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My Take
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.
Overview
Kari Kay Wahlgren (born July 13, 1977) is an American voice actress who has provided English-language roles for animated movies, TV series, and video games. She got her start in anime voice-overs as Haruko Haruhara in FLCL, and would later land major roles in a number of shows and films: Saya Otonashi in Blood+, Robin Sena in Witch Hunter Robin, Lavie Head in Last Exile, Fuu in Samurai Champloo, Rip van Winkle in Hel…
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1. Profile
- 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 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Snake
- Origin
- Hoisington, Kansas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- voice actor / actor / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Kansas
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.