Top 20 Female Anime Voice Actors of All Time

Monica Rial was born on October 5, 1975 in Houston, Texas as Monica Jean Rial. She's an American voice actress. She graduated from the University of Houston. She's best known for voicing Bulma in the Dragon Ball franchise, Stocking in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2010) & Froppy in My Hero Academia (2016). She's 1 of the most prolific anime voice actors in the English-speaking world.

Colleen Clinkenbeard was born on 13 April 1980 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Wolf Children (2012), Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009) and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009). She has been married to Patric Carroll since 10 November 2012. They have one child.

Wendee Lee is an American voice actress, writer and ADR director from Los Angeles, California who voiced in dozens of animated films, animated series and video games including Akira, Robotech, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star, Sailor Moon Crystal, Rurouni Kenshin, Magic Knight Rayearth, Outlaw Star, Digimon Adventure and Cowboy Bebop.

Sandy Fox is an American Actor, Voice Actor, Singer and Producer born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She began her career in entertainment at the young age of 17 working for the Walt Disney Company performing in hundreds of live stage shows as a singer, dancer and comedic talent. Some of her on camera roles include Muppet's Tonight, Nickelodeon's Early Days, Welcome Home Freshmen and starring in Disney's Fourth of July Spectacular with Rita Moreno and Tommy Tune.

As a voice actor she provided an array of additional voices over the years for The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Futurama. Her introduction into the world of voicing Anime was portraying Kyoko in the Japanese film AKIRA, Sakura in Ninja Cadets and singing the theme songs for The Magic Knight Rayearth series. Other notable roles are Mipsy in As Told by Ginger, Hello Kitty in The Super Cute Friendship Festival Tour, Harmony in Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, and Chibiusa and Black Lady in the new Sailor Moon series.

Sandy is known internationally known for voicing the Queen of Cartoons - Betty Boop. At the age of 18 she was hired by the 1920's jazz group The Cocoanut Manor Orchestra to sing the songs of the 1920's and the repertoire of Annette Henshaw, Helene Kane and Betty Boop. She performed with the orchestra for eleven years opening for festivals and jazz greats Ray Charles, Pete Fountain, Dizzy Gillespie and Cab Calloway . She has voiced Betty for Universal Studios and King Features since 1991 and can be heard as Betty Boop and Pudgy in the new line of singing plush toys from Chantilly Lane, in the Universal Studios Islands of Adventure Theme Park in Orlando Florida, Lancome Paris' and Zac Posen's global online campaigns, and most recently Betty's appearance on Project Runway All Stars.

Sandy's passions are creating conscious media for children and projects that inspire positive change on the planet. She is CEO and co-founder of Love Planet Productions and The Love Planet Foundation, a 501c non profit which focuses on creating education and awareness on social and environmental issues.

Luci Christian was born on 18 March 1973 in Hico, Texas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Vampire Hunter D (1985), The Boy and the Beast (2015) and Gatchaman The Movie (1978). She has been married to Michael Bell since 19 April 2008. They have two children. She was previously married to Christopher Berry.

Tiffany Grant was born on 11 October 1968 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) and Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009). She was previously married to Matt Greenfield.

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is a voice over actress, writer, singer and director. As an actress, she plays Governor Pryce in Star Wars: Rebels (2014), Dr. Maheswaran in Steven Universe (2013), Valkyrie in Lego Marvel's Avengers (2016), Talis in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010), Johanna in Heroes of the Storm (2015), and Brooha in Smile PreCure! (2012). She voiced Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004), for which she won the American Anime Award for Best Actress. You can also hear her as the Female Crusader in Diablo III (2012), Kurutsu in Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013), and Sei in Alpha Protocol (2010). Some of her other popular roles are Kurenai from Naruto (2002), Zanpakuto from Bleach (2004), Helba from .hack//SIGN (2002), Jagura from Wolf's Rain (2003) and Caroline from Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000). She also portrays Zahra on Geek & Sundry's Critical Role (2015).

Mary is voice directing the Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (2017) television series; Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer (2017); Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (2014) for Disney XD, starring Thomas Middleditch, Adam Devine, Alfred Molina and Larry Wilmore and Smile PreCure! (2012) for Saban Entertainment. She has directed the 6 Naruto movies, as well as Naruto (2002), for which she received the 2008 SPJA Award for Best Director. Among her many other directing credits are Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Tenkai Knights (2013), Digimon Fusion (2013), Stitch! (2008), Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014), Wolf's Rain (2003), and was a co-writer for the American adaptation of "Metropolis". She also directed the original animated series, Boing the Play Ranger (2013) and Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return! (2008).

Mary Elizabeth has had the great honor of singing the music of Akira Yamaoka for the movies Julia X (2011) and Silent Hill (2006) as well as the games: Silent Hill 3 (2003), Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004), Silent Hill: Origins (2007), Shadows of the Damned (2011), Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009) and Silent Hill: Book of Memories (2012), which she also voice directed.

Stephanie Sheh is an American voice actress, ADR director, writer and producer. Born on April 10, 1977 in Kalamazoo, Michigan and raised in California, Sheh first gained interest in voice acting while attending high school, and upon graduating college would land her first major roles as Silky in Tenshi ni narumon (1999) and Mamimi Samejima in FLCL (2000). This eventually led to her landing more roles in anime series such as Hinuta Hyuuga in the Naruto franchise, Orihime Inoue in Bleach (2004), the title character from Eureka Seven (2005), Akira Kogami in Lucky Star (2007), and Yui Hirasawa in K-On! (2009). Sheh has also done work for numerous characters in video games, and in addition to reprising her anime roles in various games based on their respective series, she also voiced Tharja in Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012) and other installments in the Fire Emblem franchise and motion capture work as Cereza in Bayonetta (2009). Among her other roles include Usagi Tsukino in Viz Media's red of the Sailor Moon franchise, Yui in the Sword Art Online franchise, Lotte Yanson in Little Witch Academia (2017), and Nui Harime in KILL la KILL (2013).

Michelle Ruff is an American voice actress who voiced in dozens of animated series, anime and video games. She voiced in Akira, Haruhi Suzumiya, Street Fighter, Chobits, Lucky Star, Bleach, Resident Evil, Sonic the Hedgehog, Persona, Sword Art Online, Gurren Lagann and Lupin the Third. She is married to her husband Eddie Correa.

Christine M. Auten was born on 26 February 1969 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Dark Water (2002) and Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (1998). She has been married to Andrew Auten since 10 February 1997.

Caitlin Glass was born on 16 November 1981 in Washington D.C., USA. She is an actress, known for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009), Escaflowne: The Movie (2000) and Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011). She has been married to Tony Patterson since 2009.

Dorothy Elias-Fahn was born on 13 March 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Rurouni Kenshin (1996). She has been married to Tom Fahn since 9 November 1985.

Brina Palencia was born on February 13, 1984 as Brina Michelle Palencia. She is an Honduran-American actress, voice-over artist and director, known for One Piece (1999), Dragon Ball Z Kai (2009), The Walking Dead (2010), and Star-Crossed (2014). Her voice has been featured in numerous animated series and video games including The Walking Dead: Michonne (2016), Donkey Kong Country Returns (2013), Dead or Alive 5 (2012), World of Warcraft (2005), Duke Nukem Forever (2011), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009), Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Detective Conan (1996). Growing up, she split her time between Honduras and the United States. She is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Cherami Leigh Kuehn (born July 19, 1988) is an American actress and voice artist who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series and video games with Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment and Studiopolis.

Leigh began acting at the age of six. She studied Meisner-based Film Acting Technique with Nancy Chartier from the age of nine. As a child she played Gretchen in Finding North, Marcia in Temple Grandin, the young LeAnn Rimes in Holiday in Your Heart (1997), Stacy Anderson in The President's Man (2000), and appeared on on the television series Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) multiple times. On screen, she played Kim in Fast Food Nation (2006). In 2014, she had the lead role in Shane Dawson's Not Cool (2014). As a voice artist, her roles have included Sae Kashiwagi in Peach Girl, Cecily Campbell in The Sacred Blacksmith, Tamaki Kawazoe in Bamboo Blade, Lucy Heartfilia in Fairy Tail, Patty Thompson in Soul Eater, and Asuna Yuuki in Sword Art Online.

