Brittney Karbowski




Brittney Marie Karbowski is an American voice actress who has voiced in a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series for ADV Films, Funimation and Sentai Filmworks, most notably, Black Star in Soul Eater. She also voices as Wendy Marvell in Fairy Tail, Mikoto Misaka in A Certain Magical Index and its spinoff, A Certain Scientific Railgun, and Yuri Nakamura in Angel Beats!.

Career

Karbowski started her acting career in theater productions such as Little Shop of Horrors, Seussical, and Pirates of Penzance in Houston, Texas. She got into the anime business from a director contact when she played Janet in a local stage production of The Rocky Horror Show. She voiced in Yumeria, Madlax and '. Her first leading role with ADV Films came in Gilgamesh where she played Fuko. She attended University of Houston briefly where she majored in theater. In 2006, she had starring voice roles as Himeko Katagiri in Pani Poni Dash and as in '. In 2008, she voiced the lead heroine Ayu Tsukimiya in Kanon.
In 2007, she began voicing for Funimation with a starring role as Mai in Itsudatte My Santa! and as Apis in a One Piece storyline. In 2008, she had starring roles in ensemble casts as in ', Ku Shiratori in Shattered Angels and Sia in Shuffle! In 2009, she voiced the lead role Nina Yamada in Save Me! Lollipop.
In 2010, she landed the starring role of Black Star in the Funimation dub of Soul Eater, which was broadcast on Adult Swim in 2013. She also voiced Selim Bradley / Pride in ' and Ryou Fujibayashi in Clannad. In 2011, she voiced starring characters including Ikaros in Heaven's Lost Property, Nanami Nishijo in Chaos;Head and Eve Neuschwanstein in Needless.
Karbowski continued to voice main characters in 2012 such as Yamada in B Gata H Kei: Yamada's First Time and Chizuru Yukimura in Hakuoki. In 2013, she played starring characters Rin Natsume in Little Busters!, Himiko in Btooom! and Manami Kinjou in Cat Planet Cuties. In 2017, she voiced her first video game character as Pinkun in Akiba's Beat.
Outside of voice acting, Karbowski has had roles in films such as Celie in Up & Down, Susie in Puncture and a backpack girl in The Starving Games. She was slated to be a lead character Zax in an upcoming sci-fi movie Code of Evil. She also starred in the 2014 horror film Atrocity.

Personal life

Karbowski was briefly hospitalized with a broken neck in 2010 due to a car accident.
She married Matthew Hernandez on October 11, 2013.

Filmography

Anime

Film

Video games

Live-action roles