Vanessa Marshall is an American

voice actress Voice acting is the art of Acting, performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice. Performers are often called voice actors/actresses in addition to other names. Examples of voice work include animation, animated, ...

who is most active in films, cartoons and video games.

Career

Prior to her career as a voice actor, Marshall attended

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, majoring in English. She then attended graduate school at the

New York University Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic, and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch ...

, attaining a masters in acting and learning different dialects, which Marshall credits for helping her in her voiceover career. She started voice acting after being discovered by a voice acting agent during a

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, where she was playing 15 different characters. One of her best known roles is her voice acting for the character

Hera Syndulla General Hera Syndulla is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, voiced by Vanessa Marshall in the animated series ''Star Wars Rebels'', '' The Freemaker Adventures'', '' Forces of Destiny'', and '' The Bad Batch'', and the video ...

in ''

Star Wars Rebels ''Star Wars Rebels'' is an American 3D animated science fiction television series produced by Lucasfilm Animation and set in the ''Star Wars'' universe. It takes place 14 years after '' Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'' (2005 ...

''. She reprised the role in '' Star Wars: The Bad Batch''. In July 2021, Marshall described Hera as a "strong, iconic female character", said that she brought together all the elements in her life into her voice acting as Hera, and argued that Hera became inspirational for her. Previously, she stated, in an April 2016 interview, that she brought her "convictions and...open heart" to each session in which she recorded as Hera, including her study of

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, and said the original Star Wars film in 1977 had a " huge impact" on her. In another interview, in March 2016, said she "secretly dedicated" her performance as Hera to her father, who is a pilot, noted her use of

French language French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-R ...

skills in the show, and joked that Sabine Wren was her "favorite character" in ''Rebels''.

Personal life

Marshall was married to voice-over artist and rapper Andrew Kishino from 2001 to 2007. During their marriage, they founded Marsh-Kish Productions, a voice-over production company; she decided to keep the company name as the two remained friends after their divorce. Both have appeared as main characters in ''

The Spectacular Spider-Man ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' is a comic book and magazine series starring Spider-Man and published by Marvel Comics. Following the success of Spider-Man's original series, ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', Marvel felt the character could support ...

''. Her acting in this has been compared to that of her mother in the 1970s ''

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'' series.

Filmography

Voice acting

Animation

Films

Video games

Audio books

Live-action

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Vanessa Living people Actresses from New York City American people of Dutch descent American television actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses New York University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Princeton University alumni 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Year of birth missing (living people)