Nakata studied at the
Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. His first roles were for live-action works where his major characters portrayed included Sir Cowler in
Choushinsei Flashman and Great Professor Bias in
Choujuu Sentai Liveman of the
Super Sentai series. He was doing theater work as well as live-action drama and voice dubbing when
Michiko Nomura, who had worked on
Sazae-san, suggested him to become a voice actor. Nakata said in an interview with Sutoraiku that he compared the pay for the roles and was very astonished by the difference, so he then switched to full-time voice acting. He narrated
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam which aired in 1993. In 1994, he voiced Murakumo Yagami, the series' main antagonist in
Blue Seed. In the 1994 anime film
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie he voiced
Balrog (Street Fighter) when the character was named M. Bison. Nakata said that his role in the 1996 anime
Escaflowne helped advance his career; there he played
Folken. He would continue to voice major antagonists including Gaav in
Slayers Next, Stargazer in
Lost Universe, and
Brian J. Mason in
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. In 2001, he voiced the
antihero Alucard in the
Hellsing TV series. Looking back at his career, Nakata said that Alucard was the one character he most enjoyed voicing and the easiest one to portray. He said that villain characters and ones with distinct personalities were easier than ones with not much personality as they can be shaped and changed up. He later reprised his role as Alucard in the
Hellsing Ultimate OVAs. The year 2004 saw Nakata in some breakout roles. He voiced the title character in
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo which was popular among the late night adult audience, but he also joined
Sgt. Frog in voicing
Corporal Giroro, which was popular with kids and adults as it aired during prime time. In 2005, he picked up voice roles as villains
Megatron in
Transformers Cybertron and
Amshel Goldsmith in
Blood+. He voiced
Roy Revant, the protagonist of
SoltyRei.; the director for
SoltyRei would later cast him as the narrator in the
Amagami SS visual novel anime adaptation. He joined the
Fate/stay night visual novel franchise, voicing
Kirei Kotomine in the 2004 release, its anime adaptation in 2006, its feature film
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works in 2010, and the prequel series
Fate/zero. In his interview, Nakata said that co-creator
Kinoko Nasu had known him since his Tokusatsu days, and that he had been involved in many of
Type-Moon's titles, having voiced Nrvnqsr Chaos in
Melty Blood and going on to voice Souren Araya in the anime adaptation of
Kara no Kyoukai. In 2014, he reprised his role of Kirei for the
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works television series. In 2013 he was the narrator for
Noucome, voiced lead character Sigmund in
Unbreakable Machine-Doll, and voiced Nyanta in
Log Horizon. In video games, he voiced in the
Samurai Warriors (Sengoku Musou) series as Uesugi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. In overseas dubbing, he has voiced various characters in shows and films such as
300,
Sex and the City, and
The Little Mermaid. Nakata said that because of his live-action background, he felt comfortable with portraying the overseas dubbing roles, although he still enjoyed the creativity coming from the two-dimensional anime characters. ==Filmography==