Jamie Marchi


Jamie Lynn Marchi is an American voice actress, ADR director and script writer who works for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. She has provided a number of voices for English-language versions of anime and video games. She is known for her role as Cana Alberona in Fairy Tail.

Early life

Marchi was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Susan Kay Hester. Her stepfather, Michael Hester, worked as a bio-medical engineer. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in theater, and started her professional acting career in 2000.

Career

Marchi got her start in voice acting in Fruits Basket as Motoko Minagawa, and has worked on and voiced for a number of American adaptations of Japanese anime series, which include Black Cat as Rinslet Walker, Soul Eater as Elizabeth "Liz" Thompson, Sekirei as Uzume, Heaven's Lost Property as Mikako Satsukitane, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt as Panty Anarchy, Freezing as Rana Linchen, High School DxD as Rias Gremory, Witchblade as Masane Amaha and Death Parade as Chiyuki. She also writes the anime dub scripts and directs other Funimation actors.
In April 2013, Marchi joined The Funimation Show web series as a co-host.
On September 3, 2015, Marchi made her debut role for Sentai Filmworks as Neko Kuroha in Brynhildr in the Darkness.
On November 3, 2017, Marchi made her first non-anime role as Green Guts in Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.

Personal life

Marchi's younger half-brother, Jean-Luc Hester, is also a voice actor.
Marchi married fellow actor Sean T. Perez on August 8, 1999. They divorced on November 21, 2005. She has two step-daughters.
On February 8, 2019, in response to the accusations of sexual harassment being launched at voice actor Vic Mignogna, Marchi, along with voice actress Monica Rial, tweeted their support for those speaking out against Mignogna, and shared their own alleged experiences of being sexually harassed by the actor. On April 19, she was named in a lawsuit, along with Rial, Ron Toye and Funimation, filed by Mignogna on grounds of defamation and tortuous interference. On September 6, 2019, the civil case against her was dismissed and Mignogna was required to pay all of her legal fees.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Film

Video games

Awards and nominations