Claudio Moneta Explained

Claudio Moneta
Birth Date:	20 May 1967
Birth Place:	Milan, Italy
Occupation:	Voice actor

Claudio Moneta (Milan, 20 May 1967) is an Italian actor, dubber and dubbing director. He contributed to voicing characters in animation, video games, sitcoms, and more. He is very well known for providing the voice of the title character in the Italian language version of the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is also known for voicing Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic franchise, Kakashi Hatake in Naruto and Naruto: Shippuden, and Son Goku in Dragon Ball Super. The role of Kakashi Hatake was temporarily filled by fellow voice actor Gianluca Iacono between 2010 and 2011, due to a motorbike incident suffered by Moneta.^[1] He was also replaced in Mass Effect 2 because of that accident as well.

He works at Merak Film, Deneb Film, and other dubbing studios in Italy. Moneta is also currently the network announcer for the Mediaset owned channel Hiro.

Voice work

Animation

• SpongeBob SquarePants^[2] in SpongeBob SquarePants, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
• Terrence Thaur and Chumba Bagingi in Monster Allergy^[3]
• Keto in Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
• Pegasus in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX^[4]
• Wheeler, Czar, and Atticus Rhode in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX^[5]
• Bommer in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
• IV in Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
• Kakashi Hatake in Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden (1st voice),^[6]
• Tucker and other characters in Pokémon
• Goku in Dragon Ball Super
• Boss and Yumetaro Haruna in Hamtaro
• Dr. Mashirit in Dr. Slump (second dub, 1980/86 series)
• Tuxedo Mask in Sailor Moon (Viz Media redub)
• Donquixote Doflamingo, Dracule Mihawk, and other characters in One Piece
• Ryōma in Fūma no Kojirō
• Captain Knuckles in The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
• Mr. Fox in Franklin and Friends
• Verminious Snaptrap in T.U.F.F. Puppy
• Souga in Legends of the Dark King
• Nick Logan in
• Major Glory in Dexter's Laboratory
• Elvis Cridlington in Fireman Sam (2004 series)
• Defoe in
• Jolly in
• Paulie Pretztail in Viva Piñata
• Ed in Best Ed
• Buck in
• Sakuragi in Perfect Blue
• Jubei Kibagami in Ninja Scroll
• Anatole in Anatole
• Ryo Asuka in Devilman
• Simon Schulz in Maya & Miguel
• Gargoyle in (2nd dub)
• Tommy Parker in Sarah Lee Jones (3rd voice)
• Zorro in Kaiketsu Zorro
• Takenori Akagi in Slam Dunk
• Kazuma Kuwabara in Yu Yu Hakusho
• Kisuke Urahara in
• Adon Koborwitz in Berserk
• Diabolik in Saban's Diabolik
• Andy Bogard in
• Vincent Blueno in Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid
• Niju in
• Kirby in
• Dr. Harvey in The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
• The Cat in the Hat in The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
• Doctor Doom in
• Dr. Joeb in Mix Master

Live action

• Ted Franklin in iCarly^[7]
• Jeff Singer in Unfabulous and in The Hughleys
• Daryl Hughley in The Hughleys
• Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother
• Michael Frank in Lüthi und Blanc
• Gilles in Clara Sheller (Season 2)
• Aristide in Premiers Baisers
• Billy Alan Thomas in Ally McBeal
• John Pollock in Missing
• Jackson Greene in USA High
• Stuart Bondek in Spin City
• Julien Lemaître in Élodie Bradford
• Peter Johnson in McLeod's Daughters
• Ram Peters in Nip/Tuck

Video games

• Arthas Menethil in Warcraft
• Commander Shepard in Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3
• Chris Redfield in , Resident Evil 6, , Resident Evil Village
• Rikimaru in ,
• Nomad in Crysis
• Hendrik Schmutz and other characters in
• Sergeant Major Jefferson and other characters in
• Michael Corleone in The Godfather II
• Mysterio in Spider-Man 2
• Wolverine in Ultimate Spider-Man
• Shen in League of Legends
• Sam The Rabbit, in the late 90's videogame named Forestia
• Sir Nevalle and Koraboros in Neverwinter Nights 2
• Jak in Jak II,^[8] Jak 3 and
• SpongeBob SquarePants in and
• Shadow the Hedgehog since Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
• Hermit and Malefor the Dark Master in
• Viktor Reznov in
• King Riccardo in Assassin's Creed
• Trigger Happy in ,
• Thomas Angelo in

Notes and References

1. Web site: Claudio Moneta's dubbing contributions . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.
2. Web site: SpongeBob SquarePants Italian voice cast . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.
3. Web site: Monster Allergy Italian voice cast . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.
4. Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Italian voice cast . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.
5. Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Italian voice cast . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.
6. Web site: Naruto: Shippuden Italian voice cast . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.
7. Web site: iCarly Italian voice cast . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.
8. Web site: Jak II Italian voice cast . Antoniogenna.net . 27 June 2011.