Animaze ..iNC voice actors (1992 - present)

With hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Veteran Voice Monkey Steve Blum is best known as the voice of "Spike Spiegel" from Cowboy Bebop, "Wolverine" from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, X-Men Anime and more), "Zeb Orrelios" and dozens of other characters from Star Wars: Rebels, "Orochimaru," "Zabuza," and others from Naruto, "Green Goblin" from the Spectacular Spiderman series, "Heatblast," "Vilgax" and "Ghostfreak" from Ben 10, "Grayson Hunt" (Bulletstorm) "Grunt" (Mass Effect 2 and 3),"Zoltan Kulle" from Diablo 3, "Abathur" from Starcraft 2:Heart of the Swarm, "Tank Dempsey" (Call of Duty), "Killer Croc" from Arkham Asylum, "Oghren" (DragonAge),"Vincent Valentine" (Final Fantasy VII), "Leeron" (Guren Lagann), "Jamie" from Megas XLR, "Storm Troopers" and many others in most of the Star Wars games, The voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film. In 2012, Steve was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records as Most Prolific Voice Actor in Video Games - appearing in almost 300 games (now over 400!)

Lately you can catch him as Yumyan Hammerpaw in Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, the terrible Jindiao in Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda: Paws of Destiny, more Star Wars stuff like The Mandalorian, Star Wars Resistance, Jedi: Fallen Order and as Admiral Karius in Vader Immortal, Wheeljack in the BumbleBee Feature film, Returning as Tank Dempsey in COD Black Ops 4, Grimstroke in Dota 2, Roy Evans in Angel of Vine - the true crime podcast, as "Shoe" and "Sparky" in Laika's The Boxtrolls, and as astronaut Quentin Thomas on Hip Hop superstar Logic's amazing albums "The Incredible True Story," "Everybody," and "Young Sinatra 4" and on camera in Logic's music videos for the songs "Everyday," "Take it Back," and "Icy."

Also appearing as "Nar Est" and "Rasper" in Amazon's Niko and the Sword of Light, "Frank" the flying monkey and others in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz on Boomerang, as "Makucha" the Leopard on Disney's The Lion Guard and as Lovable Pub Thug "Attila Buckethead" and more in Disney's Tangled television series! And see if you can find his characters in Star Wars Star Wars Rogue One, Solo, and Rise of Skywalker, Incredibles 2, Goosebumps 2, Shazam and Critters Attack feature films!

And... in the Emmy award-winning Transformers: Prime, he played "Starscream." "Green Lantern" in Injustice 2, "Sub-Zero," "Reptile and "Bo'Rai Cho" in Mortal Combat X, "Baraka" and "Sub-Zero" in MK 11. Several characters in Wabbit, Ultimate Spider Man, Ben 10: Omniverse, The Regular Show, We Bare Bears, Doc McStuffins, Uncle Grandpa, Wander over Yonder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Scooby Doo, Guild Wars 2, Peabody and Sherman, Pickle and Peanut, Transformers Rescue Bots, Young Justice, and as the terrifying anti-bender "Amon" on the hit series Avatar: The Legend of Korra! And every Saturday night, Steve continues to take the helm as "TOM," the robotic host of Cartoon Network's Toonami on Adult Swim.

If you're interested in learning the art of Voiceover from a guy who does a LOT of it, check out Steve's VO Webinar Teaching Series, newsletter and more at https://www.blumvoxstudios.com/ !

For more info, please visit www.steveblumvoices.com On Twitter and Instagram! @blumspew

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is a voice over actress, writer, singer and director. As an actress, she plays Governor Pryce in Star Wars: Rebels (2014), Dr. Maheswaran in Steven Universe (2013), Valkyrie in Lego Marvel's Avengers (2016), Talis in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010), Johanna in Heroes of the Storm (2015), and Brooha in Smile PreCure! (2012). She voiced Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004), for which she won the American Anime Award for Best Actress. You can also hear her as the Female Crusader in Diablo III (2012), Kurutsu in Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013), and Sei in Alpha Protocol (2010). Some of her other popular roles are Kurenai from Naruto (2002), Zanpakuto from Bleach (2004), Helba from .hack//SIGN (2002), Jagura from Wolf's Rain (2003) and Caroline from Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000). She also portrays Zahra on Geek & Sundry's Critical Role (2015).

