Bridget Hoffman (born March 5, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American voice actress based in Los Angeles, known for her work in anime and video games since at least the late-90's. She has a smooth, mature-sounding voice that lands her pretty squarely in the role of a Yamato Nadeshiko and/or Proper Lady. Vocally, she's an Anglophone dead-ringer for Kikuko Inoue – and has dubbed over Ms Inoue no fewer than four separate times – although Ms Hoffman isn't known to (jokingly) lie about her age.
Despite all that, though, her most well-known role is probably none other than The Stoic Action Girl KOS-MOS of Xenosaga fame.
A native Michigander, she's a Sam Raimi regular and, notably, is the woman in the iconic poster for The Evil Dead.
She often performs background voices in big Hollywood films, animated or not. Next time you watch a big-budget animated movie (like Disney's stuff), check the "ADR Group" section deep in the credits roll; chances are her name will be there. She also occasionally pops up in small television roles.
As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, she is known to have used several aliases over the years for non-union work. Such as -
She is married to actor Rif Hutton.
Notable roles by Bridget Hoffman:
Anime
- Anna Respighi in Battle Athletes
- Belldandy in the Ah! My Goddess movie and The Adventures of Mini-Goddess (was also the ADR director for both, and handled the ADR script for the latter)
- Chitose Hibiya in Chobits
- Clarisse d' Cagliostro in the Manga/Animaze dub of The Castle of Cagliostro
- Ezra Vieil in Vandread
- Fuu Hououji in Magic Knight Rayearth
- Irisviel von Einzbern in Fate/Zero
- Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern in Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel
- Jeri Kato and, by extension, the D-Reaper in Digimon Tamers
- Kanae Kocho & Rui's Mother in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Lain Iwakura in Serial Experiments Lain
- Mahoro Ando in Mahoromatic
- Mako "Maya" Sato in Initial D
- Miaka Yuuki in Fushigi Yuugi (was also the ADR director and ADR script writer)
- Mima Kirigoe in Perfect Blue
- Mizuho Kazami in Please Teacher! and Please Twins!
- Namie Yagiri in Durarara!!
- Kururi Orihara in Durarara!!x2 (replacing Candalee Whitmore)
- Nia Teppelin (post-Time Skip) in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (replacing Hynden Walch)
- Princess Sheila in Bastard!! (1988)
- Raquel Casull in Scrapped Princess
- Rem Saverem in Trigun
- Rune Venus in El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
- Ryoko Asakura in Haruhi Suzumiya and The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan
- Shinobu Maehara in Love Hina
- Sonia Wakabayashi in Eureka Seven & Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution
- Tae in Ayakashi Ayashi
- Yukari Takara and Inori Hiiragi in Lucky Star
- Yuko in From Up on Poppy Hill
Film
- Chopper in Total Recall (2012)
- The Computer in Darkman
- Crystal and the Parachutist Ghost in ParaNorman
- Baby Lucky Prescott in Spirit Untamed
- Mui's Boss in the dub of Shaolin Soccer
- A radio host in Red Lights
- The Sea Captain's Wife in Tales of the Black Freighter
- A seance ghost in Drag Me to Hell
- Young Flint in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (standing in for Max Neuwirth)
- ADR and additional voices in several other films, including Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Big Hero 6, Bride Wars, The Chronicles of Riddick, Curious George, D-War, Extract, Frozen, the first two Hotel Transylvania movies, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Machete, Resurrecting the Champ, The Star, RoboCop (2014), Free Guy, SCOOB!, Over the Hedge, Primeval, Rango, Shoot 'Em Up, This Means War (2012) andThe Wild.
Live Action TV
- Echidna in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- Ellen Sinclair in Veronica Mars
- Little Lori in Ash vs. Evil Dead
Video Games
- Atoli in .hack//G.U.
- Dominique Cross in The Bouncer
- Fen Fei-Ling in Gate Keepers
- KOS-MOS in Xenosaga (briefly replaced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey for Episode II)
- Taylor in Soldier of Fortune
- Tynave and Marietta in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Tropes common to Bridget Hoffman's roles:
- Flirty Voice Ploy: Both the alien version of Ryoko Asakura in the anime adaptation of Haruhi Suzumiya, "Pretty please?", and the human version in the adaptation of The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan, "Now, now, don't thrash around. You don't want to break the eggs." Also the hallucination of Mima that is experienced by Me-Mania in Perfect Blue.
- The "Mom" Voice: More than a few of Hoffman's roles are capable of pulling out a convincing "Mom" voice, Rem Saverem, RyokoAsakura, Raquel Casul, and Inori Hiiragi.
