Cristina Danielle Valenzuela (born July 11, 1987), known by her stage name Cristina Vee, is an American voice actress and voice director. She provides voices for English dubs of

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, animation, and video games. Vee's roles in anime include Louise in '' The Familiar of Zero'', Nanoha Takamachi in the ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' series, Mio Akiyama in ''

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'', Noel Vermillion in '' BlazBlue Alter Memory'', Nagisa Saitō in ''

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'', Homura Akemi in '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica'', Compa in ''

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'', Rei Hino / Sailor Mars in the

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dub of ''

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'', the Honoka sisters in ''

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'', Hawk from '' The Seven Deadly Sins'', Darkness in ''

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'', Thoma in ''

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'', Meiko Mochizuki in '' Digimon Adventure tri.'', Killua Zoldyck in ''

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'', Yuko Tani in '' Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters'', '' Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle'', and '' Godzilla: The Planet Eater'', Vivy in '' Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song'', and Robyn Hill in ''

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''. Vee has also voiced video game roles, such as the

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and her arch-nemesis Risky Boots in the ''

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'' series, Velvet Crowe in '' Tales of Berseria'', Riven in ''

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,'' 5-Volt in the '' Warioware'' series, and Cerebella in ''

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''. She also plays a minor role as the voice of Vibrio in the game '' Vitamin Connection''. In animation, she voices Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug in the English dub of '' Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir''. She was the co-host of ''AnimeTV'' with

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and portrayed

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in the live-action '' The Adventures of the ASOS Brigade''. She also voices Verosika Mayday the web series

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Career

Anime

Vee was born with a mixed Mexican, Lebanese, and Native American heritage and raised in the Los Angeles area, growing up in Norwalk. When she was younger she wanted to become an animator, but after watching ''Sailor Moon'', she was inspired to go into voice acting. She had attended

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multiple times as a fan and participated in their AX Idol voice-over contest. In 2004, she joined a voice-over panel where she helped work some of the equipment and then got a card from

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to audition for several shows with

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, including ''

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''. Her first major role was Kanaria in ''

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''. She studied Theatre Arts and graduated from California State University at Long Beach in 2007. In 2008, she voiced the title character in '' Aika R-16: Virgin Mission'', Louise in '' The Familiar of Zero'', and Nanoha in '' Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha''. She portrayed the live-action

in the promotional videos for the second ''

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. It was first published in 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan with the novel ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', and has since been followed ...

'' series, and performed as her at various events. Cristina Valenzuela Colossalcon

In 2011, she voiced the shy bassist Mio Akiyama in the school music comedy ''

'' and Nagisa Saitō in the comedy ''

''. That year, she starred in the

feature film '' Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' as

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, attending American anime conventions with the Japanese writer Dai Satō to promote the film. In 2012, she voiced Homura Akemi in '' Puella Magi Madoka Magica''. In 2013, she voiced Princess Yo in '' Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan'' and Red Hood in the '' Ikki Tousen'' series. In 2014, she voiced Morgiana in '' Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic'' and the Honoka sisters in ''

''. She was chosen to voice

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in Viz's re-dub of ''

'' and the new '' Sailor Moon Crystal'' series. Vee described her voicing of Rei as different in ''Crystal'' because her character is more serious and regal compared to her character in the original series. In 2015, she voiced Noel Vermillion in '' BlazBlue Alter Memory'', Compa in '' Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation'', and Hawk in '' The Seven Deadly Sins'', the last of which was released as a Netflix original series. In 2016, she provided the voice of Killua Zoldyck in the

English dub of the 2011 anime adaptation of ''

''. In 2021, she voiced Vivy in the

English dub of the original anime series '' Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song''.

Animation projects

Vee has been involved in several animation projects. In March 2012, she started a

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campaign to produce an animated music video in conjunction with Cybergraphix Animation and

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. The main character of the video, "Cristina Veecaloid", was designed by ''

'' creative director Alex Ahad, Her character was later named Milky and was made into an iOS game called ''Veecaloid Pop'' released in 2015. In 2012, Vee was involved in voice casting and directing the ''Skullgirls'' video game and web series. The game was nominated at the

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. In 2015, Vee landed the English voice role of title character Marinette Dupain-Cheng (aka Ladybug) in the CGI animated series '' Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.'' The show premiered on

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in December 2015, and has aired four seasons on Netflix and now

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& Disney Channel. Executive producer Jared Wolfsen said that Vee and the other English dub voice actors brought a lot of energy to their characters, and that Vee herself is just like Ladybug – sweet and kind, and so fun to watch. In February 2021, Vee voiced a character named Verosika Mayday in the web series ''

'' and stars in episodes "Spring Broken", “Truth Seekers”, and "Ozzie's".

Video games, hosting, and other projects

Vee has been involved in voice-overs for video games, mostly with English localizations of Japanese titles produced by Atlus USA and NIS America. Some of her major roles are Noel Vermillion in ''

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'', Velvet Crowe in '' Tales of Berseria'', Riven the Exile in ''

'', Four in '' Drakengard 3'', Compa in ''

'', 13-Amp and 5-Volt in '' WarioWare Gold'', Marnie in ''

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'', Ying in ''Paladins: Champions of the Realm'', the

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of the ''

'' series, said title character's arch-nemesis Risky Boots, as well as Bennett and Xingqiu in ''

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''. She has directed and produced the voices for the video game '' Indivisible'' which was crowdfunded with a total amount of $1.5 million on December 2, 2015. In addition to being a live-action Haruhi Suzumiya, Vee has appeared on screen on various web series, television shows and events. She was a host on ''Anime TV'' where she reviewed shows and interviewed people, and appeared on Funimation On Demand and Crunchyroll. She was a live-action host of IGN's IPL4 and IPL5 ''

'' video game tournaments in Las Vegas. She is a frequent guest at many anime conventions throughout the United States and worldwide.Convention appearances can be found at:: * Convention writeups from local newspapers include: * * * * *

Music

Vee is also a professional singer, and has performed the theme songs for two ''

'' video games: "Dance Through the Danger" for 2016's '' Shantae: Half-Genie Hero'' and "Rise and Shine Shantae" for 2019's '' Shantae and the Seven Sirens''. She also performed the theme song "Until I'm Broken" for the 2012 visual novel '' Loren the Amazon Princess''. Vee has uploaded several renditions of anime songs on YouTube. In 2015, she released an EP called ''Menagerie'' with DJ Bouche which was part of the

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's Omakase subscription service. She and YouTuber Nathan Sharp (NateWantsToBattle) released a cover of

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's song "

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" in August 2017. She also signed with an indie record label called Give Heart Records. She also recorded The Living Tombstone's song "Animal" with 'The 8-Bit Big Band' in an arrangement by Charlie Rosen. This can be accessed on YouTube.

Personal life

Vee lives in the Los Angeles area.Residence tweets:
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* In January 2018, she and musician/voice actor Nathan Sharp announced their engagement, but Sharp later announced in August that the two had separated. As of January 2022, she is engaged to

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Michael Espero.

Filmography

References

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