Hynden Walch

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Hynden Walch
Born
Heidi Hynden Walch

(1971-02-01) February 1, 1971 (age 53)
Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Actress, voice actress, writer, singer
Years active1992–present
Spouse
Sean McDermott
​
(m. 1999)​
Websitehyndenwalch.com

Heidi Hynden Walch (born February 1, 1971) is an American actress, voice actress, writer and singer. She is best known for voicing Starfire in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!. She also voice acts Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time, Penny Sanchez in ChalkZone, Yutaka Kobayakawa in Lucky Star and Viridi in Kid Icarus: Uprising, which her performance in the game earned her critical acclaim.

Early life and career

Walch was born on February 1, 1971 in Davenport, Iowa with German descent. She started her professional acting career on stage at age 11. At 16 she attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, majoring in voice (soprano). In 1989, she received the Presidential Scholarship and went to the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After UNC, she went to Chicago, Illinois, where she did plays, including The Rise and Fall of Little Voice on Broadway, where she won the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as the title character. As a high school senior, she was awarded as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in drama. In 2005 she graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in American Literature and founded the Hillside Produce Cooperative, a free exchange of local, organically grown food, for which she was named runner up Citizen Entrepreneur of the Year by Global Green USA. Hynden has been married to Sean McDermott since 1999.

On television she voiced Penny Sanchez on the Nickelodeon show ChalkZone, Elsie on the Disney Channel show Stanley, Ace in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, Starfire in Teen Titans, Harley Quinn in The Batman and in anime, she has voiced Amy Stapleton in IGPX, Emiri Kimidori in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yutaka Kobayakawa in Lucky Star and Nia Teppelin in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

In video games, she voiced Jasmine and Junko in Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!, Coco Bandicoot and Polar in Crash Team Racing. She provided the English voice of Hitomi in Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 and Dead or Alive Paradise. She voiced Viridi, the Goddess of Nature, in Kid Icarus: Uprising, and her performance in the game was met with critical acclaim.

In live action, she played Mae Capone on The Untouchables and Debbie in Groundhog Day.

Walch is represented commercially by the Atlas Talent Agency.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1992 Angel Street Blond
1993 Groundhog Day Debbie
1995 Angela Darlene
1996 Jake's Women Waitress
Sudden Manhattan Georgie
Jerry Maguire Women's Group Member
1998 The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue Jenny McBride
(voice)		 Direct-to-video
2000 Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher
(voice)
Aladdin and the Adventure of All-Time Paige
(voice)		 Singing voice
2002 King Rikki Co-Worker
The Wild Thornberrys Movie Schoolgirl
(voice)
2005 Karas Little Girl
(voice)		 English dub
2006 Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up Elsie
(voice)		 Direct-to-video
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo Starfire, Mecha-Boi
(voices)		 TV Movie
2008 Batman: Gotham Knight Young Cassandra, Young Bruce Wayne
(voices)		 Direct-to-video
2010 Tangled Additional characters
(voices)
2012 Back to the Sea Tiny Fish
(voice)
Big Top Scooby-Doo! Lena / Joan
(voices)		 Direct-to-video
2013 Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox Yo-Yo
(voice)
2014 Justice League: War Hannah Grace
(voice)
Batman: Assault on Arkham Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn
(voice)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Menowarawa
(voice)		 English dub
2015 The Laws of the Universe Part 0 Halle
(voice)		 English dub; Limited theatrical release[1]
2016 Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout Starfire
(voice)		 Direct-to-video
DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year
2017 DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games Starfire, Blackfire
(voices)
Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash Mitzi Capaletto
(voice)
2018 Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Starfire
(voice)
DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis Direct-to-video
The Laws of the Universe-Part I Halle
(voice)		 English dub; Limited theatrical release
2019 Batman: Hush Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn
(voice)		 Direct-to-video
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans Starfire
(voice)
2020 Justice League Dark: Apokolips War Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn
(voice)

