Brian Donovan (actor)

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OccupationVoice actor
Years active1991–present

Brian Donovan is an American voice actor. Donovan is best known for his role of Rock Lee from the critically acclaimed Naruto series. [1] He has reprised his role of Rock Lee in Naruto: Shippuden [2] and in 2010, he was cast as the voice of Salty in Alpha and Omega and its sequel. [3] Donovan is also known as the lead role of Davis Motomiya from Digimon Adventure 02 . [4] [5]

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Biography

Donovan was set to reprise his role as Davis Motomiya in Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna . Due to the events of the COVID-19 pandemic and a fault in his home studio, however, the role was instead recast to Griffin Burns. [6]

Filmography

Animation/anime roles

Movie roles

Other roles

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  6. Anime Chronicles, Interview With Brian Donovan (Digimon Davis/Naruto Rock Lee Voice Actor): Brian Donovan: "Originally I was supposed to, in fact I was supposed to speak at the premiere - the Japanese version - right before the pandemic hit, and so that got cancelled. And then I had a really hard time with the studio, and my home studio faltered, and because they were under such a gun to record, someone else did it." Youtube, 24 May 2020.
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