Leigh attended Hebron High School in Carrollton, Texas and studied theater at Collin College in Plano. She worked for Radio Disney as a DJ and also voice-over promotions and commercials for ABC Radio for 10 years. In 2013 she moved to Los Angeles, and continued voice acting on video games and anime as well as take on live-action acting roles. She married fellow actor Jon Christie on April 13, 2014, whom she had dated since 2010.

Mona Marshall is an American voice actress. She is best known for voicing several characters on Comedy Central's animated sitcom South Park (1997) since 1999, where she (alongside April Stewart) provided the voices of many of the show's female characters (most notably Sheila Broflovski and Linda Stotch), and continued to do the same for its video game spin-offs. Marshall is also known for her role as tech genius Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi in the English dub of Digimon: Digital Monsters (1999) and the title character from Bang! Zoom's English dub of Doraemon (2005), and has also done voices for various shows and games such as Fraggle Rock (1987), Wolf's Rain (2003), and Naruto (2002), among others.

Carrie Savage was born on 8 April 1980. She is an actress and writer, known for Street Fighter X Tekken (2012), SoltyRei (2005) and Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009).

Laura Bailey is an award-winning Los Angeles-based voice actor known for her roles in animation and video games, as well as the massively popular hit show and media brand, Critical Role.

Critical Role has become one of the most popular storytelling and world building independent media companies in the world, and Laura plays a pivotal role within the company as a co-founder, primary cast member for the flagship show and executive producer of The Legend of Vox Machina animated series which will air exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

Laura got her start in video games nearly 20 years ago and has since gone on to become one of the most prolific voice actors in the industry today, having worked on hundreds of titles. Some of Laura's notable roles include Abby in The Last of Us: Part II, Kait Diaz in the Gears of War franchise, Spartan Vale in the Halo franchise, Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft, Fetch in the Infamous series, Supergirl in Injustice 2, Eltariel in Middle Earth: Shadow of War, The Boss in Saints Row 3 and 4, Catwoman in Batman: The Telltale Series, and Fiona in Telltale's Tales from the Borderlands, among others.

Laura also lends her talents to several animated series, including Marvel's Avenger Assemble as Black Widow, Marvel's Spider-Man as Gwen Stacy, Constantine: City of Demons as The Night Nurse, as well as roles in Rick and Morty, Pickle and Peanut, Guardians of the Galaxy, RWBY, The PowerPuff Girls, and others. Laura is also known for her work with popular anime studio Funimation, where she had roles in major titles including the Dragon Ball Z franchise as Trunks, Fruits Basket as Tohru Honda, Kureyon Shin-chan as Shin-Chan, Fullmetal Alchemist as Lust, Soul Eater as Maka Albarn and Yu Yu Hakusho as Keiko Yukimura.

Laura won her first BAFTA in 2021, being named Best Performer in a Leading Role at the BAFTA Games Awards. She is also the Best Performance recipient of the 2020 The Game Awards for her role as Abby in The Last of Us: Part II. Other accolades include winning five BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Awards (including two Voice Actress of the Year wins and Best Female Lead Vocal Performance in a Video Game), two BTVA Anime Dub Television/OVA Voice Acting Awards, two BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Awards, two BTVA Anime Dub Movie/Special Voice Acting Awards and a NAVGTR Award.

Lisa Ortiz was born in New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Pokémon (1997), The Slayers (1995) and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).

Megan Hollingshead was born on 22 September 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998), Ergo Proxy (2006) and Valkyrie Profile (1999).

Kari Wahlgren is an American actress from Kansas. She is most well-known for voicing Kitana and Mileena from Mortal Kombat, Starfire from Injustice 2, Velma Green the Spider Queen from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Kagami Hiiragi from Lucky Star, Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds, Haruko Haruhara from FLCL, Razor from Aliens in the Attic and Tigress from Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.