Patricia Ja Lee

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Patricia Ja Lee
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Lee portraying Haruhi Suzumiya in 2007
Born
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Other namesPee Jay Lee
OccupationActress
Years active1987–2015; 2019-present

Patricia Ja Lee is an American actress. She is best known for her roles of Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger on the television series Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers in Space, and as the voice and motion capture actress for Jill Valentine in numerous entries in the Resident Evil franchise of video games. She also portrayed Haruhi Suzumiya in the first season of ASOS Brigade, a series of live-action videos to promote the show.

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Aside from her on screen roles, Lee also did voicework in many English dubbed adaptations of Japanese anime.

Career

Lee began acting in 1987, when she was 12 years old. Ten years later, Lee got her breakout role[ citation needed ] when she landed the role of Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger for Power Rangers Turbo , a role she would continue to play in Power Rangers in Space . In 1999, she voiced Meifa Puzi in Cowboy Bebop. In 2001, Lee was cast the lead female role in the Golden Harvest action adventure Extreme Challenge.

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Lee with the cast of ASOS Brigade in 2006.

She portrayed Haruhi Suzumiya in the first series of live-action promotional videos launched by Bandai Entertainment on December 22, 2006, to announce the R1 license of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya . Here, she is credited as Patricia Lee, although she referred to herself as Patricia Ja Lee in the first videos. [1] [2] [3] Before the animated series' English cast was announced, it was speculated that she might be the voice of Haruhi as well. In July 2007, Patricia appeared at Anime Expo during the SOS Brigade concert. She was replaced for the second series of promotional videos by Cristina Vee. [4] [5] [6] Lee appeared in the Haruhi anime as the voice of Mizuki Okajima, the drummer of the all-girl student band ENOZ. Lee reprised this role in The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan.

Lee appeared in a 2007 Oscar Mayer bologna advertisement as a spelling bee judge.

Lee's most notable role is Jill Valentine from the Resident Evil franchise. She provided the voice and motion capture work for the character in Resident Evil 5 , released in 2009. Almost a year after the release of Resident Evil 5, Capcom produced a Gold edition, featuring two new scenarios, both of which starred the character, Jill Valentine. Lee reprised her role in both of these scenarios, titled Lost In Nightmares and Desperate Escape.

In 2009 she appeared at the Anime Expo alongside her former Power Rangers co-stars Selwyn Ward, Blake Foster, Roger Velasco, and Christopher Khayman Lee as a featured guest on the Power Rangers panel. Her last appearance as an actor was the 2019 game Teppen.

Filmography

Anime roles

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988 Akira Additional voicesFilm; Credited as Pee Jay Lee; 2001 Animaze version
1991 Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory Additional voicesSeries
1998 Battle Athletes Upperclassman A; Student; Commentator OVA
El Hazard: The Alternative World Afura MannSeries
Serial Experiments Lain Mika IwakuraSeries [7]
1999 Battle Athletes Victory Nurse, Additional VoicesSeries
Cowboy Bebop Meifa PuziSeries
2001 Gate Keepers Megumi KuroganeSeries
2007 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Mizuki OkajimaSeries
2008 Lucky☆Star Patricia MartinSeries [7]
2015 The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan Mizuki OkajimaSeries

Other roles

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997 Power Rangers Turbo Cassie Chan / second Pink Turbo RangerMain role; 28 episodes
1998 Power Rangers In Space Cassie Chan / Pink Space RangerMain role; 43 episodes
1999 Power Rangers Lost Galaxy Cassie Chan / Pink Space Ranger2 episodes
1999Power Rangers: The Lost EpisodeCassie ChanSpecial episode (archival footage)
2001 Extreme Challenge Tang NingFilm
2001 Phase Paradox Uma RemickGame; voice; credited as PJ Lee [8]
2006 ASOS Brigade Haruhi Suzumiya Main role
2006 Hollywood Kills BarbackFilm
2007 Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles Jill Valentine Game; voice, uncredited
2009 Resident Evil 5 Game; voice and motion capture [7]
2010Resident Evil 5: Gold EditionGame; voice and motion capture for new DLC
2011 Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Game; voice
2014 Power Rangers Super Megaforce Cassie Chan / Pink Space RangerEpisodes: “Legendary Battle”/“The Legendary Battle”
2019 Teppen Jill ValentineGame; voice [9]

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References

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  7. 1 2 3 "Patricia Ja Lee (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 29, 2019. 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)
  8. SCEI. Phase Paradox. SCEI. Scene: Ending credits, 1:02:08 in, CAST.
  9. "CREDIT | TEPPEN -Official Site-". teppenthegame.com. Retrieved August 29, 2019.