Vincent Ropion (born January 16, 1962) is a French actor and voice actor.
Ropion made his voice acting debut in 1976; some of his earlier roles in the field included Tarzan's son Boy, Anthony Brown in Candy♡Candy, Haruo Shusho ("Salta") in UFO Robo Grendizer and Flip Phillips in Happy Days.
French folks who grew up in the latter part of The '80s and in The '90s know him best as the voice of Ryo Saeba ("Nicky Larson" in French note ) in City Hunter, Tatewaki Kuno ("Julian Storm") in Ranma ½, Roberto Hongo in Captain Tsubasa, Rei in High School! Kimengumi, Pierrot in Il Était Une Fois..., Raphael in the first two seasons of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, and Spirou in the 1992 series. More recently, he has voiced Jaskier/Dandelion in the Witcher games starting with The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, François in Titeuf, and Gyro Gearloose in the new DuckTales.
He regularly dubs Dominic Monaghan (most famously Merry Brandybuck in The Lord of the Rings), Garret Dillahunt, Roger Bart and Neil Patrick Harris.
He was married to voice actress Catherine Privat, with whom he had two daughters, Joséphine and Ophélie. He has since remarried to voice actress Delphine Braillon, with whom he had another daughter, Lana.
Tropes:
- Remake Cameo: He has a cameo in City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume, in homage to his work on the French dub of the anime among the many homages to the Club Dorothée era, as a TV journalist named Jean-Michel Lavoix ("the voice").
- Role Reprise: Of all the French voice cast members of City Hunter, he's the only one to have consistently voiced Ryo in every piece of animated City Hunter media (Shinjuku Private Eyes included).
