Jason Griffith

Name	Jason Griffith
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Caption	Griffith in 2025
Birth Name	Jason Adam Griffith
Birth Place	Lakeline, Ohio, U.S.
Other Names	J. Griff Adam Caroleson DJ Tanner
Occupation	Actor
Years Active	1997–present
Spouse	Melissa Ryan (2015 – now)
Children	2

Early life

Jason Griffith was born in Lakeline, Ohio. He graduated from the North High School in Eastlake, Ohio in 1999.

Career

Griffith began his acting career in 1997, at seventeen years old. He made his feature film debut in the romantic comedy-drama film, Edge of Seventeen in an uncredited role as Scott. He also had an uncredited role as Cassius in the 2008 thriller film, Kill Kill Faster Faster. In television, he appeared in an episode of Blue Bloods as a man wearing a suit inside a red sportscar.

In 2003, Griffith began extensive work as a voice actor. He served as in-house voice talent for the children's television block 4Kids TV, which led him to voice many characters in various animated media including Tom Majors in Chaotic and Miyamoto Usagi in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He was also an occasional promotional announcer for the block, as well as for The CW4Kids and Toonzai. He also provided the voice of Bongo the Monkey in commercial advertising for Danimals.

Through his voice work as the titular character, Sonic the Hedgehog, for the 4Kids English dub of Sonic X, Griffith was brought on by Sega to portray Sonic (replacing Ryan Drummond), Shadow the Hedgehog (replacing David Humphrey), and Jet the Hawk in the mainline video games for the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Griffith began voicing Sonic and Shadow with 2005's Shadow the Hedgehog and ended with 2010's Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and began voicing Jet with 2006's Sonic Riders and ended with 2009's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. During this time, he was often credited as "Adam Caroleson". His role as Sonic was passed to Roger Craig Smith, while his role as Shadow was passed to Kirk Thornton and his role as Jet was passed to Michael Yurchak in 2010. Other than Sonic, Shadow and Jet, Griffith also voiced Sonic the Werehog and Professor Pickle's Assistant in Sonic Unleashed and Newscaster in episode 16 and Prison Guard in episode 42 in Sonic X.

From 2011 to 2012, he starred in the web comedy series Casters as Cal. In 2015, he starred in the English dub of the animated children's series Super Wings.
In 2020, 2021 and 2024, Griffith reprised his role as Sonic and Shadow in the YouTube fan series Sonic and Tails R.

Personal life

Griffith married Melissa Ryan on August 15, 2015. They have two sons.

Filmography

Live-action

Film

Television

Voice roles

Film

Anime

Animation

Video games

Commercials

Web

References

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