Brina Palencia

Brina Palencia (born February 13, 1984) is an American voice and television actress. She has voiced a number of English-language versions of characters featured in anime.

Palencia provides the dubbed voices of Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece, Touka Kirishima in Tokyo Ghoul, Vi Graythorn in Case Closed, Eve in Black Cat, Honoka Sakurai in Suzuka, Ai Enma in Hell Girl, Kazumi Yoshida in Shakugan no Shana, Kurumu Kurono in Rosario + Vampire, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Juvia Lockser in Fairy Tail, Holo in Spice and Wolf, Kazuhiro Mitogawa in Ga-Rei: Zero, Sakura Minamoto in Zombie Land Saga, Yuno Gasai in Future Diary, Miharu Rokujo in Nabari no Ou, Ruiko Saten in A Certain Scientific Railgun, Maho Minami in Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Ryoko Okami in Okami-san and Her Seven Companions, Minoru Mineta in My Hero Academia, and Isuzu Soma in Fruits Basket. On camera, she starred as Sophia in The CW series Star-Crossed and has appeared in The Walking Dead and Castle. In video games, she voices Mad Moxxi in the Borderlands series, and Ayra from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Lute from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones in the 2017 mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes.

Biography
Palencia was born and raised in Oklahoma. As a child, she lived in Honduras until she was four. Throughout her childhood, she went back and forth between La Ceiba, Honduras and Owasso, Oklahoma.

She settled in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Weatherford High School in 2002. While studying at the University of North Texas, she was influenced by the anime series Dragon Ball Z. After graduating from UNT with a Bachelor of Arts in music in 2006, she began her career as a voice actress for Funimation. She was also a director, but eventually focused more on the acting side of the productions.

In her live-action work, she was the host of GameStop TV and has appeared in independent films, such as The Ladies of the House and Lumberjack Man. In 2014, she had a starring role as Roman's younger sister Sophia in The CW's science fiction romantic drama Star-Crossed. In 2017, she was credited with performing a parody version of Sarah McLachlan's "In the Arms of An Angel", titled "On the Wings of a Battmann," in a Cyanide & Happiness short of the same name.

Personal life
Her brother, Gino Palencia, works at Funimation as an ADR engineer and production assistant. She is married to Paul Wingo. They live in Dallas and have a son, born 2019.

Anime

 * The Galaxy Railways – Sarah (Ep. 7)
 * Samurai 7 – Uma
 * 2006
 * Basilisk – Young Gyobu (Ep. 15)
 * Kodocha – Pippi, Tomomi
 * Negima!  – Yue Ayase
 * Speed Grapher – Kikukawa
 * Witchblade – Nanako (Ep. 16)
 * 2007
 * AM Driver – June Frum
 * B'tx – Anne, Teppei (Young)
 * Mushishi – Biki (Ep. 2), Koro (Young, Ep. 7), Nami (Ep. 8), Shige (Ep. 23)
 * Peach Girl – Aki
 * SoltyRei – Meryl Tyler (Ep. 4)
 * Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle – Sumomo
 * 2008
 * Baccano! – Ennis
 * Black Blood Brothers – Yafuri Chao
 * Ghost Hunt – Chiaki Kasai
 * Ouran High School Host Club – Shiro Takaoji
 * Shuffle! – Masato (Ep. 8, 11), Tsubomi
 * 2009
 * Bamboo Blade – Sayako Kuwahara
 * Big Windup! – Ren Mihashi (Young)
 * Blassreiter – Emil (Ep. 13)
 * D.Gray-man – Eliade, Peter, Ruben (Ep. 38), Young Guzol (Ep. 5)
 * El Cazador de la Bruja – Melissa Rosenberg
 * Heroic Age – Bee No Bee
 * Kaze no Stigma – Nanase Kudō
 * Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple – Yuka Izumi
 * Save Me! Lollipop – Aquamarine
 * Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry – Martha Shoebbeypower
 * 2010
 * Birdy the Mighty Decode – Sayaka Nakasugi
 * Casshern Sins – Lyuze
 * Corpse Princess – Hokuto, Kun Osaki (Ep. 4)
 * Black Butler – Ciel Phantomhive
 * Initial D – Natsuki Mogi (Funimation Dub)
 * Oh! Edo Rocket – Sora
 * Rin ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~ – Elisa (Ep. 5), Teruki Maeno (Young)
 * Sands of Destruction – Aya (Ep. 3)
 * Soul Eater – Yumi Azusa
 * 2011
 * 2011–13 || Baka and Test series – Hideyoshi Kinoshita, Yuko Kinoshita || Funimation dub ||
 * Ga–Rei: Zero – Kazuhiro Mitogawa
 * The Sacred Blacksmith – Elsa
 * 2012
 * Aria the Scarlet Ammo – Shirayuki Hotogi
 * The Legend of the Legendary Heroes – Keifer Knolles
 * Magical Dreamers – Luta Haljion
 * Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt – Sperm Ghosts (Ep. 3B), Mika (Ep. 5B)
 * 2013
 * Eureka Seven: AO – News Anchor (Ep. 16)
 * Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess – Juvia
 * Guilty Crown – Jun Samukawa (Ep. 9)
 * Haganai – Yukiko Nagata (Ep. 2)
 * High School DxD – Bürent
 * Is This a Zombie? of the Dead – Eucliwood Hellscythe (Fantasy voice, Eps. 8–10)
 * Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine – Louise (Ep. 3)
 * Michiko and Hatchin – Rita Ozetti (Ep. 9, 11)
 * Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar – Lan
 * 2014
 * A Certain Magical Index II – Ruiko Saten
 * Appleseed Alpha – Iris
 * Haganai: NEXT – Kate Takeyama
 * Hetalia: The Beautiful World – Female Italy (Nyotalia)
 * 2015
 * 2015–16 || Durarara!!×2 || Vorona || x2 ||
 * Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works – Ayako Mitsuzuri
 * The Rolling Girls – Misa Ichijō
 * Yurikuma Arashi – Uchiko Ai
 * 2017 || ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. || Nino (young) || ||