Gianluca Iacono facts for kids

Gianluca Iacono is a talented voice actor from Italy. He was born on March 14, 1970, in the city of Turin. He is famous for giving his voice to many popular cartoon and anime characters that you might know!

He has voiced characters like Vegeta in the Italian version of the Dragon Ball series, Genghis in The Wacky World of Tex Avery, and Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist.

In 2005, Gianluca Iacono also worked on an animated TV show called Monster Allergy, which was made by different countries working together.

Between 2010 and 2011, he temporarily took over voicing Kakashi Hatake in Naruto: Shippuden. This happened because the usual voice actor, Claudio Moneta, was recovering from a motorbike accident.

Gianluca Iacono has worked with many different dubbing studios in Italy. These include Deneb Film, Studio P.V., Merak Film, and Studio ASCI.

What is Voice Acting?

Voice acting is a special job where people use their voices to bring characters to life. This can be for cartoons, movies, video games, or even commercials. Voice actors need to be good at changing their voice to sound like different characters. They also need to show emotions just with their voice.

Gianluca Iacono's Voice Work

Gianluca Iacono has lent his voice to many projects. He has done voice-overs and additional voices for various shows.

• Paruto Porro and Bob Mondey in Monster Allergy
• Voice-over in Summer Cooking con Csaba
• Additional voices in Adrian

Voicing Animated Characters

Gianluca Iacono is especially well-known for his work in animation. He has voiced many characters in popular anime and cartoon series.

• Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and Dragon Ball Super
• Tambourine and Gogeta in Dragon Ball Z
• Donbe in Dr. Slump (second dub, 1980/86 series)
• Genghis in The Wacky World of Tex Avery
• Various characters in Pokémon
• Gamakitchi and Mizuki in Naruto
• Kakashi Hatake (episodes 72-104), Mizuke (episode 251), Rasa, and Choji Akimichi (both in episode 451) in Naruto: Shippuden
• Scoutmaster Lumpus in Camp Lazlo
• Gonard in Kappa Mikey
• Elias Van Dahl in W.I.T.C.H.
• Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
• Bane in The New Batman Adventures
• Firefly in The Batman
• Green Arrow in Batman: The Brave and the Bold
• Mason Brown in Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders
• R Grey in Sgt. Frog
• Prowl in Transformers Animated
• Lance Alvers in X-Men: Evolution
• Ryuji Otogi in Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Adrian Gecko, Slade Princeton, and other characters in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
• Lenny and Zigzix in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
• Viscount Lerajie in Chrono Crusade
• Tomoka in Shin Hakkenden
• Igneous in Spider Riders
• Langston Lickatoadin Viva Piñata
• Masahiro Hamasaki in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
• Shunsuke in Tokyo Mew Mew
• Garuda Aiacos in Saint Seiya
• Kaien Cross in Vampire Knight
• Tres Iqus in Trinity Blood
• Baptistin in Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
• Otaki Aoyama in Ah! My Goddess: The Movie
• Go in Prétear
• Shun Tojo in Corrector Yui
• Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Ord in Dragon Tales
• Ryu in Shaman King
• Kyuzo in Samurai 7
• Take and Nakamaru in Saishu Heiki Kanojo
• Chip Oblong in The Oblongs
• Leo Trench in Odd Job Jack
• Harry/Stormy Weathers in Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire
• Haohmaru in Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture
• Rhesus 2 in Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
• Dracula in ChalkZone
• Red in Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix
• Commeson and Vegeth in Dragon Ball Super

Voicing Live-Action Characters

Gianluca Iacono has also dubbed characters in live-action TV shows and movies. This means he provides the Italian voice for actors who originally spoke in another language.

• Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother
• Dr. Merrill Bobolit and Brendan McNamara in Nip/Tuck
• Hector Lopez in Becker
• Neville Watson in Where I Live
• Vince D'Amata in Hang Time
• Joe Wylee in Flash Gordon (2007 TV series)
• Dozer in Angela's Eyes
• Angus in The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
• Elliot Sacks in This Is Wonderland
• Nick Biancavilla in Strong Medicine
• Beowulf in Beowulf & Grendel
• Undercover Brother/Anton Jackson in Undercover Brother
• Álex in REC
• Detective Cho Yong-koo in Memories of Murder
• Soz in Dead Man's Shoes