Carla Garcia

Description
Carla García, also known as Carla Patrícia García Esteves, is a Portuguese voice actress recognized for her extensive work in dubbing animated series and films into European Portuguese. With a career spanning over eighteen years, she has lent her voice to a vast number of characters across various productions, noting that she has lost count of the many roles she has performed, which could number in the thousands. Her work is fundamental to the Portuguese dubbing industry, where actors often voice multiple characters per series and work across different studios to meet the demands of children's television programming.

García is particularly well-known within the anime community for her significant contributions to the Portuguese dub of the Sailor Moon franchise. She voiced the roles of Ami Mizuno, also known as Sailor Mercury, and Minako Aino, also known as Sailor Venus, in several installments of the reboot series. Her credits include Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal: Season III and the film Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal. Her involvement in Sailor Moon Crystal was part of a landmark production, as Portugal was the first country in the world to broadcast the new anime with a local dub. García herself acknowledged the significant responsibility of voicing such beloved characters and expressed her happiness with the positive reception from fans regarding her performance.

Beyond the Sailor Moon series, García's anime voiceography is diverse. She is credited in the Portuguese version of the long-running series Fairy Tail as the main character Lucy Heartfilia. Her work also includes roles in Jewelpet, where she voiced Minami Asaoka and the Jewelpet Saphie, as well as Halite in the same series. In Ojamajo Doremi, she provided the voice for a character named Sofia. Other anime credits include Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch, The Vision of Escaflowne, and Fancy Lala.

Her talent extends outside of Japanese animation into a wide range of Western animation and film. García is the Portuguese voice of prominent characters such as Ladybug from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Candace Flynn from Phineas and Ferb, Joy from Inside Out, and Vanellope von Schweetz from Wreck-It Ralph. She has also voiced Amy Rose and her variants in the Netflix series Sonic Prime. Her work is typically recorded in studios such as 112 Studios and Áudio In, often under the direction of professionals like José Luiz Alves.