Andrea Kwan
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Andrea Kwan is a Canadian content coordinator and former voice actress and director. While vacationing in Hong Kong in 1997, she responded to an Omni Productions newspaper ad looking for North American voice actors. Despite a lack of formal acting training and an initial rejection because the company feared "[she] might have a Chinese accent because of [her] last name", Kwan was ultimately hired that May and enjoyed a prolific career at Omni, serving as Operations Manager from 2003-2007 and Heading Dubbing Director from 2004-2008.[1][2][3] She voiced major supporting or leading characters in every available Hong Kong-recorded Godzilla dub from the Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) redub to Godzilla Final Wars (2004).[note 1] She also dubbed numerous iconic anime series for broadcast on Animax, with credits including young Goku in Dragon Ball,[3] female Ranma Saotome in Ranma ½,[2] Kagome Higurashi in InuYasha,[3] and Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.[2][3] Kwan left Omni in 2011 and has since returned to Canada.[3]
Selected filmography
Voice actor
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) as Miki Saegusa [1998 Omni Productions English dub]
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) as Dr. Chinatsu Gondo / Cosmos [Omni Productions English dub]
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) as Meru Ozawa [Omni Productions English dub]
- Rebirth of Mothra (1996) as Makiko Goto / Madoka Shiraishi [Omni Productions English dub]
- Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997) as Belvera / Shiori Uranai [Omni Productions English dub]
- Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998) as Yukie Sonoda [Omni Productions English dub]
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) as Major Kiriko Tsujimori / neighborhood lady [Omni Productions English dub]
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) as Yuri Tachibana [Omni Productions English dub]
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) as Lieutenant Akane Yashiro / Sara's friend [English export dub]
- Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) as Third Lieutenant Azusa Kisaragi / Shun Chujo / Shun's mother [English export dub]
- Godzilla Final Wars (2004) as Miyuki Otonashi [Omni Productions English dub]
- Ultraman Max (TV 2005-2006) as Yukari Yoshinaga [English export dub]
- Super Fleet Sazer-X (TV 2005-2006) [English export dub]
Trivia
- Given that she acted in every available Omni Productions kaiju dub made during her time with the company, it is likely that Kwan also appeared in the unreleased Omni dub for Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999).[4]
External links
- Andrea Kwan on Dubbing Wikia
- Voice samples of numerous Andrea Kwan anime roles on Behind the Voice Actors
Notes
- ↑ Although not all of Kwan's tokusatsu voice work has been definitively linked to Omni Productions, her LinkedIn page does not mention any other dubbing studio.
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