Kevin Conroy

Born in Westbury, New York, Conroy moved to Westport, Connecticut when he was about 11 years old. He moved to New York in 1973 when he earned a full scholarship to attend Juilliard's famous drama division, where he studied under actor John Houseman (and shared a room with Robin Williams and future Superman actor Christopher Reeve). In 1978, after graduating from Juilliard, he toured with The Acting Company, Houseman's acting group, and, in 1979, he went on the national tour of Ira Levin's Deathtrap. In 1980, he decided to try his hand in television, and moved out to California. He landed a role in the daytime soap opera Another World. He became associated with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, where he performed in productions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. From 1980 to 1985, he acted in a variety of contemporary and classic theatre pieces, including the Broadway productions of Eastern Standard and Edward Albee's adaptation of Lolita. In 1984, he played the title role in Hamlet in the New York Shakespeare Festival. He returned to television in the 1985 TV movie Covenant, and had a role on another daytime soap drama, Search For Tomorrow. He was a series regular on Ohara in 1987, and on Tour of Duty from 1987 to 1988, before starring in a series of television movies. He has also guest starred on shows such as Cheers, Dynasty, Search For Tomorrow, and Matlock. He almost landed the part of Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings, but lost out to Tim Daly (who coincidentally, as a voice actor, later portrayed Superman in The WB's Superman: The Animated Series). Kevin was confirmed to be performing on the fourth season of The Venture Bros. Vocally, Kevin Conroy is best known to audiences for his role as Batman and his alter-ego Bruce Wayne in the Emmy Award-winning television show Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995), which started the DC Animated Universe (DCAU). Conroy continued to voice-play Batman in the subsequent DCAU series The New Batman Adventures (1997-1999), Batman Beyond (1999-2001), Justice League (2001-2004), and Justice League Unlimited (2004-2006). His tenure in the role also includes the DCAU films Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998), Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), and Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003). He also voice-played Batman for the character's guest appearances in Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock and The Zeta Project. Conroy is well remembered by fans for being the first person in animation to use two distinct voices to portray Bruce Wayne and Batman. In a tally of performances that include every episode, movie, and guest appearance made as Batman, Conroy has portrayed the famous superhero longer than any other actor who has in either live-action or animation. Additionally, he also voice-played Batman in the video games The Adventures of Batman and Robin (1994), Batman Vengeance (2001), and Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (2003), as well as the 2001 revamp of Batman Adventure - The Ride, located at the Warner Bros. Movie World theme park in Queensland, Australia. Kevin also voice-played Batman alongside his DCAU co-star Mark Hamill as The Joker and Jason Hillhouse as Dick Grayson in a feature of a storyboard scene included in the 2005 Special Edition DVD release of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film. This scene depicted the origin of Robin, which wasn't filmed because the film makers ultimately felt it was out of place with the rest of the film. In the season four premiere of The Batman, an animated series unrelated to the DCAU, Conroy voice-played Robin's father, John Grayson. Like the rest of the main cast from Justice League, Kevin was not involved in the 2008 animated feature Justice League: The New Frontier, which is not set in the DCAU, although producer Bruce Timm has said it's likely Conroy will return as Batman in future productions. Later that year, Conroy did return as Batman for the animated film Batman: Gotham Knight, which takes place between the live-action films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. In 2009, Conroy will voice-play Batman for the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, a tie-in to the 70th anniversary of the Batman franchise, as well as for the animated film Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. With the exception of Justice League: The New Frontier, Kevin Conroy will most likely continue to voice-play Batman for all of the superhero's appearances in the DC Universe Original Animated Movie banner.

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