Liam O'Brien (voice actor)

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Liam O'Brien (2017)

Liam Christopher O'Brien (born May 28, 1976 in Belleville ) is an American voice actor, screenwriter and dubbing director. He was part of many English-language adaptations of Japanese anime and can be heard in numerous video games and cartoons.

His leading roles include Gaara in Naruto , Captain Jushiro Ukitake in Bleach , Lloyd in Code Geass , Kenzo Tenma in Monster , and Nephrite in the Viz Media setting of Sailor Moon . He set cartoon series such as Star Wars Rebels , Transformers: Robots in Disguise , Avengers Assemble , Wolverine and the X-Men , and Hulk and the Agents of SMASH to music.In video games, he gave his voice to Gollum in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor , Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 , War in Darksiders , Asura in Asura's Wrath , Illidan Stormrage in World of Warcraft , Yasuo in League of Legends , the Guardian in For Honor , Barker in Titanfall 2 and Infinite in Sonic Forces . He has directed Naruto , The Last of Us , Evolve , Resident Evil 5 , and Resident Evil 6 . He is a permanent member of Critical Role , where he impersonates the characters Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar and Caleb Widogast .

Career

O'Brien grew up in Weehawken , New Jersey. His mother, Lois Wiltse O'Brien, worked as an educator and as a quality assurance trainer and consultant. He first started acting in school. After attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts , he worked in theaters on numerous productions across America. While working on a production of Romeo and Juliet in Cincinnati , he met Crispin Freeman , who helped him get into the dubbing business of cartoons and anime in New York.

O'Brien married fellow voice actor Amy Kincaid in 2002 . They have a son and a daughter together. O'Brien also has a sister. In an interview with Brian W. Foster, O'Brien mentioned that he had hyperacusis .

Career

O'Brien's characters vary in style. He said that he mostly played characters who are typically mad or evil geniuses, although he has also set characters from comedies to music, such as Fukuyama in Girls Bravo , which he said would break out in a sweat, the level of madness to come soon ”. He described Cumore of Tales of Vesperia as "slightly disturbed". In Darksiders , he set music to the main character "War", one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. He described his setting more deeply than his normal voice, and that he portrayed him as an old soul who is in no way surprised by the events around him. In the film based on the video game Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children , he set Red XIII to music .

In addition to voice acting, O'Brien worked as a dubbing director and writer on various video games and anime series. He is also part of the popular Critical Role web series , "where a bunch of nerdy voice actors come together to play Dungeons & Dragons ."

