Brina Palencia is a voice actress and ADR director for Funimation. Her voice acting credits in anime video games include: Nina Tucker in Full Metal Alchemist, Elsa in Gunslinger Girl, Georgie in Shin Chan (for which she also sang the ending theme song), etc. Brina Palencia also provides her voice in regular video games like Guitar Hero III, Stunt Driver 2, and Super Dagonball Z.
Brian Palencia's photo and part of her interview from Active Anime:
How did you get into voice acting, and did you have any prior acting experiences?
When I was 16, my boyfriend was a huge DBZ nerd, so we took a tour of Funimation Studios for his graduation present. When I graduated high school, I ended up in a community college just up the highway from Funimation. I went to the studios and asked how to audition; luckily for me they were doing an open audition a couple of weeks later. I auditioned and slowly worked my way up from being a bit actor to doing leads. Before that I had done some live theatre, but it was my first time doing any sort of voice over.
As you may have noticed, there is a wide range of anime female characters that you can play, and at certain points, you may be recording multiple characters at the same time. Does it get confusing from time to time on which character you should be playing, and how do you immerse yourself to do a specific character?
I’ve never had a problem with it until recently when I was cast as Tamama in Sgt. Frog. Tamama and my character in One Piece, Tony Tony Chopper, have very similar voices. However, they’re still different and I have to keep it that way. I try to make sure I never record them in the same day; it gets way to confusing.
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