Jennifer Darling is an American actress known for her extensive work in voice acting for animation and anime, as well as her appearances in live-action television. Born on June 19, 1946, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she began her career in theater after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University before moving to Hollywood in 1973. Her early on-screen career included notable roles such as Peggy Callahan in the series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, and Donna on Eight Is Enough.

Darling's voiceover career, which began in the early 1980s, became a significant part of her professional life, encompassing a wide range of characters in both Western animation and English-language dubs of anime. In the realm of anime, she is perhaps best recognized for her role as Ayeka Misaki Jurai in the various English adaptations of the Tenchi Muyo! franchise, including Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki: Final Confrontations and Tenchi Muyo! Tenchi Universe. Her work in this series is one of her most prominent credits in the genre.

She also contributed her voice to the Hello Kitty franchise, providing the voice of Mama in the series Hello Kitty's Paradise and its related releases, a role she performed alongside Laura Summer, who voiced Mimmy. Her filmography further includes voice work in English adaptations of notable anime features, such as providing additional voices for the Studio Ghibli films Spirited Away and Porco Rosso. Other anime credits include roles in Blood+ as Clara, Magical Project S as Ayeka, and Astro Boy as Nora.

Beyond anime, Darling's voice acting career spanned numerous animated series and films. Her television voice work includes roles such as Irma in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Princess Salvina in The Smurfs, the Scarlet Witch in Iron Man: The Animated Series, and Dr. Rhoda Dendron in Darkwing Duck. She also contributed voices to a multitude of animated films, including Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland as Nemo's Mother, as well as additional voices for Disney features like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pixar films such as Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Monsters, Inc.. Her later career also included voice work in video games like Baldur's Gate, where she voiced the character Jaheira.