Carrie Keranen

Carrie Keranen is an American voice actress, production manager, producer and voice director. She is best known for her work with 4Kids Entertainment, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video, NYAV Post, Studiopolis and Funimation. Her roles include Satsuki Kiryuin in Kill La Kill and Casca in Berserk.[5] In cartoons, she voices Alya Césaire in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. In her live-action work, she has played Piper Tate in Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time.

Carrie Keranen
Keranen at Saboten Con
Born	Oak Park, Michigan, U.S.[1]
Other names	Carolyn Keranen, Caroline Lawson,[2] Evelyn Lanto[3][4]
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Occupation	Voice actress, production manager, producer, voice director
Years active	2001–present

Career

Keranen grew up in Oak Park, Michigan.[1][6] She had always been involved in acting, including high school plays, but in an interview with Everything Geek Podcast, she said she was more active in sports.[7] She attended University of Michigan,[8] and originally intended to major in international business with a specialization in Japanese but would be drawn back into doing plays and subbing in for major roles there.[7] She graduated with a BA in theatre and linguistics,[8][9][10] and after visiting Europe, moved to New York City to pursue acting.[7] She worked on various acting jobs and did stand-up comedy. In 2003, she was a waitress at Rocco's which was featured in The Restaurant, a reality television series about the launch of celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito's eatery.[11] The series was broadcast on NBC for two seasons.

Keranen's first voice-over audition for 4Kids was April O'Neil in the 2003 TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She landed supporting roles, and also landed some guest and supporting voices on the Pokémon TV series. When fellow voice actress Tara Sands moved from New York to Los Angeles, she auditioned to voice match Sands' character Mokuba Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh!. On her way out of the audition, Keranen started pitching another voice actress for the part, but director Eric Stuart later told her that she was the right person for the role and that he even vouched for her to play the part. That was her first major role as a lead male character. Later in the same season, she also got to voice Kisara, which she said was more typical of the characters and used her natural voice. She also voiced Mina Simington, which she described as "type A but not in a forceful way" and would totally get into something if she had the chance.[7]

In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles, California, to continue working on other projects. She had a recurring role as Kate Harper in the Fringe TV series, and is a member of the Sacred Fools Theater Company.[12] On July 23, 2011, she and fellow voice actress Cristina Vee were panelists at Comic-Con for Namco Bandai's preview of the Tekken: Blood Vengeance film.[13]

In 2014, Keranen voiced Satsuki Kiryuin, the student council president and antagonist in the anime series Kill la Kill, which ran on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.[1] In 2016, she provided the voice of Alya Césaire, Marinette Dupain-Cheng's best friend, in the French cartoon Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, which ran on Nickelodeon. She attended San Diego Comic-Con 2016 with the cast and the original creator, Thomas Astruc.[14]

Filmography

Anime

List of voice performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[8][9]
2001	Magic User's Club	Miki Mizusawa		[15]
2002	Berserk series	Casca		[16]
2004–15	Pokémon	Various characters	Debut roles with 4Kids	[4][7]
2004	Gokusen	Kumiko Yamaguchi	As Caroline Lawson	[17][2][4]
2004	Shrine of the Morning Mist	Seiko Rikishi	As Caroline Lawson	CA
2005	Mew Mew Power	Mimi	As Caroline Lawson	[4]
2005	Midori Days	Beniko Iwasaki	As Caroline Lawson	[4]
2005	Piano	Ms. Saito	As Evelyn Lanto	[4]
2005–07	Ah! My Goddess series	Lind, Hikari the Flash	Production manager (season 1) Voice production manager (season 2) As Caroline Lawson or Evelyn Lanto	[17][18][19]
2005–06	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters	Mokuba Kaiba, Kisara	Season 5 As Caroline Lawson	[17][4][7][20][21]
2007	Cutie Honey	Honey Kisaragi	Live-action dub	CA
2007	Phoenix	Hinaku		Press[17]
2008	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's	Mina Simington, Misty Tredwell		Tweet[7][22]
2009	Kurokami: The Animation	Shizuka		CA
2010	Slayers series	Ozzel	Revolution and Evolution-R	[23]
2012–15	Puella Magi Madoka Magica	Mami Tomoe	Also movie	[24][25]
2013	Fate/Zero	Maiya Hisau		Press[25]
2013	Queen's Blade Rebellion	Luna Luna	As Evelyn Lanto	[26]
2014	Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic	Yamraiha		Press[17]
2014	Toradora!	Yuri Koigakubo		Press,[17][25] Tweet[27]
2014–15	Kill la Kill	Satsuki Kiryuin	Also OVA	[1]
2014–16	Naruto Shippuden	Pakura		Tweet[28]
2015	Yuki Yuna is a Hero	Teacher		[29][30]
2015	Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation	Rom		[31]
2015	Sailor Moon	Sailor Galaxia		Press[17]
2015	Aldnoah.Zero	Femianne		[32]
2015	Durarara!!x2	Mimizu (Earthworm)	Ep. "Mouth of Honey, a Needle in the Heart"	[33]
2015	The Seven Deadly Sins	Guila		Tweet[34]
2016	Your Lie in April	Hiroko Seto		[35]
2016	Tales of Zestiria the X	Lailah		[36]
2016	Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy	Mahiru Koizumi	Despair Arc	[37]
2016	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	Carta Issue		[38]
2016	Erased	Akemi Hinazuki		[39][15]
2017	Hunter x Hunter	Baise, Female Operator (Ep. 38), PC Voice (Ep. 42)	2011 series	[40][41]
2018	Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan	Remi Kakiyasu	ADR Director	[42][43]
2019	Neon Genesis Evangelion	Misato Katsuragi	ADR Director Netflix re-dub	[44][45]
TBA	Gundam Seed	Murrue Ramius	ADR Director HD Remastered dub	[46]
TBA	Gundam Seed Destiny	Murrue Ramius	ADR Director HD Remastered dub	[46]