Filmography

Anime

List of Anime Dubbing
year title role note supporting documents
2001 Boogiepop Phantom Yoji Suganuma, Others
2001 Gokudo Part
2002 Kare Kano Hideki Asaba, Fukada Kohei
2002 Revolutionary Girl Utena Mamiya Chida
2003 Figure 17 Toru
2003 DNA² Junta Momonari
2003 KO Beast Bud Mint
2004 Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze Diverse characters
2004 Texhnolyze Man C
2004 Legend of the Twilight Tom
2004 Gad Guard Truck driver
2004 ROD the TV Diverse characters Also as William Markham
2004 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Diverse characters
2004 Paranoia agent Mitsuhiro Maniwa, man on the phone
2004 Comic party Taishi Kuhonbutsu
2004 Gungrave Executive A, researcher, Sam
2004 Marmalade Boy Akira Mizutani, Alex
June 21, 2005 Girls bravo Kazuharu Fukuyama
2005 Rumiko Takahashi Anthology Ryuichi, Mover, Odagiri, Zashiki Warashi, Gorgeous
2005 Samurai Champloo Young Yamane, eel shop owner
2005 Daphne in the Brilliant Blue Diverse characters
2005 Koi Kaze Kei Odagiri, husband, friend A.
2005 Duel Masters: Season 2 Shobu Kirifuda
2005 Tenjo tenge Shin Natsume
2005 The Melody of Oblivion Horu, Person of the Cape
2005 Mermaid Forest Yuta, others
2005 DearS Diverse characters
2005 Ghost Talker's Daydream Diverse characters
2005 Naruto Gaara, Kotetsu Hagane
2005 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG Gino, others
2005 Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo Andrea Cavalcanti
2005 Saiyuki reload Diverse characters
2005 Scrapped Princess Furet
2005 Di Gi Charat Thin blob OVA
February 14, 2006 Haré + Guu Dr. Clive
2006 Kannazuki no miko Tsubasa
2006 Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Rin's Captor
2006 Gun Sword Ray Lundgren, Wild Bunch C
2006 Kamichu! Shika, Inu Osho, Konoha Kamaitachi, Others
2006 The Prince of Tennis Different characters
2006 Fate / stay night Archer
2006 Ergo proxy Vincent Law
2006 Paradise Kiss Diverse characters
2007 Bleach Jushiro Ukitake
2007 Blue dragon Dolsk
2007 To heart Diverse characters
2007 Cutie Honey Seiji's Contact Real film dubbing
2007 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Baseball team captain
2007 The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eye Diverse characters
2007 Phoenix Ohtomo
2008 Code Geass Lloyd Asplund
2008 Buso Renkin Gota Nakamura, Hideki Okakura
2008 Yami no Matsuei Hisoka Kurosaki
2009-2010 monster Kenzo Tenma
2010 Slayers Rezo the Red Priest Revolution and Evolution-R
April 20, 2013 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan Hidemoto Keikain
2013-2015 Digimon Fusion Deckergreymon, Neptunmon, Mercurymon
May 11th, 2013 Fate / Zero Kariya Matou
2014-2015 Sailor Moon Nephrites VIZ Dub
April 24, 2015 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Gihren Zabi
20th November 2015 Sailor Moon Crystal Nephrites
December 27, 2016 Sengoku Basara: End of Judgment Ieyasu Tokugawa
2019 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Gaara
April 1, 2019 Ultraman Dan Moroboshi 2019 ONA

Animation

List of animation settings
year title role note supporting documents
2008-2009 Wolverine and the X-Men Warren Worthington III, Nightcrawler, Nitro
2010 GI Joe: Renegades Captain Anatoly Krimov / Red Star, Others Episode "Union of the Snake"
2012-2014 NFL rush zone RZ6.0 / Richard Zimmer, Zich, Others
2013-2017 Avengers Assemble Red Skull / Iron Skull, Doctor Strange, Blood Brother # 2, Skully, Skull-Net, Others
2013 Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel Red skull
2014-2015 Hulk and the SMASH team Arkon, Red Skull, Others
June 26, 2014 Regular show tango Episode "Gold Watch"
2014-2017 Star Wars Rebels Supply Master Yogar Lyste, Morad Sumar, Others
2015 Transformers: Robots in Disguise Underbite, Kickback, Others
February 28, 2016 Ultimate Spider-Man Doctor Strange Episode "Miles From Home"
20th June 2016 Cucumber & Peanut Head mannequin Episode “Bats; Movie Camp Out "
2019 Carmen Sandiego Professor Gunnar Maelstrom, Vlad, Boris

Movie

List of films
year title role note supporting documents
2005 Aquarian Age: The Movie Lancelot Army Commander
April 25, 2006 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Red XIII
2009 Afro Samurai: Resurrection Shichigoro
2010 Planet Hulk Hiroim
2012 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - The Last Party Ieyasu Tokugawa
2014 JLA Adventures: Trapped In Time Aquaman , Batwing Computer
2014 Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United Red skull
February 24, 2015 Tiger & Bunny: The Rising Lunatic / Yuri Petrov
June 10, 2015 The Last: Naruto the Movie Gaara, Kotetsu Hagane
2016 Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell Doctor Strange

Other settings

List of other settings
year title role note
2005 One missed call Hiroshi Yamashita

