Valerie Arem is an American voice actress and voice director whose career spans numerous video games and animated series. She is known for her extensive work in the industry, often providing voices for major franchises as well as serving in key creative and directorial roles behind the scenes. Her career includes significant contributions to English-language dubs of Japanese anime and role-playing games. Arem studied acting at California State University, Long Beach, before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue voice-over work. Alongside her husband, she co-founded the production company PCB Productions, where she has directed and cast talent for a wide range of projects.

As a voice actor, Arem is recognized for several prominent anime roles. In the series.hack//SIGN, she provided the English voice for Morganna, a powerful and mysterious entity within The World. She also voiced Talia Gladys, the captain of the battleship Minerva, in the NYAV Post dub of Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny. Another notable credit is her role as Dongting Lake Niangniang in the series Dragon Heart - Adventures Beyond This World. Beyond these specific examples, her anime-related voice credits include additional roles such as Beatrice Ratio in Geneshaft, a young version of the Grandmother in the film Mirai, and Haikyun in an episode of Sailor Moon S. She also appeared in Persona 4: The Animation as Eri Minami and as the English voice of Aurelia Le Guin in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War.

While Arem has a substantial list of anime roles, she is particularly prolific in the field of video games. Her most famous voice role is widely considered to be Naoto Shirogane from the Persona series, a character she has voiced in several titles including Persona 4 Golden, Persona Q, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Other significant video game voice credits include Kikyo Konoe in Bravely Default and Bravely Second, Kyra Mosley in Call of Duty: Ghosts, Francine in The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier, the Undertaker in Mind Zero, Black Cat in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, and Lotus in Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.

In addition to her performance work, Arem is a highly accomplished voice director and talent director. She has served as the voice director for numerous acclaimed titles, including the Persona series (Persona 4 Golden, Persona Q, Persona 5), the Zero Escape series (Virtue's Last Reward, Zero Time Dilemma), Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, Catherine, Code of Princess, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series, and Monster Hunter World. Her casting and production coordination credits are similarly extensive, covering games like Deadpool, Odin Sphere, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and NieR Re[in]carnation. This dual expertise as both a performer and a director has made her a recurring collaborator with major game publishers, including Atlus and Nippon Ichi Software, and has solidified her reputation as a key figure in the localization and voice production of Japanese media for Western audiences.