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Actor

1967-06-15 · New York City, New York, USA · Male

103 series in the catalog

Fred Tatasciore ( TAT-ə-shor, Italian: [tataʃˈʃoːre]; born June 15, 1967 or 1968) is an American voice actor who has provided voices in animated and live-action films, television shows, and video games. He is known for voicing the Hulk, Volstagg, and Beast in various Marvel media and Solomon Grundy and Bane in various DC media. Other characters he has voiced include Yosemite Sam, Taz, Michigan J. Frog, Soldier: 76, Shao Kahn, Dingodile and Kakuzu. From 2021 to 2024, he starred as the title character in the adult animated series Hit-Monkey.

Life and career

Fred Tatasciore was born to Fred Sr and Marianne Ryan Tatasciore. As a child, Tatasciore would use his father's recorder to record voice impressions from radio and television. He then did stand up comedy as well as improv under The Groundlings. Tatasciore studied theatre arts including Shakespearean drama the University of California, Los Angeles. He also joined several comedy bands. He then became an animator.

Tatasciore is best known for portraying characters with deep and powerful voices, though he expanded his range later on. He has voiced the Hulk in multiple Marvel projects, including Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Avengers Assemble.

Tatasciore's video game roles include Damon Baird in the Gears of War series, Saren Arterius in the Mass Effect series, Zeratul in StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm, Soldier: 76 in Blizzard's first-person shooter Overwatch and Xür in Bungie's first-person shooter Destiny. He also voiced the male Orc race in the 2004 MMORPG Lineage 2 as well as other miscellaneous orc NPCs.

He voiced the character "8" in the Tim Burton-produced film 9. He has also voiced Neftin Prog in Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, Nikolai Belinski in the Call of Duty franchise, Megatron in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, Dark of the Moon, and Rise of the Dark Spark, Tookit in ThunderCats, and the Business Cat in the Cartoon Hangover web series Our New Electrical Morals administered by Frederator Studios.

In the Skylanders franchise, he voices Snap Shot, Slam Bam, Warnado, Strykore, Zook and Cuckoo Clocker.

He voiced the main role of Bajoran tactical officer Shaxs on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

As of March 2, 2017, Tatasciore holds the Guinness World Record for the most voice acting performances in superhero video games, with 53 credits as of that date.

Personal life

Tatasciore is married to production designer Mercedes Younger, whom he met studying at UCLA. They have two children.