Joshua Seth


Joshua Seth Freedman is an American voice actor, comedian, motivational speaker, and author.

Biography

Seth was born in Kent, Ohio to Barbara Freedman, a therapist. After graduating from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1987, he went to New York University Tisch School of the Arts and received his BFA in 1991. As a child, Seth attended several experimental programs at Kent State University where he was admitted at the age of eight. Later, he attended Hampshire College and the New York University's film school Tisch School of the Arts where he trained as a performing artist. He has voiced many popular anime characters, including Taichi "Tai" Kamiya in Digimon Adventure series. He was the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block.
He retired from voice acting in 2006 to focus on his other works.
From 2006 to 2020, Seth toured the world as a mentalist and magician. He has won awards from Hollywoodʼs Magic Castle, appeared in five of his own TV specials in Japan and South Korea and performed at over 2,000 events in over 30 countries.
Between 2016 and 2018, he came out of voice acting retirement to star in all of the Digimon Adventure tri. movies, recorded in Hollywood, CA. He then reprised his role in Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna in 2020.
He returned to non-Digimon voice acting in December 2022 with the role of Kaneda in The Prince of Tennis.
Seth is also a motivational speaker and the author of a book on peak performance called Finding Focus in a Changing World.
He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with his two children, Tiger and Nikita.

Filmography

Animated series English dubbing

  • Arc the Lad - Elk
  • The Big O - Cop
  • The Black Angel - Kosugi's Guard
  • Cowboy Bebop - McIntyre
  • Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier - Joe Shimamura/Cyborg 009
  • Daigunder - Ryugu
  • Digimon Adventure - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Motimon, Tentomon, Pabumon, Pumpkinmon
  • Digimon Adventure 02 - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya. Motimon, Tai's son
  • Digimon Tamers - Kumbhiramon
  • Digimon Frontier - Wizardmon, Teppei, Yutaka Himi
  • Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure - Kazuki Yotsuga
  • Duel Masters - Shobu Kirifuda
  • Eagle Riders - Additional Voices
  • éX-Driver - Souichi Sugano
  • Flint the Time Detective - Unita, Additional Voices
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Omba
  • Giant Robo - Daisaku Kusama
  • Honeybee Hutch - Hutch
  • IGPX - Takeshi Noa
  • Last Exile - Dio Eraclea
  • Little Women - Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
  • Macross Plus - Additional Voices
  • Moldiver - Nozomu Ozora
  • Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective - Schoolboy
  • Orguss - Additional Voices
  • Pilot Candidate - Zero Enna
  • Pokémon - Kids WB Announcer
  • The Return of Dogtanian - Philippe
  • Rurouni Kenshin - Eiji Mishima
  • Saint Tail - Asuka Jr.
  • Samurai Girl Real Bout High School - Daisaku Kamiya
  • Simsala Grimm - Doc Croc
  • Speed Racer X - Sparky
  • Tenchi in Tokyo - Additional Voices
  • The Prince of Tennis - Kenada
  • Tokyo Pig - Spencer Weinberg-Takahama
  • Transformers: Robots in Disguise - Carl
  • Trigun - Young Knives
  • The Twelve Kingdoms - Ikuya Asano
  • Urda - Alan
  • Vampire Princess Miyu - Helmsman, Young Maki, Yang
  • Wolf's Rain - Hige
  • X - Additional Voices
  • Yukikaze - Ito
  • Zatch Bell! - Maruss
  • Zenki - Akira, Goki

    Animated films English dubbing

  • DNA Sights 999.9 - Tetsuro Daiba
  • Digimon: The Movie - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
  • Akira - Tetsuo Shima
  • Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card, Leave It to Kero - Takashi Yamazaki
  • Mobile Suit Gundam F91 - Arthur Jung
  • Digimon Adventure tri. - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Motimon
  • Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
  • Digimon Adventure - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
  • Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
  • Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
  • Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya

    Animations

  • All Grown Up! - Yu-Got
  • The Batman - Kids WB Announcer
  • Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol - Additional Voices
  • The Little Polar Bear - Lemming #1
  • Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist - Additional Voices
  • Totally Spies! - Arnold
  • Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! - Additional Voices

    Films

  • 50 First Dates - Painter
  • Gorgeous - Additional Voices
  • Racing Stripes - Additional Voices
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Royal Crown Polisher

    Video games

  • Ape Escape: On the Loose - Jake
  • Digimon Rumble Arena - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
  • JumpStart - Pierre, C.J.
  • JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade - Jimmy Bumples
  • Stonekeep - Grug, Ice Sharga Guard, Tiny Sharga
  • Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose - chaos, Hermann
  • Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - chaos