Stephanie Sheh

Stephanie Sheh

Stephanie Ru-Phan Sheh (born April 10, 1977 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is a Chinese-American actress, voice actress, ADR director, ADR script writer, casting director, sound engineer, and producer who has works for Attack of the Show!, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Bandai Entertainment, Cartoon Network, Geneon Entertainment, Media Blasters, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, NYAV Post, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures Classics, FUNimation Entertainment, Urban Vision, and Viz Media. She is one of the few people that works in California and Texas. She is often involved with doing voice over work in anime, original animation, videogames, dubbing, commercials, and TV shows. She has recently been hired as a professional photographer, shooting weddings and headshots.

She is known for voicing either painfully shy girls, action girls, genki girls, and even sarcastic characters. Her most notable roles in her voice over work in anime are Orihime Inoue in Bleach, Eureka in Eureka Seven, Kirie Kojima in Girls Bravo, Mamimi Samejima in FLCL, Hisako Ichiki/Armor in Marvel Anime: X-Men, Mikuru Asahina in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Wendy Garret in Gun X Sword, Guu in Haré+Guu / Haré+Guu Deluxe, Hazumu Osaragi in Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, Akira Kogami from Lucky ☆ Star, Hinata Hyuga in Naruto and Naruto: Shippūden, Audrey Burne in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, and Yui Hirasawa from K-On!. When it comes to anime fans asking Stephanie in conventions of who is her favorite character she voiced, she always states, "Your roles are like your children. You have your favorites, but you don't tell anybody who they are." But she has stated that she was more related to Mamimi Samejima in FLCL and Hinata Hyuga in Naruto and Naruto: Shippūden when she was growing up as a kid. She even has similarities with Orihime Inoue in Bleach when it comes to her weird cooking.

Her most notable roles in her voice over work in videogames are Finnel in Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel, Cereza in Bayonetta, Mlle Blanche de Grace in Bioshock 2, Orihime Inoue in the Bleach (series), Eric Lecarde in Castlevania Judgment, Eureka in Eureka Seven vol. 1: New Wave, Hinata Hyuga in the Naruto (series), Canna in Ninja Gaiden 3, Rebecca Chambers in Resident Evil 5, Natalia Luzu Kimlasca Lanvaldear in Tales of the Abyss, and Silmeria in Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria. She is currently voicing one of the supporting fighting characters in the most best-selling fighting game franchise of all time in the Tekken series, Julia Chang in Tekken 6, Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Unlimited and the Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition.

Her most notable roles in her voice over work in original animation and TV shows are Catwoman in Batman Of Shanghai, Share Bear, Secret Bear, Laugh a Lot Bear, Share Bear Duplicate and Baby Tugs Bear in Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot, Lisa in Secret Millionaires Club, Sue Yee in Three Delivery. In, she has stated in her official website that "I got to bust out my chinese occasionally on the show." She is currently voicing Mrs. Rabbit in the Nickelodeon TV series Peter Rabbit

Aside from voice acting, she has also adapted and written scripts for projects like FLCL, Ikki Tousen, Ah! My Goddess, Hell Girl, Romeo X Juliet and various others. Also aside for acting and writing scripts, she even co-directed for videogames like Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection alongside fellow voice actor Liam O'Brien. Sam Riegal and Kirk Thornton also co-directed Resident Evil 6 along with them.

As a producer, she has also done many projects like Angel Tales, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - The Egg of King, FLCL, Hi no Tori, I'm Gonna Be An Angel!, Jungle Emperor Leo, Kurokami The Animation, Mia and the Migoo, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Robotomy and Zetman that she has done alongside with co-producers for some of the projects with Anthony Tortociri, Carrie Keranen. Dan Green, Marc Diraison, and Mike Sinterniklaas.

She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese, and also can get by Taiwanese. She has also studied Japanese and Spanish. Being Asian herself, she has the advantage of knowing how to speak Japanese and can even sing songs in Japanese as well. Only when it comes to karaokeing. Her last name Sheh is pronounced "Shay". Also, her last name stands for "stone" in Chinese. Also as Jennifer Sekiguchi, "Seki" also stands for "stone" in Chinese.

Her hobbies are watching BSG while on the bike at the gym, swimming, exercising, karaokeing, photography, and dancing.

She mentioned on the interview of We Heart Japan that Kari Wahlgren was the first person to hire as an anime voice actor. she says that,

"I hired Kari in her very first anime voiceover role. So it is so cool that I’ve been able to watch her career grow and take off. Kari is one of the most humble and smart girls I know. She really deserves all the success she has in her life. I adore her and I don’t get to hang out with her enough."