Sandy Fox

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Sandra Marie Fox (née Kessler; born July 13, 1963)[1][2] is an American voice actress who has had numerous roles in various animated cartoon, anime, and video games. She portrayed the live-action Betty Boop and has provided her voice for Universal Studios and King Features Syndicate for much of their promotional activities and related media and merchandise from 1991 to 2018.[3][4] She began voice acting on various animated shows such as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Futurama. Her first major roles in anime were as Kiyoko in the Animaze dub of Akira and Lady Aska in Magic Knight Rayearth.[5] Other anime characters include Mina and Momiji in Naruto, Sumomo in Chobits, Tachikoma in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Paiway in Vandread. In video game franchises, she provides the English voice of Mistral and A-20 in the .hack series, Peashy in Hyperdimension Neptunia, and Flonne in Disgaea. In cartoons, she voices Harmony in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi and Mipsy Mipson in As Told by Ginger. In 2014, she was announced as the voice of Chibiusa/Black Lady/Sailor Chibi Moon in the Viz Media dubs of Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal.[6]

Early life and career

Fox was born in Monroeville, Pennsylvania on July 13, 1963, and grew up in Swissvale. She performed in musicals in high school, and worked at Kennywood amusement park during some of the summers.[1][2][3] In the early 1980s, she worked for the Walt Disney Company in Orlando where she would participate in their live stage shows. She was working as a hostess at a Bennigan's Irish pub when she was asked to audition with the 1920s-themed jazz band The Cocoanut Manor Orchestra as their singer. She sang with the group for 11 years, performing songs done by singers Helen Kane and Annette Henshaw; the former was an inspiration for the Betty Boop character.[3][7] In 1988, she joined the Orlando Magic's inaugural dance team,[2][8] and was part of the Magic Girls for three years.[9]

In 1991, she was cast as the official Betty Boop for Universal Studios. She moved to Los Angeles and began performing as Betty Boop at Universal Studios Hollywood, as well as on national and worldwide tours, visiting shows such as Good Morning America and The Rosie O'Donnell Show. In 1998, she voiced Betty Boop for "The Toon Lagoon Betty Boop" attraction at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure in addition to voicing Olive Oyl from the Popeye franchise for Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges, a water ride in the same park.[7][10] In 2012, she joined a Lancome promotion in Paris as the voice of Betty Boop in their commercials.[3][7]

Voice-over career

Fox was inspired to go into voice acting after having taken a voice-over workshop in 1990 with Sue Blu, a Los Angeles-based animation director and producer. After moving to Los Angeles, she voiced supporting and background characters for The Simpsons, mostly with kids voices and loop groups, which she did for three years. She also voiced characters for Futurama and King of the Hill.[3][8][11]

Fox voiced several anime characters, including Sakura in Ninja Cadets;[12] T-AI in a 2001 version of Transformers: Robots in Disguise; Kyoko in the Pioneer/Animaze dub of Akira; Paiway, the ship's nurse in Vandread, Sumomo in Bang Zoom's dub of Chobits.[13] Maya in Burn-Up Scramble and Tachikoma in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series, Momiji and Mina in Naruto, and Piyoko in Digi Charat. In addition, she voiced Lady Aska, a major character in the second season of Magic Knight Rayearth, a series in which she also rewrote lyrics and sang the theme songs.[14][15][16]

In 2003, she voiced the title characters in Omishi Magical Theater Risky Safety and Ground Defense Force! Mao-chan[13]. In his review of Mao-chan, Ryan Mathews of Anime News Network wrote that "Bang Zoom picked the perfect actress to play the lead role. [Fox], the owner of perhaps the cutest "little girl" voice in anime dub acting, is her usual adorable self as M.A.O."[17]

In 2007, she and Lex Lang hosted a Voice Actor Boot Camp at Bang Zoom! Entertainment to help up and coming voice actors get into the business.[14] In 2014, when Viz Media redubbed Sailor Moon and dubbed its new Sailor Moon Crystal series, Fox was chosen to voice Chibiusa.[18]

