Critical Role is a web series in which a group of professional voice actors broadcast their Dungeons & Dragons game via Twitch and YouTube.
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Ashley Suzanne Johnson is an American actress.
Laura Bailey is an American voice actress. At the age of 18, she made her anime debut as Kid Trunks in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z. Her other anime credits include Emily / Glitter Lucky in Glitter Force, Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the title character in the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan, and Maka Albarn in Soul Eater. She is a cast member of the web series Critical Role, playing Vex'ahlia ("Vex"), Jester Lavorre, and Imogen Temult.
Travis Willingham is an American voice actor. He is a cast member of the web series Critical Role, in which he and other voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. He is also the chief executive officer of Critical Role Productions. His most notable voice portrayals include Roy Mustang in the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise, Portgas D. Ace in One Piece, Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and Thor in several Marvel projects.
Eugene Byrd is an American actor. He graduated from Greene Street Friends School in 1989 and The Crefeld School in 1993. He began acting as a child, appearing as Arthur in the film My Little Girl in 1986. He is known for his portrayal of Dr. Clark Edison on the Fox series Bones.
Liam Christopher O'Brien is an American voice actor, writer, and director. He is a regular cast member of the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series Critical Role, playing Vax'ildan ("Vax"), Caleb Widogast, and Orym. He has been involved in many video games, cartoons, and English-language adaptations of Japanese anime. His major anime roles include Gaara in Naruto, Vincent Law in Ergo Proxy, Captain Jushiro Ukitake in Bleach, Lloyd in Code Geass, Kenzo Tenma in Monster, Akihiko Sanada in Persona 3, and Nephrite in the Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon.
Samuel Brent Oscar Riegel sometimes credited as Jack Lingo, is an American voice actor, director, and writer. He is a regular cast member of the web series Critical Role, in which he and other fellow voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. He is best known for voice roles as Donatello in the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney games. For Nickelodeon, he was the voice director for Fresh Beat Band of Spies and Sanjay and Craig, as well as the voice of Riven in the Nickelodeon revival of Winx Club.
Taliesin Axelrod Armstrong Jaffe 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.
Matthew Christopher Miller, better known as Matthew Mercer, is an American voice actor. He is best known for his work with Studiopolis, Viz Media, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Funimation, and NYAV Post in anime, cartoons, and video games.
Robert Daymond Howard is an American voice actor who is mostly known for his roles in animation, audiobooks and video games.
Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. The show started streaming partway through the cast's first campaign in March 2015. Campaign one ended in October 2017 after 115 episodes, and campaign two started in January 2018 and ended in June 2021 after 141 episodes. A number of one-shots were aired in the hiatus between the two campaigns. After campaign two was completed, the limited series Exandria Unlimited aired from June 2021 to August 2021. The third campaign premiered on October 21, 2021.
Esmé Creed-Miles is an English actress, known for starring as the title character in the Amazon Video series Hanna.
Marisha Ray Huber, better known as Marisha Ray, is an American voice actress, host, producer, and creative director. She is best known for her roles as herself and her characters Keyleth, Beauregard, and Laudna on the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role. In video games, she most notably voiced Margaret in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Persona Q, Laura S. Arseid in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series, and Miranda in Metal Gear: Survive.
Darin De Paul is an American voice actor, known for his video game performances as Reinhardt in Overwatch, Dr. Samuel Hayden / Seraphim in Doom and Doom Eternal, J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man, Revenant in Apex Legends, Emperor Calus in Destiny 2, and Ardyn Izunia in Final Fantasy XV.
Critical Role Productions, LLC is a multimedia production company incorporated in 2015 by the members of the creator-owned streaming show Critical Role. The first two shows from the company, Critical Role and Talks Machina, originally premiered on Geek & Sundry. The company moved to their own studio space in 2018, and began putting out new shows on their own Twitch and YouTube channels. A split from Legendary Digital Networks was completed in early 2019, at which point Critical Role Productions took over production responsibility for the Critical Role and Talks Machina shows.
The first campaign of the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role premiered on March 12, 2015; it consisted of 115 episodes and concluded on October 12, 2017. It followed Vox Machina, a party of seven to eight adventurers, in their travels across the continent of Tal'Dorei. Campaign one broadcast live each Thursday at 19:00 PT on Geek & Sundry's Twitch channel, with the video on demand (VOD) being available to Twitch subscribers immediately after the broadcast. On the Monday following the live stream, the VODs were made available for the public on the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel.
The Legend of Vox Machina is an American adult animated fantasy streaming television series produced by Critical Role Productions, Titmouse, Inc., and Amazon Studios, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video on January 28, 2022. It is based on campaign one of the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role. The series stars Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham reprising their roles from Critical Role's first campaign.
Critical Role, an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons, has spawned many related products, including books, comics and an upcoming animated series, which are produced by Critical Role Productions. Various third-party, licensed works have also been released since Critical Role began in 2015.
The third campaign of the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role premiered on October 21, 2021; it is set after the conclusion of the second campaign and Exandria Unlimited. It follows a party of adventurers in their travels across the continent of Marquet. Campaign three airs each Thursday at 7 p.m. PT on Critical Role Productions' Twitch and YouTube channels except for the last Thursday of each month.
Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith & Kin is a 2021 fantasy novel by Marieke Nijkamp. It is the first prequel novel based on the web series Critical Role; it focuses on the twins Vex'ahlia "Vex" and Vax'ildan "Vax" Vessar, from campaign one, three years before they joined the adventuring party Vox Machina.