It Takes Two Voice Actors: Meet the Cast and Characters

Who Are the It Takes Two Voice Actors?

The It Takes Two voice actors include Joseph Balderrama as both Cody and Dr. Hakim—a shared credit that makes those very different characters worth another listen. Annabelle Dowler plays May, while Clare Corbett voices Rose, completing the family at the center of Hazelight’s cooperative adventure. Knowing the It Takes Two voice actors gives you another way to appreciate the personalities behind the arguing parents, their daughter, and the talking book pushing them together.

Here are the main English-language roles:

Character	English voice actor	Place in the story
Cody	Joseph Balderrama	One of the two playable parents
May	Annabelle Dowler	The other playable parent
Rose	Clare Corbett	Cody and May’s daughter
Dr. Hakim	Joseph Balderrama	The talking relationship book

Cody and May are facing separation when magic transforms them into dolls. Their adventure turns that relationship crisis into a series of shared challenges, with both players needed to move forward. The family story gives the cast something more personal to work with than a straightforward quest to defeat an enemy.

Cody: Joseph Balderrama

Joseph Balderrama voices Cody, one half of the playable couple. Cody’s relationship with May drives the adventure, so his role extends across both the family conflict and the fantastical situations they encounter.

When you play Cody, pay attention to his exchanges with May alongside the cooperative action. Their conversations put the relationship into words, while their connected abilities require the players controlling them to cooperate. That connection between dialogue and gameplay is central to the game’s premise.

May: Annabelle Dowler

Annabelle Dowler voices May, Cody’s partner and the other playable lead. May shares the central challenge: navigating an unpredictable world with someone whose relationship with her has fractured.

Listen to Cody and May as a pair. Focusing on their exchanges makes the family story easier to follow between the changing abilities and environments. Their relationship is the thread connecting an adventure that constantly introduces something different.

Rose: Clare Corbett

Clare Corbett voices Rose, Cody and May’s daughter. Rose wants her parents to stay together, placing her at the emotional center of the family’s predicament.

Her role gives the adventure a perspective beyond the playable couple. Cody and May experience the magical journey, but their relationship also matters to their child. Keep Rose’s situation in mind as the game shifts into its stranger encounters; the family stakes remain part of the story beneath the fantasy.

Joseph Balderrama Voices Both Cody and Dr. Hakim

One detail worth remembering about the It Takes Two voice actors is that Cody and Dr. Hakim share a performer. Joseph Balderrama handles both the playable father and the animated relationship book.

Image: Steam / Hazelight Studios

The characters occupy different positions in the story. Cody is personally caught in the relationship crisis. Dr. Hakim approaches that crisis as a love guru, pushing the couple toward cooperation. That makes the shared casting credit especially interesting: one actor contributes to both the problem’s human perspective and its fantastical intervention.

Why the shared credit matters

Voice casting can be easy to overlook when a game keeps changing what you are doing. Here, remembering Balderrama’s two roles gives you a specific comparison to make while listening.

Compare how Cody addresses May with how Dr. Hakim addresses the couple. Focus on delivery, emphasis, and the purpose of each conversation. You do not need to know anything about recording sessions or performance techniques to appreciate that these characters ask different things of the same performer.

The contrast also fits the adventure’s broader structure. Cody and May bring a recognizable relationship problem into a world filled with impossible situations. Dr. Hakim belongs to that magical side of the story, while Cody remains tied to the family conflict even in doll form.

Keep the actor and director names straight

Joseph Balderrama is the performer behind Cody and Dr. Hakim. Josef Fares is the game’s director and one of its writers.

A third similar name appears in the cast: Fares Fares, who contributes additional voices. Remembering those separate credits helps when you are looking for a particular performer or discussing the game with your co-op partner.

Supporting It Takes Two Voice Actors and Characters

The supporting It Takes Two voice actors fill the adventure with talking objects, creatures, and toys. These roles expand the world well beyond the family, giving each unusual encounter its own character.

Image: Steam / Hazelight Studios

Use this table when you recognize a voice but cannot place the performer:

Supporting character	English voice actor
Vacuum	Stephen Greif
Hammerhead	Martin T. Sherman
Toolbox	Oskar Wolontis
Stargazer	Susan Brown
Squirrel Chief	Grahame Fox
Miss Q	Rachel Atkins
Squirrel Bookkeeper	Gordon Cooper
Beetle	Glenn Wrage
Wasp Queen / Bumblebee	Victoria Willing
Moon Baboon	Edward Dogliani
Jack-in-the-box	Alexandra Ekelöf
Cutie	Lizzie Waterworth-Santo
Joy	Louiza Patikas

Talking objects have their own performers

The household setting becomes much stranger when objects have voices and personalities. Stephen Greif plays Vacuum, Martin T. Sherman plays Hammerhead, and Oskar Wolontis plays Toolbox.

Keep Hammerhead and Toolbox separate when checking their actors. They have distinct character credits, even though both names belong naturally in the same household vocabulary.

