May 19-21, 2023 
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Guests
We know you’re excited to find out who we have in store for our May 2023 show. We are excited to tell you! Stay tuned for announcements!
All guest appearances are subject to change or cancellation.
Listen, we don’t like it as much as you, but guests cancel sometimes. When you put together an AMAZING guest list such as ours with in working actors & creators, there are bound to be scheduling conflicts. Motor City Comic Con IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR GUEST CANCELLATIONS. In the case of a Guest Cancellation we will refund any Photo Op and/or Autograph tickets, etc. associated with the guest purchased but we do not offer any returns or refunds for Motor City Comic Con Admission tickets.
Christopher Lloyd
Known For
Back to the Future, The Addams Family, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Christopher Lloyd is best known for portraying Doctor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy. Lloyd has appeared as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Professor Plum in Clue, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values.
Carl Weathers
Known For
Rocky, The Mandalorian
Carl Weathers is an American actor, television director and former professional football player. He is known for his roles as boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–85), George Dillon in Predator (1987), Action Jackson in Action Jackson (1988), and Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore (1996) and in Little Nicky (2000), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise. He also portrayed Det. Beaudreaux in the television series Street Justice (1991–93) and a fictionalized version of himself in the comedy series Arrested Development (2003–19), and voiced Omnitraxus Prime in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2017–19). He has a recurring role as Greef Karga in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian (2019–). As a football player, Weathers played from 1970 to 1971 for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League and from 1971 to 1973 for the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League.
Zach Aguilar
Zach Aguilar is an American, LA-based voice actor, best known for his roles as Tanjiro Kamado in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Aether in Genshin Impact, and Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses/Super Smash Bros. Getting his career started at 14 years old, Zach has become a force in the industry as one of the youngest working voice actors in the field. His roles include: Jay from Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Young Protagonist from NieR Replicant, Ango Natsume from Persona 5 Strikers, Arthur Pendragon from The Seven Deadly Sins, Espresso Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom, Koichi from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Genos from One Punch Man, Keitaro Miura in 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Sieg from Fate Apocrypha, and many more. Zach also streams on YouTube, amassing an audience of 350,000+ subscribers with content related to properties he's worked on.
Stephen Amell
Known For
Arrow, Heels, Code 8, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Stephen Amell is most well known for playing Oliver Queen in the CW’s hit series Arrow, based on the famous DC Comics superhero, The Green Arrow. Known by day as "Oliver Queen", the spoiled heir to his tycoon father’s empire, he moonlights as a crime-fighting vigilante, utilizing skills he gained while shipwrecked on a remote island for five years. Currently, you can catch Stephen as the co-lead in Heels. He plays the infamous professional wrestler, "Jack Spade".The second season of the series is also scheduled to premiere next Spring.
William Daniels
Known For
Boy Meets World, Knight Rider, St. Elsewhere
William Daniels is an actor best known for his roles in the drama series, St. Elsewhere, the voice of KITT from the TV series Knight Rider and as George Feeny in the sitcom, Boy Meets World. Daniels also has had films roles in The Graduate, Two for the Road, 1776 and Captain Nice. Daniels has been married to actress and fellow Emmy Award winner, Bonnie Bartlett since 1951.
Bonnie Bartlett Daniels
Known For
St. Elsewhere, Little House on the Prairie, Boy Meets World
Bonnie Bartlett Daniels is an actress with a career that spans over seven decades with her first major role being on a 1950’s daytime drama, Love of Life. Bartlett is best known for her role as Grace Snider Edwards on the television series Little House on the Prairie and Ellen Craig on St. Elsewhere. She and her husband William Daniels, who also played her fictional husband on St. Elsewhere, both won Emmy Awards on the same night in 1986.
Debbe Dunning
Debbe Dunning is a multi-talented actress, host, and lifestyle influencer. She rose to fame as Heidi Keppert the "Tool Time Girl" on the hit 90s TV show "Home Improvement," where she won over audiences with her charming personality and stunning good looks. She recently has been the host of her own TV show "Debbe Dunning's Dude Ranch Round Up" on RFDTV. In addition to her acting career, Debbe is also a DIY expert, exceptional golfer and a passionate advocate for healthy living and motherhood. She shares her love for home renovation, healthy cooking, and wellness tips with her followers on social media, inspiring others to lead a healthy and fulfilling life.
