‘Archer’ Returns: 14 Big Names Who Have Guest Starred So Far
Archer’s last missions are about to commence, as the animated FXX comedy returns for its 14th and final season on August 30.
In the new episodes, Sterling Archer (H. John Benjamin) is still navigating the spy world, but this time, Lana (Aisha Tyler) is the head of The Agency. “Her goal is to make money while also making the world a better place, but she quickly finds out running a spy agency isn’t so cut and dry,” FXX teases in a briefing about the storyline to come.
Season 14 also boasts the voices of Judy Greer (Cheryl Tunt), Chris Parnell (Cyril Figgis), Amber Nash(Pam Poovey), Lucky Yates (Algernop Krieger), Adam Reed (Ray Gillette), and Natalie Dew (Zara Khan). And with any luck, we’ll get reprise performances from the guest stars shown below!
In honor of Season 14, here are 14 famous folks who voiced Archer characters so far.
Archer, Season 14 Premiere, Wednesday, August 30, 10/9c, FXX (Next-Day Streaming, Hulu)
Pamela Adlon
The Better Things co-creator and star, a prolific voice actor in the animated TV world, has played Sandra, a United Nations liaison, in four episodes of Archer so far.
Nicole Byer
One might say this comedian and Nailed It! host nailed it as Gabrielle, Archer’s double-Ph.D. girlfriend, in the Season 11 episode “The Double Date.”
Lauren Cohan
This star of The Walking Dead and spinoff The Walking Dead: Dead City recurred in Season 5 as Juliana Calderon, the adulterous first lady of San Marcos.
Bryan Cranston
The Breaking Bad actor voiced Commander Tony Drake, an International Space Station astronaut, in Archer’s two-part Season 3 finale.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Curtis, one of the Oscar-winning stars of Everything Everywhere All At Once, played the art thief Peregrine in two episodes of Season 11.
Harvey Guillén
This What We Do in the Shadows breakout voiced Alton, a Cloudbeam Marketing employee who helps The Agency, in three episodes of Season 12.
Jon Hamm
Midway though his Mad Men run, Hamm voiced underwater lab captain Hank Murphy (a nod to a Sealab 2021 character) across Season 4’s two-part finale.
Keegan-Michael Key
One half of the Key & Peele duo has voiced two Archer characters: a detective nicknamed Rim Shot in Season 7 and a bassist named Floyd in Season 8.
Kumail Nanjiani
This Silicon Valley alum guest starred in Season 6’s “Sitting,” playing Farooq Ashkani, an improv actor posing as a Pakistani spy who holds Archer at gunpoint.
Timothy Olyphant
Olyphant, star of Justified and Justified: City Primeval, voiced Lucas Troy, Archer’s onetime BFF, in the Season 4 episode “The Wind Cries Mary.”
CCH Pounder
This actor of NCIS: New Orleans and Full Circle fame played Claudette Kane, Lana’s professor mother, in Season 6’s “The Kanes.”
Christian Slater
Kenan Thompson
Saturday Night Live’s longest-serving cast member voiced The Broker, a criminal negotiator, in the Season 13 episode “Saturday.”
Bowen Yang
Yang, one of Thompson’s SNL costars, lent his voice to black market arms dealer Win Li, whom the team have to smuggle back to the U.S., in Season 11’s “Bloodsploosh.”
