Career
He began his career at The Walt Disney Company. His first role was the voice of
Roo
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy an ...
for '
Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving, and he continued his voice work as Roo in ''
The Tigger Movie
''The Tigger Movie'' is a 2000 animated musical comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation with animation production by Walt Disney Animation (Japan), Inc., written and directed by Jun Falkenstein from a story by Eddie Guzeli ...
'', ''
Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse'', ''
Piglet's Big Movie
''Piglet's Big Movie'' is a 2003 American animated musical comedy-drama film released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21, 2003. The film features the characters from the ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' books written by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, and is ...
'', and ''
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
''Pooh's Heffalump Movie'' (also known as ''The Heffalump Movie'' in the working title) is a 2005 American animated musical adventure comedy-drama film produced by the Japanese office of Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. ...
'', as well as in the television and video puppet series ''
The Book of Pooh
''The Book of Pooh'' is an American children's television series that aired on the Playhouse Disney block on Disney Channel. It is the third television series to feature the characters from the Disney franchise based on A. A. Milne's works; the ...
'' (2001–2003). He can also be heard as an additional voice for ''
Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', ''
House of Mouse
''Disney's House of Mouse'' (or simply ''House of Mouse'') is an American Animation, animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that originally aired for three seasons on ABC and Toon Disney from January 13, 2001, to ...
'', ''
Zeta Project'', ''
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure'', and more.
Retirement and future
In 2006, Hopkins resigned from voice work and went on to study and work on motion pictures and television at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California.
Selected filmography
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving'' (1999) (voice) "Roo"
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The Tigger Movie
''The Tigger Movie'' is a 2000 animated musical comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation with animation production by Walt Disney Animation (Japan), Inc., written and directed by Jun Falkenstein from a story by Eddie Guzeli ...
'' (2000) (voice) "Roo", Nominated –
Annie Award for Male Voice Acting in a Feature Production
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Clerks: The Animated Series'' (2000) (voice) "Kid/Campfire Kid"
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The Book of Pooh
''The Book of Pooh'' is an American children's television series that aired on the Playhouse Disney block on Disney Channel. It is the third television series to feature the characters from the Disney franchise based on A. A. Milne's works; the ...
'' (2001–2003) (voice) "Roo"
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House of Mouse
''Disney's House of Mouse'' (or simply ''House of Mouse'') is an American Animation, animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that originally aired for three seasons on ABC and Toon Disney from January 13, 2001, to ...
'' (2001) (voice) "Chip"
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The Zeta Project
''The Zeta Project'' is an American science fiction animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It first aired on Kids' WB in January 2001. It is a spin-off series based on the character Zeta from the ''Batman Beyond'' episode ...
'' (2001) (voice) "Kid Rudy"
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Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse'' (2001) (voice) "Roo"
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure'' (2003) (voice) "Hoesome Tommy"
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Piglet's Big Movie
''Piglet's Big Movie'' is a 2003 American animated musical comedy-drama film released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21, 2003. The film features the characters from the ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' books written by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, and is ...
'' (2003) (voice) "Roo"
*''
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
''Pooh's Heffalump Movie'' (also known as ''The Heffalump Movie'' in the working title) is a 2005 American animated musical adventure comedy-drama film produced by the Japanese office of Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. ...
'' (2005) (voice) "Roo"
(Final film role)
Video games
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My Interactive Pooh" (1998) (voice) "
Roo
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy an ...
"
*"
Winnie the Pooh: Toddler" (1999) (voice) "
Roo
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy an ...
"
*"
Disney's Beauty and the Beast: Magical Ballroom" (2000) (voice) "Chip"
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The Emperor's New Groove
''The Emperor's New Groove'' is a 2000 American animated slapstick comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 40th animated film produced by the studio, it was directed by Mark Dindal and pr ...
" (2000) (voice)
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Tigger's Honey Hunt
''Tigger's Honey Hunt'' is a video game that was released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. The game was developed by DokiDenki Studio a third-party developer, for Disney Interactive which published the Windows vers ...
" (2000) (voice) "
Roo
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy an ...
"
*"
Disney's Activity Center: Winnie the Pooh" (2000) (voice) "
Roo
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy an ...
"
*"
Winnie the Pooh: Baby" (2001) (voice) "
Roo
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy an ...
"
*"
Piglet's Big Game
''Disney's Piglet's Big Game'' (stylized as ''Piglet’s Big Movie Game'' in North America) is a 2003 action-adventure game developed by French developer Doki Denki Studio and Hulabee Entertainment, and published by Gotham Games, Disney Interacti ...
" (2003) (voice) "
Roo
Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy an ...
"
Live-action
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Power Rangers Wild Force
''Power Rangers Wild Force'' is a television series and the tenth season of Power Rangers. It is also the anniversary season of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, based on the 25th Super Sentai series ''Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger'', which itself w ...
'' (2002) "Soccer Player"
External links
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References
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Living people
Male actors from Santa Clarita, California
Date of birth missing (living people)
1991 births
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