Amy Walker is an American

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and

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. She is best known for voicing Lunara in the video game ''

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'' and a variety of characters in ''

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Early life

Amy studied acting and singing at the

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. She later settled in

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, and played the character Joan in the short film ''Dead Letters''.

Career

In ''

,'' Amy voiced Lunara and various characters in ''

'' (Miss Nanny, Beverly Solomon, Dorothy Orris, and Mawmaw). She created a YouTube video ''21 Accents'', which earned her appearances on both ''

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'' and ''

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''. She also partnered with

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as an accent expert to promote their Foreign Accent Cup. Miss Walker performed her first original one-woman show, ''Amy Walker: Inside Out'', in November 2007 and has since created three other original shows onstage and online. In 2019, Amy Walker filmed two

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, Evan Wood and Grace and Grit, both of which were released in late 2020. She also voiced Emi Terasawa in the video game, ''

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.'' She learned how to paint in college.

Discography

*''Discourse on Accents'' (

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, 2011)

Awards

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Amy American stage actresses American expatriate actors in New Zealand Living people Actresses from Seattle 21st-century American actresses University of Wollongong alumni 21st-century American singers 21st-century American women singers American YouTube vloggers Year of birth missing (living people) YouTubers from Seattle