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Wendee Lee (born February 20, 1960) is an American voice actress, director and writer in the anime industry and video games.

Biography[]

Lee grew up in the Los Angeles area, and also in San Francisco. She studied dance and theater and later became a full-time dancer in her teens. According to her interview on the Magic Knight Rayearth DVDs, she started doing voices at school, and got in trouble for it. Her first anime voice role was in the Harmony Gold production Robotech in the 1980s, where she voiced Vanessa Leeds, one of the operators aboard the SDF-1 Macross. She also worked with Streamline Pictures on several anime productions. She would continue dance, and work part-time as a make-up artist, choreography, and dance instruction. She also voiced Scorpina on the live-action Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

As of April 2009, with 223 credits to her name, she has more credits in anime dubbing than any other English voice-over actor. She's known for voicing Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, Myōjin Yahiko in Rurouni Kenshin, Takeru "T.K." Takaishi in Digimon Adventure, Konata Izumi in Lucky☆Star, Haruhi Suzumiya in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Conan Edogawa in the Bang Zoom! dubs of Detective Conan and Lisa Lisa in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. She has also worked as an ADR director on Bleach, Love Hina and Outlaw Star.

Controversies[]

In October 2023, Lee has come under fire for supposedly "appropriating" roles originally meant for people of color, specifically black characters. The biggest example being when she reprised her role as Yoruichi Shihōin in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime, when Anairis Quiñones had already been chosen for the character[1]. This was due to Lee's change of mind about her position on POC casting. After this, Viz Media and Studiopolis made the decision not to move forward with Anairis as Yoruichi. In addition, Lee had some discussions with some of her fellow actors on Twitter, who questioned her about the decision. After all the events, Lee would apologize for the controversy on Twitter[2], even to Quiñones in private.

Filmography[]

Live Action Dubbing[]

TV Series[]

Miniseries[]

Films[]

Animation Dubbing[]

Animated Series[]

Animated Films[]

Anime Dubbing[]

Anime Series[]

Anime Shorts[]

OVAs & Specials[]

Anime Films[]

Donghua Dubbing[]

Donghua Series[]

Video Game Dubbing[]

Voice Director[]

Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Studiopolis

Cup of Tea Productions, Inc.

VSI Los Angeles

Elastic Media Corporation

Others:

Writer[]

Bang Zoom! Entertainment

Studiopolis

Others:

References[]

External Links[]

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