Gideon Emery Movies and Career Information

Gideon Emery (born 12 September 1972) is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles. Emery was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England. At the age of four, his father relocated the family to Johannesburg, South Africa. An only child, Gideon kept himself amused by imitating characters from film and television. Early impersonations included Michael Jackson and Max from Hart to Hart. He returned to England during high school, briefly attending Reading Blue Coat School. But it was back in South Africa at St John's College where he cemented his love for acting, playing Dick Deadeye in the Gilbert & Sullivan musical HMS Pinafore and winning Best Actor for the role of Mr Glum in The Glums comedy sketch, "L'Engagement". After briefly considering a career in graphic art, he went on to study acting at the University of the Witwatersrand. Student roles included Salieri in Amadeus and Gregor in Steven Berkoff's adaption of Kafka's The Metamorphosis. In his 3rd year of drama school, friend Ashley Callie was going to audition for the annual Christmas pantomime. Gideon was persuaded to go along, and ended