Poll: Best Female Voice Actor?

[BehattedWanderer]

Claudia Black. You can't beat Claudia Black.
I also like Laura Bailey.

Both of these came to mind almost immediately. I'd also nominate Emily Rose, but she's only done the one role, multiple times, so I don't know if it counts. Ellen McLain for...well, for when Valve needs a female voice other than Alyx Vance, apparently.

 

[uneek]

Err...
Steve Blum has surely voiced female characters before, right?

No, but wouldn't that be hilarious!

 

[Simskiller]

Voted other as no Jo Wyatt or Claudia Black, would have come down to those two and Grey Delisle. Don't really like Jennifer Hale as much as those three.

 

[Furbyz]

Voted Grey DeLisle, her record speaks for itself

Daphne (Scooby Doo, most [all?] versions)
Frankie Foster (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)
Jeanette/Therese/Tourette (Vampires the Masquerade: Bloodlines)
Vicky/Tootie/Chad (Fairly Odd Parents)
Akiko (American Dad)
Mandy (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
Sam Manson (Danny Phantom)
Yumi (Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi)
Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Selena Kyle/Catwoman (Arkham City)

I actually looked this up a while back when I heard her voice in a cameo role in Gravity Falls (The shopkeeper at the start of Summerween) and thought "hey, she sounds familiar").

I was actually fairly suprised that some of these were the same person which is a damn good quality in a voice actor. Jeanette sounds nothing like Mandy and nothing like Azula for example.

Thanks for posting a short list of the voices Grey Delisle has done. People don't seem to realize that she's almost as widespread as Tara Strong. Although, even if I had never seen or heard anything she had done besides A:TLA, I'd vote for her because of Azula alone. Because I mean...yeah, the role is just that good.

 

[Best of the 3]

Picked Hale. I thought she did a fantastic job in ME, Starwars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy and Brutal Legend. But her TV roles are good too, such as June and avatar Kioshi from ATLA, and the teacher from the power puff girls as the main ones I remember.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Tara's voices sound too similar to me. It takes me out of the character she's trying to play. Maybe iv'e just listened to her normal speaking voice too much.

I'm going to assume no one has voted for Cree so far since when I click on the poll results she doesn't even come up. I like her but I'm gonna say Delisle

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I chose other because I'd go with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn for her role as Motoko Kusanagi from the Ghost in the Shell series and sequels along with her huge roster of animation and videogame roles.

She's also married to her husband who also plays knock out on the current Transformers Prime series as well as starring in an episode of GITS.

Her Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_McGlynn

Her husbands wiki which also has quite a huge popular roster of characters he's played.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daran_Norris

 

[jhoroz]

I picked Jennifer Hale since she is the only one I knew besides Tara Strong

But I also really like Lucy's english VA from Elfen Lied (spoiler):

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Claudia Black is not in the options! That would of been my pick.

From the current list I would pick Jennifer Hale hands down.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Michelle Ruff


With honorable mention to Ali Hillis (Lightning, Liara) and Laura Bailey (Risette plus a million other characters) ...oh and Jessica Strauss as Juri Han.

 

[Squilookle]

You really should have written a brief bio for each of them- most of us don't follow voice actors so closely and will just vote for who they know, rendering the whole poll moot.

 

[Overusedname]

Tara Strong feels so natural in all her roles and does great improve as her characters in cons. I love how into it she is. And she's freaking hilarious and well...voiced Bubbles, Timmy, Raven and Twilight. That's some variety there, so she really gets into a variety of roles and pulls them off very well.

She's a Strong double threat (puns are clever!), she can do silly voices and has the acting chops to back it up.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I have no preference.
As long as they give a good performance, I'll like them.
That being said, I generally don't pay much attention to female voice actors, because they seem to blur together, for me.
Male voice actors are able to have a certain gravitas when they speak, see Tony Jay or Simon Templeton, and therefore are more memorable.

 

[Stryc9]

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn because she voiced The Major in GitS:Stand Alone Complex and did an outstanding job of it.

I really enjoyed her voice in GITS: SAC/2GiG, too. I don't believe I have seen her in any other series though unfortunately.

It seems that she does a lot of behind the scenes work and video game voices. Here's her Imdb page http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569479/ to see more of what she's done.

On a side note the guy that does Togusa's voice in SAC has a role in Hitman: Blood Money as a journalist and they sound exactly the same and kinda took me out of the game when I first heard it.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Of the list? Tara Strong.

Not on the list? Jodi Benson. She voiced Ariel and Tula (Pirates of Dark Water). For Ariel alone, she'd get my vote.

 

[CheckD3]

Jenifer Hale [/endthread]

Seriously, I love her. Chose FemShep for her voice, loved her as Sheena, and even though it's just reaction noises, her voice is the only voice I think of when I hear Samus' voice in my head

 

[Stryc9]

*Snip*

She did work on a lot of movies too. Not directly but directing certain aspects. Interesting. She also voiced Julia from Cowboy Bebop too? It's almost as if all my Yoko Kanno animes are connected even more now... xD

Crispin Freeman is one of animes leading male voice actors in my opinion. He is seriously everywhere. Haji, Alucard, Hideki, Kyon..so many memorable places he's been. Same goes with Johnny Yong Bosch.

I really don't watch a lot of anime, anything Ghost in the Shell pretty much is all I really pay attention to. Another interesting bit I ran across recently was Amanda Winn Lee who plays one of The Majors girlfriends Kurutan in SAC also voiced the character of Konoko\Mai Hasegawa in Bungie's 2001 game Oni. The Konoko character is very much like The Major in that she's an independent woman who kicks all kinds of ass and predates the purple haired Major by three years.