Jay Hickman (actor)

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Jay Hickman

Birth name Jay Hickman
Occupation(s) Voice Actor/Actor/Singer
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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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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].

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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.
  • He is not to be confused with the late truck stop comedian of the same name.

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