Wendee Lee
No matter what game I play or anime I watch, Wendee Lee will always be there, taking the job away from another starving voice actor.
Wendee Lee (born February 20, 1960 in Los Angeles, CA) is a prolific American voice actress and director. While she has done voice work for many video games, as well as several episodes in the Power Rangers franchise (most notably the second voice of Alpha 6), she is particularly prolific in the dubbing of anime, where she has more credits than any other actor in English dubbed versions, with 223 credits as of April 2009. According to her interview on the Magic Knight Rayearth DVDs, she started doing voices at school, and got in trouble for it.
Lee is also experienced in ADR directing. Earlier director credits include Outlaw Star and Love Hina. Currently, both she and Kirk Thornton are directing the ADR process for Bleach.
Most fans consider her the Western equivalent of Megumi Hayashibara and the anime equivalent of Tress MacNeille due to the sheer length of her résumé and many voice types, which includes many famous roles such as Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop), Umi Ryuuzaki (Magic Knight Rayearth) and Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Wendee Lee provides examples of the following tropes:
- Gotta Catch Them All: In several interviews, Wendee has mentioned how she likes to collect as much merchandise related to shows she has worked on as she can.
- Relationship Voice Actor: She's worked with Steve Blum on several series, and she seems to be good friends with him.
- Also with Crispin Freeman, Johnny Yong Bosch, Stephanie Sheh, Michelle Ruff, Sam Riegel among others.
- Woman Of A Thousand Voices and aversion of Pigeonholed Voice Actor. She even has the range to voice teenage characters, including shonen boys.
- Here's a demonstration clip of her vocal range during the Anime Fans Give Back to Japan charity after the 2011 Japan earthquake (and Talking to Herself there).
- Older Than They Look: As of this writing, she's almost sixty and has been active in voice acting for well over two decades (in other words, longer than most anime fans have been alive), but you wouldn't know it hearing or seeing her.
Wendee Lee has performed in the following roles:
Anime
- Adventures of Mini Goddess - Urd
- Ai Yori Aoshi: Tina Foster
- The Big O: Angel
- Bleach: Yoruichi Shihoin, Tatsuki Arisawa, Ururu Tsumugiya, Friede (try imagining these voices all coming from the same mouth!)
- Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan: Dokuro
- Brigadoon Marin and Melan: Marin Asagi, Lolo, Moto Asagi, Jun Tokita, Isshin Usuzumi, Chiasa Kurihara, Midori Mano, Erin Garnet, and Creis Marine
- Cowboy Bebop: Faye Valentine
- Daphne in the Brilliant Blue: Rena Honjo
- Digimon Adventure: Takeru "T.K." Takaishi, Additional Voices
- Digimon Tamers: Mako, Marineangemon
- Dirty Pair: Yuri (Streamline Pictures dub)
- Fushigi Yuugi: Yui Hongo
- Heat Guy J: Antonia Bellucci, Janis
- Gate Keepers: Ruriko Ikusawa
- Great Teacher Onizuka: Azusa Fuyutsuki, Miyabi Aizawa, Mrs. Sakurai, Tadashi Sakurada
- Grenadier: Rushuna Tendo
- IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix: Sola
- Haré + Guu: Weda
- Love Hina: Kaolla Su, Amalla Su, Tama the Turtle
- Lucky Star: Konata Izumi
- Magic Knight Rayearth: Umi Ryuuzaki
- Mahoromatic: Shikijo-sensei
- Marmalade Boy: Chigusa, Girl Student A, Rumi Koishikawa, Rumi Matsuura, School Girl
- Mars Daybreak: Neli Omamaru
- Mega Man Star Force (anime): Sonia Strumm/"Sky"
- Megas XLR: Kiva
- Mermaid Saga: Isago
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OVA): Christina MacKenzie
- Mon Colle Knights: Batch, Ms. Loon
- Ninja Scroll: Kagero
- Outlaw Star: Twilight Suzuka, Reiko Ando, Little girl Pirate (episodes 1-5)
- Overman King Gainer: Adette Kistler
- Perfect Blue: Rumi, additional voices
- Planetes: Fee Carmichael
- Please Teacher: Hatsuho Kazami
- Real Bout High School: Ryoko Mitsurugi
- Robotech: Vanessa Leeds
- Rurouni Kenshin: Yahiko Myojin, Yumi Komagata
- Suzumiya Haruhi: Title character.
- Teknoman: Shara Carter.
- Tenchi Muyo!: Kiyone Makibi (Tenchi in Tokyo, Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness, Tenchi Forever!), Little Girl Kagato (OVA 3), Kiyone Masaki (OVA 3), Kiriko Masaki, Vega (Tenchi Muyo! GXP)
- Tenjho Tenge: Maya Natsume
- Tsukihime: Ciel
- Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust: Charlotte
- Vandread: Buzam A. Calessa
- Witch Hunter Robin: Miho Karasuma
Live-Action TV
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Scorpina (voice, as Wendee Swan), Stag Beetle (voice, uncredited), Witchblade (voice, uncredited)
- Power Rangers Zeo - Impursonator (voice, uncredited)
- Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy - Alpha 6 (voice)
- Power Rangers Time Force - Redeye (voice)
- VR Troopers - Amy/Red Python, Lizbot, Knighttime (voice)
- Masked Rider - Magno (voice)
- Zeiram and Zeiram 2 - Iria (voice)
- Austin Powers - Fembots (voice)
Video Games
- Ar tonelico: Claire Branch and Jacqli
- Castlevania: Lament of Innocence: Succubus
- Also voices the Succubus in the Updated Rerelease of Symphony of the Night found on the Dracula X Chronicles game for the PSP.
- Dead Or Alive: Dimensions: Ayane
- Digital Devil Saga: Sera and Seraph
- Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Rozalin
- .hack: BlackRose
- Dragon Age: Lily
- Drakengard: Fairy
- Dynasty Warriors: Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao (Dynasty Warriors 4-5), Zhen Ji (Dynasty Warriors 6 and 7), Xing Cai (Dynasty Warriors 7)
- Fear Effect 2: Hana
- The Golden Compass
- Grim Grimoire: Lillet Blan
- Guilty Gear 2 Overture: Valentine
- Hyperdimension Neptunia: Blanc/White Heart
- Klonoa (Wii): Karal, Moon Queen
- Luminous Arc: Theo
- Neo Contra: Pheromone Contra/Lucia
- Neverwinter Nights: Aribeth, PC voice "Innocent Idealist"
- Persona: Maki Sonomura (PSP version)
- Persona 2 Innocent Sin: Maya Amano (PSP version)
- Persona 4: Chihiro Fushimi, Sayoko Uehara, female student
- Prinny: Asagi, Hoshikage
- Rune Factory: Frontier: Selphy
- Samurai Warriors: Oichi (first game only).
- Soul Calibur: Chai Xianghua
- Soul Nomad and The World Eaters: Tricia, Feinne
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: Nel Zelpher
- Suikoden IV: Jewel
- Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World: Aqua
- Tales of Vesperia: Nan, Witcher
- Trauma Center: Angie Thompson
- Wild ARMs 4: Raquel Applegate
- Xenosaga Episode III: Gaignun Kukai (child)
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