Kari Wahlgren
You need a girl that does both Anime and Western Animation? Hynden Walch. Need one that isn't sugary sweet? Kari Wahlgren is your girl.
She is a prolific voice actress with many roles (probably because she works in many mediums). She is best known in Western Animation as Saturn Girl in Legion of Super Heroes, Charmcaster in Ben 10, and Nova in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!! In anime, she is best known as Haruko Haruhara in FLCL, Rip van Winkle in Hellsing, Saya Otonashi and Diva in Blood Plus, Relena from Digimon Data Squad, Anemone in Eureka Seven, Robin in Witch Hunter Robin (one of her favorite roles), and Kagami in Lucky Star. In Video Games, she is best known as Ashe in Final Fantasy XII and Lady in Devil May Cry 3 and 4.
Notable roles by Kari Wahlgren by medium:
Anime
- Blood Plus - Saya Otonashi, Diva, Liza
- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2 - Sakura Kinomoto
- Chobits - Kotoko
- Code Geass R2 - Guinevere su Britannia, Ichijiku Hinata, Marianne vi Britannia
- Digimon Data Squad - Relena
- Durarara!! - Celty
- Eureka Seven - Anemone
- Figure 17 - Tsubasa
- FLCL - Haruko Haruhara
- Gungrave - Mika Asagi
- Hellsing Ultimate - Rip van Winkle
- IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix - Michiru Satomi, Luca
- Last Exile - Lavie Head
- Lucky Star - Kagami Hiiragi
- Mars Daybreak - Rosetta
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Tsuruya-san, Kyon's Sister, Mai Zaizen
- Naruto - Tayuya, Hana Inuzuka, Ranmaru, Mikoto Uchiha
- Movie 1: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow - Yukie Fujikaze/Koyuki Kazehana
- Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel - Fugai
- Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom - Hikaru Tsuki
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon - Kangaskhan
- Rave Master - Remi
- Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles - Ariel
- Samurai Champloo - Fuu Kasumi
- Scrapped Princess - Pacifica Casull
- Steamboy - Scarlett O'Hara
- Strait Jacket - Rachel Hammond
- Tenchi Muyo!! OVA 3 - Noike Kamiki Jurai, Airi Masaki, Misaki Jurai, Mitoto Kuramitsu, Minaho Masaki
- Witch Hunter Robin - Robin Sena
- Wolf's Rain - Cher Degre
- Tiger and Bunny- Blue Rose
Video Games
- .hack//G.U. - Shino, Kaede
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Janice Rehl
- Ar tonelico - Aurica Nestmile
- Armored Core 4 and For Answer - Fiona Jarnfeldt
- Asura's Wrath - Mithra
- Batman: Arkham City - Ninja
- BlazBlue - Kokonoe
- Dead Or Alive: Dimensions - Kasumi
- Devil May Cry - Lady
- Drakengard - Furiae
- Dirge Of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII - Shelke Rui
- Final Fantasy XII - Princess Ashelia "Ashe" B'nargin Dalmasca
- Fatal Frame II - Mio Amakura
- Guild Wars - Gwen
- Injustice 2 - Starfire
- Jeanne D'Arc - Jeanne
- Kid Icarus: Uprising - Gaol, Phosphora
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - Jill Valentine, Servbots
- Mortal Kombat 11 - Kitana, Mileena
- No More Heroes - Jeane
- Prince of Persia (2008) - Elika
- Prototype - Elizabeth Greene
- The Saboteur - Skylar
- Shadow Hearts 2 - Karin Koenig
- Star Wars: The Old Republic - The female Jedi Knight
- Tales of Symphonia - Raine Sage
- Valkyria Chronicles - Irene Koller
- Vanquish - Elena
- White Knight Chronicles - Cisna
- Transformers: War for Cybertron - Arcee
- Transformers: The Game - Additional Voices
Live Action TV
- Virtuality as the voice of the computer.
- Wizards of Waverly Place as the drama auditioneer.
- A speck of mud in a Swiffer commercial.
Western Animation
- American Dragon: Jake Long - Silver
- Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes - Jane Foster and Enchantress.
- Ben 10 - Charmcaster
- Bolt - Mindy "From The Network"
- Fish Hooks - Shellsea and Snake.
- Legion of Super Heroes - Saturn Girl; plus one episode as Emerald Empress
- Lil' Bush - Lil' Hillary, Lil' Condi (in Season 2)
- Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness - Tigress and Princess Mei Li
- Phineas and Ferb - Suzy
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!! - Nova
- Sym-Bionic Titan - Kimmy
- Tangled Ever After - The Queen
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy - The Spider Queen from the Made for TV Movie
- Wolverine and the X-Men - Emma Frost, Magma, Master Mold, Zybil Zane
- The Penguins of Madagascar - Kitka the Peregrine Falcon
- Zevo-3 - Elastika
Kari Wahlgren provides examples of the following tropes:
- Action Girl: In several of her roles.
- Deadpan Snarker: a few of her characters, but Kagami is most noticeable.
- Relationship Voice Actor: Several times with Crispin Freeman, Johnny Yong Bosch, Michelle Ruff, Stephanie Sheh, Steve Blum, Wendee Lee, and a lot more others in various animes and video games especially in .hack, Blood Plus, Code Geass, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Durarara!!, and a lot more.
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: How can we forget her various roles with various tones? Look, we've got Saya from Blood Plus down to Kagami of Lucky Star down to the seductive Enchantress from Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes.