Angiola Baggi is an Italian stage and screen actress and a highly regarded voice dubbing artist, born in Monselice, Padua, on November 30, 1946. Her career in the performing arts began in the early 1960s, with significant work in theater, television dramas, and film. Over the decades, she has become a prominent figure in the Italian dubbing industry, lending her voice to a vast array of characters in live-action and animated productions.

In the realm of anime and animation, Baggi is known for her role in a landmark film from the early days of Japanese animation. She provided the Italian voice for the character Bai Niang in the 1958 Toei animated film The White Snake, known in Italian as La leggenda del serpente bianco. This film is historically significant as the first color anime feature film ever produced. Baggi's voice work contributed to the Italian version of this classic tale, which was broadcast on Italian television in 1970.

Beyond this specific anime role, Baggi's voice has been featured in numerous other animated projects, particularly for Disney. Her credits include voicing the character Eudora in The Princess and the Frog, Plio in the film Dinosaur, the Oracle in Aladdin and the King of Thieves, and serving as the narrator for various Disney princess projects. She has also voiced characters in other animated features, such as Feliza in I magicanti e i tre elementi. While The White Snake stands as a notable credit in the history of anime dubbing, her broader animation work demonstrates a long-standing involvement in bringing animated characters to Italian audiences.

Alongside her animation work, Baggi's career is defined by her long-term and recurring collaborations with a prestigious roster of international actresses, for whom she is the regular Italian voice. She is particularly well-known for dubbing the performances of Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, and Isabelle Huppert in numerous films. Her filmography includes dubbing Kathy Bates as Molly Brown in Titanic, Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking, and Felicity Huffman in Transamerica. In television, she has been the voice of characters in series such as Orange Is the New Black and The Simpsons.

Throughout her career, Angiola Baggi has received recognition for her contributions to dubbing and theater. She was awarded a special mention for her dubbing work at the 2005 Festival Nazionale del Doppiaggio Voci nell'Ombra. Her other accolades include the Premio Voci a Sanremo in 2008 for her voice work on the film In the Valley of Elah, the Oscar del Doppiaggio in 2016, and the Maschera d'oro for theater in 1981. Baggi herself describes dubbing as a beautiful art form and a challenge that requires instinct, acting skill, and experience to balance the original performance with the nuances of the Italian language.