Famous VA's in Pokemon

Michele Knotz was born in New Jersey, USA. Michele is an actor, known for Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions (2010), Street Fighter X Tekken (2012) and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006).

Sarah Natochenny is a Voice Arts® Award-winning actor best known for her work in the role of Ash Ketchum and 30 other characters on Pokémon since 2006. She is also an on-camera actor and film editor, working in comedy and horror. She splits her time between LA and NYC when not on location or meeting fans at conventions.

Rachael Lillis was born on 8 July 1969 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998), Pokémon (1997) and Pokémon the Movie 2000 (1999). She died on 10 August 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Veronica Taylor (born Kathleen Charlotte McInerney) is an American voice actress. She is best known for her role as Ash Ketchum in the English dub of Pokémon (1997) from 1998 to 2006, having voiced the character (along with Delia Ketchum, May, and various other characters) in the main series and its associated movies. Outside of Pokemon, she appeared in numerous projects (primarily English dubs of anime) from 4Kids Entertainment and Central Park Media, including Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun in The Slayers (1995), Nico Robin in the first dub of One Piece (1999), and April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), among others.

Bill Rogers is a Los Angeles based voice actor. Having gotten his start in New York in 1999 with an uncredited cameo in the English dub of "Irresponsible Captain Tylor", Bill then went on to work on various other anime titles. In 2006, Bill was cast as the new voice of Brock in the hit TV show Pokémon (1997). While primarily a voice actor, Bill has also been seen in independent film and on stage in various productions in New Jersey.

Lauded as a prolific narrator by the Audiobook Publishers Association, Emily Bauer has a passion for truthful, honest storytelling and creating memorable characters across all genres. The recipient of multiple "Golden Earphones" , "Listen-Up Awards", and Publishers Weekly starred reviews, Emily is also well-known for her animation work on shows such as "Pokemon", "Clifford", and "Wallykazam", to name just a few. Recent audiobooks include the iconic '"Baby-Sitters Club" series by Ann M. Martin, The Incryptid Series by Seanan McGuire, and the Razorland Series by Ann Aguirre. Emily's additional voice over work includes commercials, imaging, ADR, jingles, and voice-matching.

Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld was born in New York City and raised in the surrounding suburbs. She began studying performance early, training her voice classically with soprano Jennifer Aylmer, and acting at Carnegie Mellon's Pre-College Musical Theatre Program. Alyson earned her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she trained at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, The Experimental Theatre Wing, and Stonestreet Studios. She also studied Shakespeare in performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She lives in New York City, where she works in theatre, film, television, voice over and commercial acting. She is best known for voicing Bonnie, Nurse Joy, Sophocles (and many others) on "Pokemon", as well as Rio Kastle, Riley, Grace and Gloria Tyler (and many others) on "Yu-Gi-Oh!", Aina Ardebit in the anime film "Promare", Polly Pocket in "Polly Pocket", Fraw Bow and LunaMaria Hawke in the "Gundam" anime universe, and many other notable roles.

Tara is best known for her work on Pokemon (over 50 roles), Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (2012), and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and many more animated programs and video games. She was the on camera host of Cartoon Network's Fridays for over 100 episodes. Tara was born in Hartford, CT and raised in New Jersey. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

James Hadley Snyder or Dan Green is an American voice actor who voiced in various animated projects and video games including Yu-Gi-Oh, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pokémon, Viva Piñata, Kappa Mikey, One Piece, Kirby: Right Back at Ya! and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He has twins from his late wife Michal Lura Friedman.

Sean Kenin (born Sean Elias-Reyes) is an American film and television actor. As a voice actor he specializes in voice matching and impersonating celebrities. He has voice matched notable celebrities as Billy Crystal, Tom Cruise, half the cast of The Princess Bride in a game on the 20th anniversary DVD, John C. Reilly, and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in an audio book entitled DeathTroopers.

