Lang was born in Hollywood, California,[3] on November 12, 1965.[4] He began performing at 7 years old, he would host his own radio show and master of ceremonies for Seagram's National Comedy Competition.[3]
While attending college, he performed stand-up comedy and did impressions for various clubs including The Comedy Store, Dr. Giggles, The NFL Cub, Anderson's Fifth Estate and The Improv.[3] He would perform along with Jim Carrey, Richard Belzer, and David Spade.[3] He would later move back to Hollywood, California to study music at the Musician's Institute before pursuing voice acting in 1996.[3]
Career
A two-time Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards-honored voice actor, (first for his portrayal of Professor Behdety in the 2003/2004 season of Tutenstein, then again as The Doorman and his dog Hundley on the 2009/2010 season of Curious George), he has been in hundreds of productions ranging from original animation, anime, video games, celebrity voice matching, and movie trailers.[5][1][2] He is known for playing the voice of Doctor Neo Cortex in the Crash Bandicoot series, replacing Clancy Brown.[6] He is also known for his anime voice work playing roles such as Sagara Sanosuke from Rurouni Kenshin and Goemon Ishikawa XIII in the Lupin III franchise.[5][1][2]
Lang is also a musician, he has played guitar, bass and the piano.[3] He has also written 200 different songs for various genres.[3]
Other ventures
In 1998 Lang and his wife co-founded the Love Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization which creates educational materials for children on the importance of recycling, world water awareness, and the preservation of the planet.[9] They also created Love Planet Productions, which includes several multimedia projects such as anime presentation shows, toddler shows and products, and Zen programming.[10] In 2006 they launched a bottled spring water business called H2Om Water with Intention, which has received recognition as a sponsor at several events including Sting's Rainforest Foundation Carnegie Hall Concert and the Elevate Film Festival.[11][12][13] Lang was also a Deepak Chopra meditation instructor.[14]
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^Martin, Theron (April 27, 2015). "Yuki Yuna is a Hero [Collector's Edition + CD] – Review". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 26, 2016. Pony Canyon called upon Bang Zoom! Entertainment for the English dub. Long-time voice actor Lex Lang mostly guides well a cast with limited experience; only in a couple of places do the performances sound even slightly stiff or awkward. All of the actresses were appropriately-chosen for their roles in a vocal quality sense and handle the acting capably. ... The dub script is also a smooth and reasonable interpretation of the original Japanese script.