Taliesin Jaffe

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Taliesin Jaffe
Taliesin Jaffe by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Jaffe in April 2017
Born (1977-01-19) January 19, 1977 (age 44)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Other names
  • Talis Axelrod
  • T. Axelrod
  • Taliesin Axelrod
  • Cthulhu
Occupation
  • Actor
  • director
  • screenwriter
Years active1983–present
Relatives
Websitetaliesinjaffe.com

Taliesin Axelrod Armstrong Jaffe[1] (/ˈtælɪsən ˈdʒæfi/; born January 19, 1977) is an American actor, director and screenwriter.[2] He stars in the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role.[3]

Biography[]

Jaffe is the son of Nina Axelrod and Robert Jaffe, and the grandson of screenwriter George Axelrod. He has two brothers and a sister.[4] He spent his career as a child actor for five years and spent a ten year hiatus from acting. He became a dubbing voice actor for anime.[5] He came out as bisexual in 2017.[6] In Critical Role, he played Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III in Campaign One, and Mollymauk Tealeaf and Caduceus Clay in Campaign Two.[7][8] The cast members left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2019 and set up their own production company, Critical Role Productions.[9][10][11][12] They aimed to raise $750,000 on Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million.[13][14] In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video acquired the streaming rights to the animated series The Legend of Vox Machina.[15][16]

Filmography[]

Anime[]

List of voice performances in anime
Year Title Role Notes Source
1991 3x3 Eyes Fei-Oh / Frog Demon [17]
1996 The Vision of Escaflowne Gaou Fanel
1997 Burn-Up Excess Tabuchi / Car Salesman / Lead Robber
1999 Di Gi Charat Takeshi
2000 NieA_7 Wakaba the Cat / Man Eating Flower / Supermarket Clerk / Records Worker
2001 Hellsing Hellsing Member / Assistant / Leif / Jack
2002 I's Jun Koshinae
I My Me! Strawberry Eggs Koji Mori
2003 Ikki Tousen Kannei Kouha / Shizen Ousou
R.O.D the TV Ryuji Kitayama
Rumic Theater Takanezawa
Texhnolyze Inui
2004 DearS Takeya Ikuhara
Melody of Oblivion Kuron / Young Tsunagi / Wakadan / True-False Parrot
Monster Adolf Junkers
Paranoia Agent Shinsuke Hatomura
2004–05 Beck Keith / Steve
2005 Girls Bravo Fake Poyon
Gun Sword Wild Bunch D / Buchi
Speed Grapher Jouji 'Joe' Kitazawa
2005–06 Black Cat Preta Ghoul [18]
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Shougo Asagi
2006 Kamichu! Kenkichi Hitotsubashi / Akikan Korogashi
2006–09 Hellsing Ultimate Wild Geese [19]
2009 Kurokami Yakumo
One Piece Basil Hawkins
2011–14 Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Aaron Terzieff
2012 Aquarion EVOL Kagura
Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess Dyst
2014 Black Butler: Book of Murder Arthur
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Sushi Chef
Space Dandy Prosecutor
2014–2015 Garo: The Animation Michael
2015 Fairy Tail Skiadrum
2015–16 Garo: Crimson Moon Ashiya Douman
Hetalia: The World Twinkle Britain
2017–18 Garo: Vanishing Line Sword
2019 One Piece: Stampede Basil Hawkins [20]

Live-action[]

List of performances in live-action roles
Year Title Role Notes Source
1983 Mr. Mom Kenny Butler
1984 2010 Christopher Floyd
St. Elsewhere Jimmy Hassett Episode: "Fade to White"
The Facts of Life Danny Slater Episode "Next Door"
1985 Hail to the Chief Willy Mansfield
Explorers Ludwig Müller
1986 Amazing Stories Mark / Scott
Child's Cry Eric Townsend Television film
1987 Convicted: A Mother's Story Grant
1987–1989 She's the Sheriff Kenny Granger 45 episodes
2010 House Renaissance Faire Actor Episode: "Knight Fall"
2015–present Critical Role
  • Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III (campaign 1),
  • Mollymauk Tealeaf/Kingsley Tealeaf, Caduceus Clay (campaign 2)
 Cast member [21][8]
2018 House of Demons Dave

Video games[]

List of voice performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source
2004 World of Warcraft Highlord Darion Mograine
2006 Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria Rufus / Gyne Uncredited
2007 Final Fantasy IV Edge Uncredited [18]
2008 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Flash
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Highlord Darion Mograine / Devourer of Souls
Street Fighter IV and related updates Blanka / Adon
2010 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes Additional voices [22]
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Admiral Ripsnarl
2012 Street Fighter X Tekken Blanka
2013 Final Fantasy XIV Thancred
2014 Smite Slaughterhouse Chaac
2015 Pillars of Eternity Uldric
2016 Fallout 4: Automatron Male Robot Voice / Jackson / Jagger / Thomas Harkin Tweet[23]
Street Fighter V Blanka
World of Warcraft: Legion Highlord Darion Mograine
2017 Fire Emblem Heroes Bruno / Navarre / Cain [18]
Fire Emblem Warriors Navarre
Hearthstone Highlord Darion Mograine
Injustice 2 Flash Tweet[24]
2018 Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido Masa Credited as T. Axelrod [18]
Lego DC Super-Villains Simon Baz
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Eothas / Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III
2020 World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Highlord Darion Mograine
Fallout 76: Steel Dawn Dagger's Lieutenant

