Emanuela Pacotto (born June 7th, 1965) is an Italian dubbing voice actress.
While she has dubbed a number of Magical Girls over the years, she is largely remembered for being "the female sidekick to the Stock Shōnen Hero" due to her portrayal of Bulma, Nami, and Sakura. Her other most famous roles are Jessie from Pokémon and Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
As an actress, she played a live action version of Meiko from Ai Shite Night in the Italian live adaptation Love Me Licia, though the character was dubbed by another voice actress in the anime.
Some of her roles include:
Anime
- Akane Kimidori in Doctor Slump (second dub of the original series and remake)
- Bulma in Dragon Ball
- Kitty Shearer in Hello! Sandybell
- Mathilda Toulonchamp in Honoo no Alpen Rose
- Meimi/Saint Tail in Kaitou Saint Tail
- Manami Kasuga in Kimagure Orange Road
- Erina Ogura in Kirarin☆Revolution
- Fujiko Mine from Lupