Andy Cowley

Andy Cowleywas born on February 5, 1991, in Warwickshire, England. He completed his B.Sc. Hons. degree in Special Effects Development from University of Bolton. He took private coaching on character development from famous voice actor Lucien Dodge. He also received on-job critique and demo reel assessment from casting director Deven Mack.

While studying special effects in school, Andy Cowley focused primarily on 3D graphics. He was fascinated with the incredible possibilities of acting and began doing impressions based on the character Stitch from the animate show 'Lilo& Stitch'. He started his YouTube channel,'TheDragonHat', on October 10, 2011 and posted his first video, 'DragonHat Commentary - The Polynomial: Space of the music', four days later.He had started out as a YouTube gamer and commentator, playing games like 'Minecraft' and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim'. He then started reviewing games, and eventually began uploading his work.The adventures of two of his characters, Pip and Twitch, became extremely popular with his fans.

In September 2015, he started a new series on his YouTube channel called 'My Face', in which he essentially posted vlog type videos in order to connect with fans and update them on his life.He bagged a partnership with Twitch.tv in mid-2016, which he revealed to his YouTube fans in a video on July 3, stating that his streams will specifically be on Twitch in the future as he cannot post streams on any other platform due to the deal. He has managed to gain over 12k followers on Twitch, apart from his 242k YouTube subscribers. He has his own merchandise, which he announced in a vlog video on July 13, 2016, and made available to fans both in the US and the UK via Teespring for a few weeks. He also offers T-shirts via TeePublic.

In July 2016, he announced his plan to collaborate with other voice actors for more exposure and revealedthat he and his fiancée Amy will be 'kind of' merging their channels. He explained that while their individual channels would stay intact with all the regular contents, his channel will be managed by both of them, and they both will post videos on his channel.

Andy Cowleyis in a relationship with a girl named Amy, who is a fellow YouTuber and goes by the online alias 'BinOfTrash'. She is a digital illustrator and animator known for makingAphmau fan-art often. In January 2016, Amy visited him over the holidays, when they did an 'unusual' video together in which they tasted various American food items. They have been together for over 4-5 years, but due to the fact that she is originally from Australia and he is from the UK, the two have had difficulties in living and working together. They jointly sought funding from their fans via the Patreon platform, and in return, promised to work on exclusive content like 'Harrowed Past' and 'Drawing a blank'.

Finally in July 2017, he posted a video on his channel mentioning that her visa had been granted, and that she would soon move in with him on a 2-year working visa. He also revealed that he had just returned from his visit to her home country, Australia. He thanked his fans for the support, and promised more and better quality content once they can work together in the same room instead of worrying about different time zones. They started the new exclusive 2D and 3D infused animated Minecraft series called 'Harrowed Past' on March 2017, in which he explained the back-stories of his characters.