Cyberpunk 2077 Actors: Who Plays Who

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V has two full performances, not one — and Johnny Silverhand is played by an actor whose real career the character borrows from.

Cyberpunk 2077 actors cover two separate lead performances, since V exists as a fully separate male and female character rather than one voice with a pitch shift.

V

Gavin Drea voices and performs male V.
Cherami Leigh voices and performs female V.

Both actors recorded full performance-capture, not just dialogue — every line delivered by V exists as two complete performances.

Johnny Silverhand

Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Silverhand, the digitised rockerboy who takes over a chunk of V's head for most of the story. His face, motion capture and voice are all his own performance, not a likeness built from older footage.

Phantom Liberty

Idris Elba joined for the expansion as Solomon Reed, a retired NUSA agent — the first time the game brought in an actor of that profile for a major new character after launch.

Beyond the leads

The full cast runs into the thousands once every side character and background voice is counted, but these are the names that carry the marketing and the main plot.