Valery Benjilali

Description
Valery Benjilali is a Belgian actor and voice artist born on November 10, 1973 in Brussels, Belgium. While he has a background in theater and has worked as a singer-songwriter, he is best known for his extensive work in French-language dubbing of anime series.

Benjilali has voiced numerous characters across major anime franchises. He is particularly recognized for providing the French voice of Deidara, the explosive clay-wielding artist from the Akatsuki, in Naruto Shippūden as well as in the spin-off series Itachi Shinden and the film Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie. In the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, he was the first voice actor for the protagonist Jaden Yuki in the French version of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, a role he held for the first season before being succeeded by Alessandro Bevilacqua.

His voice acting portfolio includes a wide range of supporting and secondary characters in popular series. In D.Gray-man, he voiced Tyki Mikk, one of the primary antagonists. He played the role of Saubohne in Pokémon Sun & Moon and reprised the character in Pokémon Journeys: The Series. Additionally, he voiced the character Horace in multiple episodes of Pokémon Sun & Moon. Other anime roles include Hyoma (second voice) and Chasseur De Tête 2 in Beyblade: Metal Fusion, Biomon in Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters, and Sideswipe in the Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Transformers: Rescue Bots series. He has also contributed to the French dubs of The File of Young Kindaichi, Cyborg 009, and Inazuma Eleven.
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