Catherine Davis Higgins is an American voice actress, singer and jazz pianist. She is best known for her voice-acting roles of Sakura Haruno in ''

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'', Miles "Tails" Prower in the video game series ''

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'', Frankie Stein in '' Monster High'', Pauline in '' Super Mario'',

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in '' Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse'', and as Purah in '' The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom'' and '' Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity''.

Early life

Higgins attended

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where she studied music with jazz artist Bob Richardson. She would often play classical piano in her mother's Opelika restaurant, The Greenhouse. Higgins was a member of the band the Auburn Knights and has played shows at various bars and lounges. She graduated in 1991 with a degree in music and moved to

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to pursue her music career.

Career

Voice acting career

Higgins first worked on

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with singing after graduating, then landed a small voice-acting job as a singing cartoon squirrel. She was then approached to be a voice-over actress to do bumpers for the

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in 1998. Since then Higgins's major voice roles have been in English-language adaptations of Japanese anime, and she is best known as the voice of Sakura Haruno in ''

'' and Talho Yuuki in '' Eureka 7''. She has also voiced CC in '' Code Geass'' and Saber in the original ''

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''. Between 2010 and 2013, Higgins voiced Tails in the video game series ''

''. In 2014, Higgins was cast as Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury in the Viz English dub of ''

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''. She is the current voice of Princess Aurora since 2010, a Disney Princess character originally seen in

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’s ''

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''. She also played the voice of Frankie Stein in '' Monster High'' and Briar Beauty in '' Ever After High''. She also starred as

in '' Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse'' in 2012. Since the release of '' Super Mario Odyssey'' in 2017, she has been the voice of Pauline in the ''

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'' franchise.

Music career

Higgins is a trained jazz pianist. In 2002, she released her first jazz album, ''The Tide is Low''. Her second jazz album is ''Stealing Freedom''. She is also in a band called Upper Structure.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Films

Video games

Discography

Studio albums

* ''The Solid Rock'' (Concord, 1998) * ''The Tide is Low'' (2002) * ''Bigger than Love'' (Concord, 2006) * ''Jazz Standards'' * ''A Very Merry Christmas'' * ''Little Parts'' (2009) * ''Sweet and Blue'' (2016)

Collaborations

* ''6 by 5'' by Upper Structure (2004)

Songs

* " Jump Up, Super Star!" – '' Super Mario Odyssey'' (2017) * "Break Free (Lead the Way)" – '' Super Mario Odyssey'' (2017)

References

External links

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