Kirk Thornton

Kirk Thornton (born May 13, 1956) is an American voice actor, comedian, singer, ADR director and script writer. He is known to voice Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series from 2010-2018/2020 succeeding Jason Griffith and he is later succeeded by Eric Grasso. He also voices Shadow in Sonic Boom and voices Orbot in both Sonic Boom and the video game series in addition to other roles such as Yuujiro Hanma from the Baki the Grappler series as of the Netflix series. In the future, he becomes a voice actor of Rafiki (instead of Robert Guillaume and Khary Payton) from The Lion King.

Voices

 * Psonic X Touhou - Unzan
 * Kingdom Hearts series - Saïx/Ïsa
 * Sonic the Hedgehog Video Game Series - Orbot (2010-present), Master Zik (2013-present), Shadow the Hedgehog (2010-present)
 * Tekken 7 - Shadow the Hedgehog
 * TBD
 * TBD
 * Warner Bros. vs. Sonic Universe - Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Disney vs. Sonic Universe - Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Sonic Boom - Orbot, Shadow the Hedgehog, and many other characters
 * The Simpsons (Full English Dub Cast) - Principal Seymour Skinner
 * Saint Seiya (Full English Dub Cast) - Aquarius Camus
 * Jimmy Neutron (Studiopolis / Bang Zoom! / Funimation Redub) - Evil Jimmy
 * Fairy Tail (Full English Dub Cast) - Narrator, Yomazu, Wally Buchanan, Vidaldus Taka
 * The LEGO Movie (Viz Media / Funimation Redub) - Octan Robot
 * The LEGO Batman Movie 2017 (Bang Zoom! / Funimation Redub) - Agent Smith
 * The Powerpuff Girls (Bang Zoom! / Funimation Redub) - Butch
 * Tales of Asteria: Grand Voyage - Jade Curtiss
 * Kingdom Hearts vs. Sword Art Online - Ryotaro Tsuboi
 * Sword Art Online games English dub - Klein
 * Shinzo (2015 Anime) - Katris
 * Future The Lion King media- Rafiki (replaces Robert Guillaume and Khary Payton)