Iris Artajo is a German voice actress and dubbing director with an extensive career spanning theater, film, and television. Born in 1962, she grew up multilingual, which later became a cornerstone of her professional work. Artajo completed her French baccalaureate in Paris before training as an actress at the Parisian drama school Cours Simon. She also received acting instruction from Wolfgang Wermelskirch and Erika Dannhoff in Berlin, and studied voice under Hannelore Nargorsen in Paris and Gunther Wilhelms in Berlin, obtaining her state acting diploma in 1986.

Following her formal education, Artajo performed on various Berlin stages, including the Renaissance-Theater, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, and the Tribüne, working with acclaimed directors such as Andrzej Wajda and Giorgio Strehler. In 1998, she co-founded the theater group "las tres lolas," later renamed artres, with Beate Pfeiffer and Gundi Eberhard, performing throughout Germany. She has also directed numerous theatrical productions since 1991, with a repertoire including works by Eugene Ionesco, August Strindberg, Edgar Allan Poe, and Federico Garcia Lorca.

As a voice actress, Artajo works extensively in dubbing for film and television, lending her German voice to a wide array of international actors. Her repertoire includes frequently dubbing actresses such as Justina Machado, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Vélez, Marlene Forte, and Patricia Rae, among many others. She has provided the German voice for Salma Hayek in films like Fled, Penélope Cruz in Vanilla Sky, and Juliette Binoche in A Couch in New York. Artajo is also known to Star Trek fans as the long-standing German voice of Rosalind Chao's character Keiko O'Brien in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Her other notable dubbing credits include Lauren Vélez as Lt. Maria Laguerta in Dexter, Tess Harper as Mrs. Pinkman in Breaking Bad, and Justina Machado as Vanessa Diaz in Six Feet Under. In animation, she voiced Imelda in the German version of Puss in Boots and Odile in The Smurfs. In the anime film Wolf Children, she voiced the character of Aunt Nirasaki in the German dubbed version.

Beyond acting, Artajo is also active as a dubbing director, overseeing the German versions of numerous productions since 1995. Her directing credits include the Disney Channel series Violetta, for which she directed 240 episodes, and the Netflix series Once. She has also directed dubbing for films such as Tini: Violettas Future and the Spanish comedy Que baje Dios y lo vea. Her multilingual fluency in German, French, Italian, and Spanish makes her particularly well-suited for projects requiring a single voice to handle multiple languages.

In addition to her work in dubbing, Artajo performs as a narrator for radio plays, audiobooks, and documentaries, and has voiced commercials for major brands. She also shares her expertise as a drama instructor at a musical school in Berlin. Her sons, Nicolás and Maximilian Artajo, have also followed careers as actors and voice actors.