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1993–1994 The Untouchables Mae Capone
1994 Law & Order Angel Monroe Episode: "Blue Bamboo"
1997 The Practice Sarah Fisher
1997 The Drew Carey Show Amy
1998 Poky and Friends Shy Little Kitten
(voice)
1999 Rugrats Freddie
(voice)
2000 Charmed Marcie Steadwell
2000 NYPD Blue Lucy Sperling
2001–2004 Stanley Elsie
(voice)
2002 Static Shock Maureen Connor / Permafrost
(voice)
2002–2008 ChalkZone Penny Sanchez
(voice)
2003 Gary the Rat Little Girl
(voice)
2003–2005 Justice League Ace
(voice)
2003–2006 Teen Titans Starfire, Blackfire, Madame Rouge, Argent
(voices)
2005 Justice League Unlimited Ace
(voice)
2005–2006 Immortal Grand Prix Amy Stapleton
(voice)		 English dub
2005–2006 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! Valina
(voice)
2006 Catscratch Katilda
(voice)
2006–2007 American Dragon: Jake Long Fury, Euryale, Medusa
(voices)
2007 Random! Cartoons Ms. Chic / Olympia
(voices)
2007 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Emiri Kimidori, Sonou Mori
(voices)		 English dub
2007 Codename: Kids Next Door Amish Girl / Rainbow Monkey Leader
(voices)
2007 The Batman Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn
(voice)
2008 Lucky Star Yutaka Kobayakawa
(voice)		 English dub
2008 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Nia Teppelin
(voice)		 English dub
2009 The Super Hero Squad Show Jean Grey
(voice)
2010 Batman: The Brave and the Bold Platinum, Carbon Dioxide
(voices)
2010–2013 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Alice May, Obliteratrix
(voices)		 [2]
2010–2011 Generator Rex Breach, Hostess
(voices)
2010–2018 Adventure Time Princess Bubblegum, Gumdrop Lass #1 and Princess Monster Wife
(voices)
2011–2012 ThunderCats Jenyo
(voice)
2011–2012 New Teen Titans Starfire, Blackfire
(voices)
2012–present Winx Club Lockette and Amore
(voices)		 English dub produced for Nickelodeon
2012–present Doc McStuffins Bubble Monkey and Nikki Nickel
(voices)
2013–never Teen Titans Go! Starfire, Herself, Blackfire, Sparkleface, Mother Nature, Más y Menos and Madame Rouge (possibly on the latter)
(voices)
2013–2015 Henry Hugglemonster Summer Hugglemonster
(voice)
2013 Pound Puppies Noodles
(voice)
2014–2019 Avengers Assemble Princess Python, Supergiant
(voices)		 [3]
2014 Transformers: Rescue Bots Amy
(voice)		 [4]
2015–present Mister P Ellen Pierce
2015, 2019 Star vs. the Forces of Evil Pixie Clerk / Additional characters
(voices)		 Episodes: "Pixtopia", "Yada Yada Berries", "The Knight Shift", "Coronation"
2015, 2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Yumi / Additional characters
(voices)		 Episodes: "The Ripple Effect", "Ninki Ninja Fight Town"
2015–2018 DC Super Hero Girls Starfire, Blackfire
(voices)
2016 Lastman Additional Voices Episode: "Action!"
2018 The Adventures of Kid Danger Sophiaroni / Flying Skunks / Young Kid Danger
(voices)		 Episodes: "The Wahoo Punch Bro/Pink Rocket", "Snooze Pods"
2018-2019 Niko and the Sword of Light Wispy, Little Girl, Baby Funkfang, Sea Creature
(voices)		 Episodes: "A Day in Carondolet", "A Night in Carondolet", "The Vast Sea"
2019 Young Justice Queen Perdita, Rita Farr / Rita Lee and Elasti-Girl
(voices)		 Episodes: "Nightmare Monkeys" and "Illusion of Control"
2019 Green Eggs and Ham Diabolical Shackle, One Fish, Inventor #1 and Family Kid
(voices)
2020 Adventure Time: Distant Lands Princess Bubblegum (voice) Episode: "Obsidian"
2020 DuckTales Alethiea
(voice)		 Episode: "The Lost Harp of Mervana"
2020 Mr. Baby Claire
(voice)		 Episode: "Trust Me"

Video games

Year Title Voice role Notes
1999 Crash Team Racing Coco Bandicoot
2004 EverQuest II Kerra, Wood Elf
2006 Teen Titans Starfire
2006 Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 Hitomi English dub
2009 Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall Princess Bubblegum
2010 Ninety-Nine Nights II Rinn English dub
2010 Dead or Alive Paradise Hitomi English dub, shared role with Eden Riegel
2011 Kinect: Disneyland Adventures Alice
2012 Kid Icarus: Uprising Viridi English dub
2012 Final Fantasy XIII-2 Additional Voices English dub
2013 Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know! Princess Bubblegum
2014 Broken Age M'ggie, Ch't, Rose Maiden
2014 The Lego Movie Videogame Additional Voices
2014 Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Viridi English dub; uncredited
2014 The Sims 4 Sim
2014 Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix Alice Re:coded Cutscenes;
English dub
2015 Lego Dimensions Princess Bubblegum, Starfire Year 2 additions only
2015 Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations Princess Bubblegum
2016 Skylanders Imaginators Master Chopscotch
2018 Fallout 76 Additional Voices
2019 Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Supergiant

Theatre

Year Title Role Notes
1994 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Laura Hoff / Little Voice
1999 The Rocky Horror Show Columbia

References

  1. ^ "The Laws of the Universe Anime Film Casts Dylan McDermott, Jennifer Beals, Tom Kenny". Anime News Network. September 26, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  2. ^ "Pawn of Shadows". Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Episode 25. - closing credits
  3. ^ "New Frontiers". Avengers Assemble. Season 2. Episode 25. September 13, 2015. Disney XD.
  4. ^ Transformers: Rescue Bots Season 3 Episode 7

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