Dave Fennoy is an American voice actor. His video game roles have included

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in '' The Walking Dead'', Bluebeard in '' The Wolf Among Us'', Finch in '' Tales from the Borderlands'', Gabriel the Warrior in '' Minecraft: Story Mode'', and Lucius Fox in '' Batman: Arkham Knight'' and '' Batman: The Telltale Series''. He also voiced "JP Dumund" in the Vendettas mode in '' The Darkness 2'', as well as Satan in '' Afterparty''.

Early life

Fennoy was born in

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and then moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He was a child actor at the

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in Cleveland. In his senior year of high school, he was president of the theater club and directed as well as performed in several plays, before attending Macalester College in St Paul Minnesota as a theater major. Fennoy left college when he began touring as a professional musician. He later returned and graduated from

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with a degree in jazz studies and a guitar minor.

Career

Fennoy started as a DJ in the

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when he first became interested in voiceover work. He created a demo tape, which was seen by Joan Spangler, a talent agent in

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, who signed him. He booked his first audition, a spot for the

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; however, after quick success, things slowed down to a near halt. He began taking voiceover classes to remedy the situation. In 1989, an agent by the name of Leigh Gilbert invited Fennoy to sign with her agency in

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. He turned the offer down, as he was the morning DJ at local radio station

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at the time. In February 1990, the radio station fired Fennoy, so he contacted Gilbert and moved to Los Angeles. Once there, he quickly found himself voicing commercials, television promos and cartoons. One of his first jobs was as the voice of

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in a telephonic RoboCop game. In 1990, he voiced his first character in an animated series, Dick Scott in ''

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''. The following year, he voiced

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in '' ProStars''. In 2008, Fennoy began doing the five second voice-overs in the beginning of

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video clips. ("The following program is brought to you with limited commercial interruption by...") One of his most notable roles, if not the most notable, has been that of

in '' The Walking Dead'' by

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Personal life

Fennoy lives with his wife, Monique. He used to lend his voice to radio until it was suggested to him by a colleague that he should attempt to pursue work as a voice actor. He has since made a homemade voice acting studio in the basement of his house.

Filmography

Animation

Film

Video games

Live-action

References

External links

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Interview with Dave Fennoy
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