Joshua Luis Wiener (born February 8, 1979), known professionally as Josh Keaton, is an American actor. He is known for his many voice roles, including Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane in Voltron: Legendary Defender, Spider-Man in various media in addition to Electro in the video game Marvel's Spider-Man, Jack Darby in Transformers: Prime and the adolescent Hercules in Hercules. He was also the voice of Ryu Hayabusa in the console versions of Ninja Gaiden, and the voice of Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. He is also the voice of King Anduin Wrynn in the MMORPG World of Warcraft and Tyler in Pokémon Concierge.
Early life
Keaton was born outside of Los Angeles in Hacienda Heights, California, on February 8, 1979, to a father from New York City, and a mother from Lima, Peru. He has three sisters: Danielle, Alitzah "Ali", and Sabrina. He is fluent in Spanish which he learned first as a child, and later English. As a child, he learned to speak some Quechua from his maternal grandparents. His father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic. Through his sister Ali, he is the brother-in-law of former Youngstown singer James Lee Dallas.
Career
His career has included television, video game and film work, with a mixture of live acting and voice work for animations. As an infant, he appeared in an OshKosh B'gosh commercial. Then in 1990, he would appear in Kidsongs: A Day at Camp and his final Kidsongs appearance, Kidsongs: Ride The Roller Coaster. He was in the 1990s boy band No Authority and was signed to MJJ Music and later RCA Records as a solo artist.
Keaton voiced Jules Brown in Back to the Future: The Animated Series during 1991–1992 and Major Ocelot during Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
From 2008 to 2009, he voiced Peter Parker / Spider-Man in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series on The CW. He was originally supposed to voice the character in the 2002 Spider-Man video game but his voice work was scrapped and reworked as Harry Osborn / Green Goblin when Tobey Maguire came on to voice the character. He also reprised the role of New Goblin in the 2007 video game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, and Spider-Man again in several video games (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Spider-Man: Edge of Time). From 2017 to 2020, Keaton provided the voice of several recurring characters in Marvel's Spider-Man on Disney XD. He would also portray the villain Max Dillon / Electro in the 2018 Spider-Man video game developed by Insomniac Games, providing both the physical motion capture and voice for the character.
In 2011, Keaton was the voice for Spyro the Dragon in the Skylanders reboot of the franchise, Jack Darby and Tailgate on Transformers: Prime, and Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
Since 2012, he is the voice for Anduin Wrynn in the video games World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm.
At Wondercon 2016, it was announced that Keaton would play Shiro, one of the main characters of the Voltron animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender that premiered on June 10, exclusively on Netflix.
Filmography
Voice acting
Films
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="width=100%;"
|+ List of voice performances in film
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
! Source
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| || Recycle Rex || Additional voices || ||
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| || Hercules || Young Hercules (speaking voice) || || rowspan="2" |
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| || Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.! || Charlie Carbone || Direct-to-video
|-
| || The Wild || Additional voices || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|2010 || Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths || Wally West|| rowspan="2" | Direct-to-video ||
|-
|Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam
|Punk
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2016 || DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year || Hal Jordan / Green Lantern, Steve Trevor, Barry Allen / Flash || rowspan=7|Direct-to-video ||
|-
| rowspan="3"|2017 || DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games || Steve Trevor, Barry Allen / Flash || rowspan="5" |
|-
|Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
|Peter Parker / Spider-Man (Earth-26496)
|Reprises role as Spider-Man from The Spectacular Spider-Man
|
|}
Animation
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="width=100%;"
|+ List of voice performances in animation
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
! Source
|-
| || New Kids on the Block || Albert || ||
|-
| rowspan="3"|1991 || Captain Planet and the Planeteers || Pontus || Episode: "A World Below Us" ||
|-
| Snoopy's Reunion || Linus van Pelt || Television special ||
|-
| Peter Pan and the Pirates || Curly || ||
|-
| –1992 || Back to the Future || Jules Brown || ||
|-
| || Batman: The Animated Series || Young Michael Stromwell || Episode: "It's Never Too Late" ||
