Catherine Davis Higgins is an American voice actress, singer and
jazz pianist
Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. Its role is multifaceted due largely to the instru ...
.
Career
Music career
Higgins earned a degree in music from
Auburn University
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 24,600 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest ...
in 1991. She is a trained pianist who studied with the jazz artist Bob Richardson. She released the first jazz album by her own name ''The Tide is Low'' in 2002. The second jazz album is ''Stealing Freedom''. She is also in a band called Upper Structure.
Voice acting career
Higgins's major voice roles have been in English-language adaptations of Japanese anime, and she is best known as the voice of
Sakura Haruno in ''
Naruto'' and Talho Yuuki in Eureka 7. She has also voiced
CC in ''
Code Geass'' and
Saber in the original ''
Fate/stay night''. Between 2010 and 2013, Higgins voiced
Tails in the video game series ''
Sonic the Hedgehog
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''.
She also voices Kate, Stinky, and Lilly in the ''
Alpha and Omega
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'' sequels. In 2014, Higgins was cast as
Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury in the Viz English dub of ''
Sailor Moon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. The se ...
''. She voiced
Purah in ''
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' and in ''
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity'' and Starla in Nick Jr.'s ''
Blaze and the Monster Machines
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''. She is the current voice of
Princess Aurora since 2010, a
Disney Princess
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character originally seen in
Walt Disney
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’s
''Sleeping Beauty.'' She also played the voice of
Frankie Stein in ''
Monster High'' and Briar Beauty in ''
Ever After High''. She also starred as
Barbie in ''
Life in the Dreamhouse'' in 2012.
Filmography
Anime
Animation
Films
Video games
Discography
Studio albums
* ''The Solid Rock'' (Concord, 1998)
* ''Bigger than Love'' (Concord, 2006)
* ''Jazz Standards''
* ''A Very Merry Christmas''
* ''Little Parts'' (2009)
* ''Sweet and Blue'' (2016)
Collaborations
* ''6 by 5'' by Upper Structure (2004)
Singles
* "Jump Up, Super Star!" – ''
Super Mario Odyssey'' (2017)
* "Break Free (lead the way)" – ''
Super Mario Odyssey'' (2017)
References
External links
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20th-century American actresses
20th-century American pianists
20th-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
21st-century American actresses
21st-century American pianists
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
American women jazz singers
American jazz pianists
American jazz singers
American video game actresses
American voice actresses
American women pianists
Concord Records artists
Living people
Modal jazz pianists
Women jazz pianists
Year of birth missing (living people)