Gregory Scott Ayres (Born December 7, 1968 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American voice actor best-known for voicing anime characters. As the story goes, this Texas voice actor (VA) started out as a fan-boy of anime who was mentioned to ADV film directors, as further explained at his biography at AnimeCons.com
Greg Ayres | |
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| Born | Gregory Scott Ayres December 7, 1968 |
| Other names | Greg Ayers, Bam-Bam |
| Occupation | Voice Actor/DJ |
| Notable credit(s) | Chrono Crusade as Chrono D.N. Angel as Satoshi Hiwatari Full Metal Panic! as Shinji Kazama Negima as Negi Springfield Neon Genesis Evangelion as Kaworu Nagisa Nerima Daikon Brothers as Hideki Trinity Blood as Pope Alessandro XVII Ghost Stories as Leo |
| Family | Christopher Ayres (brother) |
| Website | Greg Ayres.com |
With his constantly color-changing hair, this VA has attended more than eighty anime conventions as a guest, and countless others as a fan. Greg Ayres is recognized not only for his dub work in popular anime, but also for his multi-talented and charismatic personality at anime conventions.
Occasionally his surname is listed as Ayers instead of Ayres, however this spelling is incorrect as his legal name is "Gregory Ayres".
Filmography
- Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution - Junichi Kojima
- Aura Battler Dunbine - Fuei
- BASToF Syndrome - Bomb
- Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad - Yukio (Koyuki) Tanaka
- Burst Angel - Kyohei Tachibana
- Cyberteam in Akihabara - The White Prince, Tetsuro
- Chrono Crusade - Chrono
- D.N.Angel - Satoshi Hiwatari
- Dragon Knight - Wheel of Time - Kakeru
- E's Otherwise - Shen-Lon Belvedere
- Full Metal Panic! - Shinji Kazama
- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu - Shinji Kazama
- Fullmetal Alchemist - Bido
- Gantz - Hajime Muroto
- Ghost Stories - Leo Kakinoki
- Godannar - Shinobu Saruwatari
- Gravion - Toga Tenkuji
- Gravion Zwei - Toga Tenkuji
- Gunslinger Girl - Emilio
- Hello Kitty & Friends: Fairy Tale Fantasy - Hangyodon
- Kodocha - Tsuyoshi Sasaki
- Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Sasuke, Hatarino
- Mahou Sensei Negima - Negi Springfield
- Megazone 23 Part II - Rakko
- Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok - Heimdall/Kazumi Higashiyama
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (Directors Cut) - Kaworu Nagisa
- Neoranga - Tsubasa Sasai
- Nerima Daikon Brothers - Hideki
- Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat - TimeBoy, Prince
- Peacemaker - Shinpachi Nagakura
- Pretear - Mannen
- Puni Puni Poemi - Scooter Thief, Ball Person 1, (Random back-ground voice)
- Saint Seiya - Tatsyua, Daichi
- Saiyuki - Son Goku
- Saiyuki "Requiem" - Son Goku
- Samurai 7 - Heihachi Hayashida
- Sister Princess - Taro Yamada
- Spiral - Kousuke Asazuki
- Steel Angel Kurumi - Captain, Mikhail
- Super Gals - Yuya Asou "Second Place"
- Those Who Hunt Elves II - The Legendary Sorcerer
- UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, also known as UFO Princess Valkyrie - Kazuto Tokino
- Nerima Daikon Brothers - Hideki
Trivia
- Ayres has a penchant for playing younger male characters such as Kaworu Nagisa in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pope Alessandro in Trinity Blood and Negi Springfield in Negima.
- Ayres has been the English counterpart of Akira Ishida three times, both of them played Kaworu in Evangelion, Chrono in Chrono Crusade and Satoshi Hiwatari in D.N. Angel.
- Ayres' older brother, Chris, is also a voice actor.
External links
- Greg Ayres at IMDb
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- Greg Ayres ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Greg Ayres convention appearances on AnimeCons.com
- Greg Ayres at his website