Wendee Lee is an American voice actress, writer, and director.
Biography
Lee studied dance and theater and later became a full-time dancer in her teens. According to her interview on the Magic Knight Rayearth DVDs, she started doing voices at school and got in trouble for it. Her first anime voice role was in Harmony Gold production Robotech in the 1980s, where she voiced Vanessa Leeds, one of the operators aboard the SDF-1 Macross. She also worked with Streamline on several anime productions including Dragon Ball. She would continue dance and work part-time as a make-up artist, choreography and dance instruction.
Career
Lee's major voice roles in anime include Kei in the Pioneer dub of Akira, Faye Valentine on Cowboy Bebop, Myōjin Yahiko in Rurouni Kenshin, Takeru "T.K." Takaishi on Digimon Adventure, Haruhi Suzumiya on The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Konata Izumi on Lucky Star. She has also worked as an ADR director on Bleach, Love Hina and Outlaw Star and a casting director on The Night B4 Christmas. In 2014–2015, she voiced Queen Serenity in the Viz Media re-dub of the classic Sailor Moon series and the new Sailor Moon Crystal series.
Lee is currently embroiled in controversy after the recent decision by Viz Media and Studiopolis to not move forward with Anairis Quiñones as Yoruichi Shihōin for reasons yet undisclosed to the public, with the role in Bleach being reprised by Lee.
Filmography
Anime
Animation
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Feature films
Direct-to-video and television films
Live-action
Video games
Documentaries
Discography
Singles
God Knows -
lost my music'' -
Notes
References
Further reading
Wendee Lee interview on Anime Herald
Wendee Lee interview on Gamasutra
Wendee Lee interview Gamasutra
External links
Wendee Lee at Crystal Acids
Living people
American casting directors
Women casting directors
American film actresses
American television actresses
American television directors
American television writers
American video game actresses
American voice actresses
American voice directors
American women screenwriters
American women television directors
American women television writers
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)