Kevin Michael Richardson
Kevin Michael Richardson III ( born October 25, 1964 in Bronx, New York City ) is an American actor and voice actor. A wider audience, he is currently best known as the spokesman for Principal Lewis, a character from the animated series American Dad, which was also visually inspired by him.
Life
For the first time in acting came Kevin Michael Richardson in the early 1980s, when he was selected for the program Arts '82 Foundation National Foundation for the Arts as one of eight participants. As a result, he was allowed to occur not only in a spot produced by PBS by John Houseman, he also received a scholarship to Syracuse University. After he graduated with a BA in theater arts in 1998, Richardson worked for several years in the theater and made some up to eight shows a week before he moved in 1991 to Los Angeles and found that his agency CESD also had a department for the voice acting. He was surprised that you could earn money with the Synchronsprecherei and wanted to work with, so he demanded of his agency that you vermittele him to such auditions. However, despite the concerns of his agents, The illustrative him the difficulties of the former business, Richardson received his first audition equal to his first job.
For the animated series The Batman, he was cast as the first African-American voice actor for the role of the Joker. He took the part of Mark Hamill, who for almost 20 years said this repeatedly before.
Since 2008, Richardson speaks in the animated series The Cleveland Show original the two characters Cleveland Brown Jr. and Lester Krinklesac, and in the second season of the U.S. President Barack Obama. In order to get to the location of high voices Cleveland Brown Jr., Richardson prepares to sing songs such as particularly high Special Lady by The Moments.
Filmography (selection)
Actor
Voice Actors
- 1999: Family Guy
- Since 2005: American Dad
- Since 2008: The Penguins of Madagascar ( The Penguins of Madagascar )
- Since 2008: The Cleveland Show
- Since 2010: Transformers: Prime
- Since 2010: Young Justice
- Since 2011: ThunderCats