Michael Tremain Sinterniklaas (born August 13, 1972 in Nice, France) started in ADR as a director/voice actor for many North Carolina-based English dubs for AnimEigo back in The '90s, such as Bubblegum Crisis and Urusei Yatsura. He later moved to New York, and began collaborating with 4Kids Entertainment, but actually, he's one of the more talented actor/directors they had, simply because he managed to land some really good roles elsewhere, including both Nnoitora Jiruga and Luppi from Bleach, and some occasional roles for Funimation. Western cartoon fans know him best as the voice of Dean Venture of The Venture Bros. and Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003). He's got a decent range which allows him to play anything from a teenage boy to a Pokemon. He's not as popular as, say, Dan Green, but then again, it's kinda hard to top that voice. Michael seems to attract a lot of crazy fan girls at conventions and other public events.
Besides voice acting he also founded the recording studio NYAV Post, which bases its model on bi-coastal collaboration- shows he directs tend to feature actors from both sides of the States. Dubs for Media Blasters anime series and some Western Animation like The Venture Bros. and Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot are recorded there, for which he is often the voice director. Kappa Mikey was also recorded there, as well as basically any other of Animation Collective's shows, considering they're just several blocks from each other. He is one of the few voice actors who is quite well-known of a lot of cross region work with a total of three major voice acting locations (the said founded NYAV Post in New York City, Funimation in Dallas, Texas, and many Los Angeles based studios like Studiopolis). Pretty much, the only things missing in the list are Seraphim Digital Studios (Houston, Texas) and The Ocean Group (Vancouver, Canada), but it wouldn't be a surprise if his name started popping up there.note
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Not to be confused with Sinterklaas.
Notable roles by Michael Sinterniklaas:
Anime
- 004 in Cyborg 009 Vs. Devilman
- Age in Patema Invertednote
- Angelo Sauper in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Animus in Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
- Ataru Moroboshi in the two episodes of Urusei Yatsura that were dubbed (not the movies)
- Brad Crawford in Knight Hunters
- Dagger in Black Butlernote
- Dodge in D.Gray-Mannote
- Guy Shishioh in the short-lived GaoGaiGar dub
- Hen Jin in Star Wars: Visions (The Ninth Jedi)
- Ivan Karelin/Origami Cyclone in Tiger & Bunnynote
- Izasa in episode 26 of Mushishi
- Jan Suk in Monster
- Jei in Burst Angel
- Jyushimatsu Matsuno in Osomatsu-san
- Kai in Lu Over the Wall
- Kazuki Shimada in A Silent Voice
- Kenji Koiso in Summer Wars
- Kiyoshi in Welcome to The Space Show
- Kou Uraga and Marco in Lupin III: The Italian Adventure
- Kuniharu Saiki in The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened
- Ky Schweizer in Di Gi Charat Theater - Leave it to Piyoko-pyo! (first Los Angeles role)
- Leo in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
- Mackie Stingray in Bubblegum Crisis (first anime role)
- Masakazu Mazaki in Time of Eve
- Maximus the Mad and Triton in Marvel Future Avengers
- Moritaka Mashiro in Bakuman。
- Mr. 9 in the 4Kids dub of One Piece
- Disco in the Funimation dub.
- Netherlands in Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Nnoitora Jiruga, Menis, and Luppi in Bleach
- Orlen in Dragon Ball Z
- Osugi in Eden of the East
- Mahad/Dark Magician in Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Punipuni in Kurokami: The Animation
- Shin Karino in Kotaro Lives Alone
- Sora and Utakata in Naruto Shippuden
- Takahashi in Piano
- Takeru in Freedom Projectnote
- Taki Tachibana in Your Name and in Weathering With You
- Tsutomu Asai in Sailor Moon S (Ep. 100)
- Usui "Horo Horo" Horokeu in Shaman King
- Vinny in Promare
- Xellos in Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R
- Yuichi Kamichika in Seven of Seven
- Yuki Washimura in B-Daman Crossfire (credited as Martel Fraser Tremain)
Video Games
- Cedric Reise Arnor in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (credited as Quinton McBeard)
- Dale Carter in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
- Jäger in Rainbow Six Siege
- Jackal in Bravely Default and Bravely Second
- Yew Geneolgia in Bravely Secondnote
- Leatherhead and the level announcer in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
- Orphan's final form in Final Fantasy XIII
- Lucius, Takumi, and Niles in Fire Emblem Heroes (Darrining for Roger Rose for the latter two)
- Takumi and Niles in Fire Emblem Warriors
- Aelfric in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Pink Panther, Louie, and Nigel in Pink Panther's Passport to Peril and Hokus Pokus Pink
- One of the customizable voices for the Protagonist in God Eater and God Eater 2.
