Liza Ross

Description
Liza Ross is a Canadian actress and voice artist, recognized for her extensive work in voiceovers for animation, film, and audiobooks. She was born Jane Elizabeth Ross in Canada in 1941. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Honours English from the University of Toronto and subsequently trained for an acting career at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the United Kingdom.

Ross built a prolific career spanning theatre, television, and film, with a particular focus on voice work. She is active in the field of audio description for films and is a co-director of The Story Circle, an audiobook production company. Her voice acting in English-dubbed anime, primarily during the late 1980s and 1990s, forms a notable part of her extensive filmography.

Ross provided English voices for numerous anime productions. Some of her prominent roles in this genre include Ayumi in Project A-ko, Kanako in Wicked City, and Isabella in Lupin III: Goodbye Lady Liberty. She is also credited as the voice of Shirenu in Devilman: The Demon Bird, Perrine Valley in Mad Bull 34, Shun-You in Psychic Wars, and Tōru Shirō in X. In the A.D. Police Files series, she voiced the character Caroline. Ross also contributed her voice to films such as Fugitive Alien and Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, where she was credited as the voice of Tammy.

In addition to these roles, Ross is specifically noted for voicing Tamamushi in the 1995 English dub of the anime Raven Tengu Kabuto: The Golden-Eyed Beast. Her work on projects like Mad Bull 34 and Devilman places her within the landscape of English-dubbed anime from that era.

Beyond her anime voice work, Ross's career includes a wide array of credits in animation and audio. She has voiced characters in the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball and has lent her voice to various video games. She is also an award-winning narrator of audiobooks, having received a Talkies Award for her reading of Gone With the Wind and an Earphones Award for The Marvelous Land of Oz. Her other notable film and television appearances include roles in Batman, Tomorrow Never Dies, Leap Year, and the TV series Oppenheimer, in which she starred alongside her husband, actor Garrick Hagon.