Laura Bailey | |
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Born | Mississippi, U.S. | May 28, 1981
Other names | Elle Deets [lower-alpha 1] |
Occupation | Voice actress |
Years active | 1999–present |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Website | laurabaileyvo |
Laura Bailey (born May 28, 1981) is an American voice actress. She made her voice acting debut as Kid Trunks in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z and has since voiced Emily / Glitter Lucky in Glitter Force , Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket , Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood , the title character in the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan , and Maka Albarn in Soul Eater . She is a cast member of the web series Critical Role , playing Vex'ahlia ("Vex"), Jester Lavorre, and Imogen Temult.
Bailey's video game voice roles include Rayne in the BloodRayne franchise, Kira Carsen in Star Wars: The Old Republic , Kainé in Nier , Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft , Rise Kujikawa in Persona 4 , the Female Protagonist in Persona 3 Portable , Chun-Li in Street Fighter , Serah Farron in Final Fantasy XIII , the title role in Catherine , Serana in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dawnguard , Persephone in the Skylanders series, Oriana Lawson in Mass Effect 3 , Lucina in Fire Emblem Awakening , Abigail "Fetch" Walker in Infamous Second Son and First Light , Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands , Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy , and Kait Diaz in Gears of War . For her voice role as Abby Anderson in the 2020 video game The Last of Us Part II , she won the BAFTA Award for Best Performer in a Leading Role and the Game Award for Best Performance, as well as received a nomination for the D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character.
Bailey has also voiced Catwoman in Batman: The Telltale Series , Supergirl in Injustice 2 , Mary Jane Watson in the Marvel's Spider-Man series, and Black Widow in a number of Marvel projects (particularly the television series Avengers Assemble and the video game Marvel's Avengers ).
Bailey was born in Mississippi [1] on May 28, 1981. [2] [3] She has an older sister named Jenny. [1] Her father was in the Air Force, causing the family to move around frequently. [1] They lived in Oklahoma before moving to San Antonio, Texas, and then moved throughout North Texas, all before Bailey was six years old. [1] They eventually settled in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. [1] She had a passing interest in acting and performed in school plays, but was planning to become a biologist. [1] She did not realize she could make a career out of acting until she watched a Dawson's Creek behind-the-scenes special in which Katie Holmes was interviewed. [1] [4] [5] She attended the theatre program at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas, [4] where she participated in productions of the plays Suburbia, Through a Glass Onion, and Don't Rock the Jukebox. [6]
Voice actor Kent Williams spotted Bailey at one of her college plays and invited her to audition for Funimation while they were working on Dragon Ball Z . [7] Her first major role on Dragon Ball Z was Kid Trunks, [7] which she portrayed with a raspy voice. [8] She voiced the starring character Marlene Angel in Blue Gender , which was the first project Funimation did outside of the Dragon Ball world, [5] and Keiko Yukimura in Yu Yu Hakusho , which ran on Cartoon Network.
Bailey was cast for the starring role of Tohru Honda in the anime Fruits Basket . She said that Tohru's character has helped her be more positive: "I was so inspired by her character by her, joy, and outlook on life that, you know, you wanna emulate that." [7] She later voiced Lust, one of the villains in Fullmetal Alchemist , and Sana Kurata in Kodocha . [9]
Bailey had been working with Funimation for about four years before she started ADR directing. She worked on Blue Gender: The Warrior and some episodes of Case Closed . Her first major ADR directing project was Gunslinger Girl , in which she also voices Henrietta. She also co-directed parts of Kodocha. [9] She became a line producer for the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan and also voiced the title character.
Bailey's video game voice roles include Rayne in the BloodRayne franchise, [10] Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft , Rise Kujikawa in Persona 4 , the Female Protagonist in Persona 3 Portable, Chun-Li in Street Fighter , Serah Farron in Final Fantasy XIII , Blaze the Cat in Sonic the Hedgehog , the title role in Catherine , Serana in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dawnguard , multiple characters in Fallout: New Vegas , Lucina in Fire Emblem Awakening , Abigail "Fetch" Walker in Infamous Second Son and First Light , Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands , Spartan Olympia Vale in Halo 5: Guardians , Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy , and Kait Diaz in Gears of War . [11] [12]
In 2020, Bailey starred as Abby Anderson in the video game The Last of Us Part II , a role which won her the BAFTA Award for Best Performer in a Leading Role and the Best Performance award at The Game Awards 2020, although she received death threats in response of the controversy and the character prior to that. [13] [14] In 2022, Bailey was nominated for Best VA Performance (EN) at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. [15]
In addition to her voice over roles, Bailey has also appeared in several live action productions. In 2001, she played a minor role in an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger (titled "Saturday Night") as the daughter of a club owner (Frank Stallone Jr.) with ties to the Mafia. She later had a brief appearance in an episode of One Tree Hill ("It gets worse at night"), which was filmed in Texas. She has appeared in the films Mr. Brooks , Ruffian , and The Staircase Murders .
