Barbara Rosenblat is a distinguished voice artist and actress whose career spans stage, screen, and audiobook narration. While she has an extensive body of work in live-action television and film, she has also contributed her voice to several notable anime productions in English-language dubs.

Rosenblat began her professional training in the United States, where she earned degrees in speech, theater, and teaching from the City University of New York after growing up in New York City. Her early career included stage work in both the United States and the United Kingdom, with performances in London's West End productions such as Torch Song Trilogy, Godspell, and Bar Mitzvah Boy. She also worked with the BBC and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In the realm of anime, Rosenblat is known for the role of Mam in the series Synduality: Noir, a science fiction anime set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans coexist with artificial intelligence companions known as Magus. Her other significant contributions to English-dubbed anime include voicing Utako in the 2023 Studio Ghibli film The Boy and the Heron, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. She also performed a voice role in the English dub of the 2019 animated film Weathering with You, directed by Makoto Shinkai.

Beyond her anime-specific work, Rosenblat has an extensive career as a voice actress in other media. She has recorded over five hundred audiobooks, winning multiple Audie Awards and earning a reputation as one of the country's most distinguished voice artists, with one critic comparing her to Meryl Streep for her work in the medium. Her voice can also be heard in video games, including the Grand Theft Auto series and Just Cause III.

On screen, Rosenblat is widely recognized for her recurring role as Miss Rosa Cisneros in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, a performance that earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series alongside her castmates. Her other television credits include appearances in House of Cards, Homeland, Gotham, Better Call Saul, and Veep. She also performed on Broadway, originating the role of Mrs. Medlock in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden.