Kara Edwards
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Kara Edwards (born 17 February 1977 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American voice actress who works freelance and for the FUNimation distributing company. She is best known for voicing Videl and Goten in Dragon Ball Z. She is also well known in the Charlotte, North Carolina area for her past career as a radio host.
Kara began her broadcast career with a job at Radio Disney out of Dallas, Texas the fall after she graduated from high school. She interned for eight months before landing the more permanent jobs of writer, producer, voice actress and children's voice director. In July 1997, she became co-host of the "Squeege and Kara Show" on syndicated Radio Disney. She did voice-over work in commercials for companies like Blockbuster Entertainment, Levi's Jeans and Clinique cosmetics, as well as a variety of regional ads.
During the latter part of her Radio Disney tenure, Kara started working for FUNimation Studios as a freelance voice actress. Her first role was as Lime in the Dragon Ball Z episode "A Girl Named Lime". FUNimation voice director Chris Sabat was impressed enough by Kara's work that he hired her to voice the characters of Goten, Videl and Gotenks for the remaining episodes of the series. Kara also provided the characters voices for the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi video games.
In March 2002, Kara was hired as a producer and occasional "sidekick" for the "Sander Walker in the Morning" radio show on WSSS 104.7 FM in Charlotte, North Carolina. She stayed in this position until October 31, 2003. After that morning's airing finished, the entire Sander Walker show cast and crew were informed that WSSS was switching its format to Christmas music around the clock, and subsequently were all terminated.
Kara wasn't off the airwaves for long, however. In February 2004, she became the co-host of the "Jeff Roper Morning Show" syndicated from WSOC 103.7 FM, also out of Charlotte. In January 2005, Jeff Roper left WSOC to take a morning job at WWNU 92 FM in Columbia, South Carolina. WSOC management assigned Kara to take up co-hosting duties with Rob Tanner as part of the new "Tanner in the Morning" show. The show's mix of regional humor and parodies made it one of the higher-rated morning shows in the Charlotte area's country music radio market, and Kara continued her co-hosting duties for nearly two years. Still doing work for FUNimation during this period, Kara voiced the characters of Upa and Pocawatha in the FUNimation release of the original Dragon Ball anime. She also met and began dating Charlotte CBS affiliate WBTV meterologist Chris Suchan. They were married in April, 2006.
Although Kara enjoyed her radio work, she had begun to feel more and more strongly about voice acting. In August 2006, Kara and fellow FUNimation actors Sean Schemmel, Chris Sabat and Jason Liebrecht attended the Wizard World Comics Convention in Chicago, Illinois. When Dragon Ball Z fans waited in line up to five hours to get her autograph, Kara began seriously considering making voice acting her full-time job.
| I decided then, 'You know what? This is my passion in life.' I always thought radio was the place I should be and pursued it and pursued it. Now I think this is the place I should be.[1] |
A few weeks later, Kara brought her feelings to WSOC management during a monthly performance strategy meeting and told them of her desire to go into voice-acting full-time and leave her position as co-host. WSOC and the Tanner show staff accepted Kara's decsion, and her departure was handled amicably.
| Then I called my husband and said 'guess what?'[2] |
As of October 2006, Kara is a freelance voice actress, although FUNimation is still her primary employer. She has recently voiced the character Celica in the yet-to-be-released FUNimation property "Solty Rei".
[edit] Filmography
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| 2006 |
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| 2005 | Video Games
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| 2004 | Video Games
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| 2003 | Video Games
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| 2001 | Television Series
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[edit] References
- ^ (Charlotte Observer "Faith" section, TV/Radio article: "A Voice Designed To Bring Smiles" by Mark Washburn 09/21/06)
- ^ (Charlotte Observer "Faith" section, TV/Radio article: "A Voice Designed To Bring Smiles" by Mark Washburn 09/21/06)
[edit] External links
- Kara Edwards at the Internet Movie Database
- Kara Edwardsl at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
