Recently, it was announced that voice actor Christopher Ayres, known as the person behind the English version of the character Frieza in the Dragon Ball series, passed away on October 18 after a period of fighting illness.
Ayres’ girlfriend, voice actress Krystal LaPorte, confirmed his passing in a Twitter post yesterday.
On October 18 at 8:40 p.m., my world went dark.
I have never lived in a world without Chris.
Thank you friends who love him.
Chris, I miss your face.
I hope that wherever you are, the first thing you do is take a long, deep breath with your perfect lungs and be able to run and jump again.
I know a lot of people reading this will ask `is there anything I can do?`
`When you die,
Take me away and cut me into little stars,
And he will make heaven beautiful
That the whole world will love the night
And do not worship the bright sun.
Ayres was born on May 16, 1965 in Richmond, Virginia.
However, Ayres is perhaps best known for his role as Dragon Ball’s iconic villain Frieza, a character he voiced in the animated series Dragon Ball Z Kai and Dragon Ball Super, as well as in the Dragon anime series
It is known that Ayres has been battling health problems for many years, undergoing a double lung transplant after being diagnosed with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2017. For a long time he tried to