Kari Wahlgren is the voice actress of Shannon, Vormulax, and Chill Cat from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
Kari Wahlgren was born in Hoisington, Kansas, USA.[1]
Early Life and Career[]
Wahlgren was born and raised in Hoisington, Kansas. She was inspired as a child by the Disney Princesses and other voices in animation. Her parents were teachers, which encouraged her to support charities and organizations that promote reading and education later in her career. On her eleventh birthday, when she and her family were in California and toured the building for Focus on the Family, she was asked to do a bit role in their radio drama Adventures in Odyssey, as an eleven-year-old character named Gloria McCoy.
Wahlgren graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater in 1999. She lived in Kansas City, Missouri where she did some radio spots, then moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to work on her acting career. In an interview in Lawrence Journal-World, she said that she was not getting much on-camera work, so she shifted her energies towards voice-over work, and that her experience with dialogue and Shakespeare classes helped a lot towards landing roles that involved various characters, some of which had accents or were from certain time periods.
Trivia[]
- She is best known voicing as Haruko in FLCL, Celty Sturluson in Durarara!! series, Nova in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go , Mina Monroe in Bunnicula, and Kagami Hiiragi in Lucky Star.