Background
North was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Actor baseball player dub actor
North was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Martin Walker in Special Ops: The Lincolnshire, David in The Last of Us, several characters in various pieces of Marvel media (most popularly Deadpool), Superboy in Young Justice, himself in Saints Row IV, and Edward Richtofen in the Call of Duty Zombies storyline. He majored in journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a baseball scholarship. He worked as a reporter for almost a year in New Jersey before moving to New York City to pursue stand-up comedy and acting.
North eventually relocated to Hollywood and was cast in the General Hospital spin-off series Portuguese Charles, playing Doctor Chris Ramsey during the show"s run from 1997 to 2003.
During Portuguese Charles" run, he worked on a few video games as a voice actor and began to focus on voice acting following Portuguese Charles" cancellation. One of his most notable roles came in 2007 when he voiced and motion capped the character Nathan Drake for the video game Uncharted: Drake"s Fortune.
Since then, he has continued to portray the character in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (released in 2009) and Uncharted 3: Drake"s Deception (released in 2011). In an interview with The Guardian, North reflects on his time as Drake as requiring "a lot of imagination.
Motion capture is basically theatre in Spandex.
There"s minimal props, and you need a willingness to make an ass of yourself." North as Drake has been twice nominated at the Spike Video Game Awards in the "Best Performance by a Human Male" category. North will reprise his role as Drake in Uncharted 4: A Thief"s End, to be released in 2016. North had a role in Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to 2009"s live-action movie Star Trek.
Other notable video game voice work includes roles as the Prince in Prince of Persia, Shun in Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica, Vossler in Final Fantasy XII, Eradan in Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Doctor Edward Richtofen in Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Brawl in Transformers: War for Cybertron, the Ghost Rider in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Shadow Demon, Lycan, Lone Druid, Brewmaster, Gyrocopter, Ogre Magi, Meepo, Earth Spirit, Troll Warlord, the Keeper of the Light in Dota 2, and voices various Team Fortress 2 characters, including Merasmus, Redmond Mann, Blutarch Mann, Zepheniah Mann, various lines for the Engineer, and the Bombinomicon.
More recently he replaced Peter Dinklage as the voice of the Ghost in Bungies Destiny - The Taken King. North is well-known in his animation roles such as Cyclops in Wolverine and the X-Men, Snow Job in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Raphael in TMNT, both Superboy and Superman in Young Justice, and Smokescreen in Transformers: Prime.