Artt Butler, a half-Japanese and half-Mexican individual, was born to be a landscaper, but instead, he pursued a career in the voiceover industry. He started his journey as a receptionist and office manager at Sandie Schnarr Talent (now AVO) voiceover agency in the early 1990s.
After a few years, Sandie asked Artt if he wanted to be an agent, and he accepted. However, he soon realized that he had an uncanny intuitive insight as a director and asked if he could stay in the booth instead of being an agent. Sandie, with her genius foresight, allowed Artt to become the first dedicated booth director at the agency.
As the lead booth director, Artt quickly became a talent favorite due to his ability to speak Actor fluently and give concise, media-savvy direction without making voice actors crazy. He directed and coached some of the best talent in Hollywood for 15 years before deciding to try his hand at voiceover acting himself.
Taking all that he had learned from his years of directing, Artt has had a successful and satisfying career as a voiceover actor, working on a wide range of projects including commercials, animation, video games, feature films, sitcoms, and promos.
Some of his notable roles include the global McDonald's/Avatar television campaign, the national legal tag voice of Chrysler television and radio commercials, Agent Jack Flowers on the season 3 finale of The Boondocks, Captain Ackbar in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the male computer voice in the Academy Award-winning film Her, and the voice of Ashton Kutcher's robot Wald-E in Two and a Half Men.
In addition to his voiceover work, Artt can be heard as the fun-loving patriarch of the Diaz family on Disney's Star vs. The Forces of Evil, promoting the benefits of Top-Tier gas as the voice of Arco, and in the promo world as the voice of DirecTV's Audience network.
In April 2020, he portrayed the fan-favorite baddy Shang Tsung in the animated feature Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge.
