Ali Hillis

Alecia Dean Hillis (born December 29, 1978) is an American actress who has appeared in television and film, and voices a number of characters in video games. She is widely known for her work as Dr. Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Lightning Farron in the Final Fantasy XIII series, and Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising.

Biography
When she was six months old, Hillis and her family moved to Normal, Illinois and at age 3, to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. She moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at age 13 and performed at The Children's Theater. She auditioned for Broadway plays in New York City with TV shows of Felicity (2 episodes in 1999), FreakyLinks, Undressed, Naruto, JAG, Boomtown and Less Than Perfect. Her several film roles are All the Wrong Places, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Must Love Dogs, Open Water 2: Adrift, The Ultimate Gift, and The Heartbreak Kid and the Los Angeles play, A Good Soldier. Her video game roles are Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII, its sequels and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Ariel Hanson in Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Karin in the Naruto series, Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising and Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair in Fuse.

In 2012, she starred in a YouTube web series called Fix Me by ModernMom, in which she plays Sydney Lang, a housewife who tries to fix everything around her.

Hillis is married to Matt Swartz.

Anime

 * Naruto Shippūden (2007-2017) - Karin, Karin's Mother (ep. 431), Woman A (ep. 432)
 * Stitch! (2008-2011) - Mitsuki, Toriko
 * X-Men (2011) - White Queen/Emma Frost, Mothers (ep. 5)
 * Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2017-present) - Karin
 * Tiger & Bunny 2 (2022) - Pamela Dawson, Additional Voices
 * Exception (2022) - Nina

Video Game Dubbing

 * Final Fantasy XIII (2009) - Lightning Farron
 * Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013) - Lightning Farron
 * Ace Combat: Infinity (2014) - Ace
 * World of Final Fantasy (2016) - Lightning Farron
 * Mobius Final Fantasy (2016) - Lightning Farron
 * Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster (2020) - Lady of the Fount