Saffron Henderson

Saffron Henderson (born September 25, 1965) is a Canadian voice actress and singer.

Career
Henderson tends to be cast as mature and flirtatious women, young boys and teenage girls, as well as foreign women and motherly figures. Her best known roles are Kid Goku and Kid Gohan in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Shenhua in Black Lagoon, Sachiko Yagami in Death Note, Lucrezia Noin in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Oxnard in Hamtaro. She's the daughter of Bill Henderson the lead guitarist and singer of the Canadian rock band Chilliwack and has a younger sister named Camille, who is also a singer.

Henderson has also done some live-action work as well. In 1989, she appeared in The Fly II as Veronica Quaife, the romantic comedy Cousins as Terri Costello, and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as rocker J.J. who is killed by Jason Voorhees with her own guitar.

Saffron has also provided backing vocals on several albums, including for ex Free/Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers' 1999 album Electric.

Anime

 * Dragon Ball (1986-1989) - Goku, Additional Voices (BLT Dub)
 * Dragon Ball Z (1989-1996) - Gohan (eps. 1-67 / 123-165), Additional Voices (Ocean Dub)
 * Ranma ½ (1989-1994) - Tsubasa Kurenai, Kogane Musashi, Additional Voices
 * The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) - Eriya, Celena Schezar, Additional Voices (Ocean Dub)
 * Monster Rancher (1999-2001) - Additional Voices
 * InuYasha (2000-2004) - Sota Higurashi (eps. 1-100), Eri (eps. 11-90) , Princess (ep. 27) , Additional Voices
 * Naruto (2002-2007) - Kurenai Yūhi (ep. 3; TV Edited Version), Mebuki Haruno
 * Death Note (2006-2007) - Sachiko Yagami, Mayu, Additional Voices
 * Powerpuff Girls Z (2006-2007) - Brandy, Additional Voices

Anime Films

 * Galaxy Express 999 (1979) - Tetsuro Hoshino
 * Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981) - Tetsuro Hoshino
 * Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986) - Goku (BLT Dub)
 * Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (1989) - Gohan (Ocean Dub)
 * Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (1990) - Gohan (Ocean Dub)
 * Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1990) - Gohan (Ocean Dub)

Trivia

 * In an interview with Toon Zone, Henderson said that, if she weren't an actress, she would have been a psychologist in order to help people with diabetes, from which she suffers. In the same interview, she mentions Peter Sellers as an influence and that she worked as a showgirl in Spain when she was seventeen.