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[8][9]
2004–06	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Ananda, Angel, others		Press[47][7][48]
2006–08	Kappa Mikey	Mitsuki	As Evelyn Lanto	[3][4][49]
2007	Ellen's Acres	Ellen's Mom	As Evelyn Lanto	[4]
2009	Huntik	Narrator		Press,[17] Tweet[50]
2015–present	Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir	Alya Césaire / Rena Rouge	2 seasons	[14]
2016	Mr. Pickles	Lisa Gabagoolie	Ep. "Fish?"	[51]
2017–18	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	Yellow Technique, Giant Robot		[52]

Film

List of voice performances in film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[8][9]
2009	Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life	Sheena, Kiko	As Evelyn Lanto Credited under "Featuring"	Press,[17] Tweet[53]
2011	Tekken: Blood Vengeance	Ling Xiaoyu		[15]
2012	First Squad	Zena	As Evelyn Lanto	[4]
2012–14	Berserk: The Golden Age series	Casca	As Carolyn Keranen	[15]
2014	Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison	Ryūzetsu		[54]
2014	Time of Eve: The Movie	Sammy	As Elizabeth Boyle	[55][56]
2015	The Last: Naruto the Movie	Tenmonkata, Kunoichi		[15]
2017	Sailor Moon R: The Movie	Xenian Flower	Viz Media dub	[57]
2017	K: Missing Kings	Seri Awashima	Replacing Tara Platt	[58]
2019	Evangelion Death (True)^2	Misato Katsuragi	ADR Director Netflix re-dub	[44]
2019	The End of Evangelion	Misato Katsuragi	ADR Director Netflix re-dub	[44]

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[8][9]
2004	Red Dead Revolver	Annie Stoakes, Bargirls, Natalie Kelley		Press[47][15]
2009–17	League of Legends	Luxanna Crownguard (Lux), LeBlanc		Press[47][59]
2011–present	Hyperdimension Neptunia series	Red, Rom, Vert	Replaced Tara Platt as Vert since Megadimension Neptunia VII	Press[17]
2013	Killer Is Dead	Moon River, Natalia		[15]
2014	D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die	Peggy Young		[15]
2014	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair	Mahiru Koizumi		Press,[47] Tweet[60]
2015	Tales of Zestiria	Lailah		Press[17][61]
2015	Star Wars Battlefront	Female Rebel		Press,[17] Tweet[62]
2015	Xenoblade Chronicles X	Irina		[15]
2015	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel	Sara Valestein	Also The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II	[15]
2017	Fire Emblem Heroes	Gunnthrá, L'Arachel	Post-launch role	[15]
2017	Persona 5	Caroline, Justine, Lavenza	Uncredited for Lavenza	[15]
2018	Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight	Caroline, Justine, Lavenza	Uncredited for Lavenza	Tweet[63]
2018	BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle	System No. XX		Tweet[64]

Live-action

List of acting performances in film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[9][10]
2003–04	The Restaurant	Herself (Waitress)	2 seasons	[11][65]
2009	Fringe	Kate Harper	Episode: "Inner Child"	[66]
2012–present	Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time	Piper Tate	Web series	[67]

References

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    • @shadowhawk36079 (November 9, 2015). "@CarrieKeranen I've Been Watching Huntik on Netflix and Every episode The Narrator's Voice sounds Just like Yours were You in that Show" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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Interviews

• Carrie Keranen interview with Michael Rienas
• Carrie Keranen panel at Florida Supercon
• Carrie Keranen interview at Nan Desu Kan 2015 by Anime Hype
• Carrie Keranen interview at Everything Geek

External links

• Official website
• Carrie Keranen at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Carrie Keranen at BroadwayWorld.com
• Carrie Keranen, Caroline Lawson, and Evelyn Lanto on Crystal Acids Voice Actor Database
• Carrie Keranen on IMDb