Roger Craig Smith

Roger Craig Smith (born August 11, 1975) is an American voice actor and former stand-up comedian best known as the voice behind Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series, Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin's Creed games, Deidara in the hit anime Naruto: Shippūden, Zhang Liao in Dynasty Warriors, as the current voice of Steve Rogers / Captain America in Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble and Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United, Thomas and others in Regular Show, Shinji Hirako in Bleach, Martin Reest in Monster, Percy and Belson in Clarence, Bruce Wayne / Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins, Batman Unlimited and Batman Ninja, Kyle Crane in Dying Light and as the current voice of Sonic the Hedgehog since 2010. He also voices the character Mirage in Apex Legends.

Biography
Born in St. Joseph, Michigan, Smith graduated from Chapman University's Dodge College of film and media arts in 2003 also with a degree in screenwriting. In 2004, his screenplay "Modesto Rules" was a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Out of a record-setting 6,073 screenplays submitted, Smith's was one of only 132 to make it to the semi-finals. Since then, Smith has worked on projects for both the small and big screens.

Smith originally began his career as a stand-up comedian, performing stand-up comedy in the mid 90s in film school before getting into voice acting in 2000, his stand-up routines also helped him influenced his voice over career. Smith's voice work has been called upon by companies including Disney and Disney Television Animation, Cartoon Network, Microsoft Game Studios, Sony, Wal-Mart, Baskin-Robbins, E!, TLC. He has been cast as the lead voice actor in a number of video games, including Sonic the Hedgehog from 2010 onwards, Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series from Resident Evil 5 onwards as well as Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin's Creed series.

Anime

 * Naruto (2002-2007) - Raiga Kurosuki, Dan Kato, Idate Morino
 * Duel Masters (2003-2006) - Prince Maurice
 * Bleach (2004-2012) - Shinji Hirako, Noba, Hō, Ryusei "Kenryū" Kenzaki, Marechiyo Ōmaeda (ep. 111), Citizen (ep. 113) , Central 46 Member (ep. 212) , Stealth Force Member (ep. 366) , Additional Voices
 * Blue Dragon (2007-2008) - Gustav, Jibral Soldier (ep. 46)
 * Aggretsuko (2018-present) - Manumaru

Anime Films

 * Patlabor: The Movie (1989) - Kiichi Goto (Bandai Dub)
 * Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) - Kiichi Goto (Bandai Dub)
 * Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) - Briefing Voice, Yamadori Transport Pilot (Animaze Dub)
 * Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) - Curtis Miller
 * Batman Ninja (2018) - Bruce Wayne/Batman