Leah Applebaum is an American

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and

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. She is best known as the voice of Nanami Kiryu from

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and Erika, the Grass type Gym Leader from the internationally acclaimed

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Career

Applebaum first got into voice acting while working for a

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called My Thoughts Here in New York when she got a call from a

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who was casting for the

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winning

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, a

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program. Applebaum got the

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of Kamala Shastri, which led her to be cast as a reporter in The Signal Man, which was adapted from the original story by

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. The attention Applebaum received from her work on the Sci-Fi Channel eventually got her the major role of Nanami Kiryu from

and Erika from the highly popular

. According to the Dogasu's Backpack interview, Applebaum revealed that her Nanami voice was inspired from Buffy, a

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from the

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TV series.

Voice roles

Anime

* Erika and Suzie in

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* Nanami Kiryu in

* Nanami the Cow in Utena: The Movie

Internet Radio

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's Seeing Ear Theatre ** Princess Loo-Koo and Prunn in The First (and Last) Musical on Mars ** Computoid, Female Slave, and Rex in

The Moon Moth "The Moon Moth" is a science fiction short story by American author Jack Vance, first published in ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' (August 1961 in literature, 1961). Plot summary Edwer Thissell, the new consul from Earth to the planet Sirene, has tro ...

** Net-Girl and Phone Voice in The Nostalgianauts ** The Reporter in

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** Matilda the Waitress in

Tales from the Crypt Tales from the Crypt may refer to: * ''Tales from the Crypt'' (album), by American rapper C-Bo * ''Tales from the Crypt'' (comics), published by EC Comics during the 1950s ** ''Tales from the Crypt'' (film), a 1972 Amicus film starring Ralph Ric ...

Episode 6: "Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottiness" ** Jane and Mistress Thornton in Time's Arrow, Time's Spiral **Kamala Shastri in

References

External links

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