Best known for being the voice of Balthier and Fenris, Gideon Emery (born 12 September 1972) has provided his "honey-gravel" voice for numerous characters and audiobooks. He's usually cast as a bad guy in his live action roles. Though his natural speaking voice is very distinctive, Emery is extremely talented when it comes to speaking in different accents. Besides acting, he's also a Jazz singer and released his self-produced album called "Standard Ease" in July 2011.
Born in England and raised in South Africa, Gideon Emery moved to Los Angeles in 2003. He attended the London MCM Expo
in October 2011 alongside Dragon Age II co-star Adam Howden, where they made history being the first British guest voice actor panelists at the convention.
Roles:
- Balthier in Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
- Biggs in Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Urianger Augurelt and Nabriales in Final Fantasy XIV pre-Heavensward note
- Sgt. Blackburn in Battlefield 3
- Bruz in Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Fergus Reid in Wolfenstein: The New Order, The Old Blood, and The New Colossus
- Deucalion in Teen Wolf
- Donovan Shepard in Moonlight (2007)
- Anatoly in Daredevil (2015)
- Fenris and Samson in Dragon Age II, returning for the latter role in Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Taliesin in Dragon Age: Origins
- Gaius in Fire Emblem: Awakening
- Cpt. Gideon in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- The Imperial guards and background members of the Thieves Guild in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- The new voice of Jorhan Stahl in Killzone Shadow Fall
- Keaton, Dwyer, and Asugi in Fire Emblem Fates
- The Krampus in Krampus
- Kuroda Kanbei in Samurai Warriors 3
- Laurence Nelson in The Wonderful 101
- Lor'themar Theron and Brother Pike in World of Warcraft
- Male Crusader in Diablo III
- Lott Dod in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Orochi in Warriors Orochi
- Poseidon in God of War III
- Prophet Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom
- Sam Gideon in Vanquish
- Seiya in Aggretsuko
- Sentinel Pilot in Dawn of War 2: Retribution
- Sergei in Takers
- Steve Fox in Tekken 5, 6, Tag Tournament 2, 8, and Street Fighter X Tekken
- Sun Quan in Dynasty Warriors 7 and 8
- President Thomas Eckhart in Fallout 76
- Vlad the Impaler in The Middleman
- Willy in Train
- Governor Sloan in Halo 5: Guardians
- Jerome-092 in Halo Wars's cutscenes
- Captain James Cutter in Halo Wars 2, taking over from Gregg Berger (with the role of Jerome in turn being taken over by Mark Deklin).
- Corrigan Doon, Nazrek The Progenitor, Councilor Vaelen, Clanlord Makaza, Mordechai Redmoon, Draken Male, and Luminai Male in WildStar
- The Seneschal in Dragon's Dogma.
- Orca in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- Devrim Kay VIII in Destiny 2
- Alphred in Hailey's On It!
- Zoo Lou in Skylanders
Tropes:
- Baritone of Strength: His voice is notably deep; as a result, the characters he plays are frequently badasses.
- Chronically Killed Actor: And how!
- The Danza:
- In Vanquish, Emery voices a character named Sam Gideon.
- In Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, he is a mocap and voice actor for Cpt. Gideon.
- Deadpan Snarker: Emphasis on the deadpan.
- Fake American:
- As Sgt. Blackburn in Battlefield 3
- Invoked for Sam Gideon in Vanquish
- Also used an American accent as Gaius in Fire Emblem: Awakening
- And again as Keaton and Asugi in Fire Emblem Fates, the latter being an Expy of Gaius.
- As the violently nationalistic President Thomas Eckhart in Fallout 76.
- Fake Scot: He had to do a Scottish accent for Fergus in Wolfenstein.
- Fake Russian: Played the role of Anatoly Ranskahov in Daredevil.
- Ink-Suit Actor: A lot. Including:
- Emery provided full face scanning and motion capture for Sgt. Blackburn, who he affectionately calls "Digi-Gid".
- He also bears a striking resemblance to Fenris, minus the pointy ears, white hair, and glowing tattoos, of course.
- Cpt. Gideon from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is basically a slightly older Emery.
- Anyone who's seen a picture of Emery can take a guess who James Cutter◊ in Halo Wars 2 is motion captured from.
- Perpetual Frowner: Like Fenris, he's accused of being this a lot. During the panel at the MCM Expo, he made a joke about how people seem to think he's constantly down when he really isn't.
- Playing Against Type: Voicework example. Usually voicing people with a deep voice, his portrayal of Asugi has a very high-pitched, somewhat whiny voice, which stands out even more compared to the character he's an Expy of, as well as Keaton in the same game.
- Separated-at-Birth Casting: Reuben Langdon has been Emery's stunt double on multiple occasions. They look like they could be twins/clones!
- Speaking Simlish: Voiced a sim in The Sims Medieval.
