If you don’t know who Laura Bailey is by now, picture any anime you’ve watched or video game you’ve played in the last 15 years. She’s probably been in it.
Laura Bailey is an award-winning voice actress with nearly 500 IMDB credits to her name. At the age of 18, she made her debut in the voice acting industry voicing the Funimation dub of Kid Trunks in Dragon Ball. Since then, she has taken the industry by storm, voicing more recent games such as The Last of Us Part II where she voices Abby Anderson, and The Avengers game where she voices Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow.
Most notably, Bailey is in the main cast of a show titled Critical Role, a Dungeons & Dragons show where she plays with other voice actors that streams on Twitch and YouTube every Thursday (Friday for us Aussies). With the show’s newest season, Campaign 3, set to air it’s premiere today at 1pm, AEDT, there is currently a lot of hype around Bailey and her fellow cast members Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Liam O’brien, Sam Riegel, Ashley Johnson, Taliesin Jaffe, and her husband Travis Willingham.
Nominated for 41 awards, Bailey has won 20 of them, her most notable and recent being the 2021 BAFTA Award for Performer in a Leading Role for her part in The Last of Us Part II as Abby Anderson.
To give you a snippet into her acting range, take a look at this video showing just a few of her popular works:
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Going through Bailey’s filmography would take anyone years, let alone also playing all the games she’s been in, and it’s no wonder why. Laura Bailey is extremely talented, providing different accents for many of her roles, no two voices are the same. Bailey is truly voice acting royalty, and she’ll only gain more and more credits and awards over the years to come, getting the recognition she deserves.
Check out some of Laura Bailey’s highlights from her show, Critical Role, here:
