Vic Mignogna

Victor Joseph "Vic" Mignogna is the former voice actor for Qrow Branwen in RWBY for Volumes 3–6.

Vic Mignogna has voiced roles for many other anime productions, notably Edward Elric from the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise, Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club, Ikkaku Madarame from Bleach, Unicorn Jabu from Saint Seiya and Rin Matsuoka from Free!.

On February 4th, 2019, Rooster Teeth announced that following allegations of sexual harassment from Vic Mignogna over the years working at Funimation that Vic "is no longer a part of the cast of RWBY" and that they were "ending all associations with him."^[1] As of July 1st, 2019, he has been replaced by Jason Liebrecht.

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Trivia

• Vic was first approached by Michael and Lindsay Jones while they were all attending Supanova in Australia. The couple explained they were fans of his work before telling him about RWBY and showing him some images from the show on Michael's iPad. He was so impressed by what he saw that he immediately agreed to voice Qrow when he received a follow-up email a couple of weeks later.^[2][3]
• Qrow Branwen was the first character Vic auditioned for before he got the role.^[4]
• He recorded his lines for Volume 3 and 4 in his home studio off of a script with little or no direction and sent multiple versions in for Rooster Teeth to choose from. He finally recorded his lines at Rooster Teeth when it was time to record his lines for Volume 5.
• Volume 3 of RWBY was already on the air before Vic even knew what Qrow looked like.
• In late July of 2013, Vic Mignogna and Monty Oum both traveled to Guam during the same week. On July 27, 2013, Kerry Shawcross made a Tweet saying Vic Mignogna "jumped on" a livestream Monty was holding.^[5] Within an hour of Kerry's Tweet, Monty made a Tweet tagging Vic with a greeting, which seemed to confirm Kerry's statement.^[6]

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