
Age: 61
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David Kaye is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known for animation roles such as Megatron in five of the Transformers series (Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron), Optimus Prime in Transformers: Animated, Professor X in X-Men: Evolution, Cronus in Class of the Titans, Khyber in Ben 10: Omniverse, several characters in Avengers Assemble, and Duckworth in the reboot of DuckTales. He is also known for anime roles including Sesshōmaru in Inuyasha and Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and video game roles such as Clank in the Ratchet & Clank series and Nathan Hale in the Resistance series. He is also the announcer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO and voiced the Celestial Arishem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals. He did voice work for various other studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for many years while occasionally doing voice work in Los Angeles, California, US, before fully relocating there in 2007.

David Kaye

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for Blackout in Stephen Sommers' Transformers (2007)
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Transformers is a 2007 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's toy line of the same name. The film is the first installment in the Transformers film series. The film is directed and written by Stephen Sommers. It stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, a teenager who gets caught up in a war between the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two factions of alien robots who can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery, primarily vehicles. The Autobots intend to retrieve and use the AllSpark, the powerful artifact that created their robotic race that is on Earth, to rebuild their home planet Cybertron and end the war, while the Decepticons have the intention of using it to build an army by giving life to the machines of Earth. Tyrese Gibson as Sgt. Robert Epps, Dwayne Johnson as Cpt. William Lennox, Dakota Johnson as Mikaela Banes and John Hannah as Seymour Simmons also star, while the Transformer cast consists of Chris Evan's as Bumblebee, Jess Harnell as Ironhide, Alun Armstrong as Ratchet, Troy Baker as Jazz, Arnold Vosloo as Megatron, Joeseph Gorden Levitt as Starscream, David Kaye as Blackout and Keith David as Barricade, along with Peter Cullen Reprising his role as Optimus Prime.