Few people can claim to be a Guinness World Record Holder for their day job, but Steve Blum is one of that select few. In 2012, the experienced voice actor became the record-holder for most video game voice acting credits. It’s an area he has continued to be prolific in, adding his distinctive, deep-voiced tones to games in the Call of Duty, Halo, Star Wars, Mortal Kombat, Final Fantasy, and Batman franchises. This is all without mentioning his 30-year career voicing anime series and feature films.

As well as his Guinness World Record, Blum has won many other awards for his work, these include several Voice Actor of the Year Awards from the BVTA Awards and awards for his work on the likes of Star Wars: Rebels, Rakuen Tsuiho: Expelled from Paradise, and Transformers Prime.

Blum began as an actor in the mid-1980s, initially in live-action movies. He made his voice-acting debut in 1989, in a manga series called Goku Midnight Eye, since then, he has never looked back. He spent the early 1990s building his reputation as an anime voice actor in the likes of Guyver Big Booster Armor, Giant Robo, and Ambassador Magma. He also voiced characters in films such as Outlanders, Street Fighter II: The Movie, and They Were Eleven. He voiced his first video game in 1995, playing Sid in Full Throttle, which became one of the most critically acclaimed games of the year. He has kept up his impressive work rate ever since and is undoubtedly one of the most successful and in-demand voice actors in the business.