Joshua Seth Freedman is an American voice actor, comedian, motivational speaker, and author.
Biography Seth was born in Kent, Ohio to Barbara Freedman (née Zapiler), a therapist. After graduating from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1987, he went to New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received his BFA in 1991. As a child, Seth attended several experimental programs at Kent State University where he was admitted at the age of eight. Later, he attended Hampshire College and the New York University's film school Tisch School of the Arts where he trained as a performing artist. He has voiced many popular anime characters, including Taichi "Tai" Kamiya in Digimon Adventure series. He was the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block.
He retired from voice acting in 2006 to focus on his other works.
From 2006 to 2020, Seth toured the world as a mentalist and magician. He has won awards from Hollywoodʼs Magic Castle, appeared in five of his own TV specials in Japan and South Korea and performed at over 2,000 events in over 30 countries.
Between 2016 and 2018, he came out of voice acting retirement to star in all of the Digimon Adventure tri. movies, recorded in Hollywood, CA. He then reprised his role in Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna in 2020.
He returned to non-Digimon voice acting (having retired from voice acting, with the exception of Digimon) in December 2022 with the role of Kaneda in The Prince of Tennis.[@joshuaseth ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT I’m the English voice of Kaneda in PRINCE OF TENNIS on #Crunchyroll! This show marks my return to voice acting after a very long break, so thanks to @SoundCadence @MikeHaimoto and @itsmorphytime for getting me back in the game ]
Seth is also a motivational speaker and the author of a book on peak performance called Finding Focus in a Changing World.
He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with his two children, Tiger and Nikita.
Filmography Animated series English dubbing Arc the Lad - Elk The Big O - Cop The Black Angel - Kosugi's Guard Cowboy Bebop - McIntyre Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier - Joe Shimamura/Cyborg 009 Daigunder - Ryugu Digimon Adventure - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Motimon, Tentomon (ep.1), Pabumon, Pumpkinmon Digimon Adventure 02 - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya. Motimon, Tai's son Digimon Tamers - Kumbhiramon Digimon Frontier - Wizardmon, Teppei, Yutaka Himi Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure - Kazuki Yotsuga Duel Masters - Shobu Kirifuda (Season One) Eagle Riders - Additional Voices éX-Driver - Souichi Sugano Flint the Time Detective - Unita, Additional Voices Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Omba (Ep. 9 & 11) Giant Robo - Daisaku Kusama Honeybee Hutch - Hutch IGPX - Takeshi Noa (micro-series only) Last Exile - Dio Eraclea Little Women - Theodore "Laurie" Laurence Macross Plus - Additional Voices Moldiver - Nozomu Ozora Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective - Schoolboy Orguss - Additional Voices Pilot Candidate - Zero Enna Pokémon - Kids WB Announcer The Return of Dogtanian - Philippe Rurouni Kenshin - Eiji Mishima Saint Tail - Asuka Jr. Samurai Girl Real Bout High School - Daisaku Kamiya Simsala Grimm - Doc Croc (Saban dub) Speed Racer X - Sparky Tenchi in Tokyo - Additional Voices The Prince of Tennis - Kenada Tokyo Pig - Spencer Weinberg-Takahama Transformers: Robots in Disguise - Carl Trigun - Young Knives The Twelve Kingdoms - Ikuya Asano Urda - Alan Vampire Princess Miyu - Helmsman, Young Maki, Yang Wolf's Rain - Hige X - Additional Voices Yukikaze - Ito Zatch Bell! - Maruss Zenki - Akira, Goki
Animated films English dubbing DNA Sights 999.9 - Tetsuro Daiba Digimon: The Movie - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya Akira - Tetsuo Shima (Pioneer dub) Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card, Leave It to Kero (short) - Takashi Yamazaki Mobile Suit Gundam F91 - Arthur Jung Digimon Adventure tri. - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Motimon Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna - Taichi "Tai" KamiyaAnime News Network: "Celebrating 20th Anniv. of Digimon, Shout! Factory to Release Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna on Blu-ray and DVD July 7, 2020" Digimon Adventure (standalone dub) - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (standalone dub) - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals (standalone dub) - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon (2025 partial redub) - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
Animations All Grown Up! - Yu-Got The Batman - Kids WB Announcer Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol - Additional Voices The Little Polar Bear - Lemming #1 Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist - Additional Voices Totally Spies! - Arnold Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! - Additional Voices
Films 50 First Dates - Painter (uncredited) Gorgeous - Additional Voices Racing Stripes - Additional Voices The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Royal Crown Polisher
Video games Ape Escape: On the Loose - Jake (US English version) Digimon Rumble Arena - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya (English version) JumpStart - Pierre, C.J. JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade - Jimmy Bumples Stonekeep - Grug, Ice Sharga Guard, Tiny Sharga Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose - chaos, Hermann (English version) Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - chaos (English version)
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