Chris Ayres

Christopher Owen Ayres (born May 16, 1965-October 18, 2021) was an American voice actor, ADR Director, and Script Writer at Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks for English dubbed versions of Japanese anime series. He has also been a voice actor for Funimation/OkraTron 5000 and New Generation Pictures, best known for his voice as Frieza in the Dragon Ball series since 2009. He got his start voice acting at ADV Films on Kino's Journey and is known for Mock Combat for Cosplay panels at anime conventions. He is the older brother of Greg Ayres, and his understudy is Daman Mills (due to Ayres having health problems in 2017 before slowly recovering in mid-2018 before making a complete one in late-2019).
He died on October 18, 2021, following health complications.
==Voices==
*Disney Roles:
**Frollo from The Hunchback of Norde Dame (alternate voice)
**Master Xehanort from Kingdom Hearts (future productions)
**Scar from The Lion King (alternate voice/in The Lion King 2/The Lion Guard 1re voice)
*Warner Bros. roles:
**Lord Voldermort (for certain media)
*Chrono Crusade: Reincarnation - Reinhart Lactivitus
*Dragon Ball vs. Street Fighter - Frieza
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Category:2021 Deaths
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