Creator / Ashly Burch

Hey Ash, who ya playin'?

Ashly Syble Burch (born on June 19, 1990 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an actress, voice actress, and writer from California. She got her start in, and is well known for, her roles in Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, and roles in other works like the Borderlands series, Adventure Time, and Attack on Titan. She received universal acclaim and earned a "Best Gaming Performance" award as both Chloe Price in Life Is Strange and Aloy, the protagonist of the Action RPG Horizon Zero Dawn. In 2019, she joined the main cast of Final Space. In 2020, it was confirmed that she would play the titular role of Molly McGee in The Ghost and Molly McGee. Since 2016, she has been a frequent guest star on Critical Role.

Since 2020, Burch has starred as Rachel in Mythic Quest, and additionally serves as a staff writer and the show's story editor.

Has a Twitter account.

She is half-Southeast Asian (her mother is from Thailand). In July 2022, she publicly came out as queer/pansexual.

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Ashly Burch's roles:

Anime & Manga

• Attack on Titan/Attack on Titan: Junior High: Sasha Braus
• Code:Breaker: Sakura Sakurakouji (credited as Jackie Ross)
• Space☆Dandy: Freckles
• Steins;Gate: Mayuri Shiina (credited as Jackie Ross)

Film — Animated

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Additional Voices

Film — Live-Action

• Must Come Down: Holly

Live-Action TV

• Muzzled: the Musical: Malfalia
• Mythic Quest: Rachel (also a writer and story editor)

Podcasts

• Dungeons & Daddies: Dennis Anderson/Mark Likely

Video Games

• Aliens: Colonial Marines: USMC Lieutenant Lisa Reid
• Awesomenauts: Ayla
• Battleborn: Orendi
• Borderlands:
  • Borderlands 2, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, Borderlands 3, and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: Tiny Tina, Schmidt, The Bane Gun^note Only in Borderlands 2
• Code Vein: Emily Su
• Dota 2: Mireska Sunbreeze, the "Dark Willow"
• Fallout 4: Tina De Luca, Cricket and Rowdy.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy XV: Sarah
  • World of Final Fantasy: Quacho Queen
• Fortnite: Ray, Desiree
• Gravity Ghost: Iona
• Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series: Nebula
• The Guided Fate Paradox: Kuroiel Ryuzaki
• Horizon Zero Dawn: Aloy and Dr. Elisabet Sobeck
  • Horizon Forbidden West: Aloy and Beta
• The Last of Us Part II: Mel
• League of Legends: Akail^note only in Tales of Runeterra: Ionic - "The Lesson"
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel: Millium Orion (I and II only, Succeeded by Michelle Marie from III onwards)
• LEGO Adaptation Game:
  • LEGO Marvel's Avengers: Cloud 9, Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan
• Life Is Strange:
  • Life Is Strange: Chloe Price, Taylor Christensen, Stella Hill, Sarah the Receptionist
  • Life Is Strange: Before the Storm: Story Consultant, Chloe Price^note in the Farewell bonus episode
• Lovely Little Thieves: Danielle
• Marvel's Avengers: Kate Bishop
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order: Nebula
• Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite: Chun-Li^note Darrining for Laura Bailey
• Minecraft: Story Mode: Cassie Rose
• Mortal Kombat X: Cassie Cage
• Ninjala: Jane
• The Outer Worlds: Parvati Holcomb
• Persona 4: Dancing All Night: Rise Kujikawa^note taking over from Laura Bailey due to her scheduling conflicts
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Rei
• Project Spark: Avalon
• Rise of the Tomb Raider: Nadia^note Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch DLC
• Saints Row IV: Herself^note In the form of a DLC pack tie in with Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?
  • Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell: Kiki DeWynter^note taking over from Megan Hollingshead, Demons, and Husks
• Spider-Man (Insomniac):
  • Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Marvel's Spider-Man 2: Danika Hart
• Team Fortress 2: Miss Pauling
• There Came an Echo: Val
• Valorant: Viper

Web Original

• Baked Goods: Charlie Binkle
• Bee and Puppycat: Cass, Cicada
• Blackford Manor: Josette
• Chainsaw Richard: Tiny Ghost
• Critical Role: Piglet, Dren, Clothesline, Keg, Ida Codswell
• Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?: As Herself.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time: Breezy, Bun Bun, Cheryl, Dew Drop, Scorp, Various Characters; Story Outliner
• Dragon Age: Absolution: Qwydion
• Final Space: Ash Graven
• The Ghost and Molly McGee : Molly McGee, Additional Voices
• Glitch Techs: K. Moon, Ridley ^note She's also a writer and consultant for the series.
• The Loud House: Lainey
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Enid^note shorts and actual series, Rippy Roo, Gladys, Ms. Mummy, Foxy, Various Characters
• Pig Goat Banana Cricket: Lila Twinklepipes, Sorority Girl #1
• Steven Universe: Rutile Twins
• Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Meadow Springs

Miscellaneous Roles

• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare: Additional Voices
• Evolve: Additional Voices
• LEGO Adaptation Game:
  • LEGO Jurassic World: Additional Voices
• The LEGO Movie: Masters of Flight^note The theme park ride at Legoland in Orlando and Elizabeth Banks voices her in the movies.: Lucy/Wyldstyle
• We Bare Bears: Various Characters

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Tropes associated with Ashly Burch's career:

• The Cast Showoff: She's displayed her powerful singing voice in Muzzled and several conventions.
• Deadpan Snarker: A fair amount of her characters tend be quite sassy, to say the least.
• Woman of a Thousand Voices: She has a deeply impressive vocal range, portraying a wide variety of roles from insane children to potato-loving monster hunters to professional secretaries to snarky daughters of soldiers and Hollywood A-Listers to rebellious daughters to badass outcasts to cheerful 13 year old girls who befriend ghosts.

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