Mary is voice directing the Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (2017) television series; Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer (2017); Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (2014) for Disney XD, starring Thomas Middleditch, Adam Devine, Alfred Molina and Larry Wilmore and Smile PreCure! (2012) for Saban Entertainment. She has directed the 6 Naruto movies, as well as Naruto (2002), for which she received the 2008 SPJA Award for Best Director. Among her many other directing credits are Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Tenkai Knights (2013), Digimon Fusion (2013), Stitch! (2008), Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014), Wolf's Rain (2003), and was a co-writer for the American adaptation of "Metropolis". She also directed the original animated series, Boing the Play Ranger (2013) and Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return! (2008).

Mary Elizabeth has had the great honor of singing the music of Akira Yamaoka for the movies Julia X (2011) and Silent Hill (2006) as well as the games: Silent Hill 3 (2003), Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004), Silent Hill: Origins (2007), Shadows of the Damned (2011), Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009) and Silent Hill: Book of Memories (2012), which she also voice directed.

Crispin is the oldest of three. He has a younger brother, Clark, and youngest sister, Cassidy. All three attended the Latin School of Chicago, where Crispin graduated in a class of 60 in 1990. Crispin had a Mac in 1985. To this day he is still an avid computer geek. He played no official team sports in school, but participated in ad hoc football played in Lincoln Park. Crispin was an active participant in many school plays both on and behind stage. He's also a genuinely nice and humble person.

Kari Wahlgren is an American actress from Kansas. She is most well-known for voicing Kitana and Mileena from Mortal Kombat, Starfire from Injustice 2, Velma Green the Spider Queen from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Kagami Hiiragi from Lucky Star, Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds, Haruko Haruhara from FLCL, Razor from Aliens in the Attic and Tigress from Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.

Johnny Yong Bosch (born John Jay Bosch) was born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Garland, Texas. While growing up, he had taken an interest in martial arts after having seen the works of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, winning several martial arts competitions as a result. After being informed about the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993) by his martial arts teacher, Bosch subsequently joined the show's second season as Adam Park (replacing Walter Jones, who had played the character in season 1), and reprised the role in both films based on the franchise as well as Power Rangers Zeo (1996) and Power Rangers Turbo (1997)

His main claim to fame, however, arrived in the form of his voice acting career in anime and video games, when he landed the role of Kaneda in a redub of Akira (1988) that was recorded by Pioneer in 2001, with Cam Clarke having previously voiced the character in the 1988 Streamline dub. This ultimately lead to further roles in more anime series and games in the years that followed, including Vash the Stampede in Trigun (1998), Renton Thurston in Eureka Seven (2005), Genma Shiranui and Sasori in the Naruto franchise, Yu Narukami in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (2008), and, most notably, Ichigo Kurosaki in the Bleach franchise. Among Bosch's later roles include Sabo in One Piece (1999) from 2020 onward, Toji Suzuhara in Netflix's 2019 redub of Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995), and Ryogi in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2017), among others.

Originally from Alliance, Ohio, which was the first of many homes for Yuri: he lived in Virginia, Tennessee, West Africa, Japan, and New York before settling in Los Angeles.

Yuri discovered his talent and passion for acting near the end of high school and since then has made a reputation of being a committed and creative artist on both stage and screen internationally.

He made his debut in writing, producing, and starring in the independent short "Faithful." He is a student of martial arts and speaks fluent Japanese, French, and German.

Yuri is becoming well-known for his work in voice over in video games and animation. Some of his roles include Superman in Legion of Super Heroes (2006), Sasuke in Naruto (2002), and the Prince in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) video-game series.

In 2004, he started his own production company, Monkey Kingdom Productions, with business partner Tara Platt.

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Tara grew up all over the country, from Arizona to Oklahoma to Michigan to New York City, finally ending up in LA. Following high school, she studied at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

While studying in London at the London Academy of Theatre, she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland before moving to New York City. Her debut in New York was in Alan Ball's Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.

In 2004 she started Monkey Kingdom Productions with partner Yuri Lowenthal. She continues to be seen on stage and screen globally and can be heard in voice over in animation - Temari on Naruto (2002) and video games - Wonder Woman in _Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (2008)_, and is quickly becoming known for "donning costumes or disguises to go into alternate realities" as evidenced by her work in science fiction, period pieces, and comic book worlds or other realms.

