Gustavo Raul "Gus" Sorola III (born February 22, 1978) is an American actor and podcast host. He is best known for his work with
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of Warner ...
.
Early life
Sorola was born in
Austin
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...
, and raised in
Eagle Pass, Texas
Eagle Pass is a city in and the county seat of Maverick County in the U.S. state of Texas. Its population was 28,130 as of the 2020 census.
Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, which is to the southwest and across th ...
, near the
Mexico–United States border
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.
After choosing to drop out from
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
, he started working at a tech support company, teleNetwork, where he met
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of Warner ...
co-founders
Burnie Burns
Michael Justin "Burnie" Burns (born January 18, 1973) is an American writer, actor, producer, comedian, host, and director previously based in Austin, Texas. He is a co-founder, former chief executive officer, and former chief creative offic ...
and
Geoff Ramsey
Geoffrey Lazer Ramsey (born Geoffrey Paul Wright, later Geoffrey Paul Fink on June 19, 1975) is an American voice actor, film producer and internet personality. He co-founded the production company Rooster Teeth and is known for voicing Dexter G ...
.
Career
Sorola is a founding member of Rooster Teeth Productions.
He is still currently employed at the company and appears in many of their productions. Since 2003, he has voiced the character of Richard Simmons in the machinima series ''
Red vs. Blue
''Red vs. Blue'', often abbreviated as ''RvB'', is an American web series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is based on the setting of the military science fiction first-person shooter series and media fr ...
''. He was also a voice actor in ''
The Strangerhood
''The Strangerhood'' is a comedy series created by Rooster Teeth Productions. The series is produced primarily by using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from video game to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. The animation ...
'' from 2004 to 2006. His live-action credits include ''Rooster Teeth Shorts'', which started in 2009, and ''Immersion'', which started in 2010. He also starred in three ''RT Docs'': ''Unconventional'', ''Why We're Here, and Common Ground''.
Sorola has also managed and hosted the ''
Rooster Teeth Podcast
The ''Rooster Teeth Podcast'', formerly known as the ''Drunk Tank'', is a weekly podcast produced by Rooster Teeth. It is hosted by Gus Sorola and features various members of Rooster Teeth's staff each week. It is sometimes advertised as simply T ...
'' (formerly known as the ''Drunk Tank'') since 2008. On the podcast, Sorola shares many anecdotes about his life, including his childhood and early career. He was also part of several other podcasts such as ''
The Patch,'' ''Let Me Clarify,'' and ''Heroes & Halfwits.'' Since March 2020 he has co-hosted the award-winning podcast ''Black Box Down''. Sorola was nominated for Host of the Year at the ''2022 Quill Podcast Awards'' for his work on ''Black Box Down''. In May 2022 he began co-hosting the ''ANMA'' podcast.
Personal life
Married to Esther Sorola, they live in
Austin, Texas
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with their dog, Oswald. Their previous dog, Benjamin, died on May 3, 2021. He is an ordained minister of the
Universal Life Church
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and has performed several marriages for his friends and colleagues. A pragmatic, straightforward person, Sorola describes himself as asocial and tries to avoid interactions with others.
A self-proclaimed fan of
Bungie
Bungie, Inc. is an American video game company based in Bellevue, Washington. It is a studio owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The company was established in May 1991 by Alex Seropian, who later brought in programmer Jason Jones (progr ...
"since ''
Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete''", Sorola was instrumental in making Rooster Teeth fans of ''
Halo
Halo, halos or haloes usually refer to:
* Halo (optical phenomenon)
* Halo (religious iconography), a ring of light around the image of a head
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* ''Halo'' (franch ...
'', the series in which ''Red vs. Blue'' is made, as when he, Burns, Ramsey and
Matt Hullum
Matthew Jay Hullum (born September 29, 1974) is an American director, producer, writer, actor and visual effects supervisor living in Austin, Texas. He is one of five co-founders and former CEO of production company Rooster Teeth, which specializ ...
visited
E3 2001, Sorola made them visit the Bungie booth, featuring a ''
Halo: Combat Evolved'' demo.
Red vs. Blue : The Interview
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Filmography
Film
Television
Web
Video games
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
American male voice actors
American male web series actors
21st-century American male actors
American male actors of Mexican descent
Male actors from Austin, Texas
Rice University alumni
Rooster Teeth people
People from Eagle Pass, Texas
Screenwriters from Texas
21st-century American screenwriters