Kari Wahlgren

What strikes me about Kari Wahlgren is how much of my own anime memory is secretly hers. She broke in voicing Haruko in FLCL, then kept turning up everywhere I looked: Saya in Blood+, Fuu in Samurai Champloo, Robin in Witch Hunter Robin. That's the strange gift of an English dub artist, you carry the voice for years without ever learning the face. A Kansas kid who went through the University of Kansas and ended up defining how a generation heard Japanese animation in English feels quietly remarkable to me, even if she's never a household name.

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Name (English)

Kari Wahlgren

Name (Japanese)

カリ・ウォールグレン

Reading

かり・うぉーるぐれん

Born

July 13, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Hoisington, Kansas, United States

Occupation

voice actor / actor / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Snake

University

University of Kansas

• Official sitehttps://www.kariwahlgren.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kariwahlgren/
• Xhttps://x.com/KariWahlgren
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari%20Wahlgren
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272919

Tags

• Kansas
• voice actor
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.