Kyle Phillips

Born

1987-03-17

Birthplace

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Biography

Kyle Phillips is an American anime voice director and actor known for a variety of roles, and well-known for voicing Denki Kaminari in My Hero Academia. Kick starting his career as an ADR Engineer, Phillips began working on a number of high profile productions such as One Piece, xxxHolic and Fairy Tail, though became eager to jump behind the microphone almost immediately. Taking the opportunity to become a voice extra in crowd scenes, voice acting evolved from a minor task to a major role in his career. Accumulating an extensive profile, his more notable roles include Jason the reporter in Fairy Tail, Marco the Phoenix in One Piece, Genshiro Saji in High School DxD, and Sosuke Sugaya in Assassination Classroom. In 2013, Phillips moved on from his ADR Engineering role to pursue voice directing, a career path more catered for someone of his caliber. Stepping into the position of assistant director for a few seasons for Tyler Walker, Phillips soon got to helm his own show, Ultimate Otaku Teacher. Since 2015, Phillips has directed English dubs for FUNimation including Overlord seasons 1-3, Dagashi Kashi seasons 1 and 2, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Ace Attorney seasons 1 and 2, and Izetta: seasons 1 and 2. Phillips' biggest role to date has been his work as the lead Suigin Riku in the popular, multi-season show The Silver Guardian. Most recently, Phillips stepped into the role of Denki Kaminari in the massively popular My Hero Academia, as well as the highly successful film My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.