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Laura Dawn Bailey (born May 28, 1981) is an American actress and voice actress. Best known for her anime roles (mostly Creator/{{Funimation}} titles), she has also supplied voices in video games and worked as staff on several anime series. Perhaps her best known voice over appearance is as Rayne in the ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' video game series, Lust from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Tohru Honda from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Sana Kurata from {{Kodocha}}, Shin Nohara on the English dub of ''CrayonShinChan'', or Rise Kujikawa from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. She is married to fellow voice actor Creator/TravisWillingham.

Has a {{Website/Twitter}} [[https://twitter.com/LauraBaileyVO account]].
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!!Anime VA Roles
* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' - Oboro
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' - Mashiro Kuna, Tier Harribel, Hiyori Sarugaki and Homura
* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' - Sabato
* ''Anime/BlueGender'' - Marlene Angel
* ''Anime/BurstAngel'' - Nadesico
* ''[[Manga/DetectiveConan Case Closed]]'' - Sonoko Suzuki
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' - Jean
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' - Suzaku Kururugi (young), Rakshata Chawla, Nagisa Chiba, Kallen's stepmother
* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' - Amber
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' - Young Chi-Chi and Colonel Violet
** ''Dragon Ball Z'' - Young Dende, Young Trunks, and Marron
* ''{{El Cazador de la Bruja}}'' - Rita
* ''FruitsBasket'' - Tohru Honda
* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' - Lust
* ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion'' - Tsugumi
* ''Anime/GunXSword'' - Rion
* ''Anime/GunslingerGirl'' - Henrietta
* ''Anime/HellGirl'' - Mayumi Hashimoto
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}} Ultimate'' - Schrödinger
* ''Manga/{{K-On}}'' - Nodoka Manabe
* ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' - Tokine Yukimura
* ''[[Manga/KodomoNoOmocha Kodocha]]'' - Sana Kurata
* ''Manga/{{Kurokami}}'' - Kuro
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' - [[{{Filler}} Lady Toki]], the new voice for Anko Mitarashi, Shiho, [[TheMovie Shion]]
* ''[[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Negima! Magister Negi Magi]]'' - Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] and Ayaka Yukihiro
* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' - Dieter
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' - Conis and Pepper
* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' - Tsumugi Yuuki
* ''[[Anime/ShinChan Shin-chan]]'' - Shin Nohara
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' - Maka Albarn
* ''Manga/{{Spiral}}'' - Ryoko Takamachi
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' - Leite Jokin
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' - Pao-Lin Huang/Dragon Kid, Mary Rose
* ''[[Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle]]'' - Xing Huo, Primera
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho ''(TV series) - Keiko Yukimura

!!Western Animation VA Roles
* Firestar in ''TheSuperHeroSquadShow''
* Black Widow in ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble''

