Kate Higgins

Catherine Davis Higgins is an American voice actress, singer and jazz pianist. She is best known for her voice-acting roles of Sakura Haruno in Naruto, Miles "Tails" Prower in the video game series Sonic the Hedgehog, Frankie Stein in Monster High, Pauline in Super Mario and as Barbie in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse''.

Music career
Higgins earned a degree in music from Auburn University in 1991. She is a trained pianist who studied with the jazz artist Bob Richardson. She released the first jazz album by her own name The Tide is Low in 2002. The second jazz album is Stealing Freedom. She is also in a band called Upper Structure.

Voice acting career
Higgins first worked on commercials with singing after graduating, then landed a small voice-acting job as a singing cartoon squirrel. She was then approached to be a voice-over actress to do bumpers for the Disney Channel in 1998. Since then Higgins's major voice roles have been in English-language adaptations of Japanese anime, and she is best known as the voice of Sakura Haruno in Naruto and Talho Yuuki in Eureka 7. She has also voiced CC in Code Geass and Saber in the original Fate/stay night. Between 2010 and 2013, Higgins voiced Tails in the video game series Sonic the Hedgehog. In 2014, Higgins was cast as Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury in the Viz English dub of Sailor Moon. She is the current voice of Princess Aurora since 2010, a Disney Princess character originally seen in Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. She also played the voice of Frankie Stein in Monster High and Briar Beauty in Ever After High. She also starred as Barbie in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse in 2012. Since the release of Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, she has been the voice of Pauline in the Mario franchise.

Studio albums

 * The Solid Rock (Concord, 1998)
 * Bigger than Love (Concord, 2006)
 * Jazz Standards
 * A Very Merry Christmas
 * Little Parts (2009)
 * Sweet and Blue (2016)

Collaborations

 * 6 by 5 by Upper Structure (2004)

Songs

 * "Jump Up, Super Star!" – Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
 * "Break Free (Lead the Way)" – Super Mario Odyssey (2017)