Brian Beacock

Brian Keith Beacock, born March 29, 1966, is an American actor whose work spans Broadway, film, television, and voice performance in English-dubbed anime and video games.

Beacock made his Broadway appearance in 1988 in Les Misérables. His stage career preceded a long and varied career in screen and voice work that would come to define much of his professional output.

In voice acting, Beacock is most closely associated with several prominent anime roles. He voiced Takato Matsuki, the lead character in Digimon Tamers, reprising the role in the theatrical films Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers and Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon. He also voiced Byonko in Zatch Bell, Yumichika Ayasegawa in both Bleach and its sequel series Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, and Yamato Delgado in Battle B-Daman. Additional anime credits include Rivalz Cardemonde in Code Geass, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa in Bungo Stray Dogs, Walker Yumasaki in Durarara!!, Renzo Shima in Blue Exorcist and Blue Exorcist: The Movie, Krillin in the Bang Zoom! dub of Dragon Ball Super, Seijuuro Ginga in the Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon R, and Helios in Sailor Moon Eternal. He served as narrator and voiced Bokomon in episodes 43 through 50 of Digimon Frontier, replacing the original narrator Melissa Fahn, and voiced Bokomon again in the film Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon. In Digimon Data Squad, he voiced Agumon and its evolution forms GeoGreymon, RizeGreymon, and ShineGreymon. He also voiced Sneech in Doraemon and Chojuro in both Naruto: Shippuden and Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. Several of his anime credits were recorded under the pseudonym Donn A. Nordean, including roles in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Mix Master: Final Force, and Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan.

In video games, Beacock is best known for voicing Monokuma, the secondary antagonist of the Danganronpa franchise, across five titles: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Danganronpa 2×2, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, in which he also voiced Monosuke. He received a nomination at the 2014 National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers awards for Performance in a Comedy, Supporting, for his work on Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Additional game credits include Yumichika Ayasegawa in Bleach: Shattered Blade and Bleach: The 3rd Phantom, Sakon and Ukon in Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 and Naruto: Ninja Council 3, Luthier in Fire Emblem Heroes, and Siero in Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven.

Beacock's television work includes appearances in the 1993 television movie Based on an Untrue Story, six episodes of The Rerun Show in 2002, six episodes of Playing It Straight in 2004, and a 2004 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2000 and in two episodes of the soap opera Passions in 2005. He shared the 2005 RTS Television Award for Best Music – Original Title Music with Jamie Forsyth for Playing It Straight. His film appearances include a role as a studio singer in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive in 2001, a voice role as Trevor in Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure in 2000, Kei Himuro and Kuga in the 2006 animated film Paprika, and a voice role as Navid in Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild in 2021.