Video games

List of video game settings
year title role note supporting documents
2006-2007 .hack // GU Endrance Rebirth, Reminisce, Redemption
2006 Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Lezard Valeth
2006 Tales of the Abyss Dist the Reaper
2007 Joan of Arc Luther
2007 World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Illidan Stormrage
since 2007 persona Akihiko Sanada
2007 Eternal Sonata Waltz
2008 Devil May Cry 4 Sanctus
2008 Professor Layton and the Lost Future Dr. Alain Stahngun, Dimitri Allen
2008 Tales of Vesperia Cumore
2008 Final Fantasy IV Cain Highwind 3D remake
March 11, 2009 Dragon Age: Origins Various voices
2009 Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight Wrath, Trash Mob B
2009 Magna Carta 2 Huaren Jass
2009 Resident Evil 5 Reynard Fisher, Others
2009 Red Faction: Guerrilla Daniel Mason
2010 Darksiders war
2010 Fallout: New Vegas Diverse characters
October 26, 2010 Fable III Walla Voice Actors
2010 Kidney Grimoire white not mentioned in the credits
2010 Mafia II Brian O'Neill
2010 Valkyria Chronicles II Baldren Gassenarl
2011 Captain America: Super Soldier Howard Stark, Allied, Hydra
2011 Catherine Orlando Haddick
2011 Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy Cain Highwind
2011 Killzone 3 Voice Talent ISA
2011 Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Paid gangsters
2011 White Knight Chronicles 2 Madoras
2011-2016 Naruto Gaara, Kotetsu Hagane
2012 Asura's Wrath Asura
2012 Virtue's Last Reward Dio
2012 Final Fantasy XIII-2 Caius Ballad
2012 NeverDead Alex
2012 Darksiders II war
2012 Skull girls Leviathan
2012 Spec Ops: The Line Marines, exile officer
2013 Fire Emblem: Awakening Inigo
2013 League of Legends Yasuo
2013 Fuse Guards
2013 Tales of Xillia Gilland
2013 Bravely default Nobutsuna Kamiizumi
2013 Killer is Dead David
2013 Marvel Heroes Electro, Nightcrawler, Havok
2013 Republique Station 14 Episode 3: "Ones and Zeroes"
2014 D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die Phillip Cheney
2014 Drakengard 3 cent
2014 Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Caius Ballad
2014 Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Gollum
2014 The Evil Within Valerio Jimenez, as well as villagers, fat zombie
2014 Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark Autobot Flyer, Decepticon Soldier 02
2015 Lego Dimensions Voiceover talent
2015 Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Enkidu
2015 Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell William Shakespeare, Vlad the Impaler, Demons, Husks
2015 The Order: 1886 Finley
2015 Mad Max Gutgash
2015 Transformers: Devastation Motormaster, viewfinder # 3
2016 The Witness Dubbing director
2016 Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Zazz
2016 Lego Marvel's Avengers Red skull Dubbing director
2016 Bravely Second: End Layer Nobotsuna Kamiizumi
February 16, 2016 Street fighter v Gill Mentioned in the credits
2017 For Honor The guard
2017 Horizon Zero Dawn Umnak
May 16, 2017 Injustice 2 Reverse flash
19th September 2017 Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Doctor Strange
7th November 2017 Sonic Forces Infinite
January 30, 2018 Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Cain Highwind
May 8, 2018 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Serafen, Vax'ildan Vessar
July 26, 2018 Marvel Powers United VR Doctor Strange
19th July 2019 Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Black Bolt, Destroyer Armor, Doctor Strange, Nightcrawler, Red Skull

Real film

year title role note supporting documents
since 2015 Critical role Vax'ildan, Caleb Widogast
March 10, 2015 The Phoenix Incident Jacob Reynolds

