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Walter Alexis "Lex" Lang is an American voice actor and director, who has provided voices and served as a director for a number of animations and video games. He is best known for voicing Doctor Neo Cortex in the Crash Bandicoot video games. He is also known for voicing Goemon Ishikawa in Lupin the Third.
Steven Jay Blum is an American voice actor known for his distinctively deep voice. A prolific voice actor with hundreds of credits in video games, anime, cartoons, and various other forms of animated entertainment, he received a Guinness World Record in 2012 for having the most video game voice acting credits.
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is an American voice actress, ADR director and singer-songwriter best known for her involvement in music production in multiple games from the Silent Hill series, and her extensive English-language dubbing of various anime, animated films and video games.
Bradley Swaile is a Canadian voice actor. His major roles include Light Yagami in Death Note, Rock in Black Lagoon, and Nightcrawler in X-Men: Evolution. In the 1990s, he voiced Mousse in Ranma ½ and Teen Gohan in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z. He has also voiced multiple roles in the Mobile Suit Gundam series, including Amuro Ray of Mobile Suit Gundam, Quatre Raberba Winner of Gundam Wing, Dearka Elsman of Gundam SEED, Auel Neider of Gundam SEED Destiny and Setsuna F. Seiei of Gundam 00. In video games, he voices Jin Kazama in Street Fighter X Tekken.
Crispin Freeman is an American voice actor, voice director, and screenwriter who is best known for voicing characters in English-language dubs of Japanese anime, animation, and video games. Some of his prominent anime roles include Zelgadis Graywords in Slayers, Kyon in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Alucard in Hellsing, Kirei Kotomine in Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, Itachi Uchiha in Naruto, Hagi in Blood+ and Shizuo Heiwajima in Durarara!!
Sean Schemmel is an American voice actor, ADR director and screenwriter who has worked for Funimation, OkraTron 5000, NYAV Post, 4K Media Inc., Central Park Media, and DuArt Film and Video. He has provided voices for English adaptations of Japanese anime, as well as various other animated series and video games. His most notable voice role has been the adult version of Goku in the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball franchise as well as other characters such as King Kai.
Catherine Davis Higgins is an American voice actress, singer, and jazz pianist.
Laura Bailey is an American voice actress and voice director who provides voices for English-language versions of anime, animation and video games. She made her debut in anime as Kid Trunks in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z. She also voiced 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.
Kirsten Johanne Alice Bishopric, also known as Kirsten Bishop, was a Canadian actress best known providing the voices of Zoycite, Emerald, Kaorinite, Tellu and Badiyanu in the original English adaptation of the Sailor Moon series.
Richard Epcar is an American voice actor, voice director, and writer who has voiced over 600 characters in animation, video games and anime. Some of his major roles include Raiden in the Mortal Kombat franchise, the Joker in Injustice: Gods Among Us, Zangetsu in Bleach, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Etemon and Myotismon in Digimon, Batou in Ghost in the Shell, Ansem and Terra-Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts, Joseph Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Black Ghost/Skull in Cyborg 009, Akuma in Street Fighter V, Daisuke Jigen in Lupin the Third and Andrall in Gormiti Nature Unleashed. He and fellow voice actress Ellyn Stern own and operate Epcar Entertainment, a voice-over production service company based in Los Angeles.
Shelley Calene-Black is an American voice actress who has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films and television series. She has worked for Funimation, ADV Films and Sentai Filmworks. Some of her leading voice roles include Mireille in Noir, Kyou Fujibayashi in Clannad, Medaka Kurokami in Medaka Box, Hamyuts Meseta in The Book of Bantorra and Hime in Princess Resurrection. In live action films, she played the lead role of Maria Patterson in the Mariusz Kotowski-directed Holocaust film Esther's Diary.
Sam Riegel, occasionally known as Jack Lingo, is an American voice actor, director, and writer. He is a regular cast member of the web series Critical Role, in which he and other fellow voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons.
