Hiroaki Hirata (平田 広明, Hirata Hiroaki, born August 7, 1963) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator.
His other known roles include Sha Gojyo in Saiyuki, Kotetsu T. Kaburagi in Tiger & Bunny, Klein in Sword Art Online, Vergil in the Devil May Cry series, Mutta Nanba in Space Brothers, Leomon in Digimon Adventure, George Kodama in Kaze no Yojimbo and Mr. Kondo in After the Rain.
In addition, he dubbed many roles of Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, and Josh Hartnett.
In 2011, he played the main character Kotetsu T. Kaburagi in the anime Tiger & Bunny and won the 11th Tokyo Anime Award for Best Voice Actor[4] and the 6th Seiyu Awards for Best Actor in leading role.
On January 9, 2017, Hirata was chosen 25th in the 3-hour voice actor general election special that broadcast on TV Asahi, where 200 popular voice actors were ranked.