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Nolan North

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<div dir="auto">Nolan North is an American actor and voice actor born in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been described as "the nearest thing the games industry has to a bona fide leading man." He is most well known for his voice work as Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed video game series, and Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series.</div>
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<div dir="auto">North majored in journalism at the University of North Carolina with a baseball scholarship. He worked as a reporter for almost a year in New Jersey before moving to New York City to pursue stand-up comedy and acting. North eventually relocated to Hollywood and was cast in the General Hospital spin-off series, Port Charles, playing Dr. Chris Ramsey during the show's run from 1997 to 2003. He married fellow Port Charles actress Jill Murray in 1999 and has two children. During Port Charles' run, he worked on a few video games as a voice actor and began to focus on voice acting following Port Charles' cancelation.</div>
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<div dir="auto">One of his most notable roles came in 2007 when he voiced and motion capped the character Nathan Drake for the video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Since then, he has continued to portray the character Drake in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (released in 2009), Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (released in 2011) and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (released in 2016). In an interview with The Guardian, North reflects on his time as Drake as requiring "a lot of imagination. Motion capture is basically theatre in Spandex; there's minimal props, and you need a willingness to make an ass of yourself." North as Drake has been twice nominated at the Spike Video Game Awards in the "Best Performance by a Human Male" category.</div>
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<div dir="auto">In May 2012 it was revealed that North would have a limited role in Star Trek into Darkness, sequel to 2009's acclaimed live-action movie Star Trek. Director J.J. Abrams cited North's performance as Drake for the casting, he and his son being fans of the Uncharted series. Other notable video game voice work includes roles as the Prince in Prince of Persia, The Penguin in Batman: Arkham City, Shun in Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica, Vossler in Final Fantasy XII, Desmond Miles in the Assassin's Creed series, Eradan in Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Doctor Edward Richtofen in Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops, Brawl in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Ghost Rider in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Shadow Demon, Lycanthrope, Lone Druid, Brewmaster, Gyrocopter, Ogre Magi , Meepo and the Keeper of the Light in Dota 2, and Deadpool in Hulk Vs. and Marvel vs Capcom 3, as Captain Martin Walker in Spec Ops: The Line, Modi from God of War (2018), The Ghost in Destiny 1 &amp; 2, and others. He also voiced the personality spheres and defective turrets in Portal 2 and voiced Merasmus and the Bombinomicon in Team Fortress 2.</div>
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<div dir="auto">North is well known in his animation roles such as Cyclops in Wolverine and the X-Men, Snow Job in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and both Superman and Superboy in Young Justice.</div>
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Steve Blum

<p>With literally hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Veteran Voice Monkey Steve Blum is best known as the voice of "Spike Spiegel" from Cowboy Bebop, &ldquo;Wolverine&rdquo; from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, X-Men Anime and more), &ldquo;Orochimaru,&rdquo; &ldquo;Zabuza,&rdquo; and others from Naruto, &ldquo;Green Goblin&rdquo; from the Spectacular Spiderman series, &ldquo;Heatblast,&rdquo; &ldquo;Vilgax&rdquo; and &ldquo;Ghostfreak&rdquo; from Ben 10, &ldquo;Grayson Hunt&rdquo; (Bulletstorm) &ldquo;Grunt&rdquo; (Mass Effect 2 and 3), "Zoltan Kulle" from Diablo 3, "Abathur" from Starcraft 2:Heart of the Swarm, &ldquo;Tank Dempsey&rdquo; (Call of Duty), &ldquo;Killer Croc&rdquo; from Arkham Asylum, &ldquo;Oghren&rdquo; (DragonAge),&ldquo;Vincent Valentine&rdquo; (Final Fantasy VII), &ldquo;Leeron&rdquo; (Guren Lagann), &ldquo;Jamie&rdquo; from Megas XLR, &ldquo;Storm Troopers&rdquo; and many others in most of the Star Wars games, The voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film. In 2012, Steve was inducted into the Guinness Book of World records as Most Prolific Voice Actor in Video Games - appearing in almost 300 games (now approaching 400!)</p>
<p>You can also find him as &ldquo;Zeb Orrelios&rdquo; and other characters in the incredible series Star Wars: Rebels on Disney XD, as &ldquo;Shoe&rdquo; and &ldquo;Sparky&rdquo; in Laika&rsquo;s The Boxtrolls, and as astronaut Quentin Thomas on Hip Hop superstar LOGIC&rsquo;s amazing album &ldquo;The Incredible True Story&rdquo;.</p>
<p>He&rsquo;s also appeared on the Emmy award-winning Transformers: Prime, playing "Starscream", &ldquo;Sub-Zero,&rdquo; &ldquo;Reptile and &ldquo;Bo&rsquo;Rai Cho&rdquo; in Mortal Combat X, Severalcharacters on Wabbit, Ultimate Spider Man, Ben 10: Omniverse, The Regular Show, Doc McStuffins, Uncle Grandpa, Wander over Yonder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and as the terrifying anti-bender "Amon" on the hit series Avatar: The Legend of Korra! And every Saturday night, Steve takes the helm as "TOM" the robotic host of Cartoon Network's Toonami on Adult Swim.</p>

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Daisuke Tsuji

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<div dir="auto">Daisuke (pronounced Dice-Kay) is a Series Regular on Apple TV&rsquo;s new thriller INVASION, from creators Simon Kinberg and David Weil, inspired by HG Wells&rsquo; WAR OF THE WORLDS. He recurred on IFC&rsquo;s comedy BROCKMIRE, Amazon&rsquo;s period drama THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, and he voices a character in Netflix&rsquo;s animated series LOVE, DEATH &amp; ROBOTS. In the world of Video Games, he is the lead character of the hit game GHOST OF TSUSHIMA from Sucker Punch Productions. He most recently was the voice of Hiro 'Oni' Watanabe in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II released last year.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Daisuke comes from the world of theatre. He was a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 6 seasons, has performed in theatres around the country, and also trained and performed with Cirque du Soleil.</div>
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Guests

Nolan North

Voice of Nathan Drake & more.

Steve Blum

Voice of Spike Spiegel & more.

Daisuke Tsuji

Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima

Day	Opening	End of Programming	End of Exhibitor Hall
Friday, August 11th	1:00pm	10:00pm	9:00pm
Saturday, August 12th	10:00am	10:00pm	7:00pm
Sunday, August 13th	10:00am	5:00pm	5:00pm