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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 '' Magic Knight Rayearth'' DVDs, she started doing voices at school and got in trouble for it. Her first anime voice role was in Harmony Gold production '' Robotech'' in the 1980s, where she voiced Vanessa Leeds, one of the operators aboard the SDF-1 Macross. She also worked with Streamline on several anime productions including ''
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''. 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'',
Myōjin Yahiko , known as Yahiko Myojin in the Media Blasters English-language dub and Yoshi Myojin in the English Sony ''Samurai X'' dub,Rurouni Kenshin'', Takeru "T.K." Takaishi on ''
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'', Haruhi Suzumiya on '' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'' and
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on '' Lucky Star''. She has also worked as an ADR director on ''
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'', '' Love Hina'' and '' Outlaw Star'' and a casting director on ''The Night B4 Christmas''. In 2014-2015, she voiced
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in the
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re-dub of the classic ''
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'' series and the new '' Sailor Moon Crystal'' series.


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


Further reading

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Wendee Lee interview on Anime Herald

Wendee Lee interview on Gamasutra

Wendee Lee interview Gamasutra


External links

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Wendee Lee
at Crystal Acids * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Wendee Living people American casting directors American film actresses American television actresses American television directors American television writers American video game actresses American voice actresses American voice directors American women screenwriters American women television directors American women television writers 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Year of birth missing (living people)