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Roger Craig Smith (born August 11, 1975 in St. Joseph, Michigan) is an American voice actor who's notable for his extremely versatile range. He can go from downright wacky and high-pitched to serious characters, even to Badass Baritone/Evil Sounds Deep territory.
He is currently best known for Ezio Auditore in the Assassin's Creed series while set in Italy, Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins, Captain America in Marvel's animation lineup on Disney XD, Thomas (the college-aged goat intern who turned out to be a Russian spy named Nikolai, not Death's child) in Regular Show, the titular role of Sonic the Hedgehog (playing him from 2010 to 2021), and Chris Redfield of the Resident Evil franchise from 5 onwards.
Has a Twitter,
and seems to be a big fan of space and photography.
Notable roles include:
Anime
- Batman in Batman Ninja
- Biba Amatori in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- Byaku in Kekkaishi
- Captain America in Marvel Future Avengers
- Deidara in Naruto Shippuden
- Gilbert G.P. Guilford in Code Geass
- John Smith in Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045
- Kichi Goto in Patlabor: The Movie and Patlabor 2: The Movie (Bandai Visual dub)
- Martin Reest in Monster
- Shinji Hirako and Noba in Bleach
Live-Action Television
- The Announcer on Say Yes to the Dress
Video Games
- Augustine in Cross Edge
- Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins
- Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, Resident Evil: Revelations, Resident Evil 6, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
- Eddy Gordo in Tekken 6
- Eliot Hooker/Wonder-Blue in The Wonderful 101
- Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and Soulcalibur V
- Kyle Crane in Dying Light
- Mirage in Apex Legends
- Private Harrison Pike in Medal of Honor: Vanguard
- Siegfried Schtauffen in later Soulcalibur games (succeeding Crispin Freeman after III)
- Snorpington "Snorpy" Fizzlebean in Bugsnax
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2010-2021) (replacing Jason Griffith)
- Dave the Intern, Morpho, Retro and additional voices in Sonic Boom
- Unnamed player character ("Captain") in Blazing Angels
- Ted in Valkyria Chronicles
- Zagi in Tales of Vesperia
- Zhang Liao in Dynasty Warriors 6 to Dynasty Warriors 8 and Warriors Orochi 2 (replaced by Joshua Tomar in 8: Xtreme Legends)
- Dr. Nitrus Brio in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Western Animation
- Batman in Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts and its two sequels
- Belson and Percy in Clarence
- Bobby the Elder and Pinkeye in Harvey Street Kids
- Captain America in Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers, Assemble!, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel's Spider-Man, and the Marvel Rising franchise
- Captain Mar-Vell in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
- Diamondhead, Steam Smythe, and incidental characters in Ben 10 (2016)
- Baron Draxum on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (replacing John Cena in season 2)
- Forge, Kamal, and Hellion in Wolverine and the X-Men
- Goose The Clown on The Rocketeer
- Guy Fieri on American Dad!
- Jasper on Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
- Jetstorm, Slipstream, Airazor and Blastwave in Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
- Luciano on Sofia the First
- Mouse and Moose in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Mr. Miracle in Justice League Action
- Prince Orm/Ocean Master in Young Justice
- Party Animal on Bunnicula
- Prince Phillip in Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
- The Pulverizer in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- Richard and Hawkodile in Unikitty!
- Ripslinger in Planes
- Sonic the Hedgehog in Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Taylor in Transformers: Rescue Bots
- Thomas and additional voices in Regular Show
- The Warden on The Owl House
- Molly's father on T.O.T.S.
Tropes:
- Book-Ends: His decade-long tenure as Sonic the Hedgehog began and ended with a Sonic racing game.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: His range is quite wide, varying from the brooding Badass Baritone of Chris Redfield and Batman to the youthful and energetic cadence of Deidara and Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Trolling Creator: On Valentine's Day 2020, the release date of a certain movie starring a character with whom he was closely associated, Roger tweeted a big announcement that he was "in the movie". He then posted a reply, saying he "forgot" to clarify that he was playing Batman in the Animated Original Movies adaptation of Superman: Red Son.