Laura Bailey is an award-winning Los Angeles-based voice actor known for her roles in animation and video games, as well as the massively popular hit show and media brand, Critical Role.

Critical Role has become one of the most popular storytelling and world building independent media companies in the world, and Laura plays a pivotal role within the company as a co-founder, primary cast member for the flagship show and executive producer of The Legend of Vox Machina animated series which will air exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

Laura got her start in video games nearly 20 years ago and has since gone on to become one of the most prolific voice actors in the industry today, having worked on hundreds of titles. Some of Laura's notable roles include Abby in The Last of Us: Part II, Kait Diaz in the Gears of War franchise, Spartan Vale in the Halo franchise, Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft, Fetch in the Infamous series, Supergirl in Injustice 2, Eltariel in Middle Earth: Shadow of War, The Boss in Saints Row 3 and 4, Catwoman in Batman: The Telltale Series, and Fiona in Telltale's Tales from the Borderlands, among others.

Laura also lends her talents to several animated series, including Marvel's Avenger Assemble as Black Widow, Marvel's Spider-Man as Gwen Stacy, Constantine: City of Demons as The Night Nurse, as well as roles in Rick and Morty, Pickle and Peanut, Guardians of the Galaxy, RWBY, The PowerPuff Girls, and others. Laura is also known for her work with popular anime studio Funimation, where she had roles in major titles including the Dragon Ball Z franchise as Trunks, Fruits Basket as Tohru Honda, Kureyon Shin-chan as Shin-Chan, Fullmetal Alchemist as Lust, Soul Eater as Maka Albarn and Yu Yu Hakusho as Keiko Yukimura.

Laura won her first BAFTA in 2021, being named Best Performer in a Leading Role at the BAFTA Games Awards. She is also the Best Performance recipient of the 2020 The Game Awards for her role as Abby in The Last of Us: Part II. Other accolades include winning five BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Awards (including two Voice Actress of the Year wins and Best Female Lead Vocal Performance in a Video Game), two BTVA Anime Dub Television/OVA Voice Acting Awards, two BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Awards, two BTVA Anime Dub Movie/Special Voice Acting Awards and a NAVGTR Award.

Travis Willingham is a Los Angeles-based voice actor known for his extensive roles in animation and video games, as well as the massively popular hit show and media brand, Critical Role.

Critical Role has become one of the most popular storytelling and world building independent media companies in the world, and Travis plays a pivotal role within the company as the Chief Executive Officer, primary cast member for the flagship show and executive producer of The Legend of Vox Machina animated series which will air exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. As the CEO of Critical Role, Travis serves as the north star of the company, helping grow the brand internationally and elevating it into the massive media company it is today.

In addition, Travis has impressively amassed over 300 roles in video games, original animation projects and anime. He's known for reprising the role of Thor over the past decade in Marvel's hit original series' Avengers Assemble, Ultimate Spider-Man, HULK, Agents of SMASH, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Other roles include Superior Man / Guy Gardner in Superman: Red Son, The Heretic in Batman: Bad Blood, Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic Boom and King Roland II in Sofia the First, among others.

He has also starred in some of the biggest video game titles around, voicing Wilson Fisk / The Kingpin in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Thor in Marvel's Avengers and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, Castamir in Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Jaro Tapal in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Harvey Dent / Two-Face in Batman: The Telltale Series, plus countless more.

Travis was named Voice Actor of the Year at the 2017 BTVA Voice Acting Awards. He is also the recipient of four BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Awards, a BTVA Special/DVD Voice Acting Award and a BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Award.

Jamieson Price is an American actor from Florida who is widely known for voicing in animated projects and video games including Mortal Kombat, Akira, Tekken, One Punch Man, World of Warcraft, Bleach, Street Fighter, Dynasty Warriors, Lupin the Third and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. He also acted in The Patriot.

Matthew Mercer is a Los Angeles-based actor best known for his roles in animation and video games, as well as the massively popular hit show and media brand, Critical Role.

Critical Role has become one of the most popular storytelling and world building independent media companies in the world, and Matthew plays a pivotal role within the company as Chief Creative Officer, primary cast member, and executive producer of The Legend of Vox Machina animated series which will air exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. As CCO, Matthew helps shape the overall creative vision of the company, helping it become the powerhouse organization it is today.

