Carrie Keranen is an American voice actress, production manager, producer and voice director. She is best known for her work with

4Kids Entertainment 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Leisure Concepts, Inc. and later known as 4Licensing Corporation) was an American licensing company. The company was previously also a film and television production company that produced English- dub ...

, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video,

NYAV Post NYAV Post is an American recording studio located in New York City. It was founded by Michael Sinterniklaas in 2000, with a West Coast branch located in Los Angeles, California. The studio is prolific in recording anime dubs, original animati ...

, Studiopolis and

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 ...

. Her roles include

Satsuki Kiryuin The anime series '' Kill la Kill'', produced by Trigger, features a cast of characters with a variety of designs and abilities. is a fictional high school situated in Tokyo Bay, Japan. The characters consist mainly of students who wear , which gi ...

in '' Kill La Kill'', Casca in '' Berserk'', and 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 ''Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time'' (''UWSAASTWCATTT''), also known as ''Inspector Spacetime'', is an adventure-sci-fi web series created by Travis Richey, and based on the television comedy series '' ...

''.

Career

Keranen grew up in

Oak Park, Michigan Oak Park is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population of Oak Park was 29,560. As a northern suburb of Metro Detroit, Oak Park shares its southern border with the city of Detroit. History This ...

. 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. She attended

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, 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. She graduated with a BA in theatre and linguistics, and after visiting Europe, moved to New York City to pursue acting. 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. The series was broadcast on NBC for two seasons. Keranen's first voice-over audition for 4Kids was

April O'Neil April O'Neil is a fictional character from the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' comics. She is the first human ally of the Ninja Turtles. Her main love interest in the series is Casey Jones. April made her first appearance in the Mirage comi ...

in the 2003 TV series ''

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is an American media franchise created by the comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael, four anthropomorphic turtle brothers (named after It ...

''. She landed supporting roles, and also landed some guest and supporting voices on the ''

Pokémon (an abbreviation for in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, the owners of the trademark and copyright of the franchise. In terms of what each of thos ...

'' TV series. When fellow voice actress

Tara Sands Tara Jayne Sands is an American voice actress and co-host of Cartoon Network's ''Fridays'' from 2005 to 2007. Sands has voiced in anime dubs and cartoons, including Bulbasaur in the ''Pokémon'' anime series, Spyler in the US dub of ''I Spy'', ...

moved from New York to Los Angeles, she auditioned to voice match Sands' character

Mokuba Kaiba The ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' series features an extensive cast of characters created by Kazuki Takahashi. The series takes place in a fictional city in Japan called Domino City, in which most of the characters that appear in the series originate. Many plot ...

in ''

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine between September 1996 and March 2004. The plot follows the story of a boy named Yugi Mutou, w ...

''. 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. 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 Fringe may refer to: Arts * Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, known as "the Fringe" * Adelaide Fringe, the world's second-largest annual arts festival * Fringe theatre, a name for alternative theatre * The Fringe, the ...

'' TV series, and is a member of the Sacred Fools Theater Company. On July 23, 2011, she and fellow voice actress

Cristina Vee 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 anime, animation, and video games. Vee's roles in anime include ...

were panelists at Comic-Con for Namco Bandai's preview of the '' Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' film. In 2014, Keranen voiced

, the student council president and antagonist in the anime series '' Kill la Kill'', which ran on

Cartoon Network Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, ...

Adult Swim Adult Swim (AS; stylized as dult swim'' and often abbreviated as s'') is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programmed by its in-house ...

. In 2016, she provided the voice of Alya Césaire,

Marinette Dupain-Cheng Marinette Dupain-Cheng () is a Character (arts), fictional character and the female protagonist of the animated television series ''Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir'' created by Thomas Astruc. Depicted as a teenage student of Chinese and ...

's best friend, in the French cartoon '' Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir'', which ran on Nickelodeon. She attended

San Diego Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con International is a comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California since 1970. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is ...

2016 with the cast and the original creator, Thomas Astruc.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Film

Video games

Live-action

References

; 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

* *
Carrie Keranen
at BroadwayWorld.com
Carrie KeranenCaroline Lawson
an
Evelyn Lanto
on Crystal Acids Voice Actor Database * {{DEFAULTSORT:Keranen, Carrie Living people 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Los Angeles Actresses from Michigan Actresses from New York City American film actresses American people of Finnish descent American television actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses Actors from Ann Arbor, Michigan People from Oak Park, Michigan People from Los Angeles University of Michigan alumni American voice directors Participants in American reality television series American web series actresses Year of birth missing (living people)