Rebecca Soler
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File:Rebecca Soler Portrait.jpg Portrait of Rebecca Soler | |
Nationality | American |
Education | Carnegie-Mellon University (B.F.A.)[1] |
Occupation | Voice actress |
Years active | 2003–present |
Spouse | Christopher L. Graves [2][3] |
Website | RebeccaSoler.com |
Rebecca Soler is an American voice actress based in the New York City area. She has voiced on several audiobooks; her most notable voice work has been the narrator for The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer.[7][8] In anime, she voiced title character Miu Nomura in Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart, Reanne in Ojamajo Doremi and Battia in Outlanders. In animation, she voiced in Huntik, Viva Piñata, Regal Academy, Winx Club. She has worked with 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post, Media Blasters, Nickelodeon, Central Park Media and DuArt Film & Video. On stage, she has participated in various theater projects including a play called Becoming Cuba, and she is also a producer of a web series called With Friends Like These.
Biography
Soler grew up in Boston, and moved to Sugar Land, Texas while in high school.[9] She attended Carnegie-Mellon University where she graduated with a Bachelor's in theater.[1]
She got involved in voice-over for anime and animation works that were being dubbed in the New York area. She voiced lead characters in Huntik, Viva Piñata, Winx Club, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Pokémon and Chaotic.[10][11] Soler began her voice acting as Joi Reynard from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She voiced Miu Nomura, the title character in Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart which was produced by NYAV Post and Right Stuf.[12][13] She was selected in a fan casting contest poll held by Central Park Media to voice Battia in their dub of the 1986 anime Outlanders.[14][15][16] Soler joined the Winx Club 4Kids dub cast, replacing Dani Schaffel in voicing the character Tecna for season 3.[17]
She began working on audio books after her voice-over agent recommended her for a few projects.[18] She voiced in books by Judy Blume, James Patterson, and Sarah Dessen, and received an AudioFile Earphones Award in 2009 for her narration of Amy Efaw's novel After.[7] Her narration of the Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key was listed among 2009 YALSA Fabulous Films & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults.[19] In January 2011, her narration of Marissa Meyer's book Cinder was released by MacMillan Audio.[20]
Soler continues to be active on-screen and in the theater. In 2014, she was involved in a live-action play called Becoming Cuba by the Huntington Theatre Company where she played Martina.[1][21] She is executive producer of a web series called With Friends Like These which is written by and stars her husband.[18]
Filmography
Animation
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source[22] |
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2003 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Joi Reynard | First voice acting role | |
2006–07 | Viva Piñata | Ella Elephanilla, Simone Cinnamonkey | ||
2006–07 | Winx Club | Tecna | 4Kids version, season 3 | [17] [23] |
2006–10 | Chaotic | Sarah | ||
2009 | Huntik | Sophie Casterwill | [24] | |
2009 | Turtles Forever | 1988 April O'Neil | [25] | |
Pinkalicious | WGBH-TV cartoon pilot, in production | [26] |
Anime
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source[22] | |||||||||||||||
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2005 | Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart | Miu Nomura | [15][27] | ||||||||||||||||
2005 | Magical DoReMi | Reanne Griffith | [15] | ||||||||||||||||
2006 | Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew | Kidd Summers | Credited under Featuring | [28] | |||||||||||||||
2006 | Outlanders | Battia | Central Park Media version | [14][15] | |||||||||||||||
2007 | Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny | Shimei Ryoumou, Koumei Shokatsuryou, others | [25]
Video games
Live acting
Crew and production roles
DiscographyAudio books
References
External links
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- 21st-century American actresses
- American voice actresses
- Audiobook narrators
- Living people
- People from New York City
- People from Boston
- Actresses from New York City
- Actresses from Boston
- Actresses from Pittsburgh
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- Carnegie Mellon University alumni
- People from Sugar Land, Texas
- Actresses from Texas