In video games, she voiced Mistral and A-20 in the .hack video game series, Flonne in various incarnations of Disgaea and Marona in Phantom Brave. She voiced Peashy in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series.[5]

Personal life and other ventures

Fox is married to fellow voice actor Lex Lang.[19] They live in Studio City, California.[20] In 1998 they co-founded the Love Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization which creates educational materials for children on the importance of recycling, world water awareness, and the preservation of the planet.[21] They also created Love Planet Productions, which includes several multimedia projects such as anime presentation shows, toddler shows and products, and Zen programming.[22] In 2006, they founded a bottled spring water business called H2Om Water with Intention, which has received recognition as a sponsor at several events including Sting's Rainforest Foundation Carnegie Hall Concert and the Elevate Film Festival.[3][23][24] Fox and Lang are Deepak Chopra meditation instructors.[25]

Filmography

Anime

List of voice performances in anime
Year Title Role Notes Source[26]
Template:Dts Battle Athletes series Various characters OAV Resume
Template:Dts Serial Experiments Lain Myu-Myu Resume
Cowboy Bebop Bowhead, Orphan, Pinky
Template:Dts Ninja Cadets Sakura OAV Resume
Flint the Time Detective Talen the Pink Squirrel
Magic Knight Rayearth series Lady Aska, Hikari, Hikaru's Friend A Also theme songs [14][5][27]
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure Kazuko Yotsuga [28]
Template:Dts Nightwalker Guni Resume
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Child, Sweeter Twin OAV
Hand Maid May Miyuki Zin
Vampire Princess Miyu Various characters TV series, grouped under "Also featuring voice talents of" [29]
Saint Tail Various characters grouped under "English language cast" [30]
Transformers: Robots in Disguise T-AI Press[19]
Template:Dts Vandread series Celtic Midori, Paiway Underberg Press[19]
Love Hina Moé Resume
Shinzo Este Resume
eX-Driver Girl A, Student OAV Resume
Hello Kitty's Paradise Lacey the Raccoon, Jody Resume
Template:Dts .hack//SIGN A-20, Mistral [31]
Argento Soma Harriet "Hattie" Bartholomew Resume
Ai Yori Aoshi Akiko, Chararin, Utsume, others
Chobits Sumomo Also OAV, specials Press[13]
Rurouni Kenshin Theme song performance: "Freckles" Press[14]
Please Teacher! Maho Kazami, Marie OAV and TV series Press[19]
Geneshaft Tiki Musicanova Press[14]
Omishi Magical Theater Risky Safety Risky [32]
Heat Guy J Monica Gabriel, others Resume
Mao-chan Mao Onigawara [17]
Template:Dts .hack//Legend of the Twilight Mireille Resume
Rave Master Reina (young) Resume
Angel Tales Kurumi the Hamster [33]
Burn Up Scramble! Maya Jinguu Resume
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Tachikoma Also 2nd GIG, Tachikomatic Days shorts Press[19]
Please Twins! Marie OAV and TV series Resume
Template:Dts Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite Cynthia Landlavizar / Grace
Saiyuki Reload Seika, Shion, Sibling's mother Eps. 1,13
Ultra Maniac Luna
Scrapped Princess Cin [34]
Kyo Kara Maoh! Yuri (Young) Resume
Di Gi Charat Pyocola
Naruto Momiji, Mina Press[18][19]
Mars Daybreak Shie Resume
.hack//Unison Mistral OAV Resume
Leave it to Piyoko! Pyocola Analogue III / Piyoko Resume
Template:Dts Haré+Guu Marie [35]
Immortal Grand Prix Amy microseries Resume
Kannazuki no Miko Nekoko [36]
Karas Amefuriko OAV Resume
Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Kid, Daughter Eps. 10,13,14
Green Green Sanae Minami
Disgaea Flonne Press[19][37]
Template:Dts MÄR Loco Resume
Template:Dts Bleach Ritz Press[19]
Template:Dts Naruto Shippūden Naho Ep. 196 Resume
Template:Dts Durarara!! Haruna Niekawa
Template:Dts–19 Sailor Moon Chibiusa/ Sailor Chibi Moon Viz Media dub [6]
Template:Dts Aldnoah.Zero Eddelrittuo [38]
Template:Dts Sailor Moon Crystal Chibiusa/ Sailor Chibi Moon [6]
Pokémon Generations Courtney ONA; Episode: The Vision Press[39]
Template:Dts Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Haro NYAV Post dub [40]
Template:Dts Granblue Fantasy The Animation Vyrn [41]

