Geoff Ramsey Explained

Geoff Ramsey
Birth Name:Geoffrey Paul Wright
Birth Date:19 June 1975
Birth Place:Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Years Active:2003–present
Employer:Rooster Teeth
Children:1

Geoffrey Lazer Ramsey (born Geoffrey Paul Wright on June 19, 1975; later Geoffrey Paul Fink)[1] [2] is an American voice actor, film producer and internet personality. He co-founded the production company Rooster Teeth and is known for voicing Dexter Grif in the web series Red vs. Blue. He also co-founded Achievement Hunter, a now defunct gaming division of Rooster Teeth.[3] [4]

Early life

Ramsey was born and grew up primarily in the Mobile, Alabama area, where he attended elementary and high school, but also lived in Pensacola and Jacksonville, Florida, and the outlying areas of New Orleans.[5] He was a Semi-professional bowler in his teen years, and enlisted into the United States Army before graduating high school, beginning basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina shortly afterwards. His service lasted from 1993 to 1998, though he went on to serve as a photojournalist in Kuwait;[6] [7] [8] he was based at Fort Hood during that time. He studied journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison.[9]

After his military service, Ramsey worked as a roadie for the band Catch 22 and as a production assistant for View Askew Productions.[10] [11] Ramsey then secured a job at the tech support company teleNetwork, where he met Burnie Burns and Gus Sorola. Prior to working for Rooster Teeth, he also co-created the web site drunkgamers.com with Sorola, hiring Burns shortly afterwards to run the site.

Rooster Teeth

Ramsey is one of the original voice actors for Rooster Teeth's sci-fi comedy machinima series Red vs. Blue (2003–2024) as the voice of Dexter Grif.[12] [13] [14] Since then, he has gone on to become an Internet celebrity, regularly appearing at conventions such as PAX and Com Blue with Red vs. Blue actors Burnie Burns, Gus Sorola and Joel Heyman on the Rooster Teeth Podcast. He has only appeared on the podcast sporadically since September 2011, but was one of the hosts on a November 2014 episode of The Patch, Rooster Teeth's gaming podcast. Ramsey's other work with Rooster Teeth includes voicing The Omnipotent Voice in the machinima series The Strangerhood (2004–2006), playing a fictionalized version of himself in both Captain Dynamic (2008) and Rooster Teeth Shorts (2009–present), being a "lab rat" in Immersion (2010), and voicing the Corpirate, the primary antagonist of the first season of the animated series X-Ray and Vav (2014).

In 2008, Ramsey started Achievement Hunter with his colleague Jack Pattillo, a department of Rooster Teeth Productions centered largely on video games. The site originally focused on making videos of achievement guides and Easter eggs found in video games, but has since moved its primary focus to comedic "Let's Play" videos, wherein they play video games and provide humorous commentary, as well as other game-related videos and live-action content featuring the same personalities.

Additionally, he appeared in the bi-weekly reality series Happy Hour alongside his friend and coworker Gavin Free and his second wife Griffon Ramsey.[15] In June 2018, Rooster Teeth launched its first pop-up store in Los Angeles featuring a collection of shirts, hoodies, bags, and pins designed by Ramsey.[16] On September 23, 2019, it was announced that Ramsey had been appointed executive creative director of Rooster Teeth.[17]

Personal life

While changing his surname to his stepfather's, "Ramsey", he was informed by the court that it would not cost any more to change any of his other names, so he jokingly changed his middle name to "Lazer".[18] [19]

It is not publicly known when Ramsey married his first wife, Sarah[20] but as mentioned in a story from the Rooster Teeth podcast it just so happened he finalised his divorce from his first wife and got engaged to his second on the same day.[21]

Ramsey married his second wife, Griffon Ramsey, in 2005. They have a daughter named Millicent.[22] In November 2017, Griffon confirmed on Twitter that the two were in the process of a divorce.[23] Geoff announced the following April that he was divorced in a video on the Let's Play channel on YouTube.[24]

Ramsey began dating an Austin-based hairstylist/salon owner, Emily Hatfield, in 2019. The couple became engaged in October 2022,[25] and were married November 2023.[26]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1994 Renaissance Man Soldier Uncredited
2015 Let's Play Live: The Documentary Himself[27] Documentary
2017 The Tattooist Himself[28] Documentary
2018 Blood Fest Guns
2018Why We're Here: 15 Years of Rooster TeethHimself[29] Documentary
2019Waiting for the PunchlineHimself[30] Documentary
2024Red vs. Blue: RestorationDexter Grif Voice; Direct-to-Video

