Sandra Marie "Sandy" Fox (born July 13, 1963) is an American voice actress who has had numerous roles in various animated cartoon, anime and video games. She is known for a high-pitched voice and is often cast as very young girls.
She portrayed the live-action Betty Boop and has provided her voice for Universal Studios and King Features Syndicate for much of their promotional activities and related media and merchandise since 1991. Her first major roles in anime were as Kiyoko in the redub of Akira and Lady Aska in Magic Knight Rayearth. Other anime characters include Mina and Momiji in Naruto, Sumomo in Chobits, Tachikoma in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Paiway in Vandread, and Chibiusa Tsukino in the Viz Media Redub of Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal.
Biography[]
Fox was born in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Swissvale. She performed in musicals in high school, and worked at Kennywood amusement park during some of the summers. In the 1980s, she worked for the Walt Disney Company in Orlando where she would voice characters such as Snow White, Mickey and Minnie for some of their attractions and parades, as well as participate in their live stage shows. She was working as a hostess at a Bennigan's Irish pub when she was asked to audition with the 1920s-themed jazz band The Cocoanut Manor Orchestra as their singer. She sang with the group for 11 years, performing songs done by singers Helen Kane and Annette Henshaw, the former was an inspiration for the Betty Boop character. In 1988, she joined the Orlando Magic's inaugural dance team, and was part of the Magic Girls for three years. She auditioned and then landed the position as the official Betty Boop for Universal Studios. In 1991, she started working full-time at their Hollywood park and on national and worldwide tours, visiting shows such as Good Morning America and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Fox was inspired to go into voice acting after having taken a voice-over workshop in 1990 with Susan Blu, a Los Angeles-based animation director and producer. After moving to Los Angeles for the Betty Boop gig, she voiced supporting and background characters for The Simpsons, mostly with kids voices and loop groups, which she did for three years. She also voiced characters for the related productions Futurama and King of the Hill. One of her first anime roles was Sakura in Ninja Cadets. She voiced Lady Aska, a major character in the second season of Magic Knight Rayearth, a series in which she also rewrote lyrics and sang the theme songs. She voiced Kyoko in the Pioneer/Animaze dub of Akira. She voiced supporting character T-AI in a 2001 version of Transformers: Robots in Disguise. She voiced Paiway, the ship's nurse in Vandread. In 2003, she voiced the title characters in Mao-Chan, as well as Sumomo in Bang Zoom's dub of Chobits. In 2004, she voiced Maya in Burn-Up Scramble and Tachikoma in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series. For 2005–06, she would get involved in the Naruto series as Momiji and Mina an the Di Gi Charat series as Piyoko. In 2007, she and Lex Lang hosted a Voice Actor Boot Camp at Bang Zoom! Entertainment to help up and coming voice actors get into the business. In 2014, when Viz Media announced they were redubbing Sailor Moon and dubbing its new Sailor Moon Crystal series, Fox was chosen to voice Chibiusa Tsukino, also known as Sailor Chibi-Moon and Black Lady.
In video games, she voiced Mistral and A-20 in the .hack video game series, Flonne in various incarnations of Disgaea and Marona in Phantom Brave. She voiced Peashy in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series.
Fox is married to fellow voice actor Lex Lang. They live in Studio City, California. In 1998 they co-founded the Love Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization which creates educational materials for children on the importance of recycling, world water awareness, and the preservation of the planet. They also created Love Planet Productions, which includes several multimedia projects such as anime presentation shows, toddler shows and products, and Zen programming. In 2006, they founded a bottled spring water business called H2Om Water with Intention, which has received recognition as a sponsor at several events including Sting's Rainforest Foundation Carnegie Hall Concert and the Elevate Film Festival. Fox and Lang are Deepak Chopra meditation instructors.
