The beloved children's book series, The Wild Robot, has been adapted into a film featuring some of your favorite actors. See who is behind the cherished characters.

The bestselling chapter book series, written by Peter Brown, has been brought to life by DreamWorks Animation, earning rave reviews and box office success. Directed by Chris Sanders (known for How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch), the story follows a robot whose transport ship crashes in a tsunami, causing the robot to wash up on an island populated only by animals.

The robot, Roz, initially scares the animals, but after a baby goose imprints on her, she learns what it truly means to be needed and part of a community. The film has been praised for its appeal to all ages, with The Love, Actually star Bill Nighy stating, "As a father of three who took them to see so-called 'children's movies' as a kid — and you'd suffer through some horrible moments ... This one effortlessly appeals to every age."

The Cast of The Wild Robot

• Roz: Lupita Nyong'o

  

  Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o said she was inspired by the voices of Alexa and Siri to help inform the "optimistic politeness" of the initial voice of her Rozzum 7134 robot — but she warms up over time as she takes on the role of mother to a gosling, Brightbill, and becomes useful to the animals on the island — just not in the way she was programmed.

• Fink: Pedro Pascal

  

  A fox without many friends on the island, he volunteers to help Roz raise Brightbill, partly out of kindness and partly because he's looking to belong.

• Brightbill: Kit Connor

  

  Kit Connor plays the grown-up Brightbill, who loves Roz but realizes that he might not fit in with the other geese as they prepare for their first migration, despite all her efforts to teach him what he needs to know.

• Pinktail: Catherine O'Hara

  

  Playing an exasperated but warm possum mom who helps Roz come to terms with her new role ("I do not have programming to be a mother," Roz says. "No one does," O'Hara's character responds), O'Hara is warm and funny.

• Longneck: Bill Nighy

  

  The Love, Actually star lends his usual charm to the role of an elder gosling who takes Brightbill under his wing on his first migration.

• Thunderbolt: Ving Rhames

  

  Thunderbolt is a commanding falcon who agrees to help Brightbill learn to fly when Roz can't give him the training he needs to make it through the full migration with the other geese.

• VONTRA: Stephanie Hsu

  

  VONTRA is the cheerful but malevolent robot who finds Roz on the island through the transmitter of another shipwrecked robot and tries to take her back to reprogram her to factory settings.

• Thorn: Mark Hamill

  

  Thorn, the apex predatory of the forest, ends up becoming a protector after she rescues him during a terrible snowstorm.

• Paddler: Matt Berry

  

  The other animals mock Matt Berry's grumpy, dedicated beaver for his commitment to a project, but it ends up saving the whole forest after the robot headquarters comes for Roz.

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