Yuri Lowenthal (born March 5, 1971; Alliance, Ohio) is a voice actor that has voiced several anime and video game characters. He also voiced Kamal for the alternate reality game I Love Bees.
He is best friends with Doug Erholtz. He is married to fellow voice actress Tara Platt. He graduated from The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Lowenthal co-founded Monkey Kingdom Productions with partner Tara Platt in 2004. Monkey Kingdom Productions is an independent film production company, currently producing Lowenthal's Tumbling After. In 2007 Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt provided their voices for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 and also for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.
In the anime industry, he is most known for his roles as Sasuke Uchiha, in Naruto, Suzaku Kururugi in Code Geass, Simon in Gurren Lagann and Jinnosuke/"Kuma" in Afro Samurai and its sequel.
In the video gaming world, he is well known to be the voice of the Prince of Persia in several of Ubi Soft's games, including The Sands of Time, The Forgotten Sands, and The Two Thrones. Although he does not provide the voice of the Prince in Warrior Within.
He also provides the voice of Cecil Harvey in the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV, and again in Dissidia: Final Fantasy on the PSP. He is also the voice of Ben Tennyson from Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.
Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt also co-authored a new book on voice-over called Voice-Over Voice Actor: What It's Like Behind the Mic. It is available through Bug Bot Press and Emerald Book Company.
He is also a frequent guest at the San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Tara Platt is an American film and television actress and voice actress who is married to fellow voice actor Yuri Lowenthal.
Platt studied at Rutgers University and at the London Academy of Theatre, where she received a BFA in theatre arts. She has performed in a number of shows written and directed by John de Lancie. She played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (with both the Pasadena Civic and the Toyota Youth Shakespeare Series with the Los Angeles Philharmonic); Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew; and appeared in First Nights: Clara and Robert Schumann at the Walt Disney Concert Hall as Clara Schumann, in a role written for her by de Lancie. Platt and Lowenthal founded in 2004, Monkey Kingdom Productions, an independent film production company which has produced two feature films including Lowenthal's Tumbling After, and mockumentary Con Artists, currently in post. The production company is currently working on web-series Shelf Life WebSeries, airing now on YouTube. Platt and Lowenthal do the voices of two characters in the anime Naruto. Platt does the voice of Temari and Lowenthal does the voice of Sasuke Uchiha. In 2007 and 2008, Lowenthal and Platt gave their voices for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3: Lowenthal as the main character, Ryoji and Pharos and Platt as Mitsuru Kirijo and Elizabeth. Platt and Lowenthal also did voices for two characters in theMexican syndicated-cartoon show, El Chavo Animado. Platt does the voice of Patty and Lowenthal does the voice of Nono (Junior in English dub). Platt and Lowenthal also co-authored a book on voice-over called Voice-Over Voice Actor: What It's Like Behind the Mic. It is available through Bug Bot Press and Emerald Book Company. In Spring 2012, they became vegans, as they began following the Esselstyn diet.
Ellie Araiza was born and raised in Mexico doing mostly improvisational theater. She moved to Chicago at age 16 and participated in local theater and T.V. There she began to dabble with the directing side of the camera, making several short films and music videos, some of which were accepted in international film festivals. At age 18 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a working actor, writer, and filmmaker. She worked as a production assistant on indie films while taking several different acting classes and building up her acting resume. She now has an extensive resume including her very own one-woman show Turtle Love which ran for 7 months at the I.O. West Theatre. She has also completed work on several commercials, TNT's Southland, FX's The Bridge, as well as the feature films Shiloh Falls, Death’s Door & Watercolors. She is one of the Artistic Directors for The Nursery, an LA based group that strives to create a supportive artistic community. She is the lead singer and lyricist in the band Pie and she’s always looking for the next great role.
