Brittney Marie Karbowski (born June 26, 1986) is an American voice actress who has voiced in a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series for ADV Films, Funimation, and Sentai Filmworks, most notably Black*Star from Soul Eater which aired on Adult Swim.
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Career
In Houston, Texas, Karbowski had been working in theater productions such as Little Shop of Horrors, Seussical, and Pirates of Penzance. She got into the anime business from a director contact when she played Janet in a local stage production of The Rocky Horror Show. She voiced in Yumeria, Madlax, and Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick. Her first leading role with ADV Films came in Gilgamesh where she played Fuko. She attended University of Houston briefly where she majored in theater. In 2006, she had starring voice roles as Himeko Katagiri in Pani Poni Dash and as Aoba Tsuzaki in Jinki: Extend. In 2008, she voiced the lead heroine Ayu Tsukimiya in Kanon.
In 2007, she began voicing for Funimation with a starring role as Mai in Itsudatte My Santa! and as Apis in a One Piece storyline. In 2008, she had starring roles in ensemble casts as Anri Misugi in Sasami: Magical Girls Club, Ku Shiratori in Shattered Angels and Sia in Shuffle! In 2009 she voiced the lead role Nina Yamada in Save Me! Lollipop.
In 2010, she landed the starring voice role of Black Star in the Funimation English dub of Soul Eater, which would broadcast on Adult Swim in 2013. She also voiced Selim Bradley/Pride in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Ryou Fujibayashi in Clannad. In 2011, she voiced starring characters including Yuri Nakamura in Angel Beats!, Ikaros in Heaven's Lost Property, Nanami Nishijo in Chaos;Head, and Eve Neuschwanstein in Needless.
She continued to voice main characters in 2012 such as Yamada in B Gata H Kei: Yamada's First Time, Chizuru Yukimura in Hakuoki, and Mikoto Misaka in the A Certain Magical Index series. She joined the Fairy Tail cast as the tween character Wendy Marvell. In 2013, she played starring characters Rin Natsume in Little Busters!, Himiko in Btooom!, and Manami Kinjou in Cat Planet Cuties. In 2017, she voiced her first video game as mascot character Pinkun in Akiba's Beat.
Outside of voice acting, Karbowski has had roles in films such as Celie in Up & Down, Susie in Puncture, and a backpack girl in the parody film The Starving Games. She was slated to be a lead character Zax in an upcoming sci-fi movie Code of Evil. She also starred in the 2015 horror film Atrocity.
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Personal life
Karbowski was briefly hospitalized with a broken neck in 2010 due to a car accident.
She married Matthew Hernandez on October 11, 2013.
Filmography
Anime
Video games
Live action
References
External links
- Brittney Karbowski convention appearances on AnimeCons.com
- Brittney Karbowski at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Brittney Karbowski on IMDb
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