Tia Lynn Ballard (born May 11, 1986) is an American voice actress and ADR director affiliated with

Funimation Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes ...

and

Sentai Filmworks Sentai Filmworks, LLC or just Sentai, is an American entertainment company owned by AMC Networks. Located in Houston, the company specializes in the dubbing and distribution of Japanese animation and Asian cinema. Its post-production arm is S ...

. Some of her notable roles are Kusano in ''

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'', Mizore Shirayuki in '' Rosario + Vampire'', Rin Ogata in '' Rideback'', Happy in ''

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'', Eris in ''

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'', Nanami Momozono in ''

Kamisama Kiss is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Julietta Suzuki. It was serialized in Hakusensha's '' shōjo'' manga magazine ''Hana to Yume'' from February 2008 to May 2016, with the chapters collected in 25 ''tankōbon'' volumes. ...

'', Kokomi Teruhashi in '' The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.'',

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in ''

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'', Itsuki Nakano in ''

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'' and Yashiro Nene in ''

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''.

Biography

Ballard was born and grew up in

Paris, Texas Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020. History Present-day Lamar County was part of Red River Co ...

. She developed an interest in voice acting when she attended a local anime convention, seeing the panel of voice actors, and learned that

was only two hours from her hometown. While attending

Paris Junior College Paris Junior College (PJC) is a public community college with three campuses in Texas: Paris, Greenville, and Sulphur Springs. The college was founded in 1924 as a campus of Paris Independent School District. Nearly 5,000 students are enrolled ...

, she was a participant in the

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, after which she changed her major to theatre. Ballard graduated in 2006 with an associate degree in theatre and art. Ballard's first voice acting gig was at Funimation where she worked with

Monica Rial Monica Jean Rial (born October 5, 1975) is an American voice actress and ADR script writer affiliated with Funimation and Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks. She provides voices for English language versions of Japanese anime films and televisi ...

. She played Young Asim in '' Dragonaut: The Resonance''. She later had a larger role as Rachel Calvin in ''

Linebarrels of Iron is a Japanese manga series created by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. The series was first serialized in Akita Shoten's monthly ''seinen'' manga magazine, '' Champion Red'', in 2005. It has since been compiled into 24 tankōbon, as ...

''. Outside of voice acting, Ballard has co-created a ''

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''-themed online comic called ''Koopasta''.

Filmography

Anime

Film

Video games

References

* – podcast interview with Tia Ballard posted January 7, 2012. *

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ballard, Tia 1986 births Living people American video game actresses American voice actresses Texas A&M University–Commerce alumni People from Paris, Texas Actresses from Texas 21st-century American actresses