Laura Bailey (voice actress)

Laura Dawn Bailey (born May 28, 1981) is an American actress who provides voices for English-language versions of anime and video games, as well as in animated series and films. Her first major roles in anime were as Kid Trunks and Kid Dende in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z.

She voiced Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara in the Funimation dub of Crayon Shin-Chan, and Maka Albarn in Soul Eater. In video games, she is notable for the voices of Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft, Rayne in the BloodRayne series, Chun-Li in the newer titles of the Street Fighter series, Rise Kujikawa in the Persona 4 series, Blaze the Cat in Sonic the Hedgehog series, Lucina in Fire Emblem Awakening, Serah Farron in the Final Fantasy XIII series, Serana in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dawnguard, Abigail "Fetch" Walker in Infamous Second Son and Infamous First Light, Olympia Vale in Halo 5: Guardians, Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands and Kait Diaz in Gears of War 4 and Gears 5.

She voiced Catwoman in Batman: The Telltale Series and also voices Black Widow in a variety of the Marvel animated titles and video games. She is the voice of ADA in the AR game Ingress.

Biography
Bailey was inspired to go into acting after watching a making of Dawson's Creek special where they interviewed Katie Holmes. She attended the theatre program at the Collin County Community College (Quad C) in Plano, Texas. where she participated in productions of "Suburbia", "Through a Glass Onion", and "Don't Rock the Jukebox". Kent Williams, who spotted her at one of the plays, invited her to audition for Funimation, who had been working on Dragon Ball Z. Her first major role on Dragon Ball Z was Kid Trunks, which she portrayed with a raspy voice. She voiced the starring character Marlene Angel in Blue Gender, which was the first project Funimation did outside of the Dragon Ball world, and Keiko Yukimura in Yu Yu Hakusho, which ran on Cartoon Network.

Bailey was cast for the starring role of Tohru Honda in the anime Fruits Basket. Bailey said that Tohru's character has helped her be more positive: "I was so inspired by her character by her, joy, and outlook on life that, you know, you wanna emulate that." She later voiced Lust, one of the villains in Fullmetal Alchemist, and Sana Kurata in Kodocha.

Bailey had been working with Funimation for about four years before she started ADR directing. She worked on Blue Gender: The Warrior and some episodes of Case Closed. Her first major ADR Directing project was Gunslinger Girl, in which she also voices Henrietta. She also co-directed parts of Kodocha. She became a line producer for the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan and also voiced the title character.

Personal life
Bailey and anime voice actor/director Colleen Clinkenbeard were once roommates while working at Funimation. In 2007, she moved to Los Angeles. On September 25, 2011, she married fellow voice actor Travis Willingham. They currently live in Los Angeles. Their son, Ronin, was born in 2018.