Yuri Lowenthal

Biography

Yuri Lowenthal (born March 5, 1971; Alliance, Ohio) is a voice actor that has voiced several anime and video game characters. He also voiced Kamal for the alternate reality game I Love Bees. He is best friends with Doug Erholtz. He is married to fellow voice actress Tara Platt. He graduated from The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Lowenthal co-founded Monkey Kingdom Productions with partner Tara Platt in 2004. Monkey Kingdom Productions is an independent film production company, currently producing Lowenthal's Tumbling After. In 2007 Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt provided their voices for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 and also for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4. In the anime industry, he is most known for his roles as Sasuke Uchiha, in Naruto, Suzaku Kururugi in Code Geass, Simon in Gurren Lagann and Jinnosuke/"Kuma" in Afro Samurai and its sequel. In the video gaming world, he is well known to be the voice of the Prince of Persia in several of Ubi Soft's games, including The Sands of Time, The Forgotten Sands, and The Two Thrones. Although he does not provide the voice of the Prince in Warrior Within. He also provides the voice of Cecil Harvey in the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV, and again in Dissidia: Final Fantasy on the PSP. He is also the voice of Ben Tennyson from Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt also co-authored a new book on voice-over called Voice-Over Voice Actor: What It's Like Behind the Mic. It is available through Bug Bot Press and Emerald Book Company. He is also a frequent guest at the San Diego Comic-Con International.

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