Emilie Brown 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 ...
, producer, and director. Before moving out of the
Los Angeles
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area, she did several
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 ...
voice roles mostly under the names Emily Brown, Mary Cobb and Marie Downing. One of her earliest voice acting roles was
Annie Labelle in the 1980s crossover anime hit
''Robotech'' when she was 13 years old.
After graduating from
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
in 1996 with a theatre degree, she continued her career in the entertainment industry.
In 1996, her sister
Rachel Coleman
Rachel de Azevedo Coleman (born October 9, 1974) is an American producer and actress. With her sister Emilie de Azevedo Brown, she created the'' Signing Time!'' video series to teach children basic American Sign Language (ASL), which was broadc ...
discovered that her oldest daughter Leah was deaf. Brown teamed up with Coleman to create ''
Signing Time!
''Signing Time!'' is an American television program targeted towards children aged one through eight that teaches American Sign Language. It is filmed in the United States and was created by sisters Emilie Brown and Rachel Coleman, the latter ...
'' - an entertaining children's public television and video series that teaches basic
American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canadians, Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual lang ...
(ASL) to children of all abilities. She serves as the director and producer. Over 26 ''Signing Time!'' episodes have been made, as well as
''Baby Signing Time'', ''Practice Time'' and all other
Two Little Hands Productions.
Brown is a Latter-day Saint.
Mormon music reference on Brown
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Filmography
Anime voice roles
Other voice roles
Works with Two Little Hands Productions
References
External links
* for Brown's voice-over projects
*
Emilie Brown
at Crystal Acids English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database
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Living people
American voice actresses
Brigham Young University alumni
Latter Day Saints from California
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
Year of birth missing (living people)