Rebecca Soler (credited as Jessica Paquet) is an American voice actress based in the New York City area. She has voiced on several audiobooks; her most notable voice work has been the narrator for The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer. In anime, she voiced title character Miu Nomura in Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart, Reanne in Ojamajo Doremi and Battia in Outlanders. In animation, she voiced in Huntik, Viva Piñata, and Winx Club. She has worked with 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post, Media Blasters, Central Park Media and DuArt Film & Video. On stage, she has participated in various theater projects, including a play called Becoming Cuba. She is also a producer of a web series called With Friends Like These.
Biography
Soler grew up in Boston, and moved to Sugar Land, Texas while in high school. She attended Carnegie-Mellon University where she graduated with a Bachelor's in theater.
She got involved in voice-over for anime and animation works that were being dubbed in the New York area. She voiced lead characters in Huntik, Viva Piñata, Winx Club, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokémon and Chaotic. Soler began her voice acting as Joi Reynard from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She voiced Miu Nomura, the title character in Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart which was produced by NYAV Post and Right Stuf. She was selected in a fan casting contest poll held by Central Park Media to voice Battia in their dub of the 1986 anime Outlanders. Soler joined the Winx Club 4Kids dub cast, replacing Dani Schaffel in voicing the character Tecna for season 3.
She began working on audio books after her voice-over agent recommended her for a few projects. She voiced in books by Judy Blume, James Patterson, and Sarah Dessen, and received an AudioFile Earphones Award in 2009 for her narration of Amy Efaw's novel After. Her narration of the Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key was listed among 2009 YALSA Fabulous Films & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults. In January 2011, her narration of Marissa Meyer's book Cinder was released by MacMillan Audio.
Soler continues to be active on-screen and in the theater. In 2014, she was involved in a live-action play called Becoming Cuba by the Huntington Theatre Company where she played Martina. She is executive producer of a web series called With Friends Like These which is written by and stars her husband. In 2020, her daughter was born.
Filmography
Animation
Anime
Video games
Live acting
Once a Loser (2013 short film) – Coffee woman
With Friends Like These (2014 web series) – Jess (Ep. 5)
Crew and production roles
With Friends Like These (2014 web series) – Executive Producer
Discography
Audio books
The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
Cinder
Scarlet
Cress – Audio Publishers Association Audie Award Finalist in Fantasy and Teens categories – 2015 Fairest Winter
Renegades series by Marissa Meyer
Renegades narrated by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner
Archenemies narrated by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner
Supernova narrated by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner
Other books
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd
Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure by James Patterson
Atlantia by Ally Condie
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan, narrated by Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, MacLeod Andrews and Rebecca Soler. – 2016 Honor Audiobook Odyssey Award Heartless by Marissa Meyer Sadie by Courtney Summers, narrated by Rebecca Soler, Fred Berman, Dan Bittner, Gabra Zackman Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir
References
External links
Rebecca Soler at Crystal Acids English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database
21st-century American actresses
American voice actresses
Audiobook narrators
Living people
Actresses from New York City
Actresses from Boston
Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Actresses from Pittsburgh American stage actresses American television actresses Carnegie Mellon University alumni People from Sugar Land, Texas Actresses from Texas