Hiroki Touchi is a veteran Japanese actor and voice actor born on May 26, 1966, in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with the talent agency Office Osawa and is a graduate of the Nihon University College of Art's theater department. His career is marked by a prolific output across anime, video games, and foreign film dubbing, often bringing a solemn and authoritative presence to his characters with his distinctive low-pitched voice.

Touchi began his career in theater before transitioning to voice acting, with his early work focusing heavily on narration. His debut in foreign film dubbing was for actor Takeshi Kaneshiro. In the anime industry, he gained recognition for lead roles in the mid-2000s, such as the vampire priest Abel Nightroad in Trinity Blood and the eccentric Cross Marian in D.Gray-man. This period also saw him take on prominent roles like Ovan in the.hack//Roots series and Lasse Aeon in Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

Throughout his career, Touchi has built an extensive and diverse filmography. He is well-known to long-time anime fans for roles such as the loyal Panther Lily in Fairy Tail, the masked Baldroy in the Black Butler series, and the baseball coach Tesshin Kataoka in Ace of Diamond. He also voiced Kūgo Ginjō in Bleach and has been a recurring presence in the Gundam franchise, with roles in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn and Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. In the 2010s and beyond, his work continued to expand, including Estarossa in The Seven Deadly Sins, Teppei Sugo in the Psycho-Pass series, and Maine in the critically acclaimed Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. More recently, his roles include Heiter in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Baek Yoonho in Solo Leveling, and the beloved Rōdō no Yoroi-san (Armor-san) in the hit series Chiikawa.

Beyond anime, Touchi is a dominant presence in video game voice acting and foreign media dubbing. He is the definitive Japanese voice for several major Western video game characters, including Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series and Chris Redfield from the Resident Evil franchise. He has also voiced Desmond Miles in the Assassin's Creed series. In dubbing, he is known as the primary voice actor for Will Smith and Wentworth Miller, and he provided the Japanese voice for Dean Winchester in the television series Supernatural and its anime adaptation.

His contributions to the industry have been recognized with awards, including a Male Character Voice Prize at the 2011 Famitsu Awards. With decades of experience, Hiroki Touchi remains an active and highly respected figure in Japanese entertainment.