Laura Bailey (born May 28, 1981) is an American voice actress. She made her debut as Kid Trunks in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z and has since voiced Henrietta in Gunslinger Girl, Emily / Glitter Lucky in Glitter Force, Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the title character in the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan, and Maka Albarn in Soul Eater. She is a cast member of the web series Critical Role, playing Vex'ahlia ("Vex"), Jester Lavorre, Imogen Temult and Thimble among others.
Bailey's video game voice roles include Rayne in the BloodRayne franchise, Kira Carsen in Star Wars: The Old Republic, Kainé in Nier, Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft, Rise Kujikawa in Persona 4, Kotone Shiomi in Persona 3 Portable, Chun-Li in Street Fighter, Serah Farron in Final Fantasy XIII, the title role in Catherine, Serana in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dawnguard, Persephone in the Skylanders series, Oriana Lawson in Mass Effect 3, Lucina in Fire Emblem Awakening, Kushina Uzumaki in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm series, Abigail "Fetch" Walker in Infamous Second Son and Infamous First Light, Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands, Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Kait Diaz in the Gears of War franchise, Abby Anderson in The Last of Us Part II, and Invisigal in Dispatch.
Bailey has also voiced Catwoman in Batman: The Telltale Series, Supergirl in Injustice 2, Mary Jane Watson in the Marvel's Spider-Man series, and Black Widow in a number of Marvel projects, particularly the television series Avengers Assemble and the video game Marvel Rivals. Her voice and motion capture role in The Last of Us Part II earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Performer in a Leading Role and the Game Award for Best Performance, as well as a nomination for the D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character.
Early life Bailey was born in Mississippi on May 28, 1981. She is of partial Filipino descent, and has an older sister named Jenny. Her father was in the Air Force, causing the family to move frequently; before she was six years old, they had lived in Oklahoma and Texas, specifically San Antonio and all around North Texas. They eventually settled in Allen, Texas. She had a passing interest in acting and performed in school plays, but was planning to become a biologist. She did not realize she could make a career out of acting until she watched a Dawson's Creek special in which Katie Holmes was interviewed. She attended the theatre program at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas, where she participated in productions of the plays Suburbia, Through a Glass Onion, and Don't Rock the Jukebox.
Career Voice acting
Voice actor Kent Williams spotted Bailey at one of her college plays and invited her to audition for Funimation while they were working on Dragon Ball Z. original article Her first major role on Dragon Ball Z was Kid Trunks, which she portrayed with a raspy voice. Bailey initially tried to do the role alongside her college career, but stopped attending on the advice of her lecturer to focus on voice acting. 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 YuYu Hakusho, which ran on Cartoon Network.
Bailey was cast for the starring role of Tohru Honda in the anime Fruits Basket. She 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.
Bailey's video game voice roles include Rayne in the BloodRayne franchise, Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft, Rise Kujikawa in Persona 4, the Female Protagonist in Persona 3 Portable, Chun-Li in Street Fighter, Serah Farron in Final Fantasy XIII, Blaze the Cat in Sonic the Hedgehog, the title role in Catherine, Serana in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dawnguard, multiple characters in Fallout: New Vegas, Lucina in Fire Emblem Awakening, Abigail "Fetch" Walker in Infamous Second Son and First Light, Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands, Spartan Olympia Vale in Halo 5: Guardians, Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy, and Kait Diaz in Gears of War.
In 2020, Bailey starred as Abby Anderson in the video game The Last of Us Part II, a role which won her the BAFTA Video Games Award for Best Performer in a Leading Role and the Best Performance award at The Game Awards 2020, despite receiving death threats in response to the game's divisive character choices and plot twists. In 2022, Bailey was nominated for Best VA Performance (EN) at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
Live-action
In 2001, Bailey played a minor role in an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger (titled "Saturday Night") as the daughter of a club owner (Frank Stallone Jr.) with ties to the Mafia. She later had a brief appearance in an episode of One Tree Hill ("It gets worse at night"), which was filmed in Texas. She has appeared in the films Mr. Brooks, Ruffian, and The Staircase Murders.
Bailey is also a cast member of the popular Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role, where she played Vex'ahlia ("Vex") in Campaign One, Jester Lavorre in Campaign Two, Imogen Temult in Campaign Three and Thimble in Campaign Four. Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019 Webby Awards; the show was also both a Finalist and the Audience Honor Winner at the 2019 Shorty Awards. After becoming hugely successful, the Critical Role cast left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2018 and set up their own production company, Critical Role Productions. Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million. In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced that they had acquired the streaming rights to this animated series, now titled The Legend of Vox Machina; Bailey reprises her role as Vex. Bailey is also one of the narrators for the audiobook edition of the novel Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith & Kin (2021).
