JB Blanc

From Paris, France • Born in Feb 13, 1969 (57 years old)

Jean-Benoît "JB" Blanc is a French actor who has worked on animations and video games in Los Angeles, coming from a drama education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and with an extensive background in British theatre. He is most recognised for his recurring role on Breaking Bad and its spinoff, Better Call Saul as Gus Fring's Mexican cartel doctor, nicknamed unofficially "Dr. Barry Goodman", as well as for lending his voice to Caustic in the long-running video game franchise, Apex Legends and Vander/Warwick in the highly-acclaimed Netflix animated series, Arcane where both the production team and cast have garnered positive attention. He made his voice directing debut on the English dub for L/R: Licensed by Royalty as well as provided the voice of Rowe Rickenbacker where he won a Performance of the Year Award by the Anime Dub Recognition Awards in 2004. The same year, he took over the role of Joe Carpenter from Crispin Freeman in the television series sequel to the OVA, R.O.D the TV, for which he was awarded a second Anime Dub Recognition Award (in this case, for Actor of the Month). He has interpreted the character of Enrico Maxwell in both Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate, and has received recognition for his incarnation of Rubeus Hagrid in numerous Harry Potter video game adaptations. In 2023, he was awarded a Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Video Game Character by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences for his work in Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. Blanc is also a voice director in video games and directs both live action performance capture and voiceover. (Via Wikipedia)