Cristina Vee’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Cristina Valenzuela (born July 11), known by her stage name Cristina Vee, is an American actress who provides voices for English dubs of anime and video game productions. Some of her voice roles include Louise in The Familiar of Zero, Nanoha Takamachi in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series, Mio Akiyama in K-On!, Nagisa Saitō in Squid Girl, Homura Akemi in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Rei Hino / Sailor Mars in the Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon, the Honoka sisters in Knights of Sidonia, Hawk from The Seven Deadly Sins, and Killua Zoldyck in Hunter × Hunter. In animation, she provides the voice of Marinette, aka Ladybug, in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. On screen, she is the co-host for AnimeTV with Johnny Yong Bosch, and the second live portrayal of Haruhi Suzumiya in The Adventures of the ASOS Brigade after Patricia Ja Lee.

Career

Anime shows

Vee was raised in Norwalk, California. When she was younger she wanted to become an animator, but after watching Sailor Moon, she was inspired to go into voice acting. She had attended Anime Expo multiple times as a fan, and participated in their AX Idol voice-over contest. In 2004, she joined a voice-over panel where she helped work some of the equipment and then got a card from Wendee Lee to audition for several shows with Bang Zoom! Entertainment, including Samurai Champloo. Her first major role was Kanaria in Rozen Maiden. In 2008, she voiced the title character in Aika R-16: Virgin Mission, Louise in The Familiar of Zero and Nanoha in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. She portrayed the live-action Haruhi Suzumiya in the promotional videos for the second The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series, and performed as her at various events.

In 2011, she voiced the shy bassist Mio Akiyama in the school music comedy K-On! and Nagisa Saitō in the comedy Squid Girl. That year, she starred in the anime feature film Tekken: Blood Vengeance, attending American anime conventions with the Japanese writer Dai Sato to promote the film. In 2012, she voiced Homura Akemi in Puella Magi Madoka Magica. In 2013, she voiced Princess Yo in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan and Red Hood in the Ikki Tousen series. In 2014, she voiced Morgiana in Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, the Honoka sisters in Knights of Sidonia, and Mini-dora in the Bang Zoom dub of the 2005 Doraemon series. She was chosen to voice Sailor Mars in Viz’s re-dub of Sailor Moon and the new Sailor Moon Crystal series. In 2015, she voiced Noel Vermillion in BlazBlue Alter Memory, Ruri in Durarara!!x2, Compa in Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation, and Hawk in The Seven Deadly Sins, the last of which was released as a Netflix original series. On March 19, 2016, it was announced that she would voice Killua Zoldyck in the Viz Media English dub of the 2011 anime adaptation of Hunter × Hunter.

Animation projects

Vee has been involved in various animation projects. In March 2012, she started a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to produce an animated music video in conjunction with Cybergraphix Animation and Studio APPP. The main character of the video, “Cristina Veecaloid”, was designed by Skullgirls creative director Alex Ahad, Her character was later named Milky and was made into an iOS game called Veecaloid Pop released in 2015. She is also involved in voice casting and directing the Skullgirls video game and web series. The game was nominated at the 40th Annie Awards. She landed the English voice role of title character Marinette Dupain-Cheng aka Ladybug in the CGI animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, which premiered on Nickelodeon in December 2015. Executive producer Jared Wolfsen said that Vee and the other English dub voice actors brought a lot of energy to their characters, and that Vee herself is just like Ladybug: sweet and kind, and so fun to watch.

Video games and hosting

Vee has been involved in voice-overs for video games, mostly with English localizations of Japanese titles produced by Atlus USA, NIS America and dubbed by Bang Zoom. Some of her major roles include Noel in BlazBlue, Riven the Exile in League of Legends, Four in Drakengard 3, Compa in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series and the title character of the Shantae series.

In addition to being a live-action Haruhi Suzumiya, Vee has appeared on screen on various web series, television shows and events. She was a host on Anime TV where she reviewed shows and interviewed people, and appeared on Funimation On Demand and Crunchyroll. She was a live-action host of IGN’s IPL4 and IPL5 League of Legends video game tournaments in Las Vegas. She is a frequent guest at many anime conventions throughout the United States and worldwide.

Personal life

Vee lives in the Los Angeles area. Outside of voice acting, Vee got into singing when she was asked to do some in fandubs. She has uploaded several renditions of anime songs on YouTube, logging over 2 million hits.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Film

Video games

Other dubbing

Live action