Justin Roiland
Born Name: Mark Justin Roiland
Date of Birth: February 21, 1980
Place of Birth: Stockton, California, United States
Height: 1.78 m
Education: Auditorium Box Office, Modesto Junior College, Sierra High School, Manteca High School
Occupation: Voice actor,animator,writer,producer,director
Home town: Manteca, California, U.S.
Justin Roiland (born February 21, 1980) is an American animator, actor, and director. He is best known as the co-creator of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, of which he voices the show's titular characters. He is also the creator of Hulu's Solar Opposites, in which he voices the main character, Korvo, and is also known as the voice of the Earl of Lemongrab on Adventure Time and Blendin Blandin on Gravity Falls. He is the founder of the animation studio Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions! and the video game studio Squanch Games.

Early life
Roiland grew up on an almond orchard in Manteca, California. He attended Sierra High School up until the first quarter of his senior year and then transferred to Manteca High School for the remainder of his senior year, graduating in 1998. After high school he attended Modesto Junior College in Modesto, California.

Career
He eventually moved to Houston, Texas, and in early 2004, got involved with Channel101, an L.A. media collective started by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, where he made and acted in numerous movie shorts (such as 2 Girls One Cup: The Show, House of Cosbys and a small role as musician "Christopher Cross" in the series "Yacht Rock") and in the VH1 television show Acceptable TV. He appeared regularly on The Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central as "Blonde Craig".

He voices the titular characters of Rick and Morty, for which he is also co-creator, co-writer, and executive producer with Dan Harmon.

On August 25, 2016, Roiland launched virtual reality studio Squanchtendo, a portmanteau of the company Nintendo and Rick and Morty character Squanchy. It was later renamed to Squanch Games. Its first full-length title, Accounting+, made in collaboration with William Pugh's studio, was released for PSVR on December 19, 2017.

News article is edited by: soni - 8-11-2021, 18:26