Jason Griffith | |
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Born | Jason Adam Griffith |
Other names | J. Griff Adam Caroleson DJ Tanner |
Occupation | Voice actor, actor |
Years active | 1998–present |
Known for | The voice of Sonic (2003–2010) |
Notable work |
Sonic the Hedgehog as Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog, Jet the Hawk One Piece (4kids dub) as Usopp, Yassop Pokémon as Cilan Chaotic as Tom Majors Kurokami: The Animation as Keita Ibuki Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Miyamoto Usagi |
Spouse(s) | Melissa Ryan (m. 2015) |
Jason Adam Griffith is an American voice actor and actor who has worked for 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post and DuArt Film and Video. He is best known as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic X, as well as in Sonic the Hedgehog video games from 2005 to 2010.
Griffith is known for voicing characters including Usopp in the 4Kids dub of One Piece, Cilan, Ash's former traveling companion and first Unova Gym Leader in Pokémon, Keita Ibuki in Kurokami: The Animation,Tom Majors in Chaotic and Miyamoto Usagi in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
He also did the voice of Bongo the Monkey in the Danimals commercials.
Griffith was also a promo announcer for 4Kids TV, The CW4Kids and Toonzai.
Griffith is well known as the former voice of SEGA mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as Shadow the Hedgehog and Jet the Hawk, in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, where he is credited as Jason Griffith and Adam Caroleson, before the role was passed to Roger Craig Smith. His role as Shadow was later passed to Kirk Thornton and his role as Jet the Hawk was passed to Michael Yurchak.