Leah Applebaum is an American

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and

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. She is best known as the voice of Nanami Kiryu from

Revolutionary Girl Utena is a Japanese anime television series created by Be-Papas, a production group formed by director Kunihiko Ikuhara and composed of himself, Chiho Saito, Shinya Hasegawa, Yōji Enokido and Yūichirō Oguro. The series was produced by ...

and Erika, the Grass type Gym Leader from the internationally acclaimed Pokémon series.

Career

Applebaum first got into voice acting while working for a

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called My Thoughts Here in New York when she got a call from a

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who was casting for the

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winning

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, a Sci-Fi Channel program. Applebaum got the

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of Kamala Shastri, which led her to be cast as a reporter in The Signal Man, which was adapted from the original story by

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. The attention Applebaum received from her work on the Sci-Fi Channel eventually got her the major role of Nanami Kiryu from

and Erika from the highly popular Pokémon series. According to the Dogasu's Backpack interview, Applebaum revealed that her Nanami voice was inspired from Buffy, a

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from the

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TV series.

Voice roles

Anime

* Erika and Suzie in

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* Nanami Kiryu in

* Nanami the Cow in Utena: The Movie * Giovanni's Mother in

Night on the Galactic Railroad , sometimes translated as ''Milky Way Railroad'', ''Night Train to the Stars'' or ''Fantasy Railroad in the Stars'', is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927. The nine-chapter novel was posthumously published by ...

Internet Radio

* Sci Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre ** Princess Loo-Koo and Prunn in The First (and Last) Musical on Mars ** Computoid, Female Slave, and Rex in The Moon Moth ** Net-Girl and Phone Voice in The Nostalgianauts ** The Reporter in

The Signal-Man "The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the '' Mugby Junction'' collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of ''All the Year Round''. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. ...

** Matilda the Waitress in

Tales from the Crypt Tales from the Crypt may refer to: * ''Tales from the Crypt'' (album), by American rapper C-Bo * ''Tales from the Crypt'' (comics), published by EC Comics during the 1950s ** ''Tales from the Crypt'' (film), a 1972 Amicus film starring Ralph Ric ...

Episode 6: "Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottiness" ** Jane and Mistress Thornton in Time's Arrow, Time's Spiral **Kamala Shastri in

References

External links

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