Michael Daingerfield

Michael Daingerfield is a Canadian actor, acting coach and founder of On The Mic Training, a voice acting school in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He is best known for his voice roles of Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, playing Gordon Godfrey on the CW's superhero drama Smallville, and his English dub of the anime as Gintoki Sakata in Gintama.

Early life and education

Daingerfield attended Murray State University in Kentucky on a tennis scholarship. He graduated with a degree in business and administration.

Career

Michael Daingerfield's first voice acting job was playing Ace Ventura on the animated series of the same name. According to voice director Dan Hennessey, Daingerfield did a few of Jim Carrey's ADR lines in the second Ace Ventura film (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls), when Carrey was unavailable to do them himself.

In 2006, Daingerfield wrote, produced and starred in, "Daingerfield", a short feature loosely based on his life.

In 2007, Daingerfield founded On the Mic Training, a Vancouver-based, voice acting school where he and many other Vancouver voice actors train students in voice-over.

In 2017, he was cast as the lead role of Gintoki Sakata in the Ocean dub of Gintama.