Chris Ayres was was an American actor, director and scriptwriter.
Ayres worked in voice acting and ADR directing on a number of English dubs of Japanese anime shows at Funimation, OkraTron 5000, New Generation Pictures, and Seraphim Digital / Sentai Filmworks.
In anime, he was known as the voice of Frieza from Dragon Ball Z Kai, Kei Kurono from Gantz, Prince Soma from Black Butler, and Shingen Takeda from the Sengoku Basara series.
Ayres died October 18, 2021. He was 56.