Scott McNeil | |
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McNeil at the 2009 Fan Expo in Toronto, Canada
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Born |
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
15 September 1962
Residence | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Other names | Scott McNeill |
Occupation | Actor, voice actor |
Years active | 1987–present |
Agent | Lauren Levitt |
Notable credit(s) |
Beast Wars as Rattrap/Dinobot/Silverbolt/Waspinator Fullmetal Alchemist as Hohenheim of Light Gundam Wing as Duo Maxwell InuYasha as Koga Storm Hawks as Stork/Repton |
Scott McNeil (born 15 September 1962) is an Australian-born Canadian actor and voice actor. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has provided voices to many characters in animated shows, most notably ReBoot, Beast Wars: Transformers, Storm Hawks, Dragon Ball Z, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, InuYasha, Ranma ½, Fullmetal Alchemist, X-Men: Evolution, and League of Super Evil. He has done live action work as well.
McNeill was born in Brisbane in Australia, but moved to Vancouver, Canada when he was 4 years old in 1966.
He first appeared on stage at the age of three.
He first learned that people were paid to do different voices after a trip to Disneyland at the age of 12. That is when he learned that Paul Frees, the person who provided the voice that greeted visitors entering the Haunted Mansion, was the same person who provided the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy.
Even though he knew about voice acting, Scott pursued the theater. He studied at Studio 58. After leaving, he tried to find acting jobs and worked as an Elvis impersonator for a short time. It was in the late eighties when he found himself on his way into the world of voice acting. A casting director at the time told Scott that he had wished that he'd met him a week before; he was casting for the G.I. Joe cartoon.