Troy E. Baker is an American actor, voice actor, musician and singer.
He is best known for his roles as Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite, Joel in The Last of
Us, Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4, Delsin Rowe in Infamous: Second Son, Snow Villiers in
Final Fantasy XIII, Schneizel el Britannia in Code Geass, Pain in Naruto: Shippuden,
Jake Muller in Resident Evil 6, The Second Greed in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood,
Hawkeye in Avengers Assemble, Van Kleiss in Generator Rex, Two-Face and Robin in Batman:
Arkham City, Prosecutor Simon Blackquill in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies,
and The Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Assault on Arkham.
Baker is also a musician in Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill band, where he plays bass and
sings backup vocals.
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.
He is currently working on a new album.
Biography Baker began his voice acting career with doing
radio commercials and then went on to work with anime such as Bleach, Dragon Ball Z,
Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden, One
Piece, Shin-Chan, Soul Eater and Trinity Blood.
Recently, he began working on animated series based on Marvel properties where he provided
the voice of various characters in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and currently voices
Loki and Hawkeye in Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble.
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 and Metacritic,
and commercial success.
Baker got nominated for both of these roles in the VGX 2013 and ended up winning for The
Last of Us.
Troy has a huge profile as an actor in the video game industry.
His career in the video game industry began when he voiced lead character Sergeant Matt
Baker in Gearbox Software's Brothers in Arms.
He later went on to voice Severin and Kagan in BloodRayne 2; Markus Vaughn in Trauma Center:
New Blood; Sol Badguy in Guilty Gear 2: Overture; Kanji Tatsumi in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
4; Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia; Alec Mason in Red Faction: Guerrilla; Slimer in
Ghostbusters: The Video Game; the voice of various characters in Call of Duty games:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops
and Call of Duty: Black Ops II; Snow Villiers in the Final Fantasy XIII series; Abaddon
in Darksiders; Jetfire and Zeta Prime in Transformers: War for Cybertron; the current voice of Espio
the Chameleon in Sonic the Hedgehog series; Nova in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3; Vincent
Brooks in Catherine; the current voice of Ryu Hayabusa in Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden
series; Two-Face and Robin in Batman: Arkham City; The Boss Male Voice 1 in Saints Row:
The Third and Saints Row IV; Zenith in Star Wars: The Old Republic; Kai Leng in Mass Effect
3; Arlon and Pyrrhon in Kid Icarus: Uprising; Scoundrel in Diablo III; 30K in Tom Clancy's
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier; Batman, Two-Face, Sinestro, Brainiac and Hawkman in Lego Batman
2: DC Super Heroes; Jazz, Jetfire and Kickback in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron; Logan
Thackeray in Guild Wars 2; Jake Muller in Resident Evil 6; Sunburn and Brock in Skylanders:
Giants; Orkos in God of War: Ascension; Sinestro and Nightwing in Injustice: Gods Among Us;
Loki, Hawkeye, Fandral, Groot, J.A.R.V.I.S., Moon Knight, and Wizard in Lego Marvel Super
Heroes; The Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Assault on Arkham, Simon Blackquill
in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, and Delsin Rowe in Infamous Second Son.
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.
His upcoming roles include Two-Face in Batman: Arkham Knight, Pagan Min in Far Cry 4, Superman
in Infinite Crisis, Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Batman in Lego Batman 3:
Beyond Gotham, and Revolver Ocelot in Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Baker is one of the few actors to have portrayed Batman, The Joker and Superman
Filmography Films
Films Television
Television Video Games
Discography Studio albums
Random Thoughts on a Paper Napkin Sitting in the Fire
Singles "Burning Out"
"My Religion" Awards and nominations
Production Baker had been cast as the English voice of
four characters for voice actor Kosuke Toriumi: Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia
Sigma in Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Eikichi 'Michel' Mishima in Persona 2: Innocent
Sin Kouga Gennosuke in Basilisk
References
External links Troy Baker at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
Troy Baker at the Internet Movie Database