Introduction
Roger Craig Smith (born August 11, 1975) is an American voice actor and former stand-up comedian. He is generally known as the current voice behind Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series, as Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin's Creed games, as Deidara in the anime Naruto: Shippuden, Zhang Liao in the 6th, 7th, and 8th installments of Dynasty Warriors, the current voice of Steve Rogers/Captain America in Ultimate Spider-Man, the series Avengers Assemble, and Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United, Thomas in Regular Show, Shinji Hirako from Bleach, Martin Reest from Monster, Percy and Belson in Clarence, Batman in the video games Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Kyle Crane in Dying Light, and the current voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise since 2010.
Early life
Born in St. Joseph, Michigan, Smith graduated from Chapman University's Dodge College of film and media arts in 2003 also with a degree in screenwriting. In 2004, his screenplay "Modesto Rules" was a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Out of a record-setting 6,073 screenplays submitted, Smith's was one of only 132 to make it to the semi-finals. Since then, Smith has worked on projects for both the small and big screens.
Career
Smith's voice work has been called upon by companies including Disney and Disney Television Animation, Cartoon Network, Microsoft Game Studios, Sony, Wal-Mart, Baskin-Robbins, E!, TLC.. He has been cast as the lead voice actor in a number of video games, including in the roles of Sonic the Hedgehog from 2010 onwards, Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series from Resident Evil 5 onwards, and Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin's Creed series.
Filmography
Animation
- Avengers Assemble – Steve Rogers/Captain America, Torgo, Great Gambonnos, Grim Reaper, Radioactive Man, Nightmare Winter Soldier, Additional voices
- Batman Unlimited – Batman
- Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! – Gus, Jasper, Announcer (Ep. "Screama Donna")
- Ben 10 (2016 TV series) – Diamondhead, Additional Voices
- Breadwinners – Kenneth/Buhduece's Booty, Muscle Bread
- Celebrity Deathmatch – Tobey Maguire
- Clarence – Belson Noles, Percy, Additional voices
- Codename: Kids Next Door – Groom (Episode: "Operation: G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D.")
- Fish Hooks – Pass
- Future-Worm! – Sauce Starbolt
- Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. – Captain America
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled – Steve Rogers/Captain America
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload – Steve Rogers/Captain America
- Manly – Skinny-Ripped, Eyes-No-Eyes, Zealots
- Out There – Additional voices
- Pickle and Peanut – PAL-SCAN, MC, Klaus, Additional voices
- Regular Show – Thomas/Nikolai, Night Owl, Low-Five Ghost, Various/Additional voices
- Robotomy – Tacklebot
- Sofia the First – Luciano
- Sonic Boom – Sonic the Hedgehog, Dave the Intern, UT, Various voices
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Pulverizer/Mutagen Man/Timothy
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes – Captain Marvel, Additional voices
- The Powerpuff Girls – Dax, Malty Brown, Additional voices
- Transformers: Rescue Bots – Taylor (Ep. "Road Trip")
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise – Jetstorm, Slipstream, Airazor
- Ultimate Spider-Man – Steve Rogers/Captain America, Ghost Spider
- Wolverine and the X-Men – Forge, Hellion, Kamal
- Young Justice – Ocean Master, L-5, Additional voices
Anime
- Bleach – Ryusei Kenzaki / Kenryu, Shinji Hirako, Additional voices
- Code Geass – Gilbert G.P. Guilford; Otaku (ep 18)
- Duel Masters – Prince Maurice the Merciless
- Eyeshield 21 – Additional voices
- Kekkaishi – Byaku
- Kurokami: The Animation – Seiji
- Marvel Anime: Iron Man – Professor Satoshi Yamaguchi (ep. 3), Kawashima (ep. 4), Additional voices
- Marvel Anime: Wolverine – Agent Machida
- Monster - Martin Reest
- Naruto – Idate Morino, Inabi Uchiha, Kota, Raiga Kurosuki, Shura
- Naruto Shippūden – Deidara, Bisuke, Hayama Shirakumo (ep 190)
- Zegapain – Kyo Sogoru, Abyss (credited as Bill Lemas)
Films
- Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts – Batman/Bruce Wayne
- Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants – Batman/Bruce Wayne
- Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem – Batman/Bruce Wayne
- Delhi Safari – Monkey #1, Monkey #2
- Dino Time – Additional voices
- Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams – Prince Phillip
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence – Sect. 9 Briefing Voice, Yamadori Transport Pilot (Animaze Dub)
- Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United – Steve Rogers/Captain America
- Jennifer's Body – Radio DJ, ADR voices
- Monkey King: Hero is Back – Pig
- Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom – Additional voices
- Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel – Temujin
- Patlabor: The Movie – Kiichi Goto (Bandai Visual Dub)
- Patlabor 2: The Movie – Kiichi Goto (Bandai Visual Dub)
- Planes – Ripslinger
- Regular Show: The Movie – Jablonski, Frank Smith, Fast Food Guy
- Resident Evil: Degeneration – Curtis Miller
- Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie – Deidara
- The Laws of the Universe Part 0 – Eisuke
- The Ringmaster - Mime
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure – Bolt, Stone
- Wreck-It Ralph – Sonic the Hedgehog
Video games
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon – Sensor Operator
- Alice in Wonderland – Tweedledee, Tweedledum
- Assassin's Creed II/Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood/Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Ezio Auditore da Firenze
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Ruggiero Ferraro, Abstergo market analyst
- Batman: Arkham Origins/Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate – Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII – Unnamed main character
- Castle Shikigami 2 – Kim De John
- Chicken Little: Ace in Action – Runt
- Disney Infinity – Additional voices
- Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes – Steve Rogers/Captain America
- Disney Infinity 3.0 – Captain America
- Dying Light – Kyle Crane
- Dynasty Warriors series – Zhang Liao
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Epic Mickey – Additional voices
- Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two – Additional voices
- Final Fantasy XIII – Cocoon Inhabitants
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 – Additional voices
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – Duke, Lift-Ticket
- Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham – Bat-Mite, Riddler, Skeets
- Lego Dimensions – Riddler, Sonic the Hedgehog/Super Sonic
- Lego Jurassic World – Additional voices
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes – Captain America, Human Torch
- Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth – Captain America, Venom, Human Torch
- Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars – Sakkra Advisor
- Medal of Honor: Vanguard – PFC 1st Class Harrison Pike
- Metal Gear series
- Online – Soldiers
- Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots – Enemy Soldiers
- Solid: Peace Walker – Soldiers
- Solid: Portable Ops – Soviet Soldiers, Intercom
- Naruto series – Deidara, Bando, Towa, Doshin
- PlayStation Move Heroes – Gleeber
- Resident Evil series – Chris Redfield (2009–present)
- Red Dead Redemption – The Local Population
- Samurai Warriors 3 – Keiji Maeda
- Skylanders – Boom Jet
- SuperChargers – Bushwhack
- Swap Force
- Trap Team
- Sonic the Hedgehog series – Sonic the Hedgehog/Super Sonic (2010–present), Wisp Announcer (2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016)
- Soulcalibur series – Siegfried Schtauffen (uncredited)
- IV
- V – Ezio Auditore da Firenze
- Broken Destiny
- Legends
- Star Wars: The Old Republic – Grik Sonosan, Heerimus, Nam-aK, additional voices
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U – Sonic the Hedgehog/Super Sonic
- Tekken 6 – Eddy Gordo (uncredited)
- The Wonderful 101 – Wonder Blue
- Warriors Orochi – Keiji Maeda