Chris Patton

This page is about the actor Christopher Patton. For the former Governor of Hong Kong or European Commissioner for foreign relations, see Chris Patten. For the Canadian poet Christopher Patton, see Christopher D. Patton.

Chris Patton
Birth name	Christopher David Patton
Occupation(s)	Voice Actor/Musician/Writer/Stage Actor

Christopher David Patton (born March 15, 1971 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor who been acting since early childhood and voice acting for FUNimation Entertainment and ADV Films for eight years. He has voiced over 100 anime titles, played hundreds of characters, and appeared at over 40 anime conventions. Though he remains very active with ADV Films, he has terminated his business relationship with FUNimation Entertainment. He is also co-front man of an electropop/ebm band called PLID. Theatrically, he has performed with the Houston Grand Opera, the Tony Award Winning Alley Theatre, and just about every theatrical organization in the Houston area. Some of his theatrical credits include Blood Brothers, The Who's Tommy, Laurence Fishburne's gritty street drama Riff Raff, Psycho Beach Party, The Pirates of Penzance, Runaways, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Christmas Carol, and many more.

In the realm of Voiceover, Patton is most-often associated with his character "Greed" in Fullmetal Alchemist and "Sousuke Sagara" from the Full Metal Panic series, but his more "hardcore" fans tend to associate his voice with "Sasame" from Pretear, "Ayato" from RahXephon, or "Fakir" from Princess Tutu. For many years, Chris was known as the "go-to" voice actor for the "angsty pretty boy" roles, but has since had a chance to branch out into voicing all form of psychotic villains, and in some cases, normal boys as well, such as the lead character in The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

Many anime fans prefer watching anime with subtitles and Japanese audio (so-called "subs") instead of "dubs". Patton points out that while theatrical Disney productions first record voices and then animate based on this audio, "pre-lay" recording, the common anime production cycle records and animates in parallel; the Japanese voice work is thus just as much "post-lay" dubbing as the English voice work.^[1] The quality of English audio tracks have also improved; reviewers noted Patton's work on RahXephon as especially effective and evoking,^[2][3] and Patton admits that the role affected him emotionally.^[4]

Chris has a rare genetic/metabolic disorder called Phenylketonuria, or PKU, which hinders the body's natural ability to properly break down most forms of protein. This explains Patton's since-birth low-protein, vegetarian diet.^[5]

Notable anime roles

• Daley Wong in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (1999)
• Yushiro Gowa in Gasaraki (2000)
• Saburota Takasugi in Martian Successor Nadesico (2001)
• Seishiro Natsume in Princess Nine (2001)
• Yu Ominae in Spriggan (2002)
• Shiro Sugino in Chance Pop Session (2002)
• Ayato Kamina in RahXephon (2003)
• Koumyou in Saiyuki (2003)
• Sousuke Sagara in Full Metal Panic! (2003)
• Rei Otohata in Super GALS! (2003)
• Andromeda Shun in Saint Seiya (2003)
• Ohjiro Mihara in Angelic Layer (2003)
• Sasame in Pretear (2003)
• Eutus in Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2003)
• Kyouta Kamikurata in Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution (2004)
• Bebefau in BASToF Syndrome (2004)
• Turles in Dragon Ball Z's Tree of Might, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3.
• Gourry Gabriev in Slayers Premium (2004)
• Shin Kazama in Area 88 (2004)
• Joshua Christopher in Chrono Crusade (2004)
• Susumu Yamazaki in Peacemaker Kurogane (2004)
• Hiroki Fujisawa inThe Place Promised In Our Early Days (2004)
• Fakir in Princess Tutu (2005)
• Kai Kudou in E's Otherwise (2005)
• Greed in Fullmetal Alchemist (2005)
• Eiji Shigure in Gravion (2005)
• Narugami/Thor in Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (2005)
• Hajime Aoyama in Ghost Stories (2005)
• Naozumi Kamura in Kodocha (2005)
• Yuto K. Steel in SoltyRei (2005)
• Haruka in "Tactics" (2006)
• Maximilian Jenius in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (2006)
• Manabu Yuuki in The Galaxy Railways (2006)
• Daijirou Matsumura in This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (2006)
• Tsurugi Inugami in Pani Poni Dash! (2006)
• Sho Fukamachi in Guyver (2006)
• Ichiro in Nerima Daikon Brothers (2006)
• Creed Diskenth in Black Cat
• Oboro in Utawarerumono (The One Being Sung) (2007)
• Fate Averruncus in Negima (2007)
• Katana in Coyote Ragtime Show (2007)
• Joe Katsuragi in Innocent Venus (2007)
• Itsuki Minami in Air Gear (2007)
• Tony in Xenosaga: The Animation (2007)
• J.C. in Red Garden (2007)
• Tatsuhiro Sato in Welcome to the NHK (2007)

Voice roles

Chris Patton and Mike Kleinhenz have portrayed on two occasions a superior and subordinate role in two shows:

• In the Full Metal Panic series, Patton played Sousuke Sagara while Kleinhenz played Andrei Kalinin.
• In the Spriggan OVA, Patton played Yu Ominae while Kleinhenz played Fatman.

References and notes

External links

• Chris Patton at the Internet Movie Database
• Patton Chris Patton at MySpace
• Chris Patton at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Christopher Patton at the English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database
• Interview with Allen Divers (accessed 16 January 2006)
• PLID
• The Chris Patton Interview at DubReview (May 2004)

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