Ashley Eckstein
Known For
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Ashley Eckstein is most known as the voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars, Ashley also founded Her Universe in 2010 - the groundbreaking fangirl fashion and lifestyle brand. Ashley is married to former Major League Baseball player and World Series MVP, David Eckstein, they both enjoy traveling the world, teaching kids how to achieve their dreams and they take their love of pizza very seriously!
Mick Foley
Known For
Wrestling Legend
Mick Foley is a legendary professional wrestler, turned multi-time best-selling author , turned stand-up comic/spoken word performer. Foley’s acting credentials include ’30 Rock’, ‘Warren the Ape’, Now and Again’, ‘G vs E’ and ‘Boy Meets World’ and he was featured in the critically acclaimed documentary ‘Beyond the Mat’
Jonathan Frakes
Known For
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jonathan Frakes is an American actor, author and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films. Frakes also hosted the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, challenging viewers to discern his stories of fact-based phenomena and fabricated tales. In June 2011, Frakes narrated the History Channel documentary Lee and Grant. He was also the voice actor of David Xanatos in the Disney television series Gargoyles. Frakes directed and also starred in Star Trek: First Contact as well as Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek Discobery, Star Trek Lower Decks, and Star Trek Picard.
Sean Gunn
Known For
Guardians of the Galaxy,
Actor and writer Sean Gunn is known for his role as Kraglin in the Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy films. In addition to portraying Kraglin, Sean also provided motion reference for Rocket Raccoon. Sean’s first role was in Troma Films’ Tromeo and Juliet where he played Sammy Capulet. He has worked alongside his brother, writer and director James Gunn, on The Specials, Super, the video game Lollipop Chainsaw and The Belko Experiment in addition to the Guardians films. Sean also has had many television roles, most endearingly as the quirky Kirk Gleason on Gilmore Girls and the Netflix original Gilmore Girls Revival. He has also appeared on Any Day Now, DAG, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Going to California, Yes, Dear, October Road, Glee, Bunheads, Bones and more.
Laurie Holden
Known For
The Walking Dead, The Boys, The X Files
Laurie Holden is best known to audiences as Andrea in the hit AMC drama series The Walking Dead. She has appeared in several groundbreaking television series, including seminal roles on The X-Files, The Shield, and The Americans. Laurie entered the comic book world when she co-starred opposite Michael Chiklis in Fox's Fantastic Four and then ventured into the gamer genre with her starring role in Silent Hill. She also starred in The Mist and in the Farrelly Brothers' Dumb and Dumber To with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. In 2011, Holden received two Best Supporting Actress nominations for her work on The Walking Dead: one from Spike TV's Scream Awards and another from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' Saturn Awards. She has also played the Crimson Countess on the Amazon Prime show The Boys.
Richard Karn
Known For
Home Improvement
Richard Karn is well know to television audiences for his extraordinary 8 seasons performing as “Al Borland” on “Home Improvement” He performed for 4 seasons as host of the iconic game shoe “family Feud” , and can be seen on the hit Hulu comedy “Pen15” and “More Power” with Tim Allen. Other TV performances include “Last man standing”, “That 70’s show”, and “The Detroiters” Film credit’s include”Air Bud-Seventh inning fetch”, “Air Buddies”, “Snow Buddies”, “Gordon Family Tree”, “Mr. Blue Sky”, “Amanda and the Fox”, “The Horse Dancer”, Horse Camp”, “A daughter’s Nightmare”, “Picture Perfect”, “The Pooch and the Pauper” and the Hallmark Christmas movies, “Christmas in Mississippi”, “The Perfect Christmas List”, ”Check into Christmas” and “A Dog for Christmas”. Theatre includes “Shear Madness” “I Ought to be in Pictures”, “Spelling Bee”, “Aladdin and his Winter Wish”, “The Foreigner”, “Losing It”, “Gameshow” and “”Me And My Girl"
Matt Lanter
Known For
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Matt Lanter is the voice of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Lego Star Wars, Disney Infinity, and Star Wars: Battlefront. He played Liam Court in 90210 and appeared in Disaster Movie, Sorority Row, Vampires Suck, The Roommate, Star-Crossed, Heroes, and Pitch Perfect 3. He voiced Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, and Agent Venom in the Ultimate Spider-Man TV Series and voiced Aquaman in the Death of Superman, The Death and Return of Superman, and Justice League: Throne of Atlantis. He starred as Wyatt Logan in Timeless and George Hutchence in the Netflix superhero series Jupiter's Legacy. Recently he had a cameo in the The Mandalorian.
