Daran Norris
Biographical information
Birth name Daran Morrison Nordland
Born November 1, 1964 Ferndale, Washington
First credit Lupin the 3rd (1977)
Further information
Link(s) IMDb Wikipedia Daran Norris Wiki

Daran Norris is an American actor and voice actor. He provided an additional voice in one episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Contents 1 Avatar: The Last Airbender credits 1.1 Additional voice 2 Selected other credits 2.1 Television work 2.2 Filmography 2.3 Other credits 3 Biographical information 3.1 Personal life 3.2 Career 4 Comments

Avatar: The Last Airbender credits Edit

Additional voice Edit

• 105. "The King of Omashu"

Selected other credits Edit

Television work Edit

• Big Time Rush
• Codename: Kids Next Door
• Digimon: Digital Monsters
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
• Samurai Jack
• The Fairly OddParents
• The Replacements
• Transformers: Prime

Filmography Edit

• A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner! (2011)
• Team America: World Police (2004)
• Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
• The Cat in the Hat (2003)
• The Little Polar Bear (2001)
• Dinosaur (2000)
• Billy Frankenstein (1998)

Other credits Edit

• EverQuest II (video game)
• Final Fantasy XIII (video game)
• Grandia III (video game)
• King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity (video game)
• Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots (video game)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (video game)

Biographical information Edit

Personal life Edit

Born in Ferndale, Washington, Norris graduated from Ferndale High School in 1983. In 1988, he married voice actress Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.

Career Edit

Under numerous pseudonyms, Norris has been a voice actor since 1977, beginning such work in television, and moving into film in 1979 and video games in 1998.

His live acting work began in film with Hobgoblins in 1988 was later featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and moved to television with Earth Angel in 1991.

He provided the voice of J Jonah Jameson (a role also played by J. K. Simmons) in the video game Spider-Man (2000) for the PlayStation & Nintendo 64 and the animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–2009).

Norris is known for the role as Gordy in forty-four episodes of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Gordy is the school's lazy, wacky janitor who always goads Ned into rash actions while acting as Ned's go-to guy for advice.

He also held the role of Cliff McCormack, a Public Defender and Mars family friend, in seventeen episodes of Veronica Mars. The character of McCormack served as an ally to Keith and Veronica Mars and a client of Mars Investigations.

Most recently, Daran plays Buddha Bob in the current series Big Time Rush.

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