Laura Bailey

Laura Bailey is an American voice actress whose career spans anime dubbing, blockbuster video games, performance capture, and improvised tabletop drama. Born on May 28, 1981, in Mississippi, she began working professionally in the late 1990s and became associated with Funimation productions. Her early credits included Kid Trunks in the English dub of Dragon Ball Z, Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist, and Maka Albarn in Soul Eater. These roles established her as a performer capable of shifting between youthful comedy, action, vulnerability, and menace with precision. ([critrole.com](https://critrole.com/members/laura-bailey/?utm_source=openai))

In games, Bailey has voiced characters across several franchises. She played Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft, Lucina in Fire Emblem Awakening, Serah Farron in Final Fantasy XIII, Kainé in NieR, Chun-Li in Street Fighter, and Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and The Lost Legacy. As Kait Diaz in Gears 5, she combined voice work with performance capture, bringing a grounded physicality to a soldier navigating grief, loyalty, and war. She also portrayed Fetch in inFAMOUS Second Son and First Light, and Fiona in Tales from the Borderlands. ([critrole.com](https://critrole.com/members/laura-bailey/?utm_source=openai))

Her most discussed performance is Abby Anderson in Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II, released in 2020. Abby begins as a member of the Washington Liberation Front seeking revenge for her father’s death, then becomes entangled with Lev and Yara, former Seraphite siblings whose survival challenges her loyalties. Bailey performed both the character’s voice and motion capture, including scenes that require rage, terror, exhaustion, tenderness, and moral uncertainty. The role won Best Performance at The Game Awards in 2020, and the BAFTA Games Award for Performer in a Leading Role in 2021. ([naughtydog.com](https://www.naughtydog.com/podcasts/thelastofus/en/ep-07?utm_source=openai))

Bailey is also a founding cast member of Critical Role, the actual-play series built around voice actors playing Dungeons & Dragons. In its first campaign, she played Vex’ahlia, a half-elf ranger whose partnership with her twin brother Vax’ildan anchors much of Vox Machina’s story. In Campaign Two, she created Jester Lavorre, a mischievous cleric whose optimism, artistic curiosity, and devotion to the Traveler drive the Mighty Nein. She later played Imogen Temult in Campaign Three. Critical Role expanded into an independent media company, with Bailey serving as an executive producer of The Legend of Vox Machina. ([critrole.com](https://critrole.com/members/laura-bailey/?utm_source=openai))