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Born | 1961or1962(age 62–63) [1] |
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Bridget Hoffman (born 1961/1962) [1] is an American voice actress and ADR writer who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series, usually under an alias such as Ruby Marlowe. Prior to her involvement in anime, she had some on-screen acting roles in films and television including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and other media produced by Sam Raimi. Some of her major voice roles are title characters such as Belldandy in Ah! My Goddess: The Movie , Mizuho Kazami in Please Teacher!/Please Twins!, Mima Kirigoe in Perfect Blue , and Lain Iwakura in Serial Experiments Lain . She also voiced lead ensemble characters as Rune Venus in El Hazard , Miaka Yuki in Fushigi Yûgi , Raquel Casull in Scrapped Princess , Fuu Hououji in Magic Knight Rayearth , Shinobu Maehara in Love Hina , Nia Teppelin in Gurren Lagann , Kanae Kocho in Demon Slayer , Irisviel von Einzbern in Fate/Zero . [7] She served as the ADR director for the Fushigi Yûgi series and films, Ah! My Goddess: The Movie and a series of shorts called The Adventures of Mini-Goddess . She also provides background voices in a number of animated films recorded in the Los Angeles area, including Frozen , Epic, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 . [8] [9] In video games, she provides the voice of KOS-MOS in the Xenosaga series as well as Atoli in the .hack//G.U. series.
Hoffman grew up in the Detroit area and graduated from Michigan State. [10] She was a model for the promotional pictures of Sam Raimi's 1981 film The Evil Dead , [2] [11] [12] and has participated in several Josh Becker-directed films and episodes, including Running Time , Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter as well as small roles in Raimi's films Crimewave and Darkman . While in Los Angeles, she worked as an actress on a number of plays [1] and also a narrator model for some auto shows. One of her first jobs there was doing a Budweiser commercial with Leon Redbone. She starred alongside Ned Beatty as a historian who time travels with a group of scientists in the 1989 film Time Trackers. [13] [14] She had a starring guest role as Echidna, the Mother of all Monsters, in Raimi's television show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , and would make other appearances in the series. [11] [15]
Hoffman has been involved in voiceovers for anime titles. Many of her roles have been under an alias such as Ruby Marlowe, which was her character's name in her 1994 film Double Exposure . She worked with Animaze / Pioneer Entertainment on the Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play anime series, where she served as the voice director as well as voice the starring role of Miaka Yuki; the show, along with another Pioneer production El-Hazard , where she voices Rune Venus, would air regularly on the International Channel. Her voice was not warmly received by critics on Anime News Network who disliked her squealing schoolgirl tone, [16] and high pitch, [17] although Mike Dungan of Mania.com find her direction and acting to be entertaining. [18]
She starred as Mima Kirigoe in Perfect Blue , a psychological horror film by Satoshi Kon about a former Japanese idol who tries her hand at acting, but whose life falls apart when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and her associates are murdered one by one. Carlos Ross of THEM Anime Reviews considered the general dub acting as "sophisticated, subtle, and well-done", [19] while Chris Homer of Fandom Post enjoyed both the English and the Japanese versions. [20] On the DVD extra for the film, Hoffman gave a Q&A about her character. [21] She would also voice title character Lain Iwakura in Serial Experiments Lain ; she plays a teenager who is deeply involved in the computer network world. Aaron Silver of Anime News Network thought the dubbing was decent but her role as Lain lacked some emotion in comparison with her Japanese voice counterpart. [22]
With the studio Bang Zoom! Entertainment she voiced Fuu Hououji in Magic Knight Rayearth , which was about a trio of junior high students who are transported to a fantasy world. Both Rayearth seasons were dubbed into English. In 2001, she worked with Pioneer (now part of Geneon Entertainment) to ADR direct Ah! My Goddess: The Movie , a feature film in the Oh My Goddess franchise in which she also voiced the title character Belldandy. [23] In a review of the movie, Karen Gellender of Mania.com, who was impressed by Hoffman's previous performances as Mima and Lain, thought the dubbing was a mixed bag, and that her portrayal of Belldandy was the weakest of the bunch, with rather forced acting of emotional dialogue. [24] In contrast, Allen Divers of Anime News Network thought the English cast was suitable and comparable to the Japanese version. Hoffman would later reprise the role of Belldandy in a series of anime shorts called The Adventures of Mini-Goddess , where she also served as its ADR script writer and the ADR director. [23] She would also have a title role as Mizuho Kazami in Please Teacher , in which she portrays a teacher who marries her student and is actually a space alien, [25] and a title role as Mahoro Andou in Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden , where she plays an android maid. [26] [27] She also became married to Rif Hutton in 2001. [28]
In the fantasy adventure Scrapped Princess , Hoffman plays Raquel Casull, the older sister of the title character. Theron Martin of Anime News Network describes her character as initially ditzy but becomes sensible and coldly pragmatic, and that her voice was a particularly good fit, [3] and a dead-on portrayal. [29] Hoffman would voice high school student Shinobu Maehara in the Love Hina romantic comedy series, and supporting character Ryoko Asakura in Bang Zoom!'s dubbing of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series. [30] She had recurring roles in the related anime series Lucky Star where she plays Inori Hiiragi, the eldest sister of the Hiiragi family, and Yukari Takara who is Miyuki's mother.
Hoffman would continue voice acting in the 2010s. In 2013, she voiced Irisviel von Einzbern in Fate/Zero , a prequel to the Fate/stay night series. [31] Outside of anime productions, Hoffman has been involved in a number of animated films, including Frozen and Tangled, where she participates in background voices (ADR loop groups or Additional Voices). [8] In 2012, she was a panelist in the SAG Foundation's Voice-Over Summit held in the Los Angeles area where she discussed ADR, Voice Matching, and Voice Replacement. [32] She voices in video game series, including .hack//G.U. where she voices Atoli, [33] and Xenosaga where she voices KOS-MOS in Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra . [33] [34] She also continues to act in local theatre productions. [35] [36] [37]
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Santa Monica College student Bridget Hoffman. Hoffman has been acting all her life, making a living out of it since 1982. She is an accomplished actress who, at 33...
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Long-time veteran Bridget Hoffman also capably handles the expanded role for Ryoko – I'd place this among her career-best efforts – and everyone else is as reliably good as before.
Co-Starring – Bridget Hoffman – Computer Voice
Co-Starring – Bridget Hoffman – Computer Voice
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