- Sarutobi Sasuke in Sengoku Basara (the games and the anime)
- A-Tak in Galak-Z: The Dimensional
- Oscar in Tales of Berseria
- Gwin Evans in Xenoblade Chronicles X
- Vishnal in the Switch edition of Rune Factory 4 (replacing Vic Mignogna) note
- The male Time Patroller (voice 12) in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
- Zhou Yu and Gan Ning in Dynasty Warriors 6-8 (uncredited)
- Taigong Wang in Warriors Orochi 2 (uncredited)
Western Animation
- Andrew in LEGO Friends
- Dean Venture in The Venture Bros.
- Funshine Bear, Bedtime Bear, Birthday Bear, and Cozy Heart Penguin in Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot and Care Bears & Cousins
- Hero in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
- Jared and Jesse, and Ronald Multon in Speed Racer: The Next Generation
- Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
- Mikey Simon in Kappa Mikey
- Nathaniel Kurtzberg/Evillustrator in Miraculous Ladybug
- Orange, Purple, Light Blue, Lavender, Pink, and Green Hemka in Hanazuki: Full of Treasures
- Riven in the 4Kids version of Winx Club
- Storybook Bear in We Bare Bears
- Weenus and Megawatt in Robotomy
ADR/Voice Directed:
- 009 Re:Cyborg
- Ah! My Goddess
- A Letter to Momo
- Bakuman。
- Batman Ninja
- A Cat in Paris
- Berserk (1997)
- Fireworks
- FLCL Progressive & Alternative
- Freedom Project
- Hanazuki: Full of Treasures
- Kurokami: The Animation
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
- Napping Princess
- Ninja Nonsense
- Promare
- Robotomy - Blastus
- Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R
- Three Delivery
- Time of Eve
- The Venture Bros.
- Weathering With You
- Your Name
Tropes associated with Michael Sinterniklaas:
- Bilingual Bonus: He was born in France and raised in the UK and Switzerland. This has helped him produce the English dub for French animated movies licensed by Gkids, such as Ernest And Celestine, A Cat in Paris and Mia And Magoo. His last name is the Dutch word for Saint Nicholas, who is Santa Claus in America or Father Christmas if you're from the UK. Also, he knows Japanese and has even formed healthy business relations with Japanese animation studios.
- Chronically Killed Actor: Roughly one third of the characters he voices usually end up dying, especially since he'll often end up playing a minor Red Shirt or Victim of the Week who bites it such as in The Galaxy Railways, Case Closed, Jormungand, and Soulcalibur VI. Even some of his leading characters end up dying, though they don't always necessarily stay dead.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: He's pulled off teen heroes, old men, accented characters such as in Black Butler and Hetalia: Axis Powers and even cute little animals or creatures such as all the Hemkas.
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor: Less so than others, but in all his projects he plays either the straight young, male hero, a charismatic antagonist, or a dorky wimp. His roles are usually on either end of an unrequited crush. And usually the object of said relationship will always be voiced by Stephanie Sheh, who will also be producing alongside him. He also has a habit for playing characters with very short life expectancies.
- Said first and third typecast is reinforced with Ivan Karelin, who is one of the lowest ranking superheroes in the series due to his powers.
- He also has a knack for playing unintelligible Ridiculously Cute Critters, such as Seviper, Punipuni, several Hemkas, Cozy Heart Penguin (who's a female), and now Vinny.
- Playing Against Type: Nnoitora. So much.
- Ditto with Angelo Sauper: a young, Jerkass Anti-Villain with a fierce loyalty and an unrequited crush on his direct superior... And backed with Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Long before that, there was Ichi the Killer in the animated adaptation. Yes that Ichi.
- 004 has him as a more stoic character pulling a much deeper voice than he usually does.
- Gan Ning whose a Hot-Blooded Blood Knight. And from the same type of that, let's not forget that he was the voice actor of the King of Braves, Guy Shishioh, during his short dub run.
- Orphan and Animus. While he has voiced a good amount of villains as noted, rarely do they come in the form of a borderline Eldritch Abomination or a dragon.
- The Other Darrin: If a cast member drops out right before recording a show Sinterniklaas directs, and the character is male, 99% of the time he'll fill in for him.
- Uncredited Role: Many of his earlier roles with Studiopolis from the late 00's and early 10's, such as Bleach, Kekkaishi, and the majority of Tiger & Bunny, see him uncredited in the English credits, likely due to union issues. This has changed since around the early-mid 10's onward, with him listed in later English credits of shows they've dubbed including the end of Tiger & Bunny as well as both its films, Digimon Fusion, and Marvel Future Avengers.
