Introducing our next Voice Actor guest for DerpyCon 2025 Lisa Ortiz!! Were you able to guess it from our trivia?
Lisa Ortiz is a bicoastal LA/New York-based veteran voice actor, director, and producer. A NY native, her career as a voice-over artist began under the shroud of an attempted auto larceny gone awry. Luckily for her and for her sibling, the perpetrator in question, the car battery died.
She can be heard as Burnin in My Hero Academia, Korrina/Talia in Pokemon Journeys, Kimimko in “Gunbusters”, Mion in Battle Game in 5 seconds, Tao Jun in Shaman King, Sunny-Kun in One Piece Red, Bai Yi in Path to Nowhere, as well as as the Demon Lord Frey, in “That time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” (amongst others): as va, she is most well known for her role as Lina Inverse, Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog, Icy/Musa in Winx Club, and Serenity Wheeler in Yugi-oh, but she began her career as the high elf Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War. Since then she has gone on to record dozens of anime, series, audiobooks, video games, and films both as a voice and as a Producer, Director and Adapter.
She is currently the director of Pokemon Journeys and Pokemon Horizons, has worked on the show in various capacities over the years since Indigo League. Voicing over three dozen Pokemon (including Oshawott, Litten, Vaporeon, Chewtle, Poipole, Fletchling and Totodile) and 10 plus trainers, From Misty’s older sister Daisy, to Sabrina, Flannery, Mars, Neesha, Talia and present day gym leader Korrina; She was the voice of Team Rocket’s Rotom phone and has appeared in nearly every season of the show. She began directing on Black and White, and has overseen Voice Direction on the past 3 arcs, including the 20th anniversary, 25th anniversary as well as the final episodes of Ash Ketchum’s arc.
She is President of Noise of O Productions, co-founder of www.voicesforfosters.org and currently resides mostly in LA.
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