Troy Baker

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**Troy Edward Baker** (born April 1, 1976)[2][3][4] is an American actor and musician known for portraying the lead characters in various video games. His most notable voice-over performances are as Joel in *The Last of Us*, Kanji Tatsumi in *Persona 4*, Booker DeWitt in *BioShock Infinite*, the Joker in *Batman: Arkham Origins*, Batman in other titles, Delsin Rowe in *Infamous Second Son*, Sam Drake in *Uncharted 4: A Thief's End* and *Uncharted: The Lost Legacy*, Revolver Ocelot in *Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain*, Pagan Min in *Far Cry 4*, Rhys in *Tales from the Borderlands*, Logan Thackeray in *Guild Wars 2* and Yuri Lowell in *Tales of Vesperia*. He has voiced in a number of anime, including *Basilisk*, *Trinity Blood*, *Fullmetal Alchemist*, *One Piece*, *Bleach* and *Naruto: Shippuden*. He also voices Hawkeye and Loki in several Marvel projects.

Before pursuing acting, Baker was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the indie-rock band Tripp Fontaine, which released the radio single "Burning Out" from their debut album *Random Thoughts on a Paper Napkin* in 2004.[5][6] His first solo album, *Sitting in the Fire*, was released on October 14, 2014.[7][8][9] On October 6, 2017, Baker and the backing band of *Sitting in the Fire* released a second album called *Moving Around Bias* under the new name Window to the Abbey.

## Career

Baker began his voice acting career doing radio commercials in Dallas. He was recruited by Christopher Sabat to do voice-over work at Funimation for the English adaptation of the anime *Case Closed*.[11] He then went on to work with anime such as *Bleach*, *Dragon Ball Z*, *Fullmetal Alchemist*, *Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood*, *Naruto*, *Naruto: Shippuden*, and *One Piece*. When he moved to Los Angeles, he began working on Marvel-based animated series where he provided the voice of various characters in *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*, and Hawkeye and Loki in *Ultimate Spider-Man* and *Avengers Assemble*.[1]

His career in the video game industry began when he voiced Matt Baker in Gearbox Software's *Brothers in Arms*. In an interview with *The Griff*, Baker said that "It was starting to become necessary for actors to become involved [in gaming], so I got into that and it was literally stumbling from one job into the next. That was kind of my first snowball effect."[11] His most notable roles came in 2013 where he provided the voice of Booker DeWitt in Irrational Games' *BioShock Infinite* and performed the voice and motion capture of Joel in Naughty Dog's *The Last of Us*. Both games earned critical acclaim, earning scores over 90% in GameRankings[12][13] and Metacritic,[14][15] and commercial success.[16][17] Baker got nominated for both of these roles in the VGX 2013 and ended up winning for *The Last of Us*. Baker again worked with Naughty Dog on *Uncharted 4: A Thief's End* opposite Nolan North playing Nathan Drake's older brother Sam. He reprised the role again in *Uncharted: The Lost Legacy*.[18]

In 2011 he became the voice of Siris, the hero from Chair Entertainment's blockbuster mobile series *Infinity Blade*, and in 2014 the voice of Talion, the protagonist of *Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor* which earned a rating of 9.3 on IGN. He also voiced Ace (Experiment 262) in the English dub of the anime *Stitch!*. *Entertainment Weekly* has listed him in their Best of 2013 issue for best breakout actor in the video game industry for his performance as Joel in *The Last of Us*, Booker DeWitt in *BioShock Infinite* and the Joker in *Batman: Arkham Origins*. He is one of the few actors to have portrayed Batman (*Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes*, *Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham*, *Lego Dimensions*, *Batman: The Telltale Series* and *Batman: The Enemy Within*), the Joker (*Batman: Arkham Origins*) and the three major iterations of Robin (*Batman: Arkham City, Injustice: Gods Among Us* and *Batman: Arkham Knight*).[19]

As of May 6, 2018, Baker and fellow voice actor Nolan North host the weekly YouTube series *Retro Replay*.