Sayaka Kanda was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and singer. Born in Tokyo on October 1, 1986, she began her entertainment career in 1999 and was active until her death in 2021. She was the daughter of actor Masaki Kanda and pop singer Seiko Matsuda. Kanda's career was multifaceted, with significant achievements in live theater, music, and voice acting.

Her voice acting debut in anime came in 2012 with a role in the television series Good Luck Girl!. This initial work led to her most prominent voice role: providing the Japanese speaking and singing voice for the character Anna in the Disney animated film Frozen in 2014. Her performance was widely acclaimed and she won the Best Lead Actress award at the 9th Seiyu Awards for this role. She would go on to reprise the role of Anna in subsequent Disney projects, including the sequel Frozen II and the video game Kingdom Hearts III.

In anime, Kanda's voice can be heard in a variety of series and films. She voiced the character Shioji in the 2015 theatrical animated film Gamba, also known as Air Bound. In 2017, she played the role of Miharu Mashiki in the television anime series Convenience Store Boy Friends. That same year, she took on the role of the singer Yuna in the anime film Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale, for which she also performed several songs. One of her final major anime roles was as Mana Nagase in the 2021 television series Idoly Pride.

Beyond these roles, Kanda had a notable connection to the Danganronpa franchise. A self-professed fan of the games, she performed as Junko Enoshima and Mukuro Ikusaba in stage adaptations and, in 2017, voiced the character Kaede Akamatsu in the video game Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. Her musical career often intersected with her voice acting work. In 2014, she formed the musical duo TRUSTRICK with guitarist Billy, and the group contributed theme songs for anime projects. Kanda also released cover albums of Vocaloid songs and was posthumously honored with a Special Achievement Award at the 16th Seiyu Awards in 2022 for her contributions to the field of voice acting.