!!Video Game VA Roles
* ''[[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux Æon Flux]]'' - Una, Hostesses
* ''[[VideoGame/ArmoredCore Armored Core 5]]'' Carol Dorry, Various AC pilots
* ''[[ArTonelico2 Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica]]'' - Luca Trulyworth (uncredited)
* ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain'' - Faye Lee
* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' - Lady Comstock
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'' - Platinum The Trinity
** [[TheOtherDarrin Noel Vermillion and Rachel Alucard]] for certain lines in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Continuum Shift II]]''.
* ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'' - Rayne
* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' - Catherine
* ''VideoGame/CodeOfPrincess'' - Solange
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'' - Ritzia
* ''DeadOrAlive 5'' - Christie
* ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' - Raspberyl
* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' - [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Cloud of Darkness]]
* ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' - Alex D (female)
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' - Carrie Boyd, Julie Farkas, Doctor Usanagi, additional voices and the female Courier
* ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesCrystalBearers Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers]]''- Belle
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' and ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XIII-2}}'' - Serah Farron
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' - Marth [[spoiler:actually Lucina]]
* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage'' - Mamiya
* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 3'' - Alicia Valera
* ''InfinityBlade II'' - Isaline
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' - [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Akali]]
* ''[[VideoGame/NieR NieR Gestalt]]'' - Kainé
* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'' as Angela (under the alias Elle Deets)
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'' - Sherry Birkin
* ''Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration'' - Angela Miller
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' - Helena Harper
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' - One of the Boss's female voices
** Announced on her {{Twitter}} that she will reprise her role in ''SaintsRowIV''.
* ''SakuraWars: So Long My Love'' - Gemini Sunrise
* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' - Oichi (both game and anime)
* ''Shin Megami Tensei: VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' - Rise Kujikawa
** Reprises her role for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' ''and'' Persona4TheAnimation.
* ''Shin Megami Tensei: VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Portable'' - Female protagonist (uncredited)
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' (HD Collection) - Angela Orosco
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' (HD Collection) - Claudia Wolf
* ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'' - Dahlia Mason
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' - Blaze the Cat, Omochao (2010 - present)
* ''[[SoulSeries SoulCalibur V]]'' - Pyrrha Alexandra
* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' - Reimi Saionji, Welch Vineyard (uncredited)
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' - Kira Carsen
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' - Chun-Li and Candy
** And in ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' as Chun-Li once again.
** She reprises her role as Chun-Li for a third time in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken''.
** She also plays Chun-Li in the [=OVAs=] that were released with ''Street Fighter IV'' and ''Super Street Fighter IV''.
* ''VideoGame/TalesofGraces'' - Cheria Barnes
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' - Marta Lualdi (uncredited)
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' - Gauche
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim:'' - Serana ([[DownloadableContent In the Dawnguard DLC]]).
* ''[[TraumaCenter Trauma Team]]'' - Nicole Summers, Sandra Lieberman
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' - Isara Gunther
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'' - Melissa Dalen
* ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' - Luna
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' - Jaina Proudmoore (from ''Wrath of the Lich King'' on), as well as minor characters Sif and Argent Confessor Paletress.
* ''YggdraUnion'' - Pamela (uncredited)

!!Tropes Applicable:
* AscendedFangirl: She once recounted of her audition for Chun-Li in ''StreetFighterIV'', that out of all the women who auditioned, she was the only one who [[ShownTheirWork knew who Chun-Li was.]]
** Also was a fan of Skyrim before being cast as Serana.
* FakeBrit: As Evangeline and a bunch of girls in VideoGame/DragonsDogma, but she's ''very'' good at mimicking the accent.
** And now as [[{{DeadorAlive}} Christie]].
* PerverseSexualLust: She's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCF2Zpzt-A0 admitted]] that she has a thing for [[FruitsBasket Kyo Sohma]]. In her own words, "He's ''soooo'' dreamy!"
* MsFanservice: A lot of her characters tend to be rather attractive, from Harribel, Homura, Lust, Christie and Rayne, to Chun-Li, Anko, Kira Carsen, Rise Kujikawa and Black Widow.
** Laura herself also looks nice.
* OlderThanSheLooks: She's 31 but she could easily pass as 21.
* OneOfUs: Big fan of anime as well as video games. Particularly ''Franchise/DragonAge'' and ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' (''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX X]]'' is her personal favorite).
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xG2vGg8ygc#t=18m13s According to Taliesin Jaffe]] (the voice director for ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', as well as the voice of Blanka and Adon in the former), Laura (as well as some of the other voice actors involved [[hottip:*:those [=VAs=] being TravisWillingham (Guile), ReubenLangdon (Ken), KyleHebert (Ryu), and MatthewMercer (Fei Long)]]) actually plays ''SFIV'' online from time to time.
** She's also an avid ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' player.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: With TravisWillingham. She once mentioned [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtY5LnlxFEg at an anime convention in 2010]] that while in the middle of a recording session for Lust's final episode in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'', she received a text message from Travis that consisted of one line: [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!]] For those who don't know why that's so funny, the linked video also has Travis's side of the story.
** And in ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain'', she plays the {{love interest|s}} to the main character, who is voiced by Travis. As more than one snarky observer has commented, "That must have been a pretty easy 'acting' job."
** Then we have a bit of a subversion in ''[[TraumaCenter Trauma Team]]'', where Travis voices diagnostician Gabriel and has his first mission with patient high schooler Nicole who's voiced by her. And of course, awkwardness ensues between the age gap, but it's pure embarrassment on both sides.
** Bailey and Willingham married in 2011.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Female listeners often have a hard time ''not'' feeling this when Laura uses her "Lust" voice.
* [[ManOfAThousandVoices Woman Of A Thousand Voices]]: She has very impressive voice range, being able to voice both male and female characters.
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