The Superman Super Site is proud to introduce a new weekly series entitled "The Forgotten Supermen" where, each Monday, we will feature an actor that has portrayed the Man of Steel in a particular form of media such as television, film, or radio.

This week's forgotten Superman is voice actor Crispin Freeman who provided the voice for Superman in the video game, "Justice League Heroes."

Born February 9, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, Freeman is the oldest of three children; he has a younger brother; actor, producer, director, and musician Clark Freeman, and a sister; actress and musician Cassidy Freeman who starred as Tess Mercer on the hit tv series "Smallville." All three siblings attended the Latin School of Chicago, where Freeman graduated in 1990. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College, majoring in Theater and minoring in Computer Science. Afterward, he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in Acting, and performed on Broadway (New York City), at the American Repertory Theater in (Cambridge), at the Mark Taper Forum in (Los Angeles), at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park, and at the Williamstown Theater Festival.

As a child, Freeman was greatly influenced by anime shows such as "Speed Racer" and "Battle of the Planets." Casey Kasem voiced the role of his favorite character, Mark of "Battle of the Planets" (he actually wanted to change his name to Mark at one point). Later, he discovered "Voltron", "Star Blazers", and "Robotech", being quoted in the January, 1999 issue of America Interview saying, "That show really blew me away."

Freeman initially got involved in the anime voice-over industry when a friend of his landed a role in "Peacock King." Knowing Freeman was a big anime fan, the friend suggested he call up Central Park Media (CPM) and apply for a job doing English dubs. When originally approached about dubbing, he declined because he deemed dubs inferior to the original Japanese voiceover. It was not until he remembered all of the anime shows he watched as a child that he realized that some people are introduced to anime through the English dubbed versions. In 1997, Freeman landed the role of Zelgadis Greywords in "Slayers along" with Lisa Ortiz, Eric Stuart, and Veronica Taylor. He was the second and final voice actor to get the job, after Zelgadis' original voice actor, Daniel Cronin, lost contact with CPM after a year-long halt in the dubbing. Years later he turned to the American animation voice acting grounds.

Freeman is best known for his work in Marvel Comics based productions as Electro from "The Spectacular Spider-Man", and Multiple Man in "Wolverine and the X-Men." He is currently starring as Red Arrow in "Young Justice" for DC Comics and Warner Bros. Since then, Freeman has had various roles throughout his career. He has appeared in many video game titles as memorable characters such as Albedo from Namco's "Xenosaga" series, the God of the Sun Helios in "God of War 3", Breakdown in "Transformers: War for Cybertron", The Winter Soldier in "Marvel: Ultimate Alliance", and Iron Man in the sequel "Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2."

Freeman is also an educator, giving classes, workshops, and performance lectures in Los Angeles, California, for which information can be found on his official website under "classes". In addition to classes, he releases a new voice acting podcast at the Voice Acting Mastery website every two weeks.

Freeman currently resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Izobel whom he married on August 11, 2007 on the island of Hawaii at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.