Colleen Smith Clinkenbeard (born April 13, 1980) is an American

voice actress Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...

, ADR director, line producer, and

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working for the

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-dubbing company Funimation. One of her major starts was as the English voice provider for Rachel Moore in the long-running detective series '' Case Closed''. She then later served as the Co-ADR director on '' Fullmetal Alchemist'', which aired on

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in 2004. She has since starred in many popular anime dubs, including as Monkey D. Luffy in ''

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'', Erza Scarlet in '' Fairy Tail'', and Momo Yaoyorozu 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 ...

''.

Career

As a stage actress in

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, Clinkenbeard got involved in voice-over when fellow voice actress Laura Bailey brought her to Funimation for an audition. Her first voice role was in ''

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;'' her first lead role was Éclair in ''

Kiddy Grade is a Japanese 24-episode anime series produced in 2002 and created by gímik and Gonzo Digimation and directed by Keiji Gotoh. The series is licensed and distributed in North America by FUNimation Entertainment. In October 2006, ...

''. Midway through the Kiddy Grade series, director Justin Cook appointed Clinkenbeard as the ADR director for the rest of the episodes. Her other major role early in her career was Rachel Moore in the detective anime show '' Case Closed''. She would later direct along with

Mike McFarland Michael McFarland is an American voice actor and ADR director who works on English dubs of Japanese anime at Funimation. He is known as the original English voice of Master Roshi and Yajirobe in Funimation's dubs of ''Dragon Ball'' and ''Dragon ...

on '' Fullmetal Alchemist'' which came out in November 2004 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. Clinkenbeard went on to provide the voices of Monkey D. Luffy in ''

'', Erza Scarlet in '' Fairy Tail'',

Riza Hawkeye The ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' manga and anime series feature an extensive cast of fictional characters created by Hiromu Arakawa. The story is set in a fictional universe within the 20th century in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scienti ...

in '' Fullmetal Alchemist'',

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's inner personality in '' Rosario + Vampire'',

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in '' xxxHolic'', and Elsie Crimson and Mother in '' Edens Zero''. Outside of anime dubs, she's also provided the voice of Lilith in the '' Borderlands'' video game series. Also lending her voice for the anime inspired web series

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and providing voice work for '' Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart'' on Cartoon Network.

Personal life

Clinkenbeard and voice actress Laura Bailey were roommates while working at Funimation. She married Patric Carroll in 2012, and they have a son named Rhodes, born in 2014. Her sister Bonnie is an ADR script writer at Funimation.Tweets regarding Bonny Clinkenbeard: * *

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Films

Video games

References

External links

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Colleen Clinkenbeard profile
at the CrystalAcids Anime Voice Actor Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Clinkenbeard, Colleen 1980 births Living people Actresses from Texas American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses American women screenwriters Screenwriters from Texas American voice directors 21st-century American actresses 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century American women writers