35 Facts About Yuri Lowenthal

Yuri Lowenthal was born on March 5,1971 and is an American voice actor known for his work in cartoons, anime, and video games.

Yuri Lowenthal has a production company, Monkey Kingdom Productions, with his wife, Tara Platt, where they have produced several feature films and a live-action web series called Shelf Life.

Yuri Lowenthal was born in Alliance, Ohio on March 5,1971 but raised in Nashville, Tennessee, later moving to Northern Virginia.

Yuri Lowenthal's father worked for the United States Agency for International Development and he spent two years in Niger in Africa.

Yuri Lowenthal did not do much acting until the end of high school when he tried out for drama class in his senior year, but it was enough to get him interested in acting.

Yuri Lowenthal participated in the school's gymnastics program and ROTC.

Yuri Lowenthal spent six years in New York doing theatre and indie films.

Yuri Lowenthal moved to Los Angeles and worked in live-action and theatre roles.

Yuri Lowenthal did not return to voice the Prince in Warrior Within, being replaced by Robin Atkin Downes.

Yuri Lowenthal felt that this was a conscious decision by Ubisoft to fit in with the game's overall tonal shift and thought it was the right decision.

Yuri Lowenthal continued voicing in other anime shows, including the lead character Haru Glory in Rave Master, which had a run on Cartoon Network's Toonami line up.

In 2007, Lowenthal was cast as Jinnosuke, aka "Kuma", a teddy-bear-headed warrior, in the anime feature Afro Samurai which starred Samuel L Jackson as the title character.

Luke Carroll of Anime News Network described Yuri Lowenthal's voicing as a "good performance" but "not enough to make it more than an average dub at best".

In 2006, Yuri Lowenthal landed the role of Superman in the animated series Legion of Super Heroes.

Yuri Lowenthal was later informed that he got the main role, and they did not need to hear more of him on other parts.

In 2008, Yuri Lowenthal provided the voice of 15-year-old Ben Tennyson in Ben 10: Alien Force.

In portraying Ben, Yuri Lowenthal was given guidance by series director Glen Murakami, whom he had worked with on Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.

Early on in the show, Murakami told Yuri Lowenthal to portray Ben as less of a wisecrack than his 10-year-old persona, and did not want Ben to "veer into the whining, Luke Skywalker".

Yuri Lowenthal said that he did not realize how popular the show was outside North America until he went to Australia, England and Ireland, and saw kids wearing Ben 10 merchandise.

Yuri Lowenthal said that at comic conventions, he was able to walk the halls unbothered until the Ben 10 panel, after which he was "outed".

Yuri Lowenthal has been involved in The Swan Princess direct-to-video series starting in 2012 with The Swan Princess Christmas where he was the voice of Prince Derek, and then in 2014 with The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale and in 2016 for The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today where he reprised the main role.

Yuri Lowenthal provided the voice for the protagonist in Persona 3 and Yosuke Hanamura for Persona 4.

Yuri Lowenthal provides the voice of Cecil Harvey in the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV, and again in Dissidia: Final Fantasy on the PSP.

Yuri Lowenthal voiced Lorath Nahr in Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo III, and while fans presumed he would reprise his voice acting for the upcoming Diablo IV, actor Ralph Ineson replaced Yuri Lowenthal as the voice.

In February 2023, Yuri Lowenthal guest voiced Benni Baro, a teenage scavenger and ipsium miner, in Star Wars: The Bad Batch.

Yuri Lowenthal has been involved in several live-action projects with his company Monkey Kingdom Productions with wife Tara Platt.

Yuri Lowenthal plays a key role in the horror podcast Old Gods of Appalachia as the voice of The Railroad Man.

In 2010, Yuri Lowenthal starred as the title character in Van Von Hunter, a live-action mockumentary co-directed by Tokyopop founder Stuart Levy, based on the comics of the same name.

Yuri Lowenthal won an award for best character at MockFest as well.

Yuri Lowenthal co-wrote the screenplay for The Arcadian, a film by Dekker Dreyer that was inspired by underground science fiction comics of the 1970s and 1980s.

Yuri Lowenthal is slated to participate in an independent film called Any Bullet Will Do which stars Mark Ryan and was filmed in Montana.

Yuri Lowenthal co-authored the comedy-noir novella Tough City with Keith Ikeda-Barry as part of a 72-hour novel writing contest.

Yuri Lowenthal met actress Tara Platt on an NYU grad film where they played opposite each other in a romantic comedy film called Model Chaser.

Six months into their relationship, Yuri Lowenthal helped Platt do a cross-country move to Los Angeles so that Platt could participate in auditions there for new TV shows.

Yuri Lowenthal had originally planned to fly back after the move, but midway through the trip he proposed to her in Bowling Green, Ohio, and they married in Las Vegas in 2001.