![]() Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million. After becoming hugely successful, the Critical Role cast left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2019 and set up their own production company, Critical Role Productions. Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019 Webby Awards the show was also both a Finalist and the Audience Honor Winner at the 2019 Shorty Awards. He is also a cast member of the popular web series Critical Role, in which he and other voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. In addition to voice acting, he has worked as a voice director and writer on various video games and anime shows. In the video game-based film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, he voiced Red XIII. He describes his voicing as deeper than his usual voice, and that he portrayed War as a fairly old soul who isn't surprised at the events around him. In Darksiders, he voices the lead character War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He describes Cumore from Tales of Vesperia as "slightly unhinged". O'Brien affirms that he often plays characters that are insane or evil geniuses, although he has also voiced comedic characters such as Fukuyama in Girls Bravo. He met Crispin Freeman while working on a production of Romeo & Juliet in Cincinnati, Ohio, which helped him get voice-over work back in New York. ![]() After moving to New York City to attend the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, he worked in theater on various productions around the country. His family were Reformed Christians, and he was "raised by a Christian mother and attended 15 years of Christian schooling", but would later describe himself as agnostic. His mother, Lois Wiltse O'Brien, worked as an educator as well as a quality assurance trainer and consultant. Liam Christopher O'Brien was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, on May 28, 1976. He has also voice directed for video games such as The Last of Us, Evolve, Resident Evil 5, and Resident Evil 6. He is an automated dialog replacement writer for anime and has provided voice direction for over 300 episodes of anime such as Naruto. In video games, he voiced Gollum in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel, Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, War in Darksiders, Asura in Asura's Wrath, Ieyasu Tokugawa in Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes, Illidan Stormrage in World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm, Yasuo in League of Legends, Grimoire Weiss in Nier and Nier: Replicant ver.1.22474487139., the Warden in For Honor, and Barker in Titanfall 2. In cartoons, O'Brien has voiced characters in shows such as Star Wars Rebels, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Avengers Assemble, Wolverine and the X-Men, and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. His major anime roles include Gaara in Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, and Boruto, Vincent Law in Ergo Proxy, Captain Jushiro Ukitake in Bleach, Lloyd in Code Geass, Kenzo Tenma in Monster, Akihiko Sanada in Persona 3, and Nephrite in the Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon. He has been involved in many video games, cartoons, and English-language adaptations of Japanese anime. He is a regular cast member of the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series Critical Role, playing Vax'ildan ("Vax"), Caleb Widogast, and Orym. His most recent endeavor is staring in and being executive producer of the animated Amazon Prime Video exclusive, "The Legend of Vox Machina" (Amazon Prime Video, 2021-).Liam Christopher O'Brien (born May 28, 1976) is an American voice actor, writer, and director. ![]() ![]() O'Brien was named Best Male Vocal Performance in an Anime Feature Film/Special in a Supporting Role in 2014's BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Awards for his role as Gaara in "Naruto Shippûden: The Movie 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire." He is also the recipient of a BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award, a BTVA Special/DVD Voice Acting Award and a BTVA Anime Dub Television/OVA Voice Acting Award. He was the voice of Yogar Lyste, Morad Sumar and Imperial Supply Master Yogar Lyste in "Star Wars: Rebels" (Disney XD 2014-17), the voices of Professor Maelstrom, Boris and Vlad in "Carmen Sandiego" (Netflix, 2019-21) and more. ![]() Strange in "Marvel's Spider-Man" (Disney XD, 2017-20), "Ultimate Spider-Man" (Disney XD, 2011-16), "Marvel's Avengers Assemble" (Disney XD 2013-18) and others. As a veteran voice actor, O'Brien has worked on well over 400 video game and animation projects, including playing Dr. Liam O'Brien is a Los Angeles-based actor, writer and director known for his roles in animation and video games. ![]()
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