JB Blanc - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet JB Blanc

★ Acting🎥 26 films📺 71 TV shows📅 1998–2025🔥 1

Also known as: J.B. Blanc, Jean-Benoit Blanc, John White, Jean Benoit Blanc...

Born in Paris, France

1969-02-13 (age 57)

Jean-Benoît "JB" Blanc was born in Paris, France to an English mother and a French father. He moved with his mother to Yorkshire, England at the age of four, where he was raised and attended school, eventually graduating from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1990.

He worked extensively in theater in Britain for over 15 years, including a three-year stint at London's Royal National Theater. His theater work encompassed everything from avant-garde physical theater companies to world tours of Shakespeare plays and classical Greek theater.

His film career was essentially launched by his highly acclaimed role as Luigi Vampa in 2002's The Count of Monte Cristo, and following that success, he moved to Los Angeles where he now lives. Film and TV roles soon followed and he has worked on well over 30 TV shows in the US, including Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Barry, Shameless, NCIS: LA, Burn Notice, The Unit, Prison Break, CSI: NY, Nikita, NYPD Blue and others, and many films, including his recent role as Bashkim in 2017's War Dogs.

JB is also a highly accomplished voice actor and director with projects in film, animation, video games, anime, and commercials. His animation work includes All Hail King Julien, Dragons: Race To The Edge, Scooby Doo, Trip Tank, Turbo Fast, Pickle and Peanut, Regular Show, Penn Zero, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Avengers Assemble. He has over 170 video game credits, totaling over 400 characters, including Rost in Horizon Zero Dawn, The Admin in Minecraft Story Mode, Bane in Telltale Batman, Arkham Origins and others, many projects for Blizzard Entertainment and the Uncharted franchise. He has been the voice director on various video games: Fortnite, Middle earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, Lego Batman 3, Lego Dimensions, XCOM 2, Mafia III, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Legion, Hearthstone, Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm.From Wikipedia
Jean-Benoît "JB" Blanc is a French actor who has worked on animations and video games in Los Angeles, coming from a drama education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and with an extensive background in British theatre. He is most recognised for his recurring role on Breaking Bad and its spinoff, Better Call Saul as Gus Fring's Mexican cartel doctor, nicknamed unofficially "Dr. Barry Goodman", as well as for lending his voice to Caustic in the long-running video game franchise, Apex Legends and Vander/Warwick in the highly-acclaimed Netflix animated series, Arcane where both the production team and cast have garnered positive attention.
He made his voice directing debut on the English dub for L/R: Licensed by Royalty as well as provided the voice of Rowe Rickenbacker where he won a Performance of the Year Award by the Anime Dub Recognition Awards in 2004. The same year, he took over the role of Joe Carpenter from Crispin Freeman in the television series sequel to the OVA, R.O.D the TV, for which he was awarded a second Anime Dub Recognition Award (in this case, for Actor of the Month). He has interpreted the character of Enrico Maxwell in both Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate, and has received recognition for his incarnation of Rubeus Hagrid in numerous Harry Potter video game adaptations. In 2023, he was awarded a Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Video Game Character by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences for his work in Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. Blanc is also a voice director in video games and directs both live action performance capture and voiceover.

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