Loren Lester

Loren Lester is an American actor working in screen, stage, and voice performance who was raised in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of the Occidental College theatre department, Lester made his Broadway debut in the 2024 revival of Cabaret. He has since relocated to New York.

Lester began his career at a young age, taking on an early recurring role as Roy in The Facts of Life and appearing as hall monitor Fritz Hansel in Rock 'n' Roll High School. His television work has accumulated more than 200 episode appearances across series including Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Orville, Scorpion, I'm Dying Up Here, Parenthood, Bones, NCIS, Ringer, Good Luck Charlie, Awake, The Closer, Desperate Housewives, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Castle, and Two and a Half Men, among many others. He recurred across all three seasons of the HBO comedy series Hung and held recurring roles on Victorious, Gilmore Girls, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, and The Young and the Restless. His episodic credits also include Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the episode "The Quickening," and Heroes, in the 2008 episode "The Second Coming," in which he played an emergency room doctor. On film, Lester appeared as the irate passenger in Wes Craven's Red Eye alongside Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy, and had roles in the comedies The Sweetest Thing and American Wedding. He has additionally appeared in more than 100 radio and television commercials.

In animation, Lester is best known for voicing Dick Grayson — Robin and later Nightwing — throughout the DC Animated Universe, a role he reprised in the 2017 direct-to-video film Batman and Harley Quinn. He also voiced Barbeque in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and Iron Fist in both Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. In the video game Batman: Arkham Knight, he provided the voice of Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat, and his voice work in games extends to Halo 4 as well. Earlier animation credits include Rick Gordon in the 1986 series Defenders of the Earth, Jordan Knight in the 1990 New Kids on the Block animated series, and Gringo in Don Bluth's 1994 film Thumbelina. Lester has also lent his voice to numerous audio books.

Prior to his Broadway debut, Lester was a frequent presence in the Los Angeles theatre community, appearing at venues including the Pasadena Playhouse in Noël Coward's Fallen Angels, among dozens of other plays and musicals. Lester is married to Kelly, an actress and the daughter of actor Peter Mark Richman. The couple have three daughters: Jenny, Lily, and Julia.