Maggie Lawson
Known For
Psych, Model Behavior
Maggie Lawson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. When she was eight, she began appearing in local community and dinner theater productions, and at 10, she earned an on-air commercial gig at a Louisville TV station, which soon led to a steady six-year role as a TV personality who filed news reports targeted for her fellow kids. At 17, she moved to Los Angeles for her first professional TV appearance in a recurring role on the sitcom Unhappily Ever After (1995). She finished her senior year in high school with a correspondence course. In 2000, she starred in twin roles as a model and a nerdy student in the movie The Wonderful World of Disney: Model Behavior (2000). In her free time, she enjoys singing and songwriting.
Yuri Lowenthal
Known For
Naruto, Ben 10, Code Geass, Afro Samurai
Yuri's prominent roles include Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto, teenage Ben Tennyson in Ben 10, Jinnosuke in Afro Samurai, Simon in Gurren Lagann and Suzaku Kururugi in Code Geass. He voices The Prince in Ubisoft's Prince of Persia, Hayate/Ein in Dead or Alive, Matt Miller in Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV, and Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Insomniac's Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
Charles Martinet
Known For
Super Mario
Charles Martinet is an American actor and voice actor, known for his portrayal of both Mario and Luigi in the Super Mario video game series since 1992. He is also the voice of other characters in the series such as Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi.
David Matranga
Known For
My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan
David Matranga is an American voice actor who works primarily for English dubbed anime for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Matranga is best known as the voice of Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia, Hideki Hinata from Angel Beats, Genjo Sanzo from Saiyuki, Orphen from Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Bertholdt Hoover from the popular Attack on Titan series, Tomoya Okazaki from the Clannad series,Takumi Usui from Maid Sama, Ghost from the Halo Legends movie, Briareos from the Appleseed series, Yu Himura from the EF series, and God Serena from Fairy Tail.
Jim O'Heir
Known For
Parks and Recreation
Jim O'Heir is best known for his role as the most loveable loser, 'Jerry Gergich' on the critically acclaimed NBC comedy series, Parks and Recreation. Additional credits include roles in Bad Times at the El Royale, Another Period, Veep, Hot in Cleveland, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Boston Legal, The mentalist, Vegas, ER, Friends, The Drew Carey Show, Ally McBeal, Diagnosis Murder, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Malcolm in the Middle, Star Trek Voyager, Just Shoot Me. He has also been in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and Logan Lucky.
Timothy Omundson
Known For
Psych, Supernatural, Galavant
Timothy Omundson starred as King Richard in the ABC television series “Galavant”, a fairy tale musical comedy created by Dan Fogelman, with songs composed by the legendary Alan Menken. He also played fan favorite, Cain on the CW’s “Supernatural”. Omundson starred as Detective Carlton Lassiter in “Psych,” which aired for eight seasons on the USA Network Omundson’s television credits include six seasons as Sean Potter on CBS’s “Judging Amy”, lead and recurring roles on “Jericho,” "Medicine Ball," Disney’s "The Luck of the Irish," "SeaQuest DSV," "the international cult hit "Xena: Warrior Princess," and the critically acclaimed “Nip/Tuck” and “Deadwood” among others. He also made appearances on shows such as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” ”CSI: Miami,” “24,” “Boston Legal,” “Without a Trace,” and “The O.C.” Omundson played the lead role on Spencer Rabbit in the indie film Carter & June. Other film credits include Down with Love for director Peyton Reed, Swordfish alongside John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry, Starship Troopers for director Paul Verhoeven, Hardpill, and 25 Hill.
