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Trevor Devall

Canadian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ4120022 ↗
Source-derived summary

Trevor Devall (born November 10, 1972) is a Canadian voice actor and podcaster. He worked for various studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for years, before he relocated to Los Angeles, California, United States in 2013. Between 2007 and 2013, he produced the podcast Voiceprint with Trevor Devall and Guests, where he interviewed other voice actors. Starting in 2019, he became more active in the tabletop role-playing games community, starting the actual play YouTube show Me, Myself and Die! where he played solo tabletop role-playing games; as well as launching a Kickstarter campaign for his own tabletop role-playing game system The Broken Empires in 2024.

Early life

Trevor Devall was born on November 10, 1972, the youngest of five children to Theresa and Vernon Devall. He was into theatre and did tap, jazz, and Polynesian dance as a child. He attended the University of Alberta for drama and directed stage productions as well as student films.

Devall moved to Vancouver in 1998 to pursue a film directing career. While working for a talent agency, he made a demo tape for them and began landing work as a voice actor.

Editorial summary

“Trevor Devall” enters the record as canadian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Trevor, Devall and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2013, 2007, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-11-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Trevor, Devall and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Trevor Devall” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Trevor, Devall and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4120022. VIAF identifies the subject as 83634035. The Library of Congress control number is no2009045597. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2013, 2007 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trevor Devall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.