Anna Garduno

Description
Anna Garduno is an American actress, voice artist, producer, and teacher with extensive experience in animation, video games, and live-action productions. She is particularly recognized in the anime dubbing community for her long-standing association with the Digimon franchise.

Garduno's career as a voice actor includes several prominent and recurring roles. She is best known for voicing the character Palmon and its pre-evolved form Tanemon across numerous installments of the Digimon series. Her work in this franchise spans over two decades, beginning with the English adaptation of the original 1999 Digimon: Digital Monsters television series. She later reprised the role for the series Digimon Adventure 02 and a string of feature films, including Digimon: The Movie, the multi-part Digimon Adventure tri. series, and the later film Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna. Outside of the Digimon franchise, her notable anime voice work includes the role of Harley Hoover in the series Ai to Yūki no Pig Girl Tonde Būrin.

In addition to anime, Garduno has a significant body of work in video games and Western animation. She was nominated for a Best Character Performance Award by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences for her role as Keira in the popular PlayStation games Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy and Jak II. Her other voice credits include Coco Bandicoot in Crash Bash, additional voices in the Korean animated series Mix Master, and roles in Western animated series such as All Grown Up! and The Angry Beavers.

Beyond her performance work, Anna Garduno is highly regarded as a leading voice-over teacher and coach. She is the founder of VOICEFORWARD, a studio where she teaches classes in animation, commercials, and narration. Her expertise is widely recognized, having been a guest teacher for the NYU Voice Over program and the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. She has also served on the faculty of the Tom Todoroff Conservatory. Her contributions to the field have been acknowledged with nominations for Best Voice-Over Teacher in both New York and Los Angeles by the readers of Backstage magazine.

Garduno's career also includes extensive work behind the camera as a producer. She was a partner in Darkwoods Productions with director Frank Darabont, where she served as an associate producer on The Majestic and as a co-producer on The Mist. She also worked on the production of The Green Mile. Her live-action acting credits span decades, with appearances in television series such as Happy Days, Moonlighting, Felicity, and the soap opera One Life to Live.