Akira Ishida

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Akira Ishida
石田 彰
Akira Ishida in 2020
Born	(1967-11-02) November 2, 1967 (age 56) Nisshin, Aichi, Japan
Education	Nihon University
Occupations	Actor voice actor
Years active	1987–present
Agent	Peerless Gerbera[1][2]
Notable credits	You're Under Arrest as Saki Abdusha Sakura Wars as Setsuna Aoki Boys Be as Makoto Kurumizawa Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny & Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM as Athrun Zala Neon Genesis Evangelion as Kaworu Nagisa Gintama as Katsura Kotaro Bungou Stray Dogs as Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fairy Tail as Zeref Saiyuki as Cho Hakkai Naruto as Gaara Pandora Hearts as Xerxes Break Nurarihyon no Mago as Tamazuki One Piece as Cavendish Sword Art Online as Gabriel Miller/Subtilizer Mob Psycho 100 as Keiji Mogami Parasyte as Hideo Shimada Natsume's Book of Friends as Shuichi Natori Sgt. Frog as Mutsumi Houjou (AKA Saburo) Persona 3 as Makoto Yuki Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinity Train as Akaza Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma as Eishi Tsukasa Titanic (2003 NTV edition) as Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) Honkai Impact 3rd as Otto Apocalypse Genshin Impact as Kamisato Ayato Honkai: Star Rail as Luocha
Height	163 cm (5 ft 4 in)

Akira Ishida (石田 彰, Ishida Akira, born November 2, 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor.

For his portrayal of Saki Abdusha alongside with Sakiko Tamagawa, Akiko Hiramatsu, Rica Matsumoto, Bin Shimada, Issei Masamune and Etsuko Kozakura in You're Under Arrest, Setsuna Aoki in Sakura Wars, Makoto Kurumizawa alongside with Shinichirō Miki and Megumi Hayashibara in Boys Be and Athrun Zala alongside with Sōichirō Hoshi, Rei Tanaka, Naomi Shindō, Nanako Mori, Megumi Toyoguchi, Fumiko Orikasa, Kenichi Suzumura, Maaya Sakamoto, Neya Michiko, Takehito Koyasu and Kotono Mitsuishi in Gundam SEED , Gundam Seed Destiny and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM & Masahiro Sanada in Tenjō Tenge, he was chosen as the most popular voice actor in the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 2004,^[3] and won the Best Supporting Character (male) award at the 1st Seiyu Awards in 2007. He is best known for his roles as Gaara in Naruto, Zeref in Fairy Tail, Cho Hakkai in Saiyuki, Kaworu Nagisa in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Kuja in Final Fantasy, Otto Apocalypse in Honkai Impact 3rd, Luocha in "Honkai: Star Rail", Kamisato Ayato in "Genshin Impact", Katsura Kotarou in Gin Tama & Eishi Tsukasa in Food Wars Shokugeki no Sōma.^[4]