John DiMaggio
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John DiMaggio is an accomplished comedic actor whose television and film credits include voicing the “gambling, beer-guzzling, petty thief/pimp with a heart of Dolomite” Bender the Robot in Matt Groening’s multiple Emmy-award winning “Futurama” (in which he also won and Annie Award himself), Jake the Dog in the Cartoon Network worldwide smash ”Adventure Time with Finn and Jake”, Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. in the Academy-award winning “ZOOTOPIA”, Amazon’s “Comrade Detective”, The Joker in “Batman: Under The Red Hood”, Rico in “The Penguins of Madagascar”, Aquaman and Gorilla Grodd in “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”, Dr. Drakken and Motor Ed in Disney Channel’s “Kim Possible”, Wayne on IFC’s “Out There”, “Wreck-It-Ralph”, “American Dad”, Shnitzel in “Chowder”, Crosshairs in “TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction”, ”Princess Mononoke”, “The Simpsons”, “The Animatrix”, “Teen Titans”, “Pig Goat Banana Cricket”, “Gravity Falls”, and Disney XD’s “Kick Buttowski – Suburban Daredevil”, among many others. He is currently working on Matt Groening’s new Netflix series “DISENCHANTMENT”, which will debut sometime in 2018.
DiMaggio has also appeared on “Modern Family”, “The Newsroom”, “Chicago Hope”, “ER”, “Law & Order”, “NYPD Blue”, “Without a Trace”, “CSI: NY” and “My Name is Earl”.
DiMaggio has also voiced many video games including Marcus Fenix in the “Gears of War” franchise, for which he won Best Male Voice Over in a Video Game in 2006, “Destiny 2”, “Halo Wars 2”, ”The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction”, “X-Men Legends”, “Final Fantasy 10-12”, and many, many more.
In 2012, John executive produced the documentary film I KNOW THAT VOICE. The doc is a VIP backstage pass into the often overlooked world of voice-over actors. It was the recipient of The Certificate of Merit Annie Award from ASIFA-Hollywood in 2014.
He additionally has extensive stage credits in international theater and stand-up comedy.