That distinction captures part of the game’s appeal: familiar things become individual characters rather than remaining background scenery. For a cast guide, the character name is often the quickest route to the actor you want.

The squirrels and insects

Grahame Fox voices Squirrel Chief, Rachel Atkins voices Miss Q, and Gordon Cooper voices Squirrel Bookkeeper. Those separate credits give you a useful way to distinguish the squirrel characters.

Among the insect roles, Glenn Wrage plays Beetle, while Victoria Willing voices both Wasp Queen and Bumblebee. Willing’s double credit is another example of one performer taking on multiple named parts.

If you enjoy matching characters to actors, compare these named roles before moving on to the broader additional-voices credits. A specific character credit tells you exactly which performance to listen for.

Toys and other memorable characters

Edward Dogliani voices Moon Baboon, Alexandra Ekelöf plays Jack-in-the-box, Lizzie Waterworth-Santo voices Cutie, and Louiza Patikas plays Joy. Susan Brown supplies Stargazer’s voice.

These names are useful to have on hand without reading plot summaries. You can identify the actor behind a character while leaving the details of the encounter for your playthrough.

For a spoiler-conscious lookup, scan the character table and stop at the name you need.

Additional Voices and the Team Behind the Performances

The It Takes Two voice actors also include performers credited with additional voices. Those credits recognize contributions beyond the principal character assignments.

Image: Steam / Hazelight Studios

Several named supporting actors appear here too, including Alexandra Ekelöf, Edward Dogliani, Glenn Wrage, Gordon Cooper, Lizzie Waterworth-Santo, Martin T. Sherman, Rachel Atkins, Susan Brown, and Victoria Willing.

Other performers credited with additional voices include:

• Adrian Bergqvist
• Christina Cole
• Eric Krogh
• Fares Fares
• John Guerrasio
• Liza Sadovy
• Timothy Watson
• Trevor White

Keep an additional-voices credit separate from a named role when looking someone up. A performer can contribute to the game without that credit identifying a particular character.

The creative team behind the performances includes these names:

Creative role	Credit
Director	Josef Fares
Writers	Soni Jörgensen and Josef Fares
Casting director	Martin Vaughan
Voice director	Sergey Hogart, credited as Sergey Petrov

Casting, writing, and voice direction contribute different parts of the finished dialogue. The actors provide the voices, the writing establishes what the characters say, and voice direction helps shape the performances.

That work supports a game built around the relationship between narrative and cooperation. Cody and May must deal with each other throughout an adventure whose abilities and obstacles keep changing. Their conversations carry the family conflict across those changes.

It Takes Two won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2021. That award recognized the game as a whole, including an adventure that combines cooperative challenges with its relationship story.

Voice Languages and What to Listen for While Playing

This guide to the It Takes Two voice actors focuses on the English cast. The PC version also supports full audio in several other languages.

Language	Full audio support on PC
English	Yes
French	Yes
German	Yes
Spanish — Spain	Yes
Japanese	Yes

The Japanese cast includes Yasuyuki Takase as Cody and Takehiro Hasu as Dr. Hakim. Unlike the English casting arrangement, those two Japanese roles belong to separate performers.

Keep the audio language in mind when matching a character to an actor. Joseph Balderrama’s Cody credit applies to the English performance; Yasuyuki Takase’s applies to the Japanese performance.

Give the dialogue room during co-op

It Takes Two supports couch co-op and online co-op, with shared challenges built around cooperation. Talking through those challenges is part of playing together, but it can also compete with the character dialogue.

Leave room for story conversations between your own discussions of what to do next. Listen for:

• Cody and May’s exchanges: Follow the relationship connecting the different environments.
• Cody and Dr. Hakim: Compare Joseph Balderrama’s two named performances.
• Supporting character names: Match an unfamiliar voice to the cast table.
• Rose’s perspective: Keep the family situation in view alongside the fantasy.

Use the It Takes Two voice actors tables as a quick companion to the adventure. Look up the character you have just met, then return to the game without reading ahead into later encounters.

If you are arranging a playthrough, explore It Takes Two on its official website. Friend’s Pass lets an owner invite a partner to join the full adventure, with both players using the same platform.

FAQ

Who are the main It Takes Two voice actors?

The main English It Takes Two voice actors are Joseph Balderrama as Cody and Dr. Hakim, Annabelle Dowler as May, and Clare Corbett as Rose.

Do Cody and Dr. Hakim have the same voice actor?

Yes. Joseph Balderrama voices both characters in English. In Japanese, Yasuyuki Takase voices Cody, while Takehiro Hasu voices Dr. Hakim.

Who voices Cutie in It Takes Two?

Lizzie Waterworth-Santo voices Cutie. Other toy-related character credits include Edward Dogliani as Moon Baboon and Alexandra Ekelöf as Jack-in-the-box.

Is Josef Fares the voice of Cody?

Joseph Balderrama voices Cody in English. Josef Fares directed It Takes Two and co-wrote it with Soni Jörgensen. Fares Fares has a separate additional-voices credit.