Louisa Michelle Christian (born March 18, 1973) is an American voice actress and ADR script writer at Funimation and Seraphim Digital/ Sentai Filmworks. She has provided many voices for English versions of Japanese

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series and films.

Life and career

Christian grew up in Texas, where her parents, Mike and Barbara, were high school teachers. From age 3 to 9, she participated in some local beauty pageants, and later got involved in theater programs in high school. In college, she originally pursued journalism, but changed to theatre when she was offered a scholarship. She got her bachelor's degree in Theatre from

Angelo State University Angelo State University is a public university in San Angelo, Texas. It was founded in 1928 as San Angelo College. It gained university status and awarded its first baccalaureate degrees in 1967 and graduate degrees in 1969, the same year it too ...

in San Angelo, Texas, and her

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in Theatre at the

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in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her involvement in anime starts in

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where she had some bit parts in '' Those Who Hunt Elves'' that involved about three hours of studio time. She did not hear back for some time until she got cast in '' Neo Ranga''. A few weeks later, she auditioned and got her first starring role as

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in '' Full Metal Panic!''. In '' Super Gals! Ran Kotobuki'', she voices the title character who is a fun-loving teenage gal in a family of police officers. In ''

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'', she voices main character Himeno Awayuki, a teenage girl who ends up living with two stepsisters and becomes involved in a magical girl fantasy. She also voiced teacher

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in the school life comedy '' Azumanga Daioh''. In 2006, she was featured in a series of articles by IGN titled "Babes of ADV Voice-Over". Christian joined the voice actors who would regularly travel from Houston to record with Funimation in

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. She had supporting roles in '' Fullmetal Alchemist'' as guest character Psiren and later as the recurring character

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. She voiced actress Asako Kurumi in Funimation's dub of '' Kodocha'', and a lead role as Rico in the girls-with-guns drama '' Gunslinger Girl''. In 2006, she voiced lead character Asuna Kagurazaka in the school anime '' Negima'', which is about a boy magician who teaches at an all-girls middle school. Theron Martin of Anime News Network remarked that she interpreted her role much like Kaname Chidori on ''Full Metal Panic''. She also landed the lead role of

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in the comedy '' School Rumble'', voiced the supporting role of Hitomi Kashiwa in ''

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'', and voiced the youthful-looking Mitsukuni "Honey" Haninozuka in '' Ouran High School Host Club''. After Funimation acquired the dubbing rights for the long-running ''

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'' anime series, Christian was selected to play its lead female navigator Nami. In 2007, the

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nominated her for Best Actress for her work in '' Princess Tutu'' as the lead role of Ahiru, and Best Actress in a Comedy for her work in '' Desert Punk'', '' Negima'' and '' Nerima Daikon Brothers'', but lost to Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Debi Derryberry, respectively. In 2009, she voiced Kirino Chiba, the captain of a kendo team in '' Bamboo Blade'' and

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in the fantasy series ''

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''. In 2010, she voiced as Nagisa Furukawa in the ''

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'' series, the

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in ''

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'' and Makina Hoshimura from '' Corpse Princess''. She voiced Medusa in the '' Soul Eater'' anime series, which was released on video in 2010 and later broadcast on Cartoon Network in 2013. In 2011, she voiced Meryl Strife in the English dub of anime feature film '' Trigun: Badlands Rumble''. In 2012, she voiced Nessa in ''

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'', served as the narrator for '' Ōkami-san and her Seven Companions'' and '' Kamisama Kiss'', and voiced companion devil Elsie in '' The World God Only Knows''. In 2013, she voiced main characters Marika Kato in '' Bodacious Space Pirates'', and Himeko Inaba in the body-swapping anime series ''

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''. In 2016, she voiced Ochaco Uraraka in ''

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''. Christian voiced Chihaya Ayase in Sentai Filmworks' English dub of the adaptation of

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's manga series '' Chihayafuru''. Also in 2017, she had starring heroine roles as Hestia in '' Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?'' and Touko Nanami in ''

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''.

Personal life

Christian is married to Michael Bell. They have two daughters. She has a brother, Kevin Christian, who ran for a seat in the Texas Legislature in 2006.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Film

Video games

Other media

Notes

References

External links

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