Web links

Commons : Liam O'Brien  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liam O'Brien on Twitter. In: Twitter. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Catch a rising star; Weehawken native O'Brien enjoying meteoric climb as an actor; stars in Tennessee Williams play in New York. In: The Hudson Reporter. May 13, 2000, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b http://www.sacanime.com/?page_id=4445
  4. ↑ Todd Spangler: Critical Role Team, After Record-Breaking Fan Crowdfunding Response, Vows to Make 'The Best Goddamn Cartoon Anyone Has Ever Seen'. In: Variety. March 8, 2019, accessed July 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Lois Wiltse O'Brien's Obituary in The Jersey Journal . In: nj.com. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Peter Marks: In the Void of the Damned, a Desire to Hold On. In: The New York Times. July 1, 1999, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Elyse Sommer: Small Craft Warnings, a Curtain Up review. In: curtainup.com. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dave Ward: Liam O'Brien Interview. In: rpgsite.net. Retrieved July 31, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Liam O'Brien Interview. In: After Buzz TV. July 14, 2015, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  10. ^ Between the Sheets: Liam O'Brien. In: Critical Role. October 10, 2018, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  11. ^ Courtney Kraft: Critical Role's Liam O'Brien Talks His Love of Dungeons & Dragons. In: Geek and Sundry. September 10, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  12. ^ Carlo Santos: Girls Bravo. In: Anime News Network. October 12, 2005, accessed on March 26, 2015 (English): “Liam O'Brien is a riot and a half as Fukuyama in this volume, and his character ought to go terrorize more girls just so we can hear that smarmy delivery. "
  13. ↑ Hare + Guu - Cast - Dr. Clive. In: Hare + Guu on Squarespace. Retrieved July 31, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq Behind The Voice Actors - Liam O'Brien. In: Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 31, 2019 .
  15. ↑ New Sailor Moon Dub Cast Revealed at Anime Expo. In: Anime News Network. July 5, 2014, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Gundam the Origin I's 1st 7 Minutes English-Dubbed & Subtitled. In: Anime News Network. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Sorrowful Artesia Anime Episode Gets English Language Trailer. In: The Fandom Post. Retrieved July 31, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Second 'Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin' Anime Episode Titled. In: The Fandom Post. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  19. ↑ a b Viz Media Reveals More English Dub Cast for Sailor Moon R Anime. April 3, 2015, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Liam O'Brien. In: TV Guide . Retrieved July 31, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Tiger & Bunny The Movie: The Rising 'New Driver' English Dub Clip Streamed. February 22, 2015, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  22. ↑ First Clip From Marvel's Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell. October 10, 2016, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  23. ^ A b The voice of Yasuo and many more: Interview with Liam O'Brien - Articles - Team Dignitas. In: team-dignitas.net. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Fable III Game Credits. In: Microsoft Game Studios. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  25. ↑ We're the Yasuo team. AMA! / r / leagueoflegends. In: reddit.com. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Killer is Dead To Have Dual Audio Voice Tracks. In: Siliconera. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  27. ↑ Dealzon: Voice cast for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor revealed. In: Destructoid. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Liam O´Brien: @courtenaytaylor @MadMaxGame @jason_spisak @WillingBlam @Bloodmime My main role is Gut Gash. So handsome. In: twitter. September 13, 2015, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  29. ^ Critical Role's Liam O'Brien Talks His Love of Dungeons & Dragons - Geek and Sundry. In: geekandsundry.com. September 10, 2015, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Kelly Knox: Your First Look at the Official Art for the Second Critical Role Campaign. In: Geek & Sundry . January 16, 2018, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  31. ^ The Phoenix Incident, Where Truth Battles Fiction - ACED Magazine. In: acedmagazine.com. April 8, 2016, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Steve Jozef: Phoenix Lights Thriller The Phoenix Incident Doesn't Shine Very Bright. In: phoenixnewtimes.com. April 8, 2016, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  33. ^ The Phoenix Incident Builds An Interesting World; But Lacks Meaningful Characters - A Review. In: bleedingcool.com. April 7, 2016, accessed July 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Brien, Liam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Brien, Liam Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American voice actor, screenwriter, voice director
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Belleville , New Jersey