Casey Mongillo (born October 22) is an American

voice actor Voice acting is the art of Acting, performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice. Performers are often called voice actors/actresses in addition to other names. Examples of voice work include animation, animated, ...

, who has played roles in

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and

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. Mongillo is best known for portraying lead character

Shinji Ikari is a fictional character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise), Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise created by Gainax. He is the franchise's poster boy and protagonist. In the Neon Genesis Evangelion, anime series of the same name, Sh ...

in the

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English dub of ''

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'' in 2019, and has also played Emporio Alniño in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean'', Shou Suzuki in ''

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'', and Raichu, Scorbunny, Raboot, Cinderace, Chrysa, and Allister in the ''Pokémon'' anime.

Career

In 2019, Mongillo voiced the main character

in the

dub of the

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series ''

'', replacing

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, who played the part in the original

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dub. Mongillo tweeted that playing Shinji was "one of the greatest honors of my life". Noel Kirkpatrick of ''

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'' praised Mongillo's portrayal of Shinji, saying they excelled at switching "between sarcasm and sadness, delight and detachment", and that they did "a better job of capturing Shinji's pre-teen voice" than Spencer. Aja Romano of '' Vox'' wrote that it was laudable that Netflix cast a non-binary actor to play Shinji. Carol Grant, in an opinion piece for ''

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'', wrote that Shinji being played by a

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actor made the series feel more

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, saying that "Mongillo's delivery captures the delicate interplay between the masculine and feminine aspects of Shinji's voice and personality, bringing his bodily and gendered anxieties to life". Mongillo was nominated for Best Performance by a Voice Actor (English) in the

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for their performance as Shinji. Mongillo released a single, "Everything Is Alright", on the iTunes Store on April 3, 2012.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Video games

Other dubbing

Discography

*"Everything Is Alright" (2012 single)

References

External links

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Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mongillo, Casey Actors from Hartford, Connecticut American voice actors American video game actors Living people LGBTQ people from Connecticut American non-binary actors LGBTQ people from California Non-binary voice actors Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American LGBTQ people Rockstar Games