Unsho Ishizuka was a Japanese actor whose resonant, gravelly voice made him a go-to choice for older, hardened male characters, including Jet Black, the world-weary bounty hunter of Cowboy Bebop.
Aoi Tada is a Japanese former voice actress and singer who is part of the Cowboy Bebop cast as Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, the hacker character in the Sunrise series.
Koichi Yamadera is a prolific Japanese voice actor, narrator and singer whose most famous anime role is Spike Spiegel, the lead of Cowboy Bebop, a series animated at Sunrise.
Steve Blum, born Steven Blum, is an American voice actor best known for voicing Spike Spiegel in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, a role that helped define his prolific career across anime and animation.
Megumi Hayashibara, a prominent Japanese voice actress known also for singing and radio work, voiced Faye Valentine, one of Cowboy Bebop's four main leads, in the original Japanese-language version of the Sunrise anime.
Wendee Lee is a veteran American voice actress and ADR director best known in anime circles as the English voice of Faye Valentine, one of the four bounty hunters aboard the Bebop.
Beau Billingslea is an American actor whose best-known anime credit is Jet Black, the gruff former ISSP officer he voices in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop.
Melissa Fahn is an American actress who voiced Radical Edward in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime, and has built a wide-ranging voice career spanning animation, anime and video games alongside stage work.
Norio Wakamoto is a Japanese voice actor represented by Sigma Seven who voiced Vicious, the central antagonist of Cowboy Bebop, in the original Japanese version of the series.
Skip Stellrecht is an American voice actor who played Vicious, the chief antagonist of Cowboy Bebop, in the English-language dub of the series.
Gara Takashima is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Aoni Production who voiced Julia, Spike Spiegel's love interest, in the original Japanese version of Cowboy Bebop.
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is an American voice actress, singer and dubbing director who gave voice to Julia in the English adaptation of Cowboy Bebop from Sunrise, and is widely recognized for playing Motoko Kusanagi throughout the Ghost in the Shell franchise.
Hikaru Midorikawa is a Japanese voice actor represented by Aoni Production who voiced Lin in the original Japanese version of Cowboy Bebop, alongside an extensive career playing anime and video game leads.
Derek Stephen Prince, credited in recent years as Steve Prince, is an American voice actor who played Lin in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop as part of a long career in anime dubbing.
Nobuyuki Hiyama is a Japanese voice actor and radio personality represented by Arts Vision who has voice credits in the Cowboy Bebop franchise alongside a career defined by heroic anime protagonists.
Kirk Baily was an American actor best known for playing Kevin 'Ug' Lee on the Nickelodeon series Salute Your Shorts, who later voiced Shin in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime.
Miyuki Ichijo, the stage name of Hiroko Okamoto, was a Japanese voice actress and singer who voiced Anastasia in Cowboy Bebop, the anime produced at Sunrise.
Carol Stanzione is a voice actress who voiced Annie in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop.
Kenyu Horiuchi is a Japanese voice actor who lent his voice to Gren in Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime, and later built a career as a leading Japanese dub artist for Hollywood stars.
David Allen Thomas is a voice actor who voiced Gren Eckener in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Tsutomu Tareki is a voice actor who worked on Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
American voice actor Paul St. Peter lent his voice to multiple characters across the Cowboy Bebop franchise, including Alfredo and Mark Rather in the TV series and Punch in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Miki Nagasawa is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Atomic Monkey who has contributed voice work to the Cowboy Bebop franchise alongside a career built on notable anime and video game roles.
Lia Sargent is an American voice actress who voiced Judy in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime, and has built a long career in anime dubbing as both a performer and ADR director.
Hitoshi Hirao is a Japanese voice actor who voiced Antonio in Cowboy Bebop.
Toshihiko Nakajima was a Japanese actor from Nagoya who also worked in voice acting for Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise, playing one of the trio of background characters known as the Three Old Men.
Steve Kramer is an English-language voice actor credited with several roles in Cowboy Bebop, including Three Old Men, Otto, the trio of Huey, Louie and Dewey, and Whitney Haggis.
Hiroshi Naka is a Japanese actor and narrator, affiliated with Ken Production, who voiced several minor characters across Cowboy Bebop, including Reggie and Ping Long.
Takehiro Koyama is a voice actor who worked on Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
Michael Gregory is a voice actor who worked on Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
Yutaka Nakano is a Japanese voice actor from Kanagawa who voiced Bob, a supporting character, in Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
John Snyder is a voice actor who worked on Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
Tomie Kataoka is a voice actor who worked on Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
Melodee Spevack is an American voice actress who voiced Victoria 'V.T.' Terpsichore in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime, and has spent decades working across video games, TV and film looping, and anime dubbing.
Ryusei Nakao, the stage name of Tomoharu Takeo, is a Japanese actor and voice actor represented by 81 Produce who has voice credits in the Cowboy Bebop franchise alongside an extensive list of major anime roles.
Tom Fahn is an American voice actor who lent his voice to Roco Bonnaro in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise-animated series, and who is better known for starring roles in other long-running anime franchises.
Takeshi Watabe was a Japanese voice actor who worked on Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
Michael McCarty was an American film, television and stage actor who took on a voice role in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop. His screen credits included Casper, Dead Man and The Legend of Bagger Vance, alongside a substantial Broadway career.
Masashi Ebara is a veteran Japanese voice actor and narrator, also credited as an on-screen actor, who voiced the bounty hunter Andy Von De Oniyate in Cowboy Bebop from Sunrise, and has built an extensive career across anime, tokusatsu and Hollywood dubbing roles.
Banjo Ginga is a Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator known for his deep baritone, who voiced Mad Pierrot in Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime series.
Kevin Seymour was an American voice actor, ADR director and script writer who voiced Mad Pierrot in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime, and worked widely across other English-language anime adaptations before his death in 2014.
Ai Kobayashi is a Japanese voice actress and actress who provided the Japanese voice of Elektra Ovirowa in Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime.
Jennifer Hale is a voice actress from Canada and the United States, widely known for headlining major video game franchises, who voiced Electra Ovirowa in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, the Sunrise anime series.
Tsutomu Isobe is a Japanese actor from Tokyo best recognized as the regular Japanese dubbing voice for Hollywood stars such as Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson, and in Cowboy Bebop he voiced Vincent Volaju, the film's central antagonist.
Daran Norris is an American voice actor who took on multiple English dub roles in Cowboy Bebop, including the rival bounty hunter Andy and the film antagonist Vincent Volaju.
Yuji Ueda is a Japanese performer known for voice acting and singing who worked on Cowboy Bebop, the anime series produced by Sunrise.
Voice actor Dave Wittenberg, originally from South Africa and now based in the United States, voiced Lee Sampson in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop.
Mickey Curtis is a Japanese entertainer known for his pioneering work in early Japanese rock music who provided a Japanese voice role in Cowboy Bebop, playing the character Mendelo al-Hedia.
Nicholas Guest is an American actor who voiced Mendelo al-Hedia in the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, following a screen career that shifted toward voice acting after 2000.
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