Brina Palencia
American voice actress (born 1984)
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Brina Michelle Palencia (born February 13, 1984)[1][2] is an American voice and television actress. She has voiced a number of English-language versions of characters featured in anime.
Palencia provides the dubbed voices of Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece, Touka Kirishima in Tokyo Ghoul, Vi Graythorn in Case Closed, Eve in Black Cat, Honoka Sakurai in Suzuka, Ai Enma in Hell Girl, Kazumi Yoshida in Shakugan no Shana, Kurumu Kurono in Rosario + Vampire, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Juvia Lockser in Fairy Tail, Holo in Spice and Wolf, Kazuhiro Mitogawa in Ga-Rei: Zero, Sakura Minamoto in Zombie Land Saga, Yuno Gasai in Future Diary, Miharu Rokujo in Nabari no Ou, Ruiko Saten in A Certain Scientific Railgun, Maho Minami in Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Ryoko Okami in Okami-san and Her Seven Companions, Minoru Mineta in My Hero Academia, and Isuzu Soma in Fruits Basket. On camera, she starred as Sophia in The CW series Star-Crossed and has appeared in The Walking Dead and Castle. In video games, she voices Mad Moxxi in the Borderlands series, Ayra from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Lute from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones in the 2017 mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes and Nyontengu from Dead or Alive.
Biography
Palencia was born and raised in Oklahoma.[3] As a child, she lived in Honduras[6][7] until she was four. Throughout her childhood, she went back and forth between La Ceiba, Honduras and Owasso, Oklahoma.[1][2]
She settled in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Weatherford High School in 2002.[6] While studying at the University of North Texas, she was influenced by the anime series Dragon Ball Z.[1] After graduating from UNT with a Bachelor of Arts in music in 2006,[3][8] she began her career as a voice actress for Funimation.[1] She was also a director, but eventually focused more on the acting side of the productions.[2]
In her live-action work, she was the host of GameStop TV and has appeared in independent films, such as The Ladies of the House and Lumberjack Man. In 2014, she had a starring role as Roman's younger sister Sophia in The CW's science fiction romantic drama Star-Crossed.[9][10][11] In 2017, she was credited with performing a parody version of Sarah McLachlan's "In the Arms of An Angel", titled "On the Wings of a Battmann," in a Cyanide & Happiness short of the same name.[12]
Personal life
Filmography
Anime
Film
Video games
Live-action
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Good Guys | Krista | Episode: "The Whistleblower" | Resume |
| 2011 | Chase | Renee | Episode: "Father Figure" | |
| 2013 | The Walking Dead | Ana | Episode: "Indifference" | Resume |
| 2013 | Upstream Color | Woman in Club | [69] | |
| 2014 | Star-Crossed | Sophia | 12 episodes | [9][10][11] |
| 2014 | The Ladies of the House | Crystal | [70][71] | |
| 2015 | Castle | Jody Evans | Episode: "Habeas Corpse" | Resume |
| 2015 | Lumberjack Man | LuAnn Potts | [72] | |
| 2023 | Ultraman Z | Pega | (English Dub) | |
