Kari Wahlgren

Kari Wahlgren is thrilled to be appearing at Anime Expo! Anime audiences were first introduced to Wahlgren as the Vespa-riding, guitar-bashing Haruko in “FLCL.” Since then, she has played a number of anime roles, including Kagami in Lucky Star, Saya in Blood+, Robin in Witch Hunter Robin, Fuu in Samurai Champloo, Cher in Wolf’s Rain, Lavie in Last Exile, Anemone in Eureka 7, Pacifica in Scrapped Princess, Satomi and Luca the Cat in IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix, and Tayuya in Naruto. Wahlgren also provided the voice of Ariel in the movie “Robotech: the Shadow Chronicles,” Scarlett in the anime feature “Steamboy,” and the Princess in the movie “Naruto: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow.”

Kari has also done voicework for a number of video games, most recently portraying Elika in “Prince of Persia.” She voiced the character of Ashe in Final Fantasy XII, Shelke in Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerebus, Kasumi in Dead or Alive Extreme 2, Mary Jane in Spiderman III, Zatanna in Justice League Heroes and Tatiana in James Bond: From Russia with Love. Other games that Wahlgren worked on include Tales from Symphonia, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Tekken 5, Command and Conquer III, Star Wars: the Force Unleashed, Star Wars: Empire at War, Star Wars Episode III: Return of the Sith, Armored Core IV, Guild Wars III and IV, Transformers, and all three games in the Xenosaga series.

Kari is also active in original animation; she plays Emma Frost in the animated “Wolverine and the X-Men” series, she provided the voices of Li’l Condi and Li’l Hillary on season 2 of Comedy Central’s “Li’l Bush” and was Saturn Girl, Triplicate Girl/ Duo Damsel and Shrinking Violet on the Kids WB’s “Legion of Superheroes.” Wahlgren also voices the role of Jeera on Nickelodeon’s “Tak and the Power of Juju” and played Nova, the Yellow Monkey, in “Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!” Kari has appeared on Ben 10, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Kim Possible, Disney’s feature films “BOLT” and “The Little Mermaid III” and Dreamwork’s “Shrek III.”

Kari occasionally steps out from behind the microphone to do on-camera work, including commercials for such companies as T.J. Maxx, Lexus and Rolling Rock, and the role of Tink in the indie film “Neverland.”