Sam Riegel Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Telluride Indiefest Award and a WorldFest Houston Award for "Semmelweis" in 2002
• Won a Telly Award with Rob Blatt for commercial comedy video writing in 2009
• Graduated from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the a cappella group The Academical Village People
• Began his career as a child actor for the traveling Kennedy Center production of "Les Misérables," a role that would earn him numerous other acting opportunities in New York City
• Got his first voice acting role in "Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Express" in 1985
• Has also done several voices in anime and cartoons, including Riven in the "Winx Club" franchise, Mephisto Pheles in "Blue Exorcist," Baki in "Naruto," Tristan Taylor in "Yu-Gi-Oh!," and Jiro in "Blue Dragon․"
• Often collaborates with comedy writer and director Rob Blatt, and the duo has created content for Comedy Central and Funny Or Die and served as head writers of the MSN․com series "The Tastemaker․"
• Best known as a voice actor who played Donatello in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and Spider-Man/Peter Parker in "The Amazing Spider-Man" video games
• Gained widespread recognition after capturing real-time footage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, as he was living in New York at the time