Dave Fennoy is an American voice actor. His video game roles have included Lee Everett in '' The Walking Dead'', Bluebeard in ''

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'', Finch in ''

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'', Gabriel the Warrior in '' Minecraft: Story Mode'', Lucius Fox in '' Batman: Arkham Knight'' and '' Batman: The Telltale Series'' and Rodin in ''

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''. He also voiced "JP Dumund" in the Vendettas mode in '' The Darkness 2'', as well as Satan in '' Afterparty''.

Early life

Fennoy grew up in

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and was a child actor at the

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. 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 began 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...")

Filmography

Animation

Film

Video games

Live-action

References

External links

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Interview with Dave Fennoy
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