Bailey made an appearance in the season finale of HBO's live-action adaptation of The Last of Us in a cameo role as a Firefly nurse, a character she voiced in the original game. In September 2026, it was announced that Bailey will return for the third season as Elizabeth.
Personal life
Bailey and fellow voice actress Colleen Clinkenbeard were roommates while working together at Funimation in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Bailey and voice actor Travis Willingham briefly dated when they were in college. They reconnected years later and were married in Camarillo, California, on September 25, 2011. They reside in Los Angeles with their son.
Filmography Anime + List of voice performances in anime Year Series Role Notes Source –03 Dragon Ball Z Young Trunks, Gotenks, Dende, others Funimation dubGotenks shared w/ Kara Edwards –02 Blue Gender Marlene Angel –06 Yu Yu Hakusho Keiko Yukimura Listed as Kayko Resume –03 Fruits Basket Tohru Honda Also 2019 reboot Lupin the 3rd: Dragon of Doom Kikyo Television special Kiddy Grade Alv Resume –10 Case Closed Serena Sebastian ADR Director –06 Fullmetal Alchemist Lust Resume Spiral Ryoko Takamachi Resume Gunslinger Girl Henrietta ADR Director –06 The Galaxy Railways Layla Resume –07 Kodocha Sana Kurata Line ProducerADR Director Diamond Daydreams Hanna Jarvinen Eps. 7–8 Resume –07 Tactics Rosalie Resume Negima!? Evangeline A.K. McDowell, Ayaka Yukihiro Also Spring and Summer OVAs Resume Basilisk Oboro Resume Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase Hiromi Anzai Resume Rumbling Hearts Line Producer SoltyRei Sylvia Ban Resume –09 Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Xing Huo, Primera Resume –08 Suzuka Suzune Asahina Resume Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Hiromi Masuoka Resume –08 Glass Fleet Michel Volban de Cabelle / Racine Blanche Volban Resume One Piece Conis, others Funimation dub Resume School Rumble Tsumugi Yuuki Resume Genesis of Aquarion Tsugumi Rosenmeier Resume –09 Naruto Anko Mitarashi, Toki, others Resume Claymore Jean Resume –11 Crayon Shin-Chan Shinnosuke Nohara Funimation dubLine ProducerADR Director –09 Code Geass series Nagisa Chiba, Rakshata Chawla Resume –14 Hellsing Ultimate Schrödinger Ouran High School Host Club Kanako Kasugazaki Eps. 2, 13 Resume –09 Darker than Black Amber Resume –10 Kurokami: The Animation Kuro Resume –14 Bleach Tier Halibel, Mashiro Kuna, others Resume Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- Henrietta Resume Monster Dieter Resume 2010 Vampire Knight Maria Kurenai Soul Eater Maka Albarn Resume –11 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Lust Resume Kekkaishi Tokine Yukimura Resume –12 K-On! series Nodoka Manabe 2 TV series Resume Marvel Anime: Iron Man Dr. Chika Tanaka, Children, Aki Eps. 1, 3–4 –17 Naruto: Shippuden Kushina Uzumaki, Kurotsuchi, Anko Mitarashi, others Marvel Anime: X-Men Mrs. Ichiki, Kyoko, others Eps. 1–2, 4, 6 Street Fighter X Tekken Vita Chun-Li Miniseries Resume Marvel Anime: Blade Prostitute, Police Woman Eps. 2, 4 Persona 4: The Animation Rise Kujikawa –13 Tiger & Bunny Pao-Lin Huang / Dragon Kid –15 Digimon Fusion Lilymon, Beastmon, Shakomon, Mermaimon, others Soul Eater Not! Maka Albarn –16 Glitter Force Emily / Glitter Lucky 2 seasons. Saban/Netflix adaptation of Smile PreCure! Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement Oichi 2017Dragon Ball Z KaiTrunks (child)Replaced by Alexis Tipton in Super –21 Fruits Basket (2019) Tohru Honda 2019 reboot 2019 Ingress: The Animation ADA, Narrator Marvel Future Avengers Black Widow, Morgan le Fay, Asp
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