Joshua Seth Freedman is an American voice actor, comedian, motivational speaker, and author.
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Biography
Seth was born in Kent, Ohio to Barbara Freedman (née Zapiler), 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 (having retired from voice acting, with the exception of Digimon) 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 (ep.1), 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 (Season One)
Eagle Riders - Additional Voices
éX-Driver - Souichi Sugano
Flint the Time Detective - Unita, Additional Voices
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Omba (Ep. 9 & 11)
Giant Robo - Daisaku Kusama
Honeybee Hutch - Hutch
IGPX - Takeshi Noa (micro-series only)
Last Exile - Dio Eraclea
Animated films English dubbing
DNA Sights 999.9 - Tetsuro Daiba
Digimon: The Movie - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
Akira - Tetsuo Shima (Pioneer dub)
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card, Leave It to Kero (short) - 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 (standalone dub) - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (standalone dub) - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals (standalone dub) - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya
Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon (2025 partial redub) - 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 (uncredited)
Gorgeous - Additional Voices
Racing Stripes - Additional Voices
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Royal Crown Polisher
Video games
Ape Escape: On the Loose - Jake (US English version)
Digimon Rumble Arena - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya (English version)
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 (English version)
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - chaos (English version)