Jason Griffith is an American voice actor. He is best known for his roles as the title character and Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise 2003 to 2009, having first voiced the characters in the anime series Sonic X (2003) before doing the same in the games following Sega's decision to use 4Kids Entertainment (which handled the English dub of Sonic X) as its main dubbing studio for all Sonic games from Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) to Sonic and the Black Knight (2009). In 2020, Griffith reprised his role as Shadow in the fan-made audio series Sonic and Tails R (2020), with Ryan Drummond reprising his role as Sonic (having previously done so from 1999-2004) in the same series. Outside of the Sonic series, he is also known for voicing Usopp and Yasopp in the original dub of One Piece (1999), Atticus Rhodes in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (2008), various characters in Pokémon (1997), and (more recently) Snake in Vinland Saga (2019), in addition to rare live-action guest appearances in Blue Bloods (2010) and The Orville (2017).

Mike Pollock is an American voice actor who is widely known for being the voice of Dr. Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic X since 2003. He voiced Dr. Eggman longer than Dr. Eggman's previous voice actors. He also voiced in Viva Piñata, Pokémon, Kirby: Right Back at Ya, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, the Astonishing X-Men motion comic and Berserk.

Megan Hollingshead was born on 22 September 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998), Ergo Proxy (2006) and Valkyrie Profile (1999).

Eli James is an actor, writer, comedian and dialect specialist best known for his voice work on Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal (2011) and his roles on Gossip Girl (2007), Unforgettable (2011), Alpha House (2013), Lights Out (2011) and many commercials. His Broadway credits include "One Man, Two Guvnors," directed by Nicholas Hytner, as well as Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman's "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson."

Further stage credits include "Rutherford & Son" at The Mint Theater, "Becky Shaw" at the Huntington Theater, "The Four of Us" at Manhattan Theatre Club, and the world premiere of Jason Grote's "Maria/Stuart" at the Woolly Mammoth Theater, directed by Pam McKinnon. In his native Philadelphia, he appeared in "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" with Philadelphia Theatre Company, and was in the East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" at The Wilma Theater.

His solo show "Imagine All the People: A Survey of Music Business Creeps" ran at the Peoples Improv Theater in New York. Prior to that, his solo work "William and the Tradesmen" ran in the New York International Fringe Festival, Ars Nova's ANT Fest and at the Drilling Company Theater with Project: Theater. It was dubbed "a gem ... well-wrought, insightful and precise" by nytheatre.

For three years, Eli was a house-team performer at New York's legendary comedy venue the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He performed on Maude Night, UCB's monthly sketch comedy showcase, with the teams "Cha-Cha," "Mama's Gotta Go" and "Lover." He continues to perform at the UCB Theater in improv, sketch and character shows, and is a long-time student of the theater's Advanced Study Improv Program and UCB Academy.

He is a lifelong guitarist and songwriter, and as a coach, he has instructed many diverse groups and individuals in acting, improv, and his specialty: dialects.

Sean Schemmel is an American voice actor who is most well known for voicing Goku in the English-language versions of the Dragon Ball franchise. Aside from Goku, Sean also voiced Black Doom from Shadow the Hedgehog, Gonard from Kappa Mikey, Goku Black and King Kai from Dragon Ball, Lucario from Pokémon, Helmeppo and Hatchan from One Piece, 1984 Raphael from TMNT: Turtles Forever, Nobody from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 cartoon), and Batman from The Dark Knight Rises video game.

Kate Bristol was born on 1 May 1990 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (2017), Fruits Basket (2001) and Dragon Ball GT (1996). She has been married to Winston Nget since 15 October 2016.

Jamie McGonnigal was born on 6 August 1975 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and director, known for One Piece (1999), Kizuna (1998) and Standing Ovations 2 (2004). He has been married to Sean Carlson since 2013.

Marc Swint was born on 18 June 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024), Anime Abandon (2011) and Street Fighter V (2016).

Bill Timoney was born on 5 March 1958 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for All My Children (1970), 12 Monkeys (2015) and Mission to Mars (2000). He has been married to Georgette Reilly since 16 March 2002.

Of Italian heritage, Nick was born in The Bronx projects, raised on Long Island, Pelham Manor, and Mt. Vernon, New York. Nick spent his childhood listening to his father performing dozens of accents and comedy sketches. Cartoons were Nick's babysitter, thus giving him and early ear for his voiceover gifts. Nick's dad was part of an early 1950's Bronx crew of future entertainers, led by the super talented writer and actor Rudy Deluca. Rudy went off to Hollywood and teamed up with Mel Brooks to write, produce, and act in the majority of Mel's films. Over 50 years later, fate brought Rudy into Nick's life in Los Angeles.

