Biographie
Dominic Joseph Catrambone (born March 16, 1976 in Chicago, IL) is an American voice actor, voice over artist and acting coach. He has voiced many different characters in animated series, cartoons, animated movies, anime dubs and video games. He is best known for voicing Leonardo in the 2012 Nickelodeon Series TMNT as well as multiple video games (Apple Arcade's TMNT: Splintered Fate, 2013 Nickelodeon: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and in the 2014 video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze), voicing Sulk, Kevin, Fan, Night Mare, Ow the Dentist, and Cave Teen in Bag in Dawn of the Croods, voicing Micro-Ice in the animated cartoon Galactik Football and originating the Signature Voice of Disney XD.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dominic attended St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois from 1990 until graduating in 1994. Afterwards, he studied Biology/Pre-Med · Marketing at the Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, Illinois. Shortly afterwards, he attended the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts West in Los Angeles in 1996 and graduating in 1998, he studied Acting and Theatre there.
From 1999 until 2004, he worked at Hard Rock Cafe International in Universal City, California.
For over two decades he has lent his voice to hundreds of commercials, promos, trailers, characters in video games, animated cartoons, animated movies and anime dubs, as well as ADR, narration and Live Announcing, working as a voice over artist in Los Angeles. Dominic has also voiced several national radio and TV campaigns and can be heard in well over a hundred commercials and video games, promos and other projects. Dominic formerly produced, directed and performed in independent films and stage productions while also maintaining his youth theatrical educational company, Discovery Onstage. He's represented by Atlas Talent in New York and Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife and children. Dominic is happily married to Lindsey Alena Catrambone (also a VO artist) and they love to travel...but always bring their recording equipment!
For over twenty years he has performed in, produced and directed dozens of film, television and stage projects. An accomplished voice over artist, he has lent his voice to thousands of commercials, promos, trailers, video games and animated series. Commercial credits include brand voice campaigns for Mitsubishi Motors, Ross, Little Debbie, Chef Boyardee, McDonald's and Kellogg's Froot Loops as "Jelly the Jellyfish". Dominic had the privilege of voicing the royal blue-masked Ninja Turtle leader "Leonardo" in season two of Nickelodeon's 3D computer-animated marital arts action-adventure, comedy and drama series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from May 18th until September 26th, 2014, temporarily replacing Jason Biggs for the last eight episodes until Seth Green assumed the role from Seasons 3-5 and also had a recurring secondary role on the Dreamworks/Netflix original series Dawn of the Croods from Dercember 24, 2015 until July of 2017.
Dominic launched a five-year run as the signature voice for the popular children's network Disney XD, and continued to work as the English voice for Disney XD Southeast Asia. He has been heard on promos for CBS, FOX, HBO, HBO Films, FOX Soccer, Fox Movie Channel, HGTV and CBS radio, and he has narrated several projects for films and companies including EPIC, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Digimon Fusion, The Grinch, Screenvision, and Pearl Izumi. In 2013, Dominic was also the Live Announcer for Fox's Teen Choice Awards.
Extensive commercial credits include brand voice campaigns for Genesis, Mitsubishi Motors, Ross (spring/summer teen spots), Little Debbie, Chef Boyardee, Cellular One, Zicam Cold and Flu, Gamefly, and Chevron ExtraMile. He is also known as "Jelly the Jellyfish" for Kellogg's Froot Loops.
In the world of animation, interactive, and ADR, Dominic has been honored to work with some of the best people in the business, including Andrea Romano, Sam Riegel, Chris Borders, Doug Carrigan, Keythe Farley, Ginny McSwain, and Jamie Mortellaro. He has voiced characters for dozens of video games and has become known for his voice matching skills, notably Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Keanu Reeves, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Jason Biggs. He was heard as "Micro-Ice" in the UK series Galactik Football, and "Ashuramaru", "Commander Sazabi" as well as several other characters for the popular SD Gundam series.
While maintaining a career as a professional actor, Dominic is proud to share his insight with young performers as well. He Co-Founded a youth theatre education company called DiscoveryOnstage, which launched the theatre department at Providence High School, along with providing after-school programs, summer acting camps, high school drama electives, stage combat workshops, etc and other customized school programs. He still remains on staff as a Musical Theatre Director at Providence High School in Burbank. He has taught voice-over, scene study, improv, monologue prep, theater production, stage combat, and audition technique and has directed students in over a dozen main stage productions. His teaching includes stints with Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts, Glendale Center Theatre and Centre Stage, Inc. Residing in Burbank, Los Angeles, CA with his wife Lindsey and children, Dominic presently serves as a voice actor and voice over artist in Commercial, Promo, Trailer, Animation, Video Games, Live Announce...you name it.