Bailey is also a cast member of the popular Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role , where she played Vex'ahlia ("Vex") in Campaign One, Jester Lavorre in Campaign Two, and Imogen Temult (Campaign three.). [16] [17] Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019 Webby Awards; [18] the show was also both a Finalist and the Audience Honor Winner at the 2019 Shorty Awards. [19] After becoming hugely successful, the Critical Role cast left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2018 and set up their own production company, Critical Role Productions. [20] [21] [22] [23] Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million. [24] [16] In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced that they had acquired the streaming rights to this animated series, now titled The Legend of Vox Machina; [25] Bailey reprises her role as Vex. [26] Bailey is also one of the narrators for the audiobook edition of the novel Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith & Kin (2021). [27] [28]
Bailey made an appearance in the season finale of HBO's live-action adaptation of The Last of Us in a cameo role as a Firefly nurse, a character she voiced in the original game. [29]
Bailey lived with voice actress Colleen Clinkenbeard while the two worked at Funimation in the late 1990s and early 2000s. [30]
On September 25, 2011, Bailey married voice actor Travis Willingham in Camarillo, California. [31] [32] [33] [34] Having briefly dated when they were younger, they reconnected years later. [1] They live in Los Angeles [8] [35] and have a son named Ronin (born June 30, 2018). [36] [34]
Year | Series | Role | Notes | Source [37] |
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2011–16 | Monster High | Various | Webisodes | [ citation needed ] |
2011 | The Super Hero Squad Show | Firestar | 2 episode | [12] |
2011–13 | Winx Club | Princess Tressa, Serena | Nickelodeon dub | Website [61] [62] |
2013 | Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload | Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow | Television special | [12] |
2013–19 | Avengers Assemble | Black Widow, Gamora, Darkstar, others | [12] | |
2014–15 | Ultimate Spider-Man | Black Widow | 2 episodes | [12] |
Regular Show | Sheena Albright, Natalia, others | [12] [63] [64] [65] | ||
2015 | Batman Unlimited | Cheetah | Web series | [66] |
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled | Black Widow | Television special | [12] | |
2016 | RWBY | Amber | Episode: "Beginning of the End" | [67] |
The Powerpuff Girls | Princess Bluebelle | Episode: "Once Upon a Townsville" | ||
Future-Worm! | Various | [68] [69] [70] | ||
2017 | Rick and Morty | Eli's Girlfriend | Episode: "Rickmancing the Stone" | [12] |
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! | Stephanie | Episode: "Mysteries on the Disorient Express" | [12] | |
2017–20 | Spider-Man | Gwen Stacy / Ghost-Spider, Black Widow, Crimson Dynamo, various voices | [12] | |
2018 | Constantine: City of Demons | Nightmare Nurse | Web series | [71] |
2018 | Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Black Panther - Trouble in Wakanda | Black Widow, Reporter | Television film | [12] |
2019–20 | DuckTales | Palus, Mail Lady, Launchpad's Girlfriends, Capsule, Safety Inspector, Springbreakers | 7 episodes | [12] |
2019 | Lego Marvel Spider-Man: Vexed by Venom | Gwen Stacy / Ghost-Spider | Television film | [12] |
Ben 10 | Cornflower McJoy, Jenny, Debby, Reenactor #5 | 2 episodes | [12] | |
Guardians of the Galaxy | Posh Woman, Lead Squirrel, Additional Animals | Episode: "Black Vortex" | [12] | |
2021 | Family Guy | Judge, Dutch Daughter | Episode: "Who's Brian Now?" | |
American Dad! | Jennifer, Female Flower Thief, Piper | 2 episodes | ||
2022–present | The Legend of Vox Machina | Vex'ahlia "Vex" Vessar | [72] [73] | |
2023 | Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red | Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Little Girl, Sister | Disney+ television special | [12] |
Year | Series | Role | Notes | Source [37] |
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2008 | Resident Evil: Degeneration | Angela Miller | Limited theatrical release | |
2012 | Mass Effect: Paragon Lost | Kamille | [12] | |
2014 | Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods | Kid Trunks, Gotenks | Gotenks shared with Kara Edwards limited theatrical release | [12] |
2016 | Only Yesterday | Nanako Okajima | Limited theatrical release | |
2022 | Fruits Basket: Prelude | Tohru Honda | [74] | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source [37] |
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2001 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Roberta | Episode: "Saturday Night" | Resume |
2003 | Graduation Day | Marni | [159] | |
2007 | Four Sheets to the Wind | Francie | Resume | |
Mr. Brooks | Flight Attendant | Resume | ||
Thief | 1 episode [lower-alpha 3] | Resume | ||
The Staircase Murders | Margaret Peterson | Television film | [160] | |
Ruffian | Cassie | Resume | ||
One Tree Hill | Girl No. 2 | Episode: "It Gets Worse at Night" | Resume | |
Underbelly | Sara Hotchkiss | Resume | ||
2015 | To Have and to Hold | Jane Pierce | Resume | |
2023 | The Last of Us | Nurse | Episode: "Look for the Light" | [161] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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2015–present | Critical Role |
| Cast member Actual play Dungeons & Dragons web series | [162] [163] [164] |
2015 | Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana | Lemley | Cast member RPG web series | [165] [166] |
2017 | Escape the Night (Season 2) | Narrator | Each episode | [167] |
2023 | Candela Obscura | Arlo Black | 3 episodes Actual play Illuminated Worlds web series | [168] [169] |
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