In addition to Critical Role, Matthew's extensive training in theater, improv, and being a life-long hardcore gamer helped prepare him for mainstream pop culture projects and characters such as: Cole Cassidy in Overwatch, Hermes in Netflix's Blood of Zeus, Yusuke Kitagawa in Persona 5 Royal & Persona 5 Strikers, Captain Levi in Attack on Titan, Goro Majima in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Gangplank and Kindred (Wolf) in League of Legends, Rexxar, Nefarian, and Ragnaros in Hearthstone, Trafalgar Law in One Piece, Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Persona Q, and Persona 4: Dancing All Night, Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Chrom in Fire Emblem: Awakening, Fire Emblem Heroes and Super Smash Bros, Pilot Jack Cooper in Titanfall 2, and numerous other projects.

Mercer was named Voice Actor of the Year at the 2017 BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Awards for his role as McCree, where he also received a win for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Video Game. He has also received three BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Awards, two BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Awards, a BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Award and a BTVA Anime Dub Television/OVA Voice Acting Award.

Cherami Leigh Kuehn (born July 19, 1988) is an American actress and voice artist who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series and video games with Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment and Studiopolis.

Leigh began acting at the age of six. She studied Meisner-based Film Acting Technique with Nancy Chartier from the age of nine. As a child she played Gretchen in Finding North, Marcia in Temple Grandin, the young LeAnn Rimes in Holiday in Your Heart (1997), Stacy Anderson in The President's Man (2000), and appeared on on the television series Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) multiple times. On screen, she played Kim in Fast Food Nation (2006). In 2014, she had the lead role in Shane Dawson's Not Cool (2014). As a voice artist, her roles have included Sae Kashiwagi in Peach Girl, Cecily Campbell in The Sacred Blacksmith, Tamaki Kawazoe in Bamboo Blade, Lucy Heartfilia in Fairy Tail, Patty Thompson in Soul Eater, and Asuna Yuuki in Sword Art Online.

Leigh attended Hebron High School in Carrollton, Texas and studied theater at Collin College in Plano. She worked for Radio Disney as a DJ and also voice-over promotions and commercials for ABC Radio for 10 years. In 2013 she moved to Los Angeles, and continued voice acting on video games and anime as well as take on live-action acting roles. She married fellow actor Jon Christie on April 13, 2014, whom she had dated since 2010.

Lizzie Freeman is an American voice actress. She is best known for her roles in various indie animation projects and English dubs of Japanese anime, most notably as Pomni in The Amazing Digital Circus (2023), the title character from Joel Guerra's ENA series of videos, Chizuru Mizuhara in Rent-a-Girlfriend (2020), and Chisato Nishikigi in Lycoris Recoil (2022). Among her other roles include Trish Una in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012), Thrasir and Larcei in Fire Emblem Heroes (2017), Patamon in Digimon Adventure: 2020 (2020), Ryuzu Bilma in Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World (2016), and Yanfei and Teucer in Genshin Impact (2020).

Michelle Marie is a bilingual voice actress, singer, and author.

After watching her first musical at the age of six, Michelle knew she wanted to be an actress. Throughout her childhood, she participated in community theater and musicals, her love of acting expanding to include voice-over as well. After high school, she lived in Japan as an exchange student for two years and majored in music and Japanese studies. Michelle continued acting as a hobby but decided to pursue the voice-over field professionally in 2016.

A born and raised Oregonian, she moved to LA in 2018 and has worked on original animation, anime, and video games, lending her voice to roles such as: My Melody and Chococat in Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures, Niffty in Hazbin Hotel (Pilot), Anis in Nikke: Goddess of Victory, Millium Orion in Trails of Cold Steel III & IV, and Nana in Talentless Nana.

Outside of voice-over, Michelle dabbles in music production under the alias "Amree". Her most well-known song: "It's not like I like you," is a duet that features her original lyrics and vocals and has amassed over 30 million views on YouTube. She also recently published her debut YA Dystopian novel "Al Eyes", available now at Barnes & Noble and Amazon!

Tom Fahn was born in Queens, New York on April 30th, 1962. His parents are from Brooklyn, East New York and Bay Ridge. He is the second of four children and has two brothers and a sister. He grew up in Huntington, Long Island, New York.