Web

Year Title Role Notes
2003–2020 Red vs. Blue Dexter Grif (voice)[31] [32] Also producer
2004–2006, 2015 The Strangerhood Mister Mystery
2008–2011, 2017–2024Rooster Teeth PodcastHimself
2009 Captain Dynamic Himself Also producer
2009–2014 Rooster Teeth Shorts Himself
2010–2011 Immersion Himself
2011 O Brave New World Himself[33]
2014 X-Ray and Vav Corpirate (voice)[34]
2014–2016 Happy Hour Himself
2015–presentOff TopicHimself[35] Also producer
2016–2019Theater ModeHimself
2016–2018 Heroes and Halfwits Bo Jingles, Akshay, others
2017 The Eleven Little Roosters Boomerang Geoff[36]
2018–2020 Haunter Himself[37] Also producer
2018–presentHardcore TabletopHimself[38]
2020Last LaughHimself[39]
2020–presentF**kfaceHimself
2020Hardcore Mini GolfHimself[40]
2021–2023Annual PassHimself[41]
2023–presentSo...AlrightHimself

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2007 Halo 3 Additional Voices Credited as Geoff Lazer Ramsey
2016 Worms W.M.D Worm
2018 Red Dead Redemption 2 Train Station Clerk Credited as Geoff Lazer Ramsey
2019 Vicious Circle Blitz[42]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ramsey. Griffon. Happy birthday. Twitter. 22 January 2017.
  2. Web site: Geoffrey . Ramsey . https://archive.today/20191007182301/https://www.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth/comments/de55rm/found_geoff_thanked_in_the_catch22_album_alone_in/%23f2s2eob . 7 October 2019 . Found Geoff thanked in the Catch-22 album "Alone In A Crowd" . 7 October 2019 . . 7 October 2019 . live .
  3. Web site: Rooster Teeth creates Achievement/Trophy database site . Sliwinksi . Alexander . July 28, 2008 . engadget.com . July 6, 2020.
  4. Web site: Announcement . Weems . Sarah . . September 18, 2023 . September 19, 2023.
  5. News: RT Docs: The Tattooist . . 14:38 . I was born in Mobile, Alabama . 25 March 2017.
  6. News: ROOSTER TEETH PODCAST #4 . Rooster Teeth . 5 August 2009 . Rooster Teeth.
  7. News: 1st Med Grp supports operation. Geoffrey . Fink . The Fort Hood Sentinel . 8 December 1994 .
  8. News: Let's Play Minecraft Episode 25 - Stronghold Hunting Part 2 . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/j8eEzU-zu3s . 2021-12-21 . live. . Rooster Teeth . 16 November 2012.
  9. News: Shut Up You Absolute Chad - #143 . Rooster Teeth . 9:10:10 . I went to journalism school there [Indiana] [...] It was a place called Fort Benjamin Harrison.
  10. Web site: Rooster Teeth · Rooster Teeth Podcast #98. https://archive.today/20130201111133/http://roosterteeth.com/podcast/episode.php?id=98. dead. February 1, 2013. May 22, 2015.
  11. Web site: Taking on a life of its own. https://archive.today/20130215125243/http://www.app.com/article/20130118/NJENT/301180057/Taking-life-its-own. dead. February 15, 2013. App.com. Alex. Biese. 18 January 2012. 18 January 2012.
  12. News: Red vs Blue : Season 10 Episode 22 . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/-BpeAtAxg4A . 2021-12-21 . live. 4 November 2013 . Rooster Teeth]. YouTube.
  13. News: Episode 1: Why Are We Here? . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/9BAM9fgV-ts . 2021-12-21 . live. YouTube. Rooster Teeth . 3 June 2008.
  14. While the company will continue to produce occasional Red vs. Blue specials, Wednesday's climactic episode will end the long-running serial storyline, which began on April 1, 2003. . Machinima Series Red vs. Blue Ends Tour of Duty . . 26 June 2007 . Chris . Kohler.
  15. Web site: Roomba Death Match - Happy Hour #1. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/OwtxWL0P9wA . 2021-12-21 . live. YouTube. 7 May 2015.
  16. Web site: Weiss . Geoff . Rooster Teeth Opens First Pop-Up Store In Los Angeles For Its Geoff Ramsey Collection . 13 June 2018 . TubeFilter . 13 June 2018.
  17. Web site: Jordan Levin Takes Reins at Rooster Teeth, Co-Founder Matt Hullum Shifts to New Role. Todd. Spangler. September 24, 2019.
  18. Web site: Halo: Visit Blood Gulch With Geoff Ramsey . 12 June 2010 . UGO Entertainment, Incorporated . UGO's The Goods . Sal Basile . June 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100614030747/http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/visit-blood-gulch-with-geoff-ramsey . 14 June 2010 .
