Leah Applebaum is an American voice actress and Broadway actress. She
is best known as the voice of Nanami Kiryu from Revolutionary Girl
Utena and Erika, the Grass type Gym Leader from the internationally
acclaimed Pokémon series.Applebaum first got into voice acting while
working for a Broadway sketch comedy called My Thoughts Here in New
York when she got a call from a casting director who was casting for
the Hugo Award winning Think Like a Dinosaur, a Sci-Fi Channel
program. Applebaum got the lead role of Kamala Shastri, which led her
to be cast as a reporter in The Signal Man, which was adapted from the
original story by Charles Dickens. The attention Applebaum received
from her work on the Sci-Fi Channel eventually got her the major role
of Nanami Kiryu from Revolutionary Girl Utena and Erika from the
highly popular Pokémon series. According to the Dogasu's Backpack
interview, Applebaum revealed that her Nanami voice was inspired from
Buffy, a main character from the Family Affair TV series.
is best known as the voice of Nanami Kiryu from Revolutionary Girl
Utena and Erika, the Grass type Gym Leader from the internationally
acclaimed Pokémon series.Applebaum first got into voice acting while
working for a Broadway sketch comedy called My Thoughts Here in New
York when she got a call from a casting director who was casting for
the Hugo Award winning Think Like a Dinosaur, a Sci-Fi Channel
program. Applebaum got the lead role of Kamala Shastri, which led her
to be cast as a reporter in The Signal Man, which was adapted from the
original story by Charles Dickens. The attention Applebaum received
from her work on the Sci-Fi Channel eventually got her the major role
of Nanami Kiryu from Revolutionary Girl Utena and Erika from the
highly popular Pokémon series. According to the Dogasu's Backpack
interview, Applebaum revealed that her Nanami voice was inspired from
Buffy, a main character from the Family Affair TV series.
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