David de Vries is an actor and voice artist. Known for appearances in films like Richard Jewell, The Founder and The Accountant, along with television credits on Dopesick, Ozark, Just Beyond and others, he was born in upstate New York and moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, where his mother was a professor of German Language and Literature at Randolph-Macon Women's College. She later became Dean of the College until her retirement. David studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon University as a teenager and received his Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts from American University in Washington D.C. He quickly established himself as a rising voice talent in the advertising world after graduation and was featured in many large-scale campaigns for Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, IBM, Delta Airlines and many others. Along with appearances in TV Movies of the Week --A Time to Triumph (1986), Mayflower Madam (1987) -- and feature films --King Kong Lives (1986), Remember the Titans (2000) -- David moved to Toronto to play the role of Lumiere in the Canadian production of "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" in 1996 and would reprise many times in several National Tours--and spent time in both Broadway companies at the Palace and the Lunt-Fontanne theatres. He closed the show at the Lunt in 2007. From there, he joined the company of "Wicked" and played the show in Chicago, Los Angeles and on the 2nd National Tour as Dr. Dillamond. David is also an award-winning audiobook narrator, with over 200 titles recorded in everything from Caldecott-winning children's books to classics from Melville, Hegel, Norman Mailer and Joseph Campbell. David holds a Masters degree in Communication and Leadership from Gonzaga University and has one son, Willem (b. 1998).