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2021 Golden Stake Nomination
SilverStake This article was nominated in the 2021 Golden Stake Awards. It was nominated for the following category: Best Voice Actor (male)
However, it didn't win for this category

Mark Justin Roiland (born February 21, 1980) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for co-creating the Adult Swim series Rick and Morty alongside Dan Harmon, in which he voices the title characters. He is also known as the voice of Oscar on the Disney Channel's animated television show Fish Hooks, and the voice of Blendin Blandin in the hit Disney Channel animated series, Gravity Falls.  He also hosts a podcast along with Jackie Buscarino and Ryan Ridley called The Grandma's Virginity, and acts in, writes, directs, and produces humorous live-action and animated shorts, most notably for Channel 101 and Acceptable TV. Justin Roiland is the co-creator of an animated television show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim called Rick and Morty. Justin also voiced the Earl of Lemongrab in the series Adventure Time in the episodes "Too Young" and "You Made Me," and he also voiced the Lemongrab 2 in the latter. In "Too Old," in addition to voicing the Earls of Lemongrab, he voiced Lemonhope, Lemonjon, and the other Lemon People.

While in an interview, Justin talked about his initial auditioning process. He says, "It's funny because I didn’t audition, so when I came to the record we had to find the character's voice. I feel like I jumped right into this screamy thing and Pen laughed and just said, “That’s it”, and we went with it. That record was wild."

Allegations of abuse[]

In August 2020, Roiland was arrested and charged with felony domestic battery and false imprisonment in Orange County, California, in connection with an alleged incident in January 2020 involving an unnamed woman he was reportedly dating at the time. Roiland was released on bail, after pleading not guilty, and pre-trial is scheduled for April 27, 2023. Knowledge of these events was not public until NBC News reported on the matter in January 2023.

After the charges were laid, multiple people came forward with their own allegations of abuse by Roiland, including claims of predatory behavior towards minors. He private messaged Allie Goertz, who was at the time preparing for a Rick and Morty concept album, and said "Can you write a song about 9 Dick’s of different sized and ethnic origins hanging above your face, and then in the lyrics describe how they each splatter you with semen.”

Adult Swim announced later that month that Roiland had been dismissed from Rick and Morty due to the charges and his roles would be recast for future seasons. Squanch Games affirmed that Roiland had resigned from the company on January 16, 2023, in the wake of the Adult Swim news. On January 25, 20th Television confirmed that he had also been removed from Solar Opposites and Koala Man, which will also continue to be produced without his involvement.

In March 2023, the criminal charges against Roiland were dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

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