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1
David Attenborough
Narrator
· 3 eps
26.3
#39 overall
2
Samuel West
Humphry Davy
· 1 eps
7.1
#331 overall
3
Harrison Ford
Narrator
· 1 eps
6.7
#357 overall
4
Sigourney Weaver
Narrator
· 1 eps
3.7
#1,065 overall
5
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
3.6
#1,093 overall
6
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice)
· 16 eps
2.9
#1,642 overall
7
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self - Host
· 5 eps
2.9
#1,671 overall
8
John Lithgow
Narrator
· 6 eps
2.8
#1,725 overall
9
Keith David
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.4
#2,103 overall
10
Rebecca De Mornay
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.3
#2,255 overall
11
John Hurt
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.2
#2,452 overall
12
Stockard Channing
Self - Bible Reader
· 1 eps
2.1
#2,497 overall
13
F. Murray Abraham
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.0
#2,642 overall
14
Derek Jacobi
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
· 1 eps
1.6
#3,598 overall
15
Oliver Platt
Narrator
· 2 eps
1.5
#3,737 overall
16
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator
· 8 eps
1.5
#3,812 overall
17
Roy Scheider
Narrator
· 3 eps
1.5
#3,825 overall
18
Stacy Keach
Narrator
· 8 eps
1.3
#4,423 overall
19
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator
· 1 eps
1.2
#4,834 overall
20
Shirley Henderson
Mileva Maric
· 1 eps
1.1
#5,438 overall
21
Héctor Elizondo
Narrator
· 1 eps
1.0
#6,008 overall
22
Jim Carter
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.9
#6,453 overall
23
Simon Callow
Galileo
· 1 eps
0.8
#7,368 overall
24
Anton Lesser
Voltaire
· 1 eps
0.7
#8,002 overall
25
Joe Morton
Narrator
· 2 eps
0.6
#8,522 overall
26
Hal Linden
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.6
#8,801 overall
27
Henry Ian Cusick
Charles Darwin
· 1 eps
0.6
#9,368 overall
28
John Benjamin Hickey
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.5
#10,551 overall
29
Frances O'Connor
Emma Darwin
· 1 eps
0.5
#10,765 overall
30
Sally Kellerman
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.5
#10,922 overall
31
Jay O. Sanders
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 39 eps
0.4
#11,856 overall
32
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Antoine Lavoisier
· 1 eps
0.4
#11,853 overall
33
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Percy Julian
· 1 eps
0.3
#14,343 overall
34
Kathryn Walker
· 2 eps
0.3
#14,731 overall
35
Corey Johnson
Narrator
· 4 eps
0.2
#16,693 overall
36
E.O. Wilson
Himself
· 1 eps
0.2
#16,691 overall
37
Peter Thomas
Narrator
· 5 eps
0.2
#16,779 overall
38
Brian Greene
Host
· 7 eps
0.2
#16,913 overall
39
Aidan McArdle
Albert Einstein
· 1 eps
0.2
#17,337 overall
40
Roger McGough
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.2
#19,548 overall
41
Richard Donat
Narrator
· 5 eps
0.2
#19,603 overall
42
Alex Macqueen
Chater
· 1 eps
0.2
#19,822 overall
43
Steven Robertson
Michael Faraday
· 1 eps
0.2
#20,458 overall
44
Mark Oliver Everett
Himself
· 1 eps
0.2
#21,643 overall
45
William Hootkins
Voice of Methuselah
· 1 eps
0.1
#21,999 overall
46
Neil Ross
Narrator
· 17 eps
0.1
#22,712 overall
47
Emily Woof
Lise Meitner
· 1 eps
0.1
#25,457 overall
48
Bohdan Poraj
Francis Crozier
· 1 eps
0.1
#28,556 overall
49
Alan Yentob
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.1
#28,820 overall
50
Nigel Bennett
Sir Charles Lyell
· 1 eps
0.1
#31,689 overall
51
John Fraser
Inquisitor
· 1 eps
0.1
#34,259 overall
52
Darri Ingolfsson
Godfred Hansen
· 1 eps
0.0
#37,112 overall
53
Demetri Goritsas
Narrator
· 3 eps
0.0
#40,721 overall
54
Jan Maxwell
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.0
#45,894 overall
55
Ty Glaser
Marie Anne Lavoisier
· 1 eps
0.0
#47,740 overall
56
Jeremy Akerman
Parslow
· 1 eps
0.0
#51,139 overall
57
Craig Sechler
Narrator
· 19 eps
0.0
#52,110 overall
58
Jere Shea
George Soper
· 1 eps
0.0
#51,927 overall
59
Michael Scott
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.0
#52,538 overall
60
Ray Magliozzi
Host
· 1 eps
0.0
#62,972 overall
61
Philip Herbert
Count de Amerval
· 1 eps
0.0
#62,994 overall
62
Tom Magliozzi
Host
· 1 eps
0.0
#64,239 overall
63
Vladimir Pozner
Host
· 1 eps
0.0
#64,197 overall
64
Richard Smith
Host
· 4 eps
—
65
Bray Poor
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
66
Lance Lewman
Narrator (voice)
· 24 eps
—
67
Ted Marcoux
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
68
Kenichi Nakamaru
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
69
Shu Morino
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
70
Jamie Effros
Narrator
· 4 eps
—
71
Eric Meyers
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
72
John Mckenzie
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
73
Rushmore DeNooyer
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
74
Stefanie E. Frame
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
75
Rob Tinworth
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
76
David Slavin
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
77
Brendan Fleming
Hermann Einstein
· 1 eps
—
78
Stephen Noonan
Marat
· 1 eps
—
79
Robert Styles
Newman
· 1 eps
—
80
Di Trevis
Baroness de la Garde
· 1 eps
—
81
James Tovell
Manson
· 1 eps
—
82
Christian Pedersen
Otto Hahn
· 1 eps
—
83
Scott Handy
Isaac Newton
· 1 eps
—
84
Anthony Garner
Sir John Franklin
· 1 eps
—
85
Maureen Bennett
Lady Franklin
· 1 eps
—
86
Thom Fell
James Fitzjames
· 1 eps
—
87
Corey Conradi
Roald Amundsen
· 1 eps
—
88
Marian Tomas Griffin
Mary Mallon
· 1 eps
—
89
Gene Galusha
Narrator
· 6 eps
—
90
Jeremiah Kissel
Narrator
· 5 eps
—
91
Calvin Sims
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
92
C. Scott Willis
Reporter
· 1 eps
—
93
Edd Gasper
Narrator
· 2 eps
—
94
Laura Nardi
Maria Celeste
· 1 eps
—
95
Alexa Jago
Voice of Maria Celeste
· 1 eps
—
96
Cornelius Garrett
Voices of the Ambassador and Castelli
· 1 eps
—
97
Tony Kahn
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
98
Rena Baskin
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
99
John Hockenberry
Narrator
· 3 eps
—
100
Robert Krulwich
Correspondent
· 1 eps
—
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