Film

List of voice performances in direct-to-video films and specials
Year Title Role Notes Source[11][26]
Template:Dts The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock Dinah [31]
Template:Dts Catnapped! Meeko Animaze dub Resume
Template:Dts Akira Kyoko Press[5][19][42]
Template:Dts Mobile Suit Gundam F91 Kochun Hein, Leah Mariba Bandai/Bang Zoom dub Resume
List of voice performances in feature films
Year Title Role Notes Source[11][26]
Template:Dts Maleficent Fairies and creatures Press[19]
Template:Dts Robinson Crusoe
aka The Wild Life		 Epi   [43][44]
Template:Dts Sailor Moon R: The Movie Chibiusa Viz Dub
Limited theatrical release		 [45][46]
Template:Dts Sailor Moon S: The Movie Chibiusa / Sailor Chibi Moon [47]
Sailor Moon Super S: The Movie [47]

Animation

List of voice performances in animation
Year Title Role Notes Source[11]
Template:Dts–94 The Simpsons Various characters [3][8]
Template:Dts–96 Eek! the Cat Sandee Heap ("Klutter!" segment) Credits
Template:Dts Toonsylvania Darla Dolly [48]
Template:Dts Mad Jack the Pirate Magic Pink Fairy, others [49]
Template:Dts As Told by Ginger Mipsy Mipson [31][19]
Template:Dts–2005 Jay Jay the Jet Plane Tracy, Snuffy, Tuffy (as Marie Danielle; replacing Gina Ribisi) Website[50]
Template:Dts–2007 My Life as a Teenage Robot Melody Locus Tweet[51][1]
Template:Dts–2006 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Harmony Recurring role Resume
1999–2013 Futurama Various characters Press[19]
1997–2010 King of the Hill
Template:Dts Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Roaar, Various characters Tweet[52]

Video games

List of voice performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source[11]
Template:Dts Brave Fencer Musashi Princess Fillet As Marie Danielle [31][14]
Template:Dts–04 .hack video game series Mistral, A-20 Infection, Mutation, Outbreak and Quarantine [31]
Template:Dts Disgaea: Hour of Darkness Flonne [42][53]
Phantom Brave Marona [54]
Go! Go! Hypergrind [39]
Template:Dts Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome Press[15]
Template:Dts Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny
Tales of the Abyss Mieu [31]
.hack//G.U. vol.1//Rebirth Asta [31]
Template:Dts Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm [39]
2008 Soulcalibur IV Press[15]
Template:Dts Disgaea Infinite Flonne Press[55]
Template:Dts Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten Resume
Template:Dts Rise of the Dragonian Era Press[15]
Template:Dts Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures Cyli [5][56]
Hyperdimension Neptunia series Peashy (Yellow Heart) Starting with Victory, then Re;birth1 and Re;Birth2 [5]
Template:Dts Bravely Second: End Layer Minette [57]
2018 Tales of Vesperia Patty Fleur Definitive Edition Tweet[58]
Template:Dts God Eater 3 [39]
Template:Dts Granblue Fantasy Versus Vyrn [31]
Template:Dts The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV Renne Bright [31]
Template:Dts Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Vyrn [31]
2024 Granblue Fantasy: Relink Vyrn [31]

Other voice roles

List of appearances on television and film
Year Title Role Notes Source[11]
Template:Dts Old MacDonald's Sing-a-Long Farm Lucinda Chick Live-action pre-school series, Voice role Tweet[59]
LeapFrog toys and videos Lilly Leap Frog Website[50]

Other live-action roles

List of live-action appearances on television and film
Year Title Role Notes Source[11]
Template:Dts Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck Contestant Three episodes; Finalist in the Whammy Tournament of Champions [1]

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