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Place of Birth: Alliance, Ohio, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 5, 1971
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Yuri Lowenthal is an American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter. His video game roles include The Prince in Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia series, Peter Parker/Spider-Man in many games, including Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man and NetEase’s Marvel Rivals ; Lorath in Diablo III ; as well as Dead or Alive , Fallout: New Vegas , Saints Row: The Third , Saints Row IV , Persona 3 , Persona 4 , Cookie Run: Kingdom , and Genshin Impact . In animation, he has voiced Ben Tennyson on Ben 10 and Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto , as well as had voice roles in Afro Samurai , Gurren Lagann , and Code Geass , and animated films including The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie , The Wild Life (2016), and Dragon Quest: Your Story . In live action, he has featured in the films The Arcadian , which he also co-wrote; and The Phoenix Incident . He has also been credited as Sean Roberts and Jimmy Benedict.
He was partly raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and then northern Virginia, also spending two years in Niger for his father’s job with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has referred to himself as a “Tennessee Jew” on social media. He is married to actress and author Tara Platt, with whom he has a son.
Source: https://thejewishnews.com