Nick started his acting career as Nicholas James Tate in 1990 as a non-union extra on Law & Order. For the next 4 years, he lived in New York City, performing in Murder Mystery shows around the world with now superstar performers Connie Britton and Aasif Mandvi. He dedicated that stage name to silent film star Harold Lloyd, as a tribute to Harold attending Tate University in one of his silent films. Nick's screen / stage credits changed to his birth name-Nick Stellate-as of 2000. Most of his credits prior to 2000, occurred while he was living in Mt. Vernon.

Nick's childhood dreams became reality in 1996 when he acquired the highly sought after SAG card. His ambitious spirit helped guide his way up the extra ranks in New York until 1997 when he landed a featured extra role as Renee Zellwegger's Hasidic bodyguard in "A Price Above Rubies." After appearing as an extra in dozens of TV Shows , Pilots, and Feature Films from 1997-1998, he landed 13 voices on Pokemon, hence a voiceover career changer. Nick is now credited with over 2500 Animation, Video Game , and Film voice characters.

Followed shortly by his worldwide Pokemon recognition, he relocated to Los Angeles in Nov 1998. Nick's acting career began to blossom almost immediately. He landed many lead and supporting roles in feature films along with guest and co-starring roles on popular TV Shows from detectives to bad guys, bodybuilders to eastern block thugs.

He's worked with and become friends with some the world's most talented performers including: Connie Britton, Paul Sorvino, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, Tony Shaloub, Renee Zellwegger, Val Kilmer, Christopher Meloni and Faye Dunaway to name a few.

Nick counts his blessings daily to be working and has an immense respect and grateful energy he shares wholeheartedly. "I'm living one of my dreams as an actor, and when I'm on set, or behind the mic, I feel like I'm home," he quoted to Filmstar magazine.

Nick has raised financing and produced several projects, while continuing his fun acting/voice over careers. For the past 10 years, he's been credited with over 500 character voices on Storychimes for children, based in Los Angeles. Nick lives in New York and Los Angeles now.

His brother Frankie Stellate was his biggest motivator throughout his acting career. Nick dedicates all of his past, current, and future successes to his wonderful brother Frankie, who passed October 12, 2018.

"Frankie, this is for you, always was, always will be my brother!"

Todd Haberkorn is an American voice actor and voice director who is known for his English-language dubs of anime and video games. He voiced Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail, Android 19 from Dragon Ball Z Kai, Ebony Maw from Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Grey Matter, Tetrax, and Slapback from Ben 10 and Hiroshi Tameda from My Hero Academia.

The very talented voice actor, Marc Diraison, started voicing characters in anime that was being dubbed in New York City in early 2000s. He has since given his voice to many characters in anime shows and feature films, and in other animated shows. In addition to that, he has also directed and written scripts for several anime dubs. A favorite of the fans for over a decade and praised for his performance as Guts, the protagonist of the Berserk anime series and movies. In 2013, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he continues to work in voiceover in animation and video games.

Caitlin Glass was born on 16 November 1981 in Washington D.C., USA. She is an actress, known for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009), Escaflowne: The Movie (2000) and Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007). She has been married to Tony Patterson since 2009.

Carrie Keranen was born in Oak Park, Michigan, USA. She is an American voice actress, producer, production manager, and voice director. She is known for her work on Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011), KILL la KILL (2013), Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002), and Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2015).

Carrie grew up in Oak Park, Michigan and had always been involved in acting, including high school plays, but she said she was more active in sports. She later attended the University of Michigan, and originally intended to major in international business with a specialization in Japanese but would be drawn back into doing plays and subbing in for major roles. She later graduated with a BA in Theatre and Linguistics and after visiting Europe, moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting.

As of 2010, she currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Lucien Dodge was born on 24 June 1984 in Ithaca, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Logan (2017), Fate/Zero (2011) and MGS: Philanthropy (2009).