Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and screenwriter working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese animated series.
His major roles include Brandon Heat in Gungrave, Hotohori in Fushigi Yà «gi, Klein in Sword Art Online, Jin in Samurai Champloo, Anavel Gato in ', Hajime Saito in Rurouni Kenshin, Jet Link in Cyborg 009, Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Ensign Nogami in The Cockpit and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Organization XIII member Saïx in the Kingdom Hearts series and Shadow the Hedgehog and Orbot in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
In early February 1989, Thornton appeared as a contestant on the game show Classic Concentration.
Thornton is married to Julie Nesbitt. Together they have two children.