Filmography[]
Live-Action Dubbing[]
Films[]
- Art of the Devil (2004) - Bon Siwahiran
Animation Dubbing[]
Animated Series[]
- Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus (2001) - Additional Voices
- Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2019-present) - Roaar
Animated Films[]
- The Little Polar Bear (2001) - Pieps
- Jungle Master 2: Candy Planet (2016) - Bonbon, Sprinkles
- The Wild Life (2016) - Epi
- The Ladybug (2018) - Additional Voices
- Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (2022) - Additional Voices
Anime Dubbing[]
Anime[]
- Fist of the North Star (1984-1987) - Lynn
- Sailor Moon R (1993-1994) - Chibiusa Tsukino, Black Lady, Female Student (ep. 54), Bipierrot (ep. 56) (Viz Dub)
- Magic Knight Rayearth (1994-1995) - Lady Aska, Hikaru's Friend A (eps. 1, 20), Hikari (ep. 8)
- Sailor Moon S (1994-1995) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon (Viz Dub)
- Sailor Moon SuperS (1995-1996) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon (Viz Dub)
- Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (1996-1997) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon
- Saint Tail (1995-1996) - Girl (ep. 5), Miki Kōno (ep. 9), Yoko (ep. 15)
- Battle Athletes (1997-1998) - Ayla V. Rosnovsky (young), Additional Voices
- Vampire Princess Miyu (1997-1998) - Daughter (ep. 4), Kayo (ep. 7), Additional Voices
- Cowboy Bebop (1998-1999) - Zuzu (ep. 24)
- Flint the Time Detective (1998-1999) - Talen
- Nightwalker: Midnight Detective (1998) - Guni
- Serial Experiments Lain (1998) - Myu-Myu, Additional Voices
- Trigun (1998) - Sandie (eps. 5-7)
- Android Kikaider: The Animation (2000-2001) - Additional Voices
- Hand Maid May (2000) - Additional Voices
- Love Hina (2000) - Moé (ep. 20)
- Mon Colle Knights (2000) - Sparrow Squad Member (ep. 18)
- Shinzo (2000) - Este
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2000) - T-AI
- Vandread (2000) - Paiway Underberg, Additional Voices
- Angel Tales (2001) - Kurumi the Hamster, Additional Voices
- Geneshaft (2001) - Tiki Musicanova
- Rave Master (2001-2002) - Young Reina (ep. 48)
- Vandread: The Second Stage (2001) - Paiway Underberg, Additional Voices
- .hack//SIGN (2002) - A-20, Mistral (ep. 28)
- Ai Yori Aoshi (2002) - Uzume (eps. 8-10), Student (ep. 10), Akiko (ep. 18), Chararin (ep. 18), Additional Voices
- Chobits (2002) - Sumomo
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2003) - Tachikoma (eps. 2-3, 15)
- Heat Guy J (2002-2003) - Monica Gabriel, Kid D (ep. 7), Young Ray Duella (ep. 8)
- Hello Kitty's Paradise (2002) - Jody, Lacey the Raccoon (ep. 5), Squirrel Girl (ep. 9)
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002-2003) - Haro, Additional Voices (NYAV Post Dub)
- Naruto (2002-2007) - Momiji
- Tenchi Muyo! GXP (2002) - Neju Na Melmas, Nabiko
- .hack//Legend of the Twilight (2003) - Mireille
- Astro Boy (2003) - Hannah
- Bottle Fairy (2003) - Kururu
- Green Green (2003) - Sanae Minami
- Saiyuki Reload (2003-2004) - Additional Voices
- Zatch Bell! (2003-2006) - Ellie, Additional Voices
- Bleach (2004-2012) - Ritz
- Burn-Up Scramble (2004) - Maya Jingu
- Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004-2005) - Tachikoma
- Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite (2004) - Cynthia-Landlavizar/Grace
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (2004-2005) - Haro (NYAV Post Dub)
- Saiyuki Reload Gunlock (2004) - Additional Voices
- MÄR (2005-2007) - Loco
- Naruto Shippūden (2007-2017) - Miina, Naho (ep. 196)
- Durarara!! (2010) - Haruna Niekawa
- Aldnoah.Zero (2014-2015) - Eddelrittuo
- Sailor Moon Crystal (2014-2016) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon, Black Lady
- Durarara!!x2 (2015-2016) - Haruna Niekawa, Little Girl (ep. 17)
- The Asterisk War (2015-2016) - Flora Klemm
- Granblue Fantasy: The Animation (2017-2019) - Vyrn
- Pokémon Journeys: The Series (2019-2022) - Kricketina Kylie (eps. 33, 54)
- Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure (2022) - Additional Voices
Anime Shorts[]
- IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (2003) - Amy
- Pokémon Generations (2016) - Courtney (ep. 7)
OVAs & Specials[]
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996-1999) - Child (ep. 12)
- Ninja Cadets! (1996) - Sakura
- Battle Athletes (1997-1998) - Additional Voices
- Sol Bianca: The Legacy (1999-2000) - Additional Voices
- éX-Driver (2000-2001) - Student, Girl (ep. 1)
- Karas (2005-2007) - Amefuriko
Anime Films[]
- Akira (1988) - Kiyoko (Animaze Dub)
- Sailor Moon R: The Promise of the Rose (1993) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon (Viz Dub)
- Sailor Moon S: Hearts in Ice (1994) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon (Viz Dub)
- Catnapped! (1995) - Meeko
- Sailor Moon Super S: Black Dream Hole (1995) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon (Viz Dub)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) - Togusa's Daughter (Animaze Dub)
- Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019) - Taylor Bartlett
- Sailor Moon Eternal (2021) - Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon
Video Game Dubbing[]
- Brave Fencer Musashi (1998) - Princess Fillet
- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003) - Flonne, Imp
- Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed (2004) - Helga
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Second Chapter (2007) - Renne
- Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (2007) - Flonne
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (2008) - Renne
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (2009) - Yuka Ayase
- Trinity Universe (2009) - Flonne
- Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star (2014) - Prim
- Final Fantasy XV (2016-2019) - Additional Voices
- Tales of Berseria (2016) - Caring Older Sister
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019) - Additional Voices
- Shenmue III (2019) - Additional Voices
- Granblue Fantasy: Versus (2020) - Vyrn
- Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny (2021) - Flonne
Music[]
- Magic Knight Rayearth (Vocals; The Unyielding Wish, The Courage for Tomorrow, Hold the Light, Love Lullaby)