Taliesin Jaffe (/ˈtælɪsənˈdʒæfi/) is an American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter. He has worked on English-dubbing roles for anime and video games. He is a cast member on Critical Role, a web series in which he plays Dungeons & Dragons with other voice actors. Jaffe has also frequently voiced the Flash in various video games.
After several years, Jaffe did not enjoy being a child actor. After a bad audition, his father told him he could either put in more effort for more roles or quit acting, and Jaffe—having not previously realized that quitting was an option—immediately chose to quit.[5] He returned to a career in entertainment a few years later, being a voice actor for dubbing anime in 2000.[4] Since then, he has taken just two small onscreen roles for House MD and House of Demons.
Critical Role Productions
In the actual play web series Critical Role,[4] he played Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III in Campaign One, Mollymauk Tealeaf, Caduceus Clay and Kingsley Tealeaf in Campaign Two, and Ashton Greymoore in Campaign Three.[6][7]Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019 Webby Awards;[8] the show was also both a Finalist and the Audience Honor Winner in the "Games" category at the 2019 Shorty Awards.[9] The show was originally broadcast on the Geek & Sundry network until early 2019, when the cast and crew left to set up their own production company, Critical Role Productions.[10][11][12][13] Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million.[14][15] In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video acquired the streaming rights to the animated series The Legend of Vox Machina; Jaffe reprised his role as Percy.[16][17]
In May 2023, Darrington Press imprint announced the upcoming Candela Obscura campaign setting co-created by Jaffe and Chris Lockey for the Illuminated Worlds tabletop role-playing game system. The Candela Obscura Quickstart Guide was released on May 25 with the Candela Obscura Core Rulebook scheduled for release later in 2023. The release of the Quickstart Guide corresponds with the release of the new monthly horror–themed actual play web series titled Candela Obscura created by Critical Role Productions; Jaffe serves as the show's Lightkeeper who provides the characters their mission each episode.[18][19][20]
Acting credits
The lists in this section are purposely incomplete and mention only his most notable roles or projects.
^"Love is Love". The Wednesday Club. Season 1. Episode 19. June 28, 2017. 114 minutes in. Geek and Sundry. Archived from the original on April 26, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018.{{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ abcdef"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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^"WATCH: Critical Role Performs a Scene from The Legend of Vox Machina". CBR. 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2021-10-08. The players from the original campaign are all reprising the roles of their RPG characters, and they will also serve as the executive producers for the new animated series.
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