John DiMaggio

John William DiMaggio is an American actor and comedian who is one of the primary voice actors on Futurama, voicing Bender Bending Rodríguez and dozens of secondary and one-time characters. Before getting into acting he was a stand-up comedian in the comedy duo "Red Johnny and the Round Guy", and today works mostly as a voice actor.

Outside of Futurama, he can be heard doing voices in ', ', ', and ', as well as ' and '. Recent work includes playing Rico the Penguin in the, Shnitzel from the TV show ', and ' as the voice for Gilgamesh. He also provided the voice for and  for  of Star Wars: .

Characters voiced

 * Barbados Slim
 * Bender
 * Billy West
 * Cheesenubs Possum
 * Constantine
 * Crack Addict
 * Curly Joe
 * Cylon
 * Elzar
 * Flexo
 * Hermaphrobot
 * Igner
 * Joey Mousepad
 * Mr. Panucci
 * Noticeably F.A.T.
 * Oily
 * Randy Munchnik
 * Sal
 * Santa Claus
 * Url
 * Yancy Fry, Sr.

Trivia

 * John DiMaggio has won several beat-box competitions, and demonstrated his skill by beat-boxing the Futurama theme for "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television".


 * During the period after the Fox Broadcasting Company canceled Futurama, DiMaggio reprised the role of Bender for the episode "" of The Simpsons.