Shannon Purser is an American actress who has expanded her career into voice acting, including work in English anime dubbing. Purser made her on-screen acting debut in 2016 as Barbara Barb Holland in the Netflix series Stranger Things, a performance that earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Following this breakthrough, she appeared in films such as Wish Upon and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, and held the recurring role of Ethel Muggs on The CW series Riverdale across multiple seasons. Purser began voice acting with the animated series Final Space, where she voiced the character Shannon Thunder. Her entry into anime voice work came with the English dub of the 2025 anime series Mono, an adaptation of the four-panel manga by Afro. In this series, she voices the character Torayo Kurokuma, a goth occult expert. Purser has expressed enthusiasm about working in animation and anime, noting her long-standing love for the mediums. Her role in Mono marks a notable step into the anime industry as a voice actor.