Paul Mercier

Paul Mercier (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 4 and Specter in the SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs video game series. Career A third-generation stage actor, Mercier made his feature-film debut in Wrestling with God. When he was six years old he took his first bow on stage with his father's community theater group, The Kensington-Garrett Players in Maryland. It wasn't until his senior year in high school, though, while playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof that he concluded that acting was his true vocation. Following professional engagements with a touring company and several other theaters in the Washington D.C. area, he was accepted into the acting program at Adelphi University in 1980. After winning the Alexander-Barnes Acting Competition he was awarded a full scholarship for each of his four years. Even as a freshman Mercier performed on the Senior Mainstage in plays ranging from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Shakespeare. His repertoire included French mime, dramatic verse, musicals, contemporary comedy, straight plays and cabaret.