Greg Ellis

At 56 years old, Greg Ellis has this physical status:

Greg Ellis (born Jonny Rees) is a British actor and voice actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Commander Theodore Groves in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series and Michael Amador in 24, as well as voice-over work in over 100 video game titles.

Personal Life

Ellis is a self-described Democrat. In his presidential race, he supported Andrew Yang.

Ellis has been chastised for his support for former President Donald Trump, as well as right-wing political figures Charlie Kirk and Jordan Peterson. Ellis faced criticism from fans of the Dragon Age video game series, as well as former executive producer Mark Darrah in May of 2020. Ellis retaliated in December of 2020 with a 40-minute YouTube video in character as the Bioware series's support character "Cullen." In this video, he shared his dissatisfaction with "Black Lives Matter" and "Me Too" movements, as well as "cancel culture," condemning the "cancel culture hedonists" and "intellectual glitterati" who had been critical of him on social media.

Ellis's political views on gender and family have been discussed in his podcast, "The Respondent," and his book "The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law".

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Career

He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Theodore Groves in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series, as well as appearing in J.J. Abrams Star Trek as Chief Engineer Olsen, the original chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise. He appeared in the western Forsaken with Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, and Brian Cox.

In the 3rd season of the hit series 24, he appeared in Hawaii Five-0 in season five to play Thomas Farrow in a major recurring arc. In Beowulf with Brad Pitt, he appeared opposite Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, and in Titanic, he appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

He has appeared on television shows including: Dexter, The X-Files, Magnum PI, The Riches, Bones, Alcatraz, Star Trek: The Closer, CSI, Perception, Knight Rider, Trust Me, and many others.

In Disney's Lion King spin-off film The Lion Guard and Jet-Vac, as well as Valen Rudor in the Disney animated film Star Wars Rebels, he has been a character in Disney's Lion King spin-off series The Lion Guard and Jet-Vac.

He has worked in cartoons, animated films, and video games. His voice appeared in Rogue Galaxy (as Simon Wicard), Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (as Cait Sith), Tomb Raider: Legend (as Alister Fletcher), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Dragon Age: Inquisition (as Cullen Rutherford). His minor video game projects include voiced for SOCOM II U.S. Navy SEALs, SOCOM 3 US Navy SEALs, and Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Tomb Raider: Underworld, and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. In cartoons like The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Invader Zim, and the first three Ben 10 series, he has also voiced characters.

Ellis played Cmdr. Giles Price in the game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 and Resurrection of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising. In the English version of the CGI film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, he reprised his role as Cait Sith. In Beowulf, the Robert Zemeckis animated film, he played Garmund. Ellis started in musicals and portrayed Rusty in the Apollo Victoria Theatre, and he was the alternate Chris in Miss Saigon's original cast. Drury Lane was the Theatre Royal's original cast. He also appears on the cast recording of the upcoming Starlight Express. "Next Time You Fall in Love" was a single from the show.

Ellis wrote a book in 2021 titled "The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law" about "a first-person account of family breakdown and the socioeconomic, political, and legal forces that are fueling a national health crisis. In 2021, he founded the CPU: Children and Parents United to raise these topics.

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