J. G. Quintel is one of the most popular and richest Voice Actor who was born on September 13, 1982 in Hanford, California, United States.
Quintel was born and raised in Hanford, California, the son of Terri (née Morris) and James Allen Quintel. Quintel is the grandson of Hawaiian-born Stephen Arnold Quintel and Portuguese immigrant Laudalena Costa, from the Azores. He has a younger brother, Payton Dean Quintel. According to Quintel, Hanford’s geography is “kind of flat” and there “was not a ton to do” when he was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, so he and his friends were always looking for ways to entertain themselves, features Quintel would later incorporate into his animated television series Regular Show.
James Garland Quintel (born September 13, 1982), better known as J. G. Quintel, is an American voice actor, animator, television writer, producer and director best known as the creator of Cartoon Network’s Regular Show, in which he also voiced the characters Mordecai and High Five Ghost, and the forthcoming HBO Max series Close Enough. He was formerly the creative director for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, an animated series that aired on Cartoon Network from June 2008 to August 2010 and a writer and storyboard artist on Camp Lazlo from 2006–2008.
Into his teenage years, Quintel loved drawing and watching cartoons such as The Simpsons, Beavis and Butt-Head and The Moxy Show, as well as British shows such as The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh. He often played the video game ToeJam & Earl, the influence of which Quintel later described as “the perfect platform for Mordecai and Rigby” characters of Regular Show. Quintel also became influenced by rock music from the 1980s and later added 1980s music into Regular Show.