Tara Platt
Known For
Naruto, Rave Master, Persona 3, Aggretsuko
Tara Platt voices Temari in Naruto, Reina in Rave Master, Kali Belladonna in RWBY, Mitsuru Kirijo in Persona 3, Edelgard von Hresvelg in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Miriel & Flavia in Fire Emblem: Awakening, Anna Williams from the Tekken series, and Yuri Watanabe in the video game Spider-Man. Together with her husband, Yuri, she wrote the best-selling award-winning book, Voice-Over Voice Actor.
David Ramsey
Known For
Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow
David was born in Detroit, Michigan to Jeraldine and Nathaniel Ramsey. He has 5 siblings. He graduated from Mumford High school and turned down a scholarship to attend the University of South Carolina. David is part of the cast of TV-series Arrow (2012) and has also stared in the TV-series Dexter.
Emily Bett Rickards
Known For
Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow
Award-winning actress Emily Bett Rickards landed her breakout role as quick- witted IT expert/hacker Felicity Smoak on the CW’s hit series “Arrow” in 2012, turning a one episode guest star into a starring role that has now spanned six seasons. Rickards’ portrayal of the humorous, brainy, and inspiring Smoak has also crossed over into other series on the network, appearing on “The Flash,” “Supergirl,” and “Legends of Tomorrow,” linking all four shows together. “Arrow” has also become a smash success internationally, airing in over 70 countries.
Michael Rooker
Known For
Guardians of the Galaxy, The Walking Dead
Michael Rooker is an American actor known for his turn as the blue-skinned alien Yondu Udonta in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy film franchise. He is also well known as the character fans loved to hate on AMC’s worldwide hit television show The Walking Dead, Merle Dixon. Rooker also has a prolific relationship with writer/director James Gunn, appearing in the Gunn-helmed productions Slither, Super, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, The Belko Experiment, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 and The Suicide Squad.
Mark Sheppard
Known For
Supernatural, Leverage, Doom Patrol
Mark Andreas Sheppard was born on May 30, 1964, in London, England. He is an actor, director and producer, known for Supernatural (2005), Battlestar Galactica (2004), Firefly (2002), Leverage (2008), Doctor Who (2005) In the Name of the Father (1993) and many others.
Brent Spiner
Known For
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Brent Spiner is an actor best known for his roles as the android, Data in the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as four subsequent films. He reprised the role in 2019 in Star Trek: Picard and has been seen in Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence in addition to a career in theater and as a musician.
Tara Strong
Known For
Teen Titans, Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents
Harley Quinn from Batman: Arkham, Dil Pickles from Rugrats and All Grown Up!, Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls, Timmy Turner and Poof from The Fairly OddParents, Raven from Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Ben Tennyson from Ben 10, Princess Clara and Toot Braunstein from Drawn Together, Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Deandre Avant in “The Adventures in School” & “The Middle School Adventures”, Wendy Radical in “Awesome Squad” & “Radical Dudes”, Plum in Bravest Warriors, Raven, Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony, Ginger in Talking Tom and Friends, and Miss Minutes in Loki.
Catherine Tate
Known For
Doctor Who, The Office, The Catherine Tate Show
Actor and writer, Catherine Tate is well known in the UK and internationally for a diversity of work in television, film and on the stage - in particular, for her own creation, the award winning The Catherine Tate Show. She made her first appearance in Doctor Who as jilted bride, Donna Noble. Catherine has appeared on US television screens as Nellie Bertram in The Office. In between filming for Seasons 7 and 8 of The Office, Catherine returned to the UK to play Beatrice opposite David Tennant's Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in London's West End. She has continued to mix theatre, film and television work and most recently took The Catherine Tate Show on a live tour of the UK, playing to 27 cities over 31 nights.
James Arnold Taylor
Known For
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
James Arnold Taylor is known for his versatile vocal range. From Johnny Test, to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Plo Koon, to Fred Flintstone, as well as starring roles in some of the most successful video game series of all time: Ratchet and Clank (Ratchet), and Final Fantasy X (Tidus). He’s played superheroes in film and television. He voice-doubles for countless celebrities including Johnny Depp, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Walken, Justin Timberlake, Christopher Lloyd, and David Spade. He can be seen on-camera in the documentaries “I Know that Voice” and “The Last Blockbuster”.