Creator / Thierry Desroses

Thierry Desroses (born August 12, 1960 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French actor and voice actor of Martinican-African descent.

He is a very prolific voice actor, and is certainly best known as the main French dubbing voice of Samuel L. Jackson since 1994's Pulp Fiction ^note Though sadly he didn't get to dub Mace Windu in the Star Wars films, he did the Trade Federation Neimoidians instead. He eventually dubbed Windu in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, including Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Other actors he has regularly lent his voice to include Wesley Snipes (most famously as Blade), Giancarlo Esposito, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lance Reddick (as Charon in John Wick), Colin Salmon (Charles Robinson in the James Bond films of Pierce Brosnan), Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, Dennis Haysbert, Harry Lennix, Terry Crews, Keith David, Eriq La Salle, Ernie Hudson, Tony Todd, Delroy Lindo, Andre Braugher and Joe Morton (Justice League).

Long story short, where Maïk Darah has dubbed a great many female African-American leads in French, Desroses has done it for males.

Acting-wise, he is best know for his cop roles in French police procedurals such as P.J. (as Lieutenant Alain Porret) and Femmes de loi.

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His voice roles include:

Anime:

• The Afro Samurai in Afro Samurai
• Señor Pink in One Piece

Film — Animation:

• Lucius Best/Frozone in The Incredibles and Incredibles 2
• The Penguin King in The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Film — Live-Action:

• Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction
• Michael Jordan in Space Jam
• Eric Brooks/Blade in the Blade Trilogy (Blade, Blade II, Blade: Trinity)
• Nute Gunray in The Phantom Menace
• John Shaft II in Shaft (2000) and Shaft (2019).
• Elijah Price in Unbreakable and Glass
• Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ^{Click to unroll} Iron Man 2 (2009), Thor (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013, 2014), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), What If...? (2021), Secret Invasion (2023), The Marvels (2023)
• Alfred "Alfie" Solomon in Argylle

Live-Action TV:

• Stan Edgar in The Boys
• Warden Gregory Wolfe The Flash (2014)
• Sadoc Burrows in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Western Animation:

• Darkwing in Invincible
• Mira in Star Wars: The Bad Batch
• Robotman in Teen Titans

Tropes & Trivia in his works:

• The Other Darrin: Replaced Paul Borne (Iron Man) as Nick Fury in the MCU starting with Iron Man 2.
• The Pete Best: He's the second French voice actor for Nick Fury in the MCU, and by far the most prolific and well remembered.

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