Daisuke Hirakawa

Daisuke Hirakawa (平川大輔, born 4 June 1973 in Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and singer who has been active since 1997. He has worked across anime, video games, dubbing, drama CDs, and other multimedia productions, and he has recorded for Lantis. He made his screen debut in the in-flight version of Seven Years in Tibet. An early turning point in dubbing came when he voiced Legolas, played by Orlando Bloom, in The Lord of the Rings; he later became Bloom's regular Japanese dub voice. In anime, his breakthrough came in 2004 with the role of Franz d'Épinay in Gankutsuou. As a singer, he performed the ED themes "SPLASH FREE", "EVER BLUE", "FUTURE FISH", and "Clear Blue Departure" for "Free!". He also performed "Be My Steady" and "You're My Courage" for "Prince of Stride". In 2026, he was announced in the cast of Rokudai Kenja no Gakuen Musou in March. He then joined Kuro Neko to Majo no Kyoushitsu, which began broadcasting on 12 April, and appeared in an interview about Snowball Earth in May. In July, he was announced as Murasame Reiji in Junket Bank. He also provided the Japanese dub voice for Tom Hiddleston in a historical documentary program about Pompeii's final 24 hours.