His father worked in NY Radio during the week and as a drummer on weekends, playing jazz. Both his parents exposed the family to the arts at an early age, taking the family to movies, concerts and Broadway, whenever possible.

When he was 15 his family moved to Southern California. He graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater Arts. He married his college sweetheart and moved to Los Angeles where he began pounding the pavement as an actor.

Tom has worked as an actor in Voice-Over, Film, TV, Commercials, Theater, Stand-up & Improv comedy. A Voice-Over artist for many years, VO credits include Agumon on Digimon: Digital Monsters, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Cowboy Bebop, Boid N Woim on Cartoon Network and many others. On-Camera he starred in the Direct-To-Video, Family Feature, The Incredible Genie, as The Genie, co-starring Amanda Fuller. He played Robert D. Niro in the award winning, Scorsese parody, short film, Fast Food. He also wrote and starred in the webisode, Fun Dad, now playing on Funny Or Die. Both Fast Food and Fun Dad were directed by his brother, Jonathan Fahn. He has appeared in numerous Commercials, including a National TV ad for Lowe's with a very big bear. On Stage in Los Angeles he was cast as Dr. Melman in the play, 40 And Other Problems, written by Cynthia Greenburg. Also in the production were Joy Gohring, Roma Maffia and Maggie Wheeler. He performed for 10 years as a Stand-Up Comic from Vegas to Boston, as a member of The Comedy Team of Tom & Dan with Dan Lorge. Tom & Dan were also $10,000 Grand Prize Winners on ABC's The New America's Funniest People. He performed Improv-Comedy for 5 years every Monday night as a member of The Itchey Feet, directed by Bryan Rasmussen. He wrote and produced with his brother, Jonathan Fahn, the short film, Old Dogs starring John Saxon, Larry Gelman, Basil Hoffman and Phil Lamarr. Their full-length, feature film screenplay of Old Dogs, now titled #OldDawgz, is in Pre-Production. It is to be produced by Bruce Gordon and the script is posted on The Black List. Tom has a Podcast with his brother, Jonathan, called Magic Moments With The Fahn Brothers.

In his spare time, he enjoys playing softball, rooting for The Los Angeles Dodgers and spending time with family and friends.

Tom always wanted to be an actor since he was a kid but his greatest credits are his wife and daughter. They live in Los Angeles.

Dorothy Elias-Fahn was born on 13 March 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Rurouni Kenshin (1996). She has been married to Tom Fahn since 9 November 1985.

Melissa Fahn is an American actress and singer who primarily does voice work for animation and video games. She is best known for her voice roles as Gaz Membrane in Invader ZIM (2001) (a role she reprised in Invader ZIM (2001) and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)), Edward in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop (1998), and Dendy in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017). She also did voices for (among other things) FLCL, various characters from the Digimon franchise, tt3370540, and tt6342474, in addition to live action appearances in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) and Head of the Class (1986).

Jonathan Fahn was born on 12 April 1965 in Queens, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Fast Food (2000), Old Dogs (2009) and Tea with Grandma (2001). He has been married to Jennie Fahn since 1993. They have two children.

Kevin Seymour was born on 25 December 1958. He was an actor and casting director, known for Ninja Scroll (1993), Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) and Ghost in the Shell (1995). He died on 6 February 2014.

Joe Romersa was born on 27 July 1956 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Ninja Scroll (1993), Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Blood: The Last Vampire (2000).

Dyanne DiRosario was born on 18 February 1964 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Perfect Blue (1997), Akira (1988) and Doctor Hackenstein (1988). She is married to Christopher Halsted. They have two children.

Fleet Cooper is known for Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Revolution (2012) and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002).

Peter Spellos was born on 1 March 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for City of Angels (1998), Men in Black II (2002) and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). He was married to Linda Hautala. He died on 19 November 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Lia Sargent was born on 20 February 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and casting director, known for Perfect Blue (1997), The Big O (1999) and Ghost in the Shell (1995).

Michael John Sorich is an American actor, director and writer who is known for voicing the Tar Monster and the Cotton Candy Glob from Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed as well as dozens of roles from the Power Rangers franchise, Gen from Street Fighter and Fidel Castro in Seinfeld and Married with Children.