Wendee Lee is an American voice actress, writer, and director.

Biography

Lee studied dance and theater and later became a full-time dancer in her teens. According to her interview on the ''

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'' DVDs, she started doing voices at school and got in trouble for it. Her first anime voice role was in Harmony Gold production ''

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'' in the 1980s, where she voiced Vanessa Leeds, one of the operators aboard the SDF-1 Macross. She also worked with

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on several anime productions including '' Dragon Ball''. She would continue dance and work part-time as a make-up artist, choreography and dance instruction.

Career

Lee's major voice roles in anime include Kei in the Pioneer dub of '' Akira'',

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on '' Cowboy Bebop'',

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'', Takeru "T.K." Takaishi on ''

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on '' Lucky Star''. She has also worked as an

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director on '' Bleach'', ''

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'' and a casting director on ''The Night B4 Christmas''. In 2014-2015, she voiced

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re-dub of the classic '' Sailor Moon'' series and the new ''

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Filmography

Anime

Animation

Feature films

Direct-to-video and television films

Live-action

Video games

Documentaries

Discography

Singles

* '' God Knows'' - * '' lost my music'' -

Notes

References

External links

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