  19. News: Let's Play - GTA V - Ray's Heist. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/SzVodKM9Emc . 2021-12-21 . live. YouTube . Rooster Teeth . June 16, 2014 .
  20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTGMcd3d5ck&t=900s
  21. https://rtarchive.org/watch/rt-podcast-season-1-rooster-teeth-podcast-19
  22. Web site: Brouwer. Bree. October 3, 2016. Rooster Teeth's Geoff Ramsey, Millie Ramsey Loved Making Their Family-Friendly Series 'Schooled'. 2021-09-10. Forbes. en.
  23. Ramsey . Griffon . griffonramsey . November 17, 2017 . 17 November 2017 . 931301334363631616 . Unfortunately it's true. Thank you all for showing respect and appropriate etiquette during our family's transition. .
  24. Web site: Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 307. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/vVjEhalxtE8 . 2021-12-21 . live. YouTube. LetsPlay. April 13, 2018.
  25. Web site: Instagram . 2023-11-18 . www.instagram.com.
  26. Web site: Instagram . 2023-11-18 . www.instagram.com.
  27. Web site: Brouwer. Bree. September 7, 2015. Rooster Teeth To Debut 'Let's Play Live: The Documentary' On September 14. 2020-12-29. www.tubefilter.com.
  28. Web site: Dry. Jude. 2017-03-17. Rooster Teeth Exclusive Trailer: Get Inked By An Amateur In New Documentary 'The Tattooist' — Watch. 2020-12-29. IndieWire. en.
  29. Web site: 2018-04-19. Rooster Teeth Turns 15. 2020-12-29. Austin Monthly Magazine. en-US. Rooster Teeth’s documentary Why We’re Here [...] The documentary shows founders Burns, Geoff Ramsey, Matt Hullum, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman visiting locations from which Rooster Teeth has operated, from a spare bedroom in Buda to its current location in Austin, and recounts how it has grown through current and archival footage..
  30. Web site: March 22, 2019. Waiting for the Punchline. December 29, 2020. Rooster Teeth.
  31. News: Episode 24: Red vs. Blue vs. Rooster Teeth. Rooster Teeth . October 16, 2016 . October 16, 2016 .
  32. News: Pokémon Night and CP . Mike . Krahulik . November 12, 2007 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20160731181252/https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2007/11/12/pokemon-night-and-cp . Gus Sorola, Geoff Ramsey, and Burnie Burns (Simmons, Grif, and Church from RvB) . July 31, 2016.
  33. News: O Brave New World . YouTube . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/OtG6--4r_qk . 2021-12-21 . live. Bungie . Bungie . August 4, 2011.
  34. News: X-Ray & Vav - Episode 4: Storm the Tower. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/EF3phnVReSY . 2021-12-21 . live. Rooster Teeth . YouTube . 25 December 2014.
  35. Web site: Weiss. Geoff. January 18, 2017. Rooster Teeth Unveils Slate Of 12 Talk Shows And Podcasts For 2017 (Exclusive). 2020-12-29. www.tubefilter.com.
  36. Introducing Boomerang Geoff of whatever Australia has. #ELR . RoosterTeeth . 806558898039750660 . December 7, 2016.
  37. Web site: Spangler. Todd. 2018-05-17. Rooster Teeth Orders Animated Horror-Comedy Series From Rob McElhenney. 2020-12-29. Variety. en-US. “Achievement Haunter” (pilot premiered May 17): Geoff Ramsey challenges the Achievement Hunter crew to explore a haunted location and draw out the lingering paranormal spirits, traveling to Texas’ most famous haunted houses, asylums and abandoned locales..
  38. Web site: Francisco. Eric. August 21, 2018. Rooster Teeth: Gamers Play Monopoly for Real Money in 'Hardcore Tabletop'. 2020-12-29. Inverse. en.
  39. Web site: Weiss. Geoff. April 9, 2020. Rooster Teeth's New Comedy Competition Locks Creators In A Room For 6 Hours (Trailer). 2020-12-29. www.tubefilter.com.
  40. Web site: Sheehan. Gavin. May 23, 2020. Rooster Teeth & Achievement Hunter Reveal Hardcore Mini Golf. 2020-12-29. bleedingcool.com.
  41. Web site: 2021-02-11. Grace Helbig, Mamrie Hart To Catch Up With OG YouTubers In Limited Podcast 'How Ya Been?'. 2021-09-10. Tubefilter. en-US.
  42. Web site: June 18, 2019. Geoff Ramsey is Blitz! Vicious Circle Character Reveal Rooster Teeth Trailers. December 29, 2020. YouTube. Rooster Teeth Trailers.

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