Satoshi Taki

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Satoshi Taki is a Japanese voice actor born on March 5, 1964, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. He is affiliated with the talent management firm Ken Production. Taki is a graduate of the SCHOOL DUO voice actor training school, having been part of its second graduating class. His career encompasses a wide range of voice work in anime, video games, and foreign language dubbing for films and television series.

Taki's anime voice roles span numerous productions across several decades. Some of his notable anime credits include the role of Manager in the Planetarian series, including the OVA Planetarian: Snow Globe, and Takashi Utsui in Haikyu!!. He also voiced Oscar Webster in Violet Evergarden, Lord Capulet in Romeo x Juliet, and Doroteo Lemus in The Asterisk War. He is known for playing various characters in the long-running Pretty Cure franchise, including Zakenna in Futari wa Pretty Cure, Nanami's father in HeartCatch PreCure!, and Takeo Omori in HappinessCharge PreCure!. In the anime Baki, he provided the voice for the character Han Kaiō. Another early role was Negiwani (Croconion) in the 2004 short-form anime series Jagainu-kun.

Beyond anime, a significant portion of Taki's career is dedicated to voice-over work for foreign media. He is the regular Japanese dubbing voice for American actor Jim Caviezel, most famously for his lead role as John Reese in the television series Person of Interest. His other notable dubbing credits include Lance Hunter in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., roles in films such as Cars 2, Up, and The Hunger Games, and the character Wahid in the miniseries The Queen's Gambit. He has also frequently served as a narrator for NHK's BS World Documentaries.
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