Erik Davies is an American voice actor. He voiced Soma Cruz in Castlevania: Harmony of Despair.
Biography and career[]
Davies was born in New York City and raised in Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, and Connecticut. He was brought up with a deep appreciation and education in the arts and history. Erik comes from a long line of artists on both his mother and father's sides of the family: illustrators, painters, and sculptors. His great, great-grandfather, Wilhelm Kyhn, was a nationally cherished painter in his native Denmark. With encouragement from Erik's father, he began drawing, studying studio arts and constructing historical scale models and vignettes at age seven. He's kept up his passion for pencil drawing all throughout his life.
At age 15, his direction dramatically expanded when his parents bought him an 8mm video camera for Christmas. So, when just a freshman in high school, he was making and starring in his own self-indulgent home movies he developed with his brother, Kristian. The brothers were asked to shoot their high school recruitment video. By Erik's senior year, he and Kristian had made an hour-long Vietnam War drama, something they were very proud of. The brothers kept up the collaborations throughout much of the college years, shooting a short narrative whenever the time allowed them.
At Ithaca College Erik designed his own course curriculum, an independent double-major encompassing speech communication, writing, studio arts and cinema. Erik moved to New York after college, working as a production assistant for film and television. About this time came the head-long plunge into acting as a profession.
A friend introduced Erik to the Deena Levy Theatre Studio, to which he dedicated years of work and study. During his time in New York, Erik also had the privilege of learning from such great teachers of technique as Cynthia Eisemann, Andrea Haring and Beth-Ann Cole. Erik earned his first lead in an independent feature portraying Daz in Special Breakfast Eggroll opposite Bree Turner.
He portrayed the co-starring role of Oleg the smack dealer on NBC's special crossover episode of ER and Third Watch (earning him his SAG card). While undoubtedly his core training and development were rooted in New York, it wasn't until relocating to Los Angeles that his work began to flourish.
Having narrated a couple of audiobooks in New York, he presently counts 40 titles to his credit. Tennis champion Andre Agassi selected Erik to narrate his autobiography, Open, that later went on to win Erik's first AudioFile Earphones Award. That same year a quirky and unique coming-of-age story called Going Bovine earned Erik an Audie Award nomination for his narration.
In the process of trying to earn an audition for Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, he created a World War II short film with his brother Kristian. This effort was the impetus for the brothers to write, produce and take all the way to distribution their most ambitious work to date, their feature comedy High Society: A Pot Boiler. Distributed by Indie Rights Inc., the film can be seen on multiple online platforms and the PlayStation 3 Network, among others.
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External links[]
- Official website (archived: January 18, 2020)
- Anime News Network
- Behind the Voice Actors
- IMDb