James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor, musician, singer, comic book writer, and audiobook narrator. He is sometimes credited in various anime series and video games as David Gray and Sam Majesters in the series Dragon Ball Super and the video game Dragon Ball FighterZ respectively. He is best known for his role as the British punk vampire Spike in The WB series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off,
Angel. Since then, he has played the alien supervillain Brainiac along with Professor Milton Fine and Brainiac 5 on the Superman-inspired series
Smallville, Captain John Hart on
Torchwood and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's
Caprica. He appeared in a supporting role in the film
P.S. I Love You, as Victor Hesse in the 2010 reboot of
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