Voice Actors
In the original Japanese version of the anime, Vegeta has been voiced by Ryo Horikawa. The first English language dub was released by an upcoming dubbing company out of Texas known as Funimation Entertainment, but they hired a group of Canadian dubbing actors called Ocean Group. Vegeta for this dub was voiced by actor Brian Drummond, and actor Saffron Henderson voiced younger Vegeta in flashbacks for the Ocean Group dub. Due to the expenses of using outside actors to dub the series, Funimation discontinued its contract with Ocean Group and hired its own actors. Vegeta was recast, featuring the voice of Christopher Sabat, who would voice Vegeta in all of the Dragon Ball based video games and him as a child. Actress Laura Bailey would take over voicing Vegeta as a child for the dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai, which was simply a re-vamped version of Dragon Ball Z.
In the Canadian version done by Blue Water, Vegeta was voiced by Roger Rhodes, which aired in Canada and the United Kingdom. including English adapted Dragon Ball video games, and also Vegeta in child flashbacks. Vegeta is voiced by as a child in flashbacks in Dragon Ball Z Kai. In Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout, he was voiced by Milton James. In the original Ocean dub, Vegeta spoke Standard American English. In the Funimation dub, however, he spoke with a New England accent.
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