Music īefore pursuing acting, Baker was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Tripp Fontaine, which released the radio single "Burning Out" from their debut album Random Thoughts on a Paper Napkin in 2004. But in April 2020, due to an apparent disagreement on the future direction of the show, Baker left to start his own series.
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In May 2018, Baker and Nolan North began hosting the weekly YouTube series Retro Replay. He is one of the few actors to have portrayed Batman ( Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Lego Dimensions, Batman: The Telltale Series and Batman: The Enemy Within), the Joker ( Batman: Arkham Origins), and the three major iterations of Robin ( Tim Drake in Batman: Arkham City, Dick Grayson (as Nightwing) in Injustice: Gods Among Us and Jason Todd (as Red Hood and the main antagonist) in Batman: Arkham Knight).
He also voiced Ace (Experiment 262) in the English dub of the anime Stitch! He was listed on Entertainment Weekly 's in their best of 2013 issue for best breakout actor in the video game industry for his performances in The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, and as the Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins. In 2011, Baker became the voice of Siris, the hero of Chair Entertainment's blockbuster mobile game series Infinity Blade, and in 2014 he was the voice of Talion, the protagonist of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which earned a rating of 9.3 on IGN. He reprised the role in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. He then worked on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, playing Nathan Drake's older brother Sam. He was nominated for both of these roles at VGX 2013, winning for The Last of Us. Both games earned critical acclaim, gaining scores over 90% on GameRankings and Metacritic, and widespread commercial success. That was kind of my first snowball effect." His most notable roles came in 2013, when he provided the voice of Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite and the voice and motion capture of Joel in The Last of Us. In an interview with The Griff, he said, "It was starting to become necessary for actors to become involved, so I got into that and it was literally stumbling from one job into the next. īaker's career in the video game industry began when he voiced Matt Baker in the tactical shooter series Brothers in Arms. He then moved to Los Angeles and began working on Marvel-based animated series, providing the voice of various characters in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, as well as Hawkeye and Loki in Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble. He went on to work in dubbing anime such as Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden, and the Funimation dub of One Piece. He was recruited by Christopher Sabat to do voice-over work at Funimation for the English adaptation of the anime Case Closed. He then released the solo album Sitting in the Fire (2014) before he and his backing band changed their name to Window to the Abbey and released the album Moving Around Bias (2017).īaker began his voice acting career doing radio commercials in Dallas.
He was previously the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Tripp Fontaine, with whom he released an album titled Random Thoughts on a Paper Napkin (2004). Baker currently holds the record for the most acting nominations at the BAFTA Games Awards, with five between 20.īaker also voices Batman, Hawkeye, and Loki in various media, and has provided voices for a number of English dubs of anime, including Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto: Shippuden, One Piece, and Soul Eater.
He is known for his video game roles as Joel Miller in The Last of Us (2013) and its sequel (2020), Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014) and Middle-earth: Shadow of War (2018), Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia, Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite (2013), Jake Muller in Resident Evil 6 (2012), the Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins (2013), the Arkham Knight in Batman: Arkham Knight (2015), Samuel "Sam" Drake in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016) and The Lost Legacy (2017), Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4, Vincent Brooks in Catherine (2011), Delsin Rowe in Infamous Second Son (2014), Pagan Min in Far Cry 4 (2014), Rhys in Tales from the Borderlands (2014), Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015), Higgs Monaghan in Death Stranding (2019), Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman: The Telltale Series (2016) and Batman: The Enemy Within (2017). Troy Edward Baker (born April 1, 1976) is an American voice actor and musician.