Cast
- Johnny Depp as Victor Van Dort, a shy and socially awkward young man who is engaged to Victoria Everglot for financial reasons.
- Helena Bonham Carter as Emily, the Corpse Bride, a beautiful and charismatic young woman with a passion for music and dance.
- Emily Watson as Victoria Everglot, Victor Van Dort's pretty, sweet-natured, and determined fiancee. She is kind and shy, and understands Emily's past and love for Victor.
- Tracey Ullman as Nell Van Dort, Victor's socially ambitious mother who holds contempt for her son. Ullman also plays Hildegarde, the elderly, hunch-backed maid of the Everglot household who acts as a mother figure for Victoria.
- Paul Whitehouse as William Van Dort, Victor's father; Mayhew, the Van Dorts' coachman. Whitehouse also voices Paul the Head Waiter.
- Joanna Lumley as Lady Maudeline Everglot, Victoria's cold, unloving mother.
- Albert Finney as Lord Finis Everglot, Victoria's grim and indifferent father, and Grandfather Everglot, Finis' deceased grandfather.
- Richard E. Grant as Lord Barkis Bittern, a charming but cowardly and psychopathic con-artist.
- Christopher Lee as Pastor Gallswells, a haughty and bad-tempered priest who is hired to conduct Victor and Victoria's marriage.
- Michael Gough as Elder Gutknecht, an ancient and rickety skeleton who rules benevolently over the underworld.
- Jane Horrocks as The Black Widow, an affable black widow spider seamstress, and Mrs. Plum, the deceased, proprietress of the Ball and Socket Pub.
- Enn Reitel as Maggot, a sarcastic, green maggot who lives inside Emily's head and acts as her conscience, and The Town Crier. A parody of Peter Lorre.
- Deep Roy as General Bonesapart, a dwarfish skeleton in a military uniform with a sword stuck in his chest. He is a parody of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- Danny Elfman as Bonejangles, a vivacious, one-eyed, singing skeleton. Modeled loosely on Sammy Davis Jr. due to his having one eye (Sammy had a glass eye) and an exaggerated underbite.
- Stephen Ballantyne as Emil, the Everglots' long-suffering butler.
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