Robert Daymond Howard (born Robert Daymond Niles) is an American voice actor mostly known for providing voices for animations, audiobooks, and video games.
Biography[]
Daymond was born in Chesterfield, Missouri, to Robert Niles, of Native American descent, and Laura Marks, of German descent. When he was an infant, his father left the family, leaving his mother to raise him with the help of her parents in Warrenton, Missouri. He took an interest in acting and in 1992, participated in the play On Golden Pond. After Daymond's mother remarried, he changed his last name to Howard, and his family moved to St. Charles. In 2000, he attended Webster University, but later transferred to University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he graduated with a BFA in Theatre Performance in 2004. He taught and performed at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre, which was related to UNLV, and received his MFA at UNLV in 2007.
Daymond moved to Los Angeles, where he worked with the New York Film Company and Quixote films. In 2010, he started doing more voice-over work; by 2011, he was doing voice over full-time in cartoons, anime, and video games.
Career[]
Daymond voiced lead character SwaySway in the Nickelodeon program Breadwinners, and Blake Myers in the Nick cartoon Get Blake!. He also voiced the title character in Marvel’s Spider-Man, which first aired on Disney XD in 2017. In anime and video games, he is known as the voice of Tuxedo Mask in the Viz Media re-dub of Sailor Moon, Mumen Rider in One-Punch Man, Hubert von Vestra in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Sorey in Tales of Zestiria, Goro Akechi in Persona 5, Lloyd Bannings in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II and IV, Joe Kido in Digimon Adventure tri. and Prompto Argentum in Final Fantasy XV, Smokey Brown in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Chrollo Lucilfer in Hunter x Hunter, and Kayn in League of Legends aswell as 7 Deadly Sins.
Personal Life[]
Daymond met Megan Lynn Strand in 2004 at UNLV. They moved to Los Angeles, where they were in an on-and-off relationship for seven years, but got engaged in 2017. They married on April 7, 2019. Their daughter, Lynnyx Lola Ann Howard, was born on June 7, 2018. On 26 August 2020, Daymond announced that he and his wife are expecting their second child, due January 2021. Their second child, named Rohan Eldon Howard, was born on January 9, 2021.