Shannon Emerick is an American voice actress who voices a number of English language localizations of Japanese anime shows with

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and

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. She graduated from

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with a

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in Theater Studies and English. In anime, she is known as the voice of Charlotte Dunois from the ''

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'' series, Kei Kishimoto from ''

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'' and Riki Naoe from the ''

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'' series. Outside of voice acting, she is a stage actress in the Houston area. She won the Best Actress award from ''

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'' for her theater work twice in 2006 and 2011, respectively.

Biography

In 2017, Emerick is slated to voice Arata Wataya as a young child in Sentai Filmworks' English dub of the adaptation of Yuki Suetsugu's manga series ''

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''. Wataya is one of the three main characters in the series.

English dubbing roles

Animation

Video games

Awards

References

External links

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Shannon Emerick at Crystalacids.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Emerick, Shannon American stage actresses American voice actresses Living people Yale University alumni Actresses from Houston Actresses from New York City Actresses from New Haven, Connecticut 21st-century American actresses American television actresses American film actresses Year of birth missing (living people)