Staff credits[]

Voice director[]

Anime[]

List of credit as voice director
Year Title Notes Source
1992 Spirit of Wonder
1998 Nazca
1999 Amazing Nurse Nanako
2000 NieA_7
2001 Hellsing
2003 R.O.D the TV
2004–05 Beck Co-directed with Christopher Bevins
2006 Origin: Spirits of the Past
Speed Grapher
2006–09 Hellsing Ultimate
2008–09 Skip Beat!
2009 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings

Video games[]

List of credit as voice director in video games
Year Title
2008 Street Fighter IV
2010 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes
2011 Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
2012 Street Fighter X Tekken
2014 Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed
2015 Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven
2016 Street Fighter V

Script writer[]

List of credits as script writer
Year Title
1991 3x3 Eyes
1992 Spirit of Wonder
1996 Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko
1998 Nazca
1999 Amazing Nurse Nanako
2000 NieA_7
2001 Hellsing
2002 Haibane Renmei
2003 R.O.D. the TV
2004 Monster
2005 Hell Girl
2006 Ergo Proxy
2007 Romeo × Juliet

References[]

  1. ^ Taliesin Jaffe, during Critical Role program Narrative Telephone Round 2, Ep.6, time stamp 27:28
  2. ^ "Taliesin Jaffe". IMDb. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  3. ^ Critical Role. "Between The Sheets: Taliesin Jaffe". YouTube. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
  4. ^ "Rotary helps kick off vaccine fund-raiser". Tulare Advance-Register. April 8, 1988. p. 10.
  5. ^ Between the Sheets: Taliesin Jaffe, retrieved 2021-06-05
  6. ^ "Love is Love". The Wednesday Club. Season 1. Episode 19. June 28, 2017. 114 minutes in. Geek and Sundry. Archived from the original on June 28, 2017.
  7. ^ "Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe: Where You've Heard Him Before | Geek and Sundry". Geek and Sundry. March 2, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Duncan, Emily A. (2021-03-09). "An Introduction to Critical Role: Prepare Your Emotions". Tor.com. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  9. ^ "Why Critical Role's D&D Streams Are So Popular". ScreenRant. 2020-09-12. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  10. ^ Hoffer, Christian (June 18, 2018). "Critical Role Teases New Content With Opening of New Studio, Twitch and Youtube Channel". Comicbook.com. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
  11. ^ Phillips, Jevon (2019-11-06). "They started out playing Dungeons & Dragons. Now they're coming to Amazon Prime". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  12. ^ Whitten, Sarah (2020-03-14). "How Critical Role helped spark a Dungeons & Dragons renaissance". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  13. ^ Whitten, Sarah (2019-04-19). "'Dungeons and Dragons' Kickstarter breaks record with $11.3 million campaign". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  14. ^ Spangler, Todd (March 8, 2019). "Critical Role Team, After Record-Breaking Fan Crowdfunding Response, Vows to Make 'The Best Goddamn Cartoon Anyone Has Ever Seen'". Variety. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  15. ^ Spangler, Todd (November 5, 2019). "Amazon Orders Two Seasons of Critical Role's Animated D&D Series". Variety. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  16. ^ Burton, Bonnie (March 7, 2019). "New Dungeons & Dragons animated series breaks Kickstarter record". CNET. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  17. ^ "Taliesin Jaffe | CrystalAcids.com". www.crystalacids.com. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
  18. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Taliesin Jaffe (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 13, 2019. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  19. ^ "Hellsing Ultimate III". Hellsing Ultimate. Episode 3. October 4, 2014. Adult Swim.
  20. ^ https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/09/26/one-piece-stampede-english-dub-cast/
  21. ^ Knox, Kelly (January 16, 2018). "Your First Look at the Official Art for the Second Critical Role Campaign". Geek & Sundry. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  22. ^ Capcom. Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes. Capcom. Scene: Ending credits, 0:47 in, CAST.
  23. ^ Jaffe, Taliesin (March 25, 2016). "Yes! I'm available as a voice option for your robot buddy! #Fallout4 #Automatron". @executivegoth. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  24. ^ @executivegoth (May 17, 2017). "I just realized: "Holy shit I'm Barry Allen this is better than Christmas and almost as good as Halloween holy shit!!!" #injustice2" (Tweet). Retrieved May 18, 2017 – via Twitter.

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