|-
| –2021 || Ben 10|| XLR8, SixSix, Acid Breath, various voices || || rowspan="5" |
|-
| rowspan="2"|2021–2024 || What If...? || Steve Rogers / Captain America / Hydra Stomper || Recurring role; 7 episodes ||
|-
| Invincible
| Agent Spider, Jogger
| Episode: "I Thought You Were Stronger"
|
|-
| X-Men '97
| Steve Rogers / Captain America
| 2 episodes
|
|-
| Ranma ½
| Dr. Tofu Ono
| English dub, 2024 remake
|
|-
| Spider-Man 2 || Harry Osborn || ||
|-
| Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep || Young Hercules || ||
|-
| Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions || Peter Parker / Ultimate Spider-Man || Voiced Amazing Spider-Man in the Nintendo DS version || rowspan="3" |
|-
| Skylanders: Trap Team || Spyro the Dragon, Spry, Knight Light || ||
|-
| Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare || Additional Voices || ||
|-
| Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham || Hal Jordan / Green Lantern, Billy Batson / Shazam, Dick Grayson / Nightwing, Kyle Rayner / White Lantern || ||
|-
| rowspan="6"|2015 || Battlefield Hardline || Firework Guy, Deceased ATF Agent, Outcome Agent || ||
|-
| Infinite Crisis || Aquaman || ||
|-
| Lego Jurassic World || Billy Brennan || ||
|-
| Mad Max || Jeet, Additional voices || ||
|-
| Skylanders: SuperChargers || Spyro the Dragon, Spry, Knight Light || ||
|-
| Lego Dimensions || Gamer Kid || ||
|-
| rowspan="7"|2016 || King's Quest || Young King Graham || ||
|-
| World of Warcraft: Legion || King Anduin Wrynn || ||
|-
| Skylanders: Imaginators || Spry, Knight Light || Uncredited ||
|-
| World of Final Fantasy || Lann || || rowspan="3" |
|-
| rowspan="4"|2017 || Horizon Zero Dawn || Sun King Avad|| ||
|-
|DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles || Shiro || ||
|-
| rowspan="4"|2018 || World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth || King Anduin Wrynn || ||
|-
| Marvel's Spider-Man || Max Dillon / Electro || ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|2021 || No More Heroes III || Destroyman True Face, Mass Production Destroyman, Mysterious Man || ||
|-
|Psychonauts 2
|Nurse Cherry, Germ Guy, Hardhat Germ, Muscle Man, Knight
|
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| Star Ocean: The Divine Force || Additional voices || ||
|-
| Marvel's Midnight Suns || Tony Stark / Iron Man || ||
|-
| Star Trek: Resurgence || Petty Officer Carter Diaz || ||
|-
| rowspan="4"|2024 || Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth || Additional voices || ||
|-
|Batman: Arkham Shadow
|Dick Grayson / Projection Room Rat
|
| rowspan="5" |
|-
|Marvel Cosmic Invasion
|Iron Man, Spider-Man, Beetle
|
|Rowspan="2"|
|}
Audio books
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Role
|-
| 2015 || Rain of the Ghosts || Tommy McMinn, Chris LeVell
|}
Live-action
Films
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="width=100%;"
|+ List of acting performances in film
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
! Source
|-
| –90 || Kidsongs || Himself || Videos: "A Day at Camp" "Ride the Roller Coaster"||
|-
| || All I Want for Christmas || Brad || ||
|-
| || Newsies || Newsboy || ||
|-
| rowspan="3"|1996 || Same River Twice || Andy || ||
|-
| Judge and Jury || Boy #2 || ||
|-
| Infinity || David || ||
|-
| || Just Write || Teenager on Trolley || ||
|-
| || The Souler Opposite || Young Barry || ||
|-
| || Chimera House || Roy || ||
|-
| || The Even Stevens Movie || Mootai / Jason || ||
|-
| || Up-In-Down Town || Billy || ||
|}
Television
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="width=100%;"
|+ List of acting performances in television
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
! Source
|-
| || I'm Telling! || Himself || Contestant ||
|-
| || Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman || First Male Cousin || 2 episodes ||
|-
|rowspan="2"|1994 || Someone Like Me || Doug || Episode: "El Presidente" ||
|-
| Boy Meets World || Boy #2, Roy || 2 episodes ||
|-
| || Sister, Sister || Franklin || Episode: "It's a Party Thang" ||
|-
| –1996 || The Secret World of Alex Mack || Bryce || Recurring role ||
|-
| || Saved by the Bell: The New Class || Glee Club #2 || Episode: "Fire at the Max: Part 1" ||
|-
| rowspan="4"|1997 || Chicago Hope || Will Peters || Episode: "The Son Also Rises" ||
|-
| Baywatch || Todd Rose || Episode: "Rendezvous" ||
|-
| General Hospital || Tim || Recurring role ||
|-
| Step by Step || Will Peters || Episode: "Just Say Maybe" ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|1999 || Touched by an Angel || Young Nick Stratton || Episode: "Made in the U.S.A." ||
|-
| A Murder on Shadow Mountain || Young Denny || Television film ||
|-
| 1999-2002 || The Young and the Restless || Brendon || Recurring role<br>10 episodes ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|2002 || Boston Public || Martin Andrews || Episode: "Chapter Thirty-Four" ||
|-
| ER || Greg || Episode: "Tell Me Where It Hurts" ||
|-
| || Will & Grace || Salvatore || 2 episodes ||
|-
| || Bones || Yasutani the Terrible || Episode: "The Superhero in the Alley" ||
|-
| || Scorpion || Phil Daniels || Episode: "True Colors" ||
|}