Antti Lauri Johannes Pääkkönen (born October 30, 1980 Lapua) is a Finnish singer, theatre director and voice actor. He chose to public notice by winning the Tenavatähti song contest in 1992, presenting the songs "Old holvikirkko" and the music and lyrics himself, "Rear console girl". He comes from a musical family: his mother, his father was a cantor and former Rector of the Music.
On the Angry Birds franchise, he voices many characters like Chuck, Corporal Pig, Matilda, Bubbles, and the Minion Pigs in the Piggy Tales series (along with Antti Pääkkönen), Hal since Angry Birds 2 and Handsome Pig in Angry Birds Stella. He's also the voice director of the The Angry Birds Movie in the Finnish dub. Antti LJ himself is also one of the voiceovers in the Angry Birds Funny Voiceovers videos.
Personal Life[]
Pääkkönen graduated from the Turku University of Applied Sciences in the film industry as their own media. He has been involved in Lapualaisooppera in 2001 as an assistant director and made their own control work in theatre Lapua. Pääkkönen has done a lot of dubbaustöitä, and he has lent voice to many cartoon movies.
Roles[]
Angry Birds Toons[]
- Chuck (voice)
- Corporal Pig (voice)
- Matilda (voice)
- Bubbles (voice)
- Chronicler Pig (voice)
- Shaman Pig (Angry Birds Toons) (voice)
Angry Birds Go![]
- Chuck (voice)
- Corporal Pig (voice)
- Matilda (voice)
- Bubbles (voice)
- Minion Pig (voice)
Angry Birds Transformers[]
- Chuck (voice)
- Corporal Pig (voice)
- Matilda (voice)
- Bubbles (voice)
- Minion Pig (voice)
Piggy Tales[]
- Minion Pigs (voice)
Angry Birds Stella[]
- Handsome Pig (voice)
- Minion Pigs (voice)
Angry Birds Blues[]
- Greg Blue (voice)
Angry Birds 2[]
- Chuck (voice)
- Corporal Pig (voice)
- Matilda (voice)
- Bubbles (voice)
- Hal (voice)
Trivia[]
- In the Funny Voiceovers videos, he portrays Red with an accent similarly to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Any other characters not voiced by Antti LJ would speak in a similar manner to the latter. In addition, he also portrays Chuck and Matilda because both characters have the same voice actor.
- He also voiced the Onceler in the Finnish dub of the movie, The Lorax (2012).
- Another famous role he played was SpongeBob SquarePants in the Finnish dub, up until the seventh season where he was then replaced with Sami Hassinen.[1]