Famous as the voice of John Marston in the popular video game Red Dead Redemption, Rob Wiethoff is a leading voice actor in the games industry. He also provides the motion capture for the Marston, and played him in the prequel Red Dead Redemption 2 and in an expansion of the original game, Undead Nightmare. His role in the game has earned Wiethoff widespread critical acclaim and he was placed fourth in the top 10 best video game voice actors in a list compiled by Game Informer. He has won several awards for his performance including the Design Innovate Communicate Entertain Award for Outstanding Character Performance in 2011.
Born in Seymour , Indiana, Wiethoff completed a degree in general studies at Indiana University. Whilst at university his girlfriend moved to Los Angeles, and after visiting her in the city decided to move there to pursue acting roles in films. He began to land small parts in films and commercials, but his big break came in 2008 when his agent called him to let him know he had reached the audition stage for an new video game project, yet to be given a title. Several days later he found out that he had won a role in Red Dead Redemption, published by Rockstar Games. The leading role of playable protagonist and former outlaw John Marston was life changing for Marston, and he provided both the motion capture and voice for the now iconic video game character.
Wiethoff’s role in Red Dead Redemption led to other voice work in video games and radio, but in 2013 he walked away from the industry to raise his family. He was tempted back to play a young Marston in 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2, and would never rule out reprising his world famous role in the future.