Eric Adrian Bauza is a Canadian-American voice actor and comedian. He is best known voicing several characters, such as Patches in Bunnicula, Foop in Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents, Buhdeuce in Breadwinners, Belly Bag in Cartoon Network's Uncle Grandpa, Tiger Claw in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Splinter in the 2018 reboot series Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Early life[]
Bauza is of Filipino descent. He stated that watching Mr. Dressup while growing up inspired his creative side; Bauza would draw with the host of the show while he was watching it.
Bauza attended Cardinal Newman Catholic High School (now St. John Henry Newman) in Scarborough, Ontario, from 1993 to 1996. He graduated from Centennial College in 2000.
Career[]
Bauza started his career in animation as a character designer in Hollywood.
Bauza has appeared in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, The Fairly OddParents, Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, G.I. Joe: Resolute and Hero: 108. He has also played multiple roles on "The King and Us", a web-series sponsored by Burger King, and was seen on the NFL during Fox's pre-game show.
Bauza is the voice of Lord Stingray on the Adult Swim series Superjail!, Marvin the Martian on The Looney Tunes Show and Dr. Psychobos on Ben 10: Omniverse. He also appeared in episodes of the animated web series Dick Figures, where he voiced the Genie of the Teapot, the Vulgar Mall Santa, and the Ninjas. He has also been the voice of Lord Takagami, the main antagonist of Dick Figures: The Movie. He played Buhdeuce in Breadwinners and the title character in Netflix's The Adventures of Puss in Boots.
He provides the voices of all of the Banana Splits, expect for Snorky (who can't speaks) in The Banana Splits Movie.
Bauza has performed stand-up comedy at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.
Bauza has voiced characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, and Woody Woodpecker. He also voiced Rash in the 2020 version of Battletoads. Bauza was briefly a late night talk show host on The Late Night Show Tonight.
On March 23, 2021, Bauza appeared on the ABC game show To Tell The Truth and performed in his Looney Tunes voices.
Personal life[]
In 2016, Bauza married his longtime girlfriend Jessica Borutski.