Crispin Freeman (born February 9 1972 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American voice actor best known for his role as Alucard in the television anime Hellsing & Zelgadis in Slayers. He also played the voice of Kouichi Kimura in Digimon: Digital Monsters and the Prince in Hayao Miyazaki's movie adaption of Howl's Moving Castle.
He has also done other popular characters such as Touga Kiryuu from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Straight Cougar from s-CRY-ed, Shannon Casull from Scrapped Princess, Tsume from Wolf's Rain, Balmung from .hack//Legend of the Twilight, Hideki Motosuwa from Chobits, and Amon from Witch Hunter Robin.
Freeman attended the Latin School of Chicago, where he graduated in 1990. Earning his Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College, he majored in Theater and minored in Computer Science. Consequently, he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in Acting, and performed on Broadway, the American Repertory Theater (Cambridge), the Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles), and the Williamstown Theater Festival.
Freeman began his voice acting career in 1985, and has since participated in dozens of anime projects, including Slayers (1996-1999), X (anime) (2001), Chobits (2002), Hellsing (2002), Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002), Big O (2003), and Wolf's Rain (2003).
Roles
Anime:
- Angel Sanctuary - Rosiel
- Hellsing - Alucard
- Slayers - Zelgadis Greywords, other characters
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Togusa
- Tenchi Muyo! - Kamekura (third OVA)
- Read or Die - Joker
- Fencer of Minerva - Sho
- Chobits - Hideki Motosuwa
- X-TV - Fuuma Monou
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor - Captain Tylor
- Digimon: Digital Monsters - Kouichi Kimura, additional voices
- Howl's Moving Castle - The Prince
- Revolutionary Girl Utena - Touga Kiryuu
- Rurouni Kenshin - Shougo Amakusa
- s-CRY-ed - Straight Cougar
- Scrapped Princess - Shannon Casull
- Wolf's Rain - Tsume
- .hack//Liminality Vol. 1: In the Case of Mai Minase - Harald Hoerwick
- .hack//Liminality Vol. 2: In the Case of Yuki Aihara - Yuki's Brother
- .hack//SIGN - Balmung
- .hack//Legend of the Twilight - Balmung
- Witch Hunter Robin - Amon
- Onegai Twins! - Kousei Shimazaki
- Naruto - Ebisu
- Last Exile - Alex Rowe
- Argento Soma - Dan Simmonds
- IGPX Immortal Grand Prix - Bjorn Johannsen
- Zatch Bell! - Kane
CGI
Video Games:
- Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht - Albedo, Gaignun Kukai
- Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse - Albedo, Gaignun Kukai, Jin Uzuki
- Tales of Symphonia - Regal Bryant
- Soul Calibur III - Siegfried Schtauffen
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - Albel Nox
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga - Heat
- Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - Mathias Conqvist
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness - Hector
- Nano Breaker - Jake Warren
- Makai Kingdom - Overlord Zetta
- Breakdown - Solus
- Drakengard - Inuart
- Death by Degrees - Alan Smithee
- Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - Allen C. Hamilton
- .hack//MUTATION - Balmung
- .hack//OUTBREAK - Balmung
- .hack//QUARANTINE - Balmung
External links
Interviews
- "A Very Different Place" - A Crispin Freeman Interview part one
- "A Very Different Place" - A Crispin Freeman Interview part two including audio...