Daisy Ridley
Description
Daisy Ridley, an English actress known for her live-action film work, has a limited but notable career as an anime voice actor. Her most significant contribution to the medium is her lead role in the English-language dub of the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday. In this 2016 English dub, she voices the adult Taeko Okajima, a twenty-seven-year-old woman from Tokyo who reflects on her childhood while visiting the Japanese countryside. Ridley performs opposite Dev Patel, who voices the character Toshio. The English dub of Only Yesterday was produced by GKIDS, and its voice cast also includes Ashley Eckstein, known for voicing Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars animated series, as Taeko's older sister Yaeko. Ridley's performance as Taeko received positive critical notice, with one review noting she brought a dynamic warmth to the character that communicated both mournful nostalgia and earned wisdom. While she has voiced characters in other animated projects such as the live-action hybrid film Peter Rabbit and the animated series Star Wars Forces of Destiny, the English dub of Only Yesterday remains her primary and most recognized work specifically within the anime genre.
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- EnglishAnime overview: Only Yesterday