Cathy Weseluck

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Cathy Weseluck
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Weseluck at the 2012 Summer BronyCon Convention
Nationality Canadian
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Years active1986–present
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Cathy Weseluck is a Canadian actress and comedian who frequently works with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia and is known for her roles as Near in Death Note , Cybersix/Adrian Seidelman in Cybersix , and Spike in Discovery Family's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic .

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Early life

Cathy Weseluck has Russian ancestry. Her relatives are from the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union (now territory Belarus). [1] [2]

Career

Radio

Before becoming a voice actress, Weseluck was an associate producer at CBC Radio until one of the hosts encouraged her to try voice acting. [3] Her first voice work was a radio spot for the Vancouver Centre Mall.

Voice acting

Weseluck has provided voices for many cartoon and anime series. She has provided the voice of Mirai Yashima in Mobile Suit Gundam , Dorothy Catalonia and Catherine Bloom in Gundam Wing , Near in Death Note , Cybersix in Cybersix , Shampoo in Ranma 12 , Kagome's mother in Inuyasha , Verne in U.B.O.S. , Misa Takatsuki in Project ARMS , and Kid Trunks, Chiaotzu, and Puar in Dragon Ball Z (among many others). She also voices Spike and several background characters in the animated children's series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic .

In addition to her voice-over work, she is also a voice director and instructor. She served as singing director on My Little Pony Tales , casting coordinator on Animated Classic Showcase for Film Roman, voice director for the English version of Spiff and Hercules , casting director on The Authentic Adventures of Professor Thompson and dubbing director on Billy the Cat .

Filmography

Web productions

Anime dubbing

Live-action English dubbing

Animation

Live-action

Video games

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References

  1. Interview with Cathy Weseluck. Radio Everypony Ru — YouTube
  2. "Did you know my heritage is Belarus?". Cathy Weseluck — Twitter
  3. RumicWorld Interview
  4. "World Trigger Anime's Main English Dub Cast Revealed". Anime News Network . April 22, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  5. Weseluck, Cathy [@CathyWeseluck] (November 30, 2020). "Yes!! People have been asking and I definitely can confirm that I'm thrilled to be part of this awesome show, still 'Kagome's mom', known here as 'Grammy'!! And the show's beautifully done! ;)" (Tweet). Retrieved November 30, 2020 via Twitter.
  6. 1 2 "Cathy Weseluck (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 15 April 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)