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Also known as Daniel C. Jacobs, Jr., Daniel C. Jacobs, Daniel Jacobs, Danny C. Jacobs, Jr., Danny C. Jacobs, Danny Jacobs, Jr., Daniel Jacobs, Jr., Daniel Charles Jacobs, Jr.

American actor

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Danny Jacobs, born Daniel Charles Jacobs Jr. on July 7, 1968, in Detroit, is an American actor, singer, voice actor, and comedian. He began his professional work period in 1993 and currently resides in Los Angeles. Jacobs speaks English and performs using his voice as his primary instrument.

His career spans various media, including film acting and music. One of his works is titled "Songs that remind us of factories." While some records list a birth year of 1983, other sources confirm his 1968 birth date and Detroit origin.

Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1983
Works
1

Top works

  • Songs that remind us of factories

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Film & TV

Acting · Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel "Danny" Jacobs (born July 7, 1968) is an American voice actor, best known as the voice King Julien XIII the ring-tailed lemur on the Nickelodeon television series, The Penguins of Madagascar. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Jacobs (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

  • Krapopolis — Griffin (voice)2023
  • Big Nate — Bentley Carter (voice)2022
  • The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib — Jarreau Macintosh, Loose Cannon Agent Brown, Singing Telegram (voice)2022
  • LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales — Raam / Watto / Protocol Droid (voice)2021
  • Star Wars: The Bad Batch — Senator Avi Singh (voice)2021
  • Animaniacs — Crier (voice)2020
  • Animaniacs — Lawyer (voice)2020
  • Animaniacs — Van Gogh (voice)2020
  • Animaniacs — Baldo / Driver / Villager (voice)2020
  • Animaniacs — Dwayne LaPistol (voice)2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Active from
1968

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,560
Total plays
22,582

Tags

film score

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Charles
Family name
Jacobs
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Detroit
Occupation
film actor
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Instrument
voice
Official website
www.dannyjacobs.net
Residence
Los Angeles
Show 6 more facts
date of birth
1968-07-07
name in native language
Daniel Charles Jacobs Jr.
start of work period
1993-00-00
writing language
English language
birth name
Daniel Charles Jacobs Jr.
Commons category
Danny Jacobs
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Encyclopedic overview

Danny Jacobs is an American actor and comedian. Following his voice acting debut in 1999 with an uncredited role in Full Blast, he took over the role of King Julien (originally voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen) in The Penguins of Madagascar (2008–2015) and reprised his role in the Christmas special Merry Madagascar (2009), the Valentine's Day short Madly Madagascar (2013) and All Hail King Julien (2014–2017). He also impersonated Cohen's character Borat Sagdiyev (as well as a cameo appearance as a Pirate with an Eye Patch) in Epic Movie (2007).

Besides King Julien, his voice work includes the role of Rowdy Remington in Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil (2010–2012), Victor Zsasz in Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) and Batman: Arkham City (2011), Special Agent Porter in Justice League: Doom (2012), Snake / Snakeweed in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Grifter and Captain Cold in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013), Baron Mordo in Ultimate Spider-Man (2016) and Heinrich Zemo in Avengers Assemble (2016).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Danny Jacobs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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