Bernard Gabay-Brieux (born May 18, 1963 in Paris) is a French actor and voice actor of Spanish descent.
Working primarily on stage and in the dubbing industry, he is the regular French voice of Robert Downey Jr. (since 1987, but most famously as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008 and Sherlock Holmes since 2009), Viggo Mortensen (including Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings), Andy García (including Terry Benedict in the Ocean's Eleven series), Antonio Banderas and Ralph Fiennes (such as Gareth Mallory/M in the James Bond films of Daniel Craig). He has also dubbed Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray Liotta, John Leguizamo, John Cusack, Sebastian Koch and Benicio del Toro on occasion.
On television, he's best known for voicing Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) in CSI: NY, Carlos Solis (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) in Desperate Housewives and Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Netflix's Daredevil and The Defenders.
He's also been the narrator of countless nature documentaries.
Tropes & Trivia about his works:
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's dubbed quite a few very capable leaders such as Detective Mac Taylor in CSI: NY, Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings (especially in The Return of the King), Duke Orlando of Oxford in The King's Man and M (Gareth Mallory) in Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die.
- You Sound Familiar:
- He's voiced both Tony Stark/Iron Man and Daredevil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Netflix series for the latter). Sylvain Agaësse has since replaced him as Daredevil in Marvel Studios-made films and series starting with Spider-Man: No Way Home, presumably to avoid confusion since the Disney+ series are way more strongly branded as being part of the MCU.
- He also voiced Galgo in The Expendables 3 and Marsh in The Expendables 4, being the main voice actor of both Antonio Banderas and Andy García.
