Peter Jessop
Peter Jessop is an actor, born 1964.
Jessop's face is not the product. He is an American voice actor whose best-known work sits in video games, where he has specialised in things older, larger and more certain than the player: Sovereign in Mass Effect, Miraak in the Dragonborn expansion for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Paladin Danse in Fallout 4, and the male Exo player character in Destiny 2. None of those game roles are among the credits listed here, which cover his screen work.
That screen work runs on the same casting logic. Western animation hires him when a character has to sound like the authority in the room: Vision in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Superman in JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, Salaak in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, Tharok in Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, Dr. Vulko in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, and Virgil, the guide, in Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic. It is a narrow band and he works it hard.
The rest is the honest texture of a jobbing voice career: a watch commander in Batman: Assault on Arkham, a henchman in Batman: Caped Crusader, a Canadian border guard in We Bare Bears: The Movie, narration on Scorpion King: Book of Souls, and a rare live-action credit as Diaghilev in the Cole Porter film De-Lovely. He is the kind of performer whose name most people have never read and whose voice most of them have heard.
Movies (9)
- We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
- Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
- Scorpion King: Book of Souls (2018)
- Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
- Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)
- Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)
- De-Lovely (2004)
- JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time (2014)
TV (2)
Where to start with Peter Jessop
Games are where Jessop actually lives, and the entry point there is Mass Effect, where he voices a machine intelligence explaining, patiently, why the argument was over before it started. Nothing on the screen list matches it.
Among the credits here, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic is the most interesting use of him: as Virgil he narrates a descent through a shifting set of animation styles, and his register is what holds it together. The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes is the best sustained work, a Vision built out of stillness, and Green Lantern: Emerald Knights gives him an anthology role with room to be strange.
For the DC animated house style at its most competent, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is the strongest film on the list, JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time the most disposable, and Batman: Caped Crusader the newest place to hear him.