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Lex Lang (born November 12, 1965) is an American producer, director, voice actor, celebrity voice match specialist, songwriter, music producer and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Love Planet Records and The Love Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization which creates education for children on the importance of recycling, world water awareness, and the preservation of the planet. He is the co founder of H2Om Water with Intention and is a leader in his community for creating positive energy for people and the planet. As a director, he has directed voice actors on numerous productions for clients including Cartoon Network, EWAM, Sony, Bang Zoom Entertainment, Technicolor, PCB productions, Microsoft, Xbox 360, HBO and Warner Brothers. As a voice actor, he has been in numerous productions ranging from original animation, anime, video games, celebrity voice matching, and movie trailers. He is known for playing the voice of Han Solo for Lucas Arts, Doctor Neo Cortex in Crash Twinsanity, Crash Tag Team Racing, and Crash of the Titans (replacing Clancy Brown), Ecliptor in Power Rangers: In Space, the Wolf Duke Org Zen-Aku in Power Rangers: Wild Force and Captain Cold in Justice League Unlimited. He is also known for his Anime voice work playing roles such as Sanosuke Sagara from Rurouni Kenshin, Goemon Ishikawa XIII in Geneon's dub of Lupin III part two, and Crim from .hack//SIGN. He is also the announcer and does all the bits, and celebrity voice matching in Martin Short's talk show, Primetime Glick.

Coincidently, Lang plays a character named Sagara in both Tenjho Tenge (Sagara "Mask") and Rurouni Kenshin (Sanosuke "Sano" Sagara). It is also interesting that he has provided the voice for seiyuu Makio Inoue's two most well-known characters, Captain Harlock and Goemon Ishikawa (although Harlock was played by Koichi Yamadera in the newest series, and replaced Pete Capllan after Harlock Saga.).

Lang was born November 12th. He is the astrological sign Scorpio. Aside from voice acting, Lex is also a singer, composer and lead guitarist in his band, LeXLang. He also has a band alongside with fellow voice actor and close friend, Bentley Mitchum named The Velvet Box. He is married to fellow voice actress and foundress, Sandy Fox. Together, they perform in an acoustic duo called Butterfly.

He has been a special media guest at many large sci-fi and anime conventions throughout the country.

Filmography

Live action

Anime

Non-Anime

Video games

Voice replacements

Documentaries