Josh Keaton

Early life

Keaton was born outside of Los Angeles in Hacienda Heights, California, on February 8, 1979, to a father from New York City, and a mother from Lima, Peru. He has three sisters: Danielle, Alitzah "Ali", and Sabrina. He is fluent in Spanish which he learned first as a child, and later English. As a child, he learned to speak some Quechua from his maternal grandparents. His father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic. Through his sister Ali, he is the brother-in-law of former Youngstown singer James Lee Dallas.

Career

His career has included television, video game and film work, with a mixture of live acting and voice work for animations. As an infant, he appeared in an OshKosh B'gosh commercial. Then in 1990, he would appear in Kidsongs: A Day at Camp and his final Kidsongs appearance, Kidsongs: Ride The Roller Coaster. He was in the 1990s boy band No Authority and was signed to MJJ Music and later RCA Records as a solo artist.

Keaton voiced Jules Brown in Back to the Future: The Animated Series during 1991–1992 and Major Ocelot during Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.

From 2008 to 2009, he voiced Peter Parker / Spider-Man in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series on The CW. He was originally supposed to voice the character in the 2002 Spider-Man video game but his voice work was scrapped and reworked as Harry Osborn / Green Goblin when Tobey Maguire came on to voice the character. He also reprised the role of New Goblin in the 2007 video game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, and Spider-Man again in several video games (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Spider-Man: Edge of Time). From 2017 to 2020, Keaton provided the voice of several recurring characters in Marvel's Spider-Man on Disney XD. He would also portray the villain Max Dillon / Electro in the 2018 Spider-Man video game developed by Insomniac Games, providing both the physical motion capture and voice for the character.

In 2011, Keaton was the voice for Spyro the Dragon in the Skylanders reboot of the franchise, Jack Darby and Tailgate on Transformers: Prime, and Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

Since 2012, he is the voice for Anduin Wrynn in the video games World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm.

At Wondercon 2016, it was announced that Keaton would play Shiro, one of the main characters of the Voltron animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender that premiered on June 10, exclusively on Netflix.

Filmography

Voice acting

Films

Animation

Video games

Audio books

Live-action

Films

Television

References

References

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3. "It totally bugs me when my brother Josh Keaton takes over my Snapchat account !".
4. Keaton, Josh. (November 28, 2017). "My mom is Catholic and my dad is Jewish, so I'm Jew-ish. https://t.co/uWCjlLtz5k".
5. "26 yrs down, 19 yrs married yesterday .. WOW! She must be CRAZY! Orrr…. I’ve died and gone to heaven 🤔.. hmmm #soulmate #myboss".
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11. Keaton, Josh. (February 23, 2010). "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths comes out tomorrow! I'm the Flash and have a cameo as Aquaman. That's right, freaking AQUAMAN.".
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17. Keaton, Josh. (February 19, 2021). "Hey look! It's me! Sweet, beautiful Bram. So excited for all of you to see him in the upcoming #DOTA series coming to @netflix in March! https://t.co/psLOG5XAQI".
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46. Keaton, Josh. (May 10, 2023). "Carter Diaz is voiced by Josh Keaton! Our other player character - Petty Officer Diaz - enlisted in Starfleet to get out and see the stars. Engineering is his specialty but ALL his skills will be tested on this adventure. Follow Josh at @joshkeaton".
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