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Stephen Russell is an American theatre, television and film actor and writer from Massachusetts. However, to many, he is best known for his prolific voice acting career, which he started in TheNineties. He mostly voice acts in various video games. He is best known for voicing Garrett in ''Videogame/{{Thief}}'', and voicing Mr. Handys in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''.

A member of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (WHAT) since 1987, Russell has been a mainstay on the stage for over 20 years and has also acted with the Huntington Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, Stoneham Theatre and the Lyric Theatre. He lives and works in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and is a member of Creator/ActorsEquity and the Screen Actors Guild.
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!!Tropes concerning this voice actor:
* BreakoutCharacter: Garrett the master thief from ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' was what brought him more deeply into voice acting for games, particularly long-term collaboration with Creator/LookingGlassStudios and one of their successors, Creator/IrrationalGames. Garrett also remains Russell's most popular and fondly remembered voice acting credit to date.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: So much so, that you probably wouldn't even recognise that he often voices wildly different characters.

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!!Voice acting roles:
* ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject'' - Gave a highly iconic voice to the protagonist [[PhantomThief Garrett]]. Besides that, he also voiced various guards (particularly the "Dumb Guard" persona) and some of the [=NPCs=] of older Hammerites.
* ''[[UpdatedRerelease Thief Gold]]'' (1999) - The same characters as in the previous game, with the addition of a few new side characters, particularly Raoul.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' (1999) - Voices captain William Bedford Diego, the ''UNN Rickenbacker'''s on-board [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] XERXES, the ship's announcer and even some of the voices used for The Many.
* ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'' (2000) - Returns as the voice of Garrett and of [[ActingForTwo several established and new]] {{Bit Character}}s, as well as certain enemy types. But, to the surprise of many, he also voiced the game's ''main villain'' (with a notably different voice that most people didn't recognize before seeing the credits).
* ''VideoGame/ArxFatalis'' (2002) - Voices Fallan Orbiplanax, goblins, undead creatures, and so on. (In a bit of an interesting connection, this RPG was the debut game of Creator/ArkaneStudios, which has some developers who originally worked for Looking Glass Studios too. ''Arx Fatalis'' is reminescent of LGS's own ''Ultima Underworld'' games, and Arkane also eventually developed their own ''Thief''-like stealth game (''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'') during the 2010s.
* ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' (2002) - Voices Man O' War, Iron Ox, Pan, Pinstripe, Timemaster, Judge and various male civilians.
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' (2002) - Voice acted for the expansion pack ''Shadows of Undrentide''.
* ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' (2004) - Returns one last time to voice master thief Garrett, and also various guards, older Hammerites and some of the townspeople.
* ''[[VideoGame/FreedomForce Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich]]'' (2005) - In this ''Freedom Force'' sequel, he voices a surprising number of characters in the game, including Iron Ox, Man 'O' War, Blitzkrieg, Charles Wilson, Pan, Pinstripe, Time Master, Pierre. Probably his biggest voice acting credit for Creator/IrrationalGames to date.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' (2008) - Lends his voice to the characters of Andy, Mister Buckingham, The Great One (Harold), Wadsworth, Sergeant RL-3, Cerberus, various Enclave scientists and all Mr. Handy and Mr. Gutsy robots.
* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6_PSJJFqmk gameplay preview]] (2010) - Prior to Creator/TroyBaker being cast for the final version of the game, Russell voiced Booker [=DeWitt=] in the ten minute preview video.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' (2011) - Voices a range of characters, including Barbas the talking dog, the male Dark Brotherhood Initiate, Mallus Maccius, Belethor, Madanach, the Daedric Prince Clavicus Vile, the leader of the Thieves Guild Mercer Frey, and his associate Cynric Endell. The latter two characters are a ShoutOut to Russell's previous role as Garrett (to the point that it gets slyly lampshaded).
* ''VideoGame/TheMagicCircle'' (2015) - Voices The Old Pro, a mysterious entity who is trapped in the titular game, and actively encourages you to break the game as much as possible.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' (2015) - Voices two of the companions, Codsworth (which is ''yet another'' Mister Handy) and Nick Valentine.
* ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' (2016) - He voices Corvo Attano, the HeroicMime of the first game who has become SuddenlyVoiced. Fitting since the game is a SpiritualSuccessor of the original Thief game.
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