Robert Daymond Howard (

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Niles; born March 11, 1982) is an American voice actor who is mostly known for his roles in audiobooks, video games, and animation, best known for voicing Jesse Cosay in the second season of ''

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'', and the Eighth Brother in the ''

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Biography

Robert Daymond Howard was born Robert Daymond Niles in

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on March 11, 1982, the son of Laura Marks and Robert Niles. His mother is of German descent, while his father has Native American ( Apache) ancestry. His father left the family when Daymond was an infant, leaving his mother to raise him with the help of her parents in

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. He took an interest in acting and in 1992, participated in the play '' On Golden Pond''. After Daymond's mother remarried, he changed his last name to Howard, his stepfather's surname, and his family moved to St. Charles, Missouri. In 2000, he attended

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, but later transferred to the

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, where he graduated with a BFA in Theatre Performance in 2004. He taught and performed at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre, which was related to UNLV, and received his MFA at UNLV in 2007.

Career

In 2007, Daymond moved to

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, where he worked with the New York Film Company and Quixote Films. He also founded a voice-over company called Shock & Awesome Audio. In 2010, he started doing more voice-over work; by 2011, he was working full-time in voice acting for cartoons, anime, and video games. Daymond voiced the lead character in various cartoons: SwaySway in the

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program '' Breadwinners'', Blake Myers in the Nick cartoon ''

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'', and the

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in '' Marvel’s Spider-Man'' which first aired on

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in 2017. In anime and video games, Daymond's roles have included:

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'', Hubert von Vestra in '' Fire Emblem: Three Houses'', Sorey in '' Tales of Zestiria'',

in ''

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'', Smokey Brown in ''

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of the web series ''

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''. He played Dorian Storm, an air genasi bard. He continued to play Dorian for several episodes of ''Critical Role'''s third campaign for the first fourteen episodes. In March 2022, he reprised the role in the two part special ''Exandria Unlimited: Kymal''. Daymond is also one of the narrators for the

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edition of the novel '' Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith & Kin'' (2021).

Personal life

Daymond met Megan Lynn Strand in 2004 while they were studying at the

. They reside in

, where they spent eight years in an

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before becoming engaged in 2017. They were married on April 7, 2019. Their first child, a daughter named Lynnyx Lola Ann Howard, was born on June 7, 2018. Their second child, a son named Rohan Eldon Howard, was born on January 9, 2021.

Filmography

Anime

Television

Films

Video games

Web

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Daymond, Robbie 1982 births Living people American male video game actors American male voice actors American people of Apache descent American voice directors Audiobook narrators Male actors from Missouri People from Warrenton, Missouri Television producers from Missouri University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumni 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors