Brianna Knickerbocker
Brianna Knickerbocker
Brianna Knickerbocker is a voice actress known for voicing Rem, Sakura, and Charlotte in various anime. Brianna spends most of her time crying like a little girl, making dying sounds, and wielding weapons like bejeweled chainsaws. No, she doesn't suffer from hallucinations, she voices characters for video games and animation.[3]
Career
Brianna is honored to voice her dream role and her biggest role to date, Rem, in the upcoming English dub for the anime Re:Zero. She also plays the dark and tormented Yuna in Netflix's Original Anime B: The Beginning, out now on Netflix. BTVA awarded her with Breakthrough Voice Actress of the Year (editor's pick + people's choice) for 2016. Brianna is known for playing princesses and characters you just want to protect, like (of course the aforementioned Rem) Kirin (The Asterisk War), Luna (Shadowverse), Elaine in The Seven Deadly Sins, Akane (Durararax!!2), Sakura, Ninian, Charlotte, and Est of the Fire Emblem video games (Fates, Heroes, Warriors), Dana of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana and Itsuki (Yuki Yuna is a Hero).
Awards
BTVA Breakthrough Voice Actress of the Year Staff Pick and People's Choice 2016
Inspiration
On what inspired her to become a voice actress, Brianna says:
"I was always interested in the world of voice-over and that’s when I dug in and started doing CD workshops. A CD workshop is a casting director workshop where you basically get in the booth and you work in front of the casting director. So that’s how they kind of find out you exist and learn about your work to see you know, “Oh, she might be good for this role” or “Oh, I could see her doing this.”
"I think I’m just a big cry baby.
I’m just an emotional person and I love experiencing emotions. I love watching shows and movies and getting caught up in the characters’ stories and emotions. It’s always emotionally very cathartic for me. I just love doing that and then giving that to other people."[6]
The role of "Shenhua"
"Bill Black emailed me and said he has this huge role for this crazy game.
And I was like, okay.
Then he sent me like two sentences for the audition.
(laughs) I’m like, “Are there any more sentences that I can audition with? It’s so short. Like I’d rather like really get into character.” He’s like, “okay, let me see what else I could send you.” So then he sent me some more and then I sent over my audition. Then I booked it and that’s when Bill called me and he told me about the world of Shenmue. So I didn’t realize what it was for until I had already booked it. Usually when you audition for video games, everything’s super under wraps and NDA, so usually you don’t know what you’re auditioning for at all ever until after you book it."[5]
Cosplay
"There’s a ton for sure.
Right now my current plan…I just got everything to cosplay summer Rem. The other ones, some of them are just so expensive, so they’re a little intensive for somebody that’s like new to cosplay and it’s a little bit overwhelming for me. I would love to, but it’s just a big investment money wise, time wise."
Singing
"In one of the pickup sessions I got to do for Shenmue I sang her line.
So I did get to actually sing that part.
I was very happy to do that.
I would love, love, love to do more projects where I actually get to sing, too.
It’s so much fun"
Craziest/most unusual line she's performed
"Oh my gosh, it’s something that’s not out yet that I’m not allowed to talk about.
So now I need to think of like something that is out.
Charlotte when she says, “Like this is great, but I did think there’d be more gold though.”