Jay Hickman

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Jay Hickman
Birth Name Jay Hickman
Statistics
Occupation Voice Actor/Actor/Singer
Gender Male
Notable Credit(s) Elfen Lied
as Kurama
Excel Saga
as Tooru Watanabe
Kaleido Star
as The Fool
Le Chevalier D'Eon
as King Louis XV
Princess Tutu
as Mythos

Jay Hickman is an American actor, singer and voice actor. He is best known for his prolific voice work on English language dubs of foreign films and television series. Most of these works are in anime that ADV Films has licensed, but he has also voiced numerous Korean and Japanese action and horror films, such as the original Dark Water, released in 2002. Among anime devotees, Hickman has won recent acclaim as Shinichi Mechazawa, the identity-critical robot in Cromartie High School and the emotionally challenged Prince Mytho from the series Princess Tutu.

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[edit] Career

Hickman lent his voice to the character of Mark in the 2002 Canadian film Touching Wild Horses, starring Jane Seymour.

Hickman has also a number of on-screen appearances, including an uncredited bit part in the 1998 film Rushmore opposite television and movie actress Alexis Bledel.

Hickman is also a singer with a background in musical theatre. Past roles include Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, El Gallo in The Fantasticks and Danny Zuko in Grease. Hickman was later able to join the cast of Fred Waring’s U.S. Chorus, the summer workshop and televised special’s final season in 1991.

Shortly after this experience, Hickman landed a job as a professional Elvis impersonator – a role that he continued through one season at a Houston theatre. This was followed by a short stint with the Houston pop band Bee Stung Lips, with whom Hickman sang back-up vocals and worked in promotions.

The latter half of the ‘90s saw Hickman taking part in a musical theatre collaboration with award-winning Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow, famed composer Jerry Bock and librettist Jerry Sterner. Hickman played the supporting role of “Mark” in “1040,” a musical about the U.S. tax code which saw its world premiere in Houston in 1997. The show was back-burnered shortly afterward, though, when “creative differences” caused a rift among the Ostrow-Bock-Sterner team.

On the set of “Apollo 11” - 1996
On the set of “Apollo 11” - 1996

In 1998, Hickman began a career as a professional jazz singer, serving as the frontman for a number of Houston-based swing bands. Hickman worked full-time in this capacity for three years, and has continued to perform in the genre, part-time, through the present day. A solo album is alleged to be in the works[citation needed].

[edit] Voice Acting Roles

AD Police (TV) as Narration; Punk; Worker B

Air Gear as Spitfire

Angelic Layer (TV) as Shuji Inada

Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution (TV) as Ryusei

Aura Battler Dunbine (TV) as Sho Zama

Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (TV) as Chief Operator; Fox; Maintenance Worker; Skyhook Boomer

Chrono Crusade (TV) as Genai

Conduct Zero (movie) as Rumor Mill #4

Cromartie High School (TV) as Shinichi Mechazawa

Dark Water (movie) as Kishida (Yoshimi's lawyer)

Diamond Daydreams (TV) as Minoru Jinguji

Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia (OVA) as Pilot

Divergence Eve (TV) as Bernard Firestar

E's Otherwise (TV) as Eiji Sagimiya

Elfen Lied (TV) as Kurama

Excel Saga (TV) as Tooru Watanabe

Full Metal Panic! (TV) as Captain Sailor (ep 18, 21, 22); Hiroshi Kasuya (ep 21);

Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (TV) as Onodera

Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (movie) as Colonel Watarase

Gantz (TV) as Inamori

Gasaraki (TV) as Akihiro Hirokawa

Generator Gawl (TV) as Koji

Gravion (TV) as Alex; Ohtori

Gravion Zwei (TV) as Alex Smith; Otori

Kaleido Star (TV) as The Fool

Kaleido Star: New Wings Extra Stage (OVA) as The Fool

Kekko Kamen (OVA) as Shuwarutsu Negataro

Kino's Journey (TV) as Soldier A (ep 3); The Lonely Man (ep 1)

Madlax (TV) as SSS/Three-Speed

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV) as Tetsu Asahina

Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) as Nagare Akatsuki

Master of Mosquiton (OVA) as Com. Officer B (ep 1); Soldier C (ep 1);

Megazone 23 Part III (OVA) as Eiji

Mezzo DSA (TV) as Leon

Misaki Chronicles (TV) as Bernard

My Beautiful Girl, Mari (movie) as Nam-Woo (Adult)

Nadesico: Prince of Darkness (movie) as Nagare Akatsuki

Neo Ranga (TV) as Kazuo Fujiwara

Noir (TV) as Vanel

Orphen (TV) as Sentry; Student; Tim

Parasite Dolls as Police Dispatch A, Eve's Client A

Princess Nine (TV) as Choir Leader; Kisaragi Boys Teammate; Reporter B; Sakurai

Princess Tutu (TV) as Mythos

RahXephon (TV) as Dr. Itsuki Kisaragi

RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio (movie) as Dr. Itsuki Kisaragi

Rune Soldier (TV) as William Wilder

Saint Seiya (TV) as Dragon Shiryu

Saiyuki (TV) as Shuei/Rikudo (eps 6-7)

Sorcerer on the Rocks (OVA) as Shibas Scotch

Spectral Force (OVA) as Zakiphon

Spriggan (movie) as Soldier

Steel Angel Kurumi 2 (TV) as Yutaka Kizuki

Street Fighter II V (TV) as Nash

Super GALS (TV) as Clerk (ep 24); Convenience Store Manager (ep 25); Foreman (ep 24)

Those Who Hunt Elves 2 (TV) as The Judge

Touching Wild Horses (Movie) as Adult Mark

Ushio & Tora (OVA) as Gamin Son (eps 5-6); Tsubura

Wandaba Style (TV) as Ichirin

Yugo the Negotiator (TV) as Reiichi Kogure

[edit] Screen Roles

Apollo 11 (1996) as MIT #1 Rushmore (1998) (uncredited) Extra (Cameo)

[edit] Videogame Roles

Unlimited Saga as Musol Yanii, Francis, Narrator, Kalandorn

[edit] Trivia

  • Hickman is credited with co-writing and performing the end credits theme song of the movie Cybermutt (2002).
  • Hickman is known in voice acting circles for his talent as a mimic, boasting more than a dozen international dialects and close to 50 celebrity impersonations.

[edit] External links

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