Cindy Robinson is an American voice actress who voices in animations and video games. Some of her major roles are Makoto Nanaya and Gii from the Blazblue series, Betty Boop in commercials, Queen Beryl in Sailor Moon, Chitose Nanbu in Ah My Buddha, Kukaku Shiba, Miyako Shiba, Jinta Hanakari (kid) and Kiyone Kotetsu in Bleach, Zola in the Blue Dragon series, Minerva and Hinoka in Fire Emblem, and Megan Lewis, the actress who voiced the Purge Emergency Broadcast System in The Purge series.
Mela Lee is an American voice actress based in Los Angeles who voices characters on a number of animated series, films, television shows and video games. She is best known as the voice of Jade in Mortal Kombat 11. In anime, she voices lead characters Rin Tosaka, in Fate/stay night as well as Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works and current film trilogy opener Heaven's Feel; Yuki Cross in Vampire Knight; Shinku the fifth Rozen Maiden doll in Rozen Maiden; and Erica Karisawa in the Durarara!! series, which was broadcast on Adult Swim. In animation, she is the voice of Tikki in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, which airs on Disney Channel and Netflix. In video games, she voices Lifeline in Apex Legends, Rena Ryūgū in Higurashi When They Cry, Rachel Alucard in the BlazBlue series, Tiki in the Fire Emblem series and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Sharon Krueger and Scarlet in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series.
Roger Craig Smith is an American voice actor and former stand-up comedian, best known as the voice behind Sonic the Hedgehog from the series of the same name from 2010 to 2021. He also voices Ezio Auditore da Firenze from the Assassin's Creed series, Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series, Hawkodile and Richard from Unikitty!, Captain America in several Marvel projects, Deidara in Naruto: Shippuden, Thomas and various characters in Regular Show, Shinji Hirako in Bleach, Martin Reest in Monster, Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins, Batman Ninja, and Superman: Red Son. He also voiced Kyle Crane in Dying Light and Mirage in Apex Legends.
Karen Strassman is an American stage, television and voice actress who has provided English language voices for Japanese anime shows, animation, and video games. Some of her major roles are Kallen Stadtfeld in the Code Geass series, Miyuki Takara in Lucky Star, Nina Fortner in Monster, Rider in Studio Deen's Fate/stay night, Suigintou the first Rozen Maiden doll in Rozen Maiden, Sawako Yamanaka in K-On!, Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri in Fate/Zero, Momo Hinamori and Soi Fon in Bleach, as well as Sky in the Shantae series.
Shannon Emerick is an American voice actress who voices a number of English language localizations of Japanese anime shows with ADV Films, Seraphim Digital and Sentai Filmworks. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Theater Studies and English. In anime, she is known as the voice of Charlotte Dunois from the Infinite Stratos series, Kei Kishimoto from Gantz and Riki Naoe from the Little Busters! series. Outside of voice acting, she is a stage actress in the Houston area. She won the Best Actress award from Houston Press for her theater work twice in 2006 and 2011, respectively.
Amanda Celine Miller is an American voice actress in audiobooks, commercials, English dubs for anime, animation and video games. Her major roles include Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter, in the Viz Media re-dub of the classic Sailor Moon series and the new Sailor Moon Crystal series, and Boruto Uzumaki. She is also known for voicing in Danganronpa video game series such as the antagonist, Junko Enoshima in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the protagonist Toko Fukawa in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, also Shirokuma in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, Sully and Cherche in the video game Fire Emblem Awakening, Takeru Aizawa in Squid Girl. She was selected as the Breakthrough Actress of the Year by Behind The Voice Actors in their annual Dub Anime Awards for 2014.
Brianne Siddall, also known under her stage names of Jetta E. Bumpy, Ian Hawk, Jetta Bird, and Brianne Brozey, is an American voice actress. She is known for voicing Tommy Himi, Koromon, Keenan Crier, and Calumon in over a hundred episodes of the popular anime Digimon and its video games, as well as for voicing Tsukasa and Elk in the anime .hack//Sign and the .hack games.
Shiina Natsukawa is a Japanese voice actress, singer and YouTuber from Chiba Prefecture. She is a member of the singing unit TrySail, along with Sora Amamiya and Momo Asakura. She is affiliated with Music Ray'n. Her notable roles include Akeno Misaki in High School Fleet, Yuki Kusakabe in Interviews with Monster Girls, and Hikayu Hoshikawa in Re:Creators. Under her activities as a YouTuber she goes by the name 417P.