Avery Smithhart

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Avery Smithhart is an American voice actress known for her work in anime dubbing, primarily associated with Sentai Filmworks and based in Los Angeles, California. Born Avery Hannah Smithhart on April 7, 1993, in Houston, Texas, she has built a career voicing a wide range of characters in anime series, films, and video games.

Smithhart's journey into voice acting began during her senior year of high school. Her first major foray into professional voice work was in the BBC award-winning audio drama Above and Below, where she voiced multiple characters and which won the Best Online Only Audio Drama category in 2013. This early success was achieved with a humble home setup, recording lines in her mother's closet. Since then, she has developed a professional home studio to deliver high-quality audio for her projects.

Her anime filmography is extensive and features a variety of prominent roles. She is widely recognized for voicing Prushka in the Made in Abyss franchise, including the television series, the film Dawn of the Deep Soul, and the video game Binary Star Falling Into Darkness. Another signature role is Ange in Princess Principal and its subsequent films, Crown Handler Part 1. She also portrayed Cinnabar in Land of the Lustrous and Hanabi Yasuraoka in Scum's Wish.

Smithhart has taken on leading roles in numerous other series. She voiced Artemis, a female lead, in the film Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion. Her repertoire includes characters such as Rimi Ushigome in the BanG Dream! series, Sariel in The Seven Heavenly Virtues, Rosetti Pricket in Assassins Pride, Yuko Tsurumaki in Chidori RSC, and Rika Sonezaki in O Maidens in Your Savage Season. She also voiced Rika Seo in Tsurune: Kazemai Kōkō Kyūdō-bu, Goe Ishikawa in Release the Spyce, Soma Ryo in Blade of the Immortal, Hasegawa in Ao-chan Can't Study!, and Li-Jun in A Spirit of The Sun. Her credits also include Riko Yūki in Motto To Love Ru and Ayaka Toshima in Doreiku The Animation.

Beyond anime, her voice can be heard in video games such as Alaya Rundall in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius and Luvia Ray in Path to Nowhere. Her professional profile on Voices.com lists her vocal range as encompassing child, teen, and young adult characters, with abilities in various accents including General American and British.

Smithhart is open about her experiences as an individual on the autism spectrum and living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and she often discusses how these aspects of her identity inform her creative process and approach to acting. She emphasizes the importance of play, vulnerability, and radical self-acceptance in her work, crediting classes with actor Richard Horvitz for helping her reconnect with a childlike sense of creativity. Her body of work demonstrates a strong and recurring collaboration with Sentai Filmworks, for which she has voiced numerous characters across their dubbed productions.
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