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Bauza at the 2014 Annie Awards
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Born |
Eric Adrian Bauza December 7, 1979 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Voice actor, animation artist, comedian |
Years active | 2000–present |
Spouse(s) | Jessica Borutski (m. 2016) |
Children | 1 |
Eric Adrian Bauza (born December 7, 1979) is a Canadian voice actor, animation artist, and comedian.
His notable roles include Stimpy of Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon and Slip & Slide D'Peel of Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island. He also voices Rodolfo/White Pantera for El Tigre on Nickelodeon, Storm Shadow, Destro and Tunnel Rat on G.I. Joe: Resolute, Razoff from Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, and The Professor and Pipo Monkeys in Ape Escape. He also voiced Lord Takagami from Dick Figures: The Movie.
Bauza had attended Blessed Cardinal Newman Catholic High School in Scarborough, Ontario, from 1994 to 1997. Even then, he was a comedic character who was very much involved with the creative arts in school.
Bauza started his career in animation as a character designer, working with a few production studios in Hollywood. It was this introduction to the animation world that eventually led him to a successful career in voiceovers.
In just a few years, Bauza has starred in such shows as Nickelodeon's El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, The Fairly OddParents, Spike TV's Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, Warner Bros. Animation's Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, Hasbro's G.I. Joe: Resolute, and Hero: 108 as Red-Faced Kawn and Camel King. Aside from his television credits, Bauza has played multiple roles on "The King and Us", a web-series sponsored by Burger King, and was seen on the NFL on Fox TV pre-game show. Bauza had a cameo role as "Digger the NASCAR Gopher" in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.