Phil LaMarr

Phillip LaMarr (born January 24, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter.

He was one of the original featured cast members on the sketch comedy television series Mad TV, where he stayed for five seasons.

His voice acting roles in animated series include the title character of Samurai Jack, both John Stewart / Green Lantern and Virgil Hawkins / Static in the DC Animated Universe (across the series Static Shock, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited) Hermes Conrad in Futurama, and Wilt in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

LaMarr has also provided voices for video game franchises including Metal Gear, Jak and Daxter, Darksiders, Final Fantasy, Infamous, Dead Island, Kingdom Hearts, and Mortal Kombat.

He also voiced Browntooth the Goblin Rogue in the Critical Role episode "The Goblins".

After graduating in 1989, he became a member of the award-winning sketch and improv comedy group The Groundlings.

He studied improv at The Second City and at the ImprovOlympic in Chicago, Illinois, with Del Close.

He has also improvised with Cold Tofu and Off the Wall.

LaMarr, unlike most of the other original nine cast members of Mad TV, had extensive television and film jobs experience when he joined the show (as did fellow cast member David Herman).

Even before college, he had voiced a character on the Mister T cartoon show.

Some of the recurring characters LaMarr performed on Mad TV were Desperation Lee ("Funky Walker Dirty Talker"), Jaq the UBS Guy, "sexy player" Rick, talentless R&B singer Savante, and Rocket Revengers star Lieutenant Abraham Jefferson (a.k.a. Lincoln Willis).

LaMarr has done impressions of the following celebrities:

He has also done impressions of Moe Howard from The Three Stooges while playing an African-American version of the character.

In film, he has appeared in Pulp Fiction (1994), Bio-Dome (1996), Speaking of Sex (2001), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Real Steel (2011).

LaMarr was born in Los Angeles, California.

He is a graduate of the Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood and Yale University, where he helped found the improv comedy group Purple Crayon.

One of his biggest roles at Yale was the titular character in the British comedy Trevor.

LaMarr left Mad TV at the end of the fifth season (2000).

Sometimes, LaMarr filled in for Greg Proops on Odd News, a 4-minute section on Yahoo.com.

It features odd but true recent news.

LaMarr reprised his role as Hermes Conrad in the Futurama films Bender's Big Score, The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender's Game, Into the Wild Green Yonder, and upon the series return in 2010.

He also voices Wilt and other recurring characters in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Carver Descartes on The Weekenders, Philly Phil in Class of 3000, and he portrayed the character Osmosis Jones in the television series Ozzy & Drix (replacing Chris Rock).

He was also Gabe Wallace, and other characters in Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters.

He additionally voices Jazz, Omega Supreme, Oil Slick, and Jetstorm on Transformers Animated.

LaMarr portrayed Nautolan Jedi Master Kit Fisto in Star Wars : The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network; he also played Amit Noloff, a one time character, and a Tactical Droid.

He portrayed Aquaman, and voiced other characters in Young Justice, and he voiced Baxter Stockman in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

He also lent his voice to the character of Lucius Fox for DC Super Hero Girls.

LaMarr also provided voice talent to J.A.R.V.I.S. throughout the series of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

He also portrayed Professor Thistlethorpe, a caterpillar, in Bojack Horseman.

Through a tweet Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best implied that LaMarr had done the voice work for his character on the animated show The Clone Wars.

LaMarr provided the voice of Alphabittle the unicorn in the Netflix animated film My Little Pony: A New Generation.

In July 2021, LaMarr provided the voice for Orn Free Taa in Star Wars: The Bad Batch.

LaMarr's stage credits include The Tempest, As You Like It, Guys and Dolls, Asylum, South Coast Repertory's Make the Break and the Sacred Fools Theater Company's inaugural production of The Fatty Arbuckle Spookhouse Revue.

LaMarr's second film role was that of the ill-fated Marvin from Pulp Fiction.

He has appeared in Kill the Man, Free Enterprise, Cherish, and Manna from Heaven.

He appeared in Speaking of Sex starring Bill Murray and Catherine O'Hara, and Back by Midnight with Kirstie Alley, Rodney Dangerfield, and Randy Quaid.

Since July 1, 2020, LaMarr has hosted NASA TV's "Ask the Astronomers live!"

show.

LaMarr's voice over credits include a starring role on Justice League and Justice League Unlimited as John Stewart/Green Lantern, a major role as Hermes Conrad and various other characters on Futurama, and the title roles on Samurai Jack and Static Shock.

Besides this he also voiced Black Vulcan in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and Hector Con Carne in Evil Con Carne.