Brina Michelle Palencia (born February 13, 1984)
is an American voice and television actress. She has voiced a number of English-language versions of characters featured in
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
.
Palencia provided the
dubbed voices of
Tony Tony Chopper
is a fictional character in the manga series ''One Piece'' by Eiichiro Oda. He is the fifth member to join and the doctor of the Straw Hat Pirates. Chopper is frequently featured on official merchandise, serving as a mascot for the series.
Th ...
in ''
One Piece
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'',
Touka Kirishima in ''
Tokyo Ghoul
is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Weekly Young Jump'' between September 2011 and September 2014, and was collected in fou ...
'',
Vi Graythorn in ''
Case Closed'',
Eve
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in ''
Black Cat'',
Honoka Sakurai in ''
Suzuka'',
Ai Enma in ''
Hell Girl
, also known as ''Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell'', is a Japanese anime series conceptualized by Hiroshi Watanabe and produced by SKY Perfect Well Think, Tokyo MX, Wakasa Seikatsu, Fujishoji, Aniplex and Studio Deen. It is directed ...
'',
Kazumi Yoshida in ''
Shakugan no Shana
, also known simply as , is a Japanese light novel series written by Yashichiro Takahashi with illustrations by Noizi Ito. ASCII Media Works published 26 novels from November 2002 to November 2012 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. The ...
'',
Kurumu Kurono in ''
Rosario + Vampire'',
Ciel Phantomhive
The manga and anime series ''Black Butler'' features an extensive cast of characters created by Yana Toboso. The series takes place in England during the reign of Queen Victoria. It follows Sebastian Michaelis, a demonic butler obliged to serve ...
in ''
Black Butler'',
Juvia Lockser in ''
Fairy Tail
''Fairy Tail'' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from August 2006 to July 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 63 ' ...
'',
Holo in ''
Spice and Wolf
is a Japanese light novel series written by Isuna Hasekura, with illustrations by Jū Ayakura. ASCII Media Works has published 23 novels since February 2006 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. ASCII Media Works reported that as of Octo ...
'',
Kazuhiro Mitogawa in ''
Ga-Rei: Zero'', Sakura Minamoto in ''
Zombie Land Saga
is an anime television series produced by MAPPA, Avex Pictures and Cygames. The series aired in Japan between October and December 2018. A second season titled ''Zombie Land Saga Revenge'' aired between April and June 2021. An anime fi ...
'',
Yuno Gasai
is a fictional character and the main female protagonist of the manga series ''Future Diary'', created by Sakae Esuno. In the series, Yuno pretends to be a perfect model student on the surface, but is actually a psychopathic ''yandere'' who is ...
in ''
Future Diary
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's '' Shōnen Ace'' between January 2006 and December 2010, and has been collected into 12 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The plot depicts the Dia ...
'',
Miharu Rokujo in ''
Nabari no Ou
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuhki Kamatani. It was serialized in Square Enix's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Monthly GFantasy'' from May 2004 to August 2010, with its chapters collected in 14 ''tankōbon'' volumes. ...
'',
Ruiko Saten in ''
A Certain Scientific Railgun
is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Motoi Fuyukawa, which began serialization in the April 2007 issue of ASCII Media Works' ''Dengeki Daioh'' magazine. The manga is a spin-off of Kamachi's ''A Certa ...
'',
Maho Minami in ''
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad'',
Ryoko Okami in ''
Okami-san and Her Seven Companions'',
Minoru Mineta in ''
My Hero Academia
is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected i ...
'', and
Isuzu Soma in ''
Fruits Basket
, sometimes abbreviated , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya. It was serialized in the semi-monthly Japanese manga magazine , published by Hakusensha, from 1998 to 2006. The series' title comes from ...
''. On camera, she starred as Sophia in
The CW
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series ''
Star-Crossed
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'' and has appeared in ''
The Walking Dead'' and ''
Castle''. In video games, she voices Mad Moxxi in the ''
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Borderland or borderlands may refer to:
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* Borderland, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia
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'' series, and Ayra from ''
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War'' and Lute from ''
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones'' in the 2017 mobile game ''
Fire Emblem Heroes
is a free-to-play tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for Android and iOS. The game is a mobile spin-off of the '' Fire Emblem'' series featuring its characters, and was released on February ...
''.
Biography
Palencia was born and raised in
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
.
As a child, she lived in
Honduras until she was four. Throughout her childhood, she went back and forth between
La Ceiba
La Ceiba () is a municipality, the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida and a port city on the northern coast of Honduras in Central America. It is located on the southern edge of the Caribbean, forming part of the south eastern bo ...
, Honduras and
Owasso, Oklahoma
Owasso is a city in Rogers and Tulsa Counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and the largest northern suburb of Tulsa. The population was 38,732 persons as of the 2021 census estimate, compared to 28,915 at the 2010 census, a gain of 32.24 percen ...
.
[
]
She settled in
Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
,
Texas
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and graduated from
Weatherford High School in 2002.
While studying at the
University of North Texas
The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School," ...
, she was influenced by the anime series ''
Dragon Ball Z''.
After graduating from UNT with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in music in 2006,
she began her career as a voice actress for
Funimation
Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes ...
.
She was also a director, but eventually focused more on the acting side of the productions.
In her live-action work, she was the host of
GameStop TV and has appeared in independent films, such as ''
The Ladies of the House'' and ''
Lumberjack Man''. In 2014, she had a starring role as Roman's younger sister Sophia in
The CW
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's science fiction romantic drama ''
Star-Crossed
"Star-crossed" or "star-crossed lovers" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers who, for some external reason, cannot be together. The term also has other meanings, but originally means that the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or ...
''.
In 2017, she was credited with performing a parody version of
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan Order of Canada, OC Order of British Columbia, OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is ''Surfacing ( ...
's "In the Arms of An Angel", titled "On the Wings of a Battmann," in a ''
Cyanide & Happiness'' short of the same name.
Personal life
Her brother, Gino Palencia, works at Funimation as an ADR engineer and production assistant. She currently lives in
Los Angeles
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with her husband Paul Wingo, who she was married to on January 5, 2013. On September 12, 2018, Palencia announced her pregnancy on Twitter that she was expecting her first child. She gave birth to a boy, Arthur Wingo, on February 1, 2019.
Filmography
Anime
Film
Video games
Live-action
References
External links
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Brina Palenciaat CrystalAcids Anime Voice Actor Database
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1984 births
Living people
Actresses from Dallas
Actresses from Los Angeles
Actresses from Oklahoma
American people of Honduran descent
American television actresses
American video game actresses
American voice actresses
American voice directors
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
People from Denton, Texas
People from La Ceiba
People from Owasso, Oklahoma
University of North Texas alumni
21st-century American actresses