Danny Jacobs (actor)

Danny Jacobs
Nationality	American
Occupation	Voice actor, comedian, actor
Years active	1997-present

Daniel "Danny" Jacobs is an American voice actor, comedian, and actor. He is best known as the voice King Julien XIII on the Nickelodeon television series The Penguins of Madagascar and the Christmas TV special Merry Madagascar, substituting for British stand-up comic Sacha Baron Cohen (who continues to voice King Julien on the big screen). He even did an impression of Baron Cohen's character Borat in the 2007 parody film Epic Movie.

Filmography

• Get the Hell Out of Hamtown as himself (1999)
• Full Blast as Curt "Curtis" (voice) (uncredited) (1997)
• Grounds Zero as Omar (2006)
• The Mikes as Paramedic (2006)
• Babylon as Yoram Ben Shulhai (2007)
• Mad Men as Yoram Ben Shulhai (1 episode) (2007)
• Epic Movie as Borat Sagdiyev / Pirate With Eye Patch (2007)
• Humboldt County (2008) (director / writer)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa as Tourist with New York T-Shirt (voice) (2008)

Television work

• Olive, the Other Reindeer as Additional Voices (voice) (1999)
• Futurama as Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited) (1999)
• The Penguins of Madagascar as King Julien XIII / Additional Voices (voice) (2008–present)
• Merry Madagascar as King Julien XIII (2009)

Video games

• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa as King Julien XIII (voice) (2008)
• Batman: Arkham Asylum as Victor Zsasz / Frank Boles / Masked Guard #1 (voice) (2009)
• Madagascar Kartz as King Julien XIII (voice) (2009)
• The Godfather 2 as Hyman Roth (voice) (2009)
• Batman: Arkham City as Victor Zsasz (voice) (2011)

Awards and nominations

Jacobs was nominated for the 2010 Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Television Production for voicing King Julien in Merry Madagascar, but lost the award to Tom Kenny.^[1] In 2011, Jacobs won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for voicing Julien in the television show The Penguins of Madagascar.

References

1. ^ http://www.annieawards.org/consideration.html#20

External links

• Official website
• Danny Jacobs at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Jacobs, Danny
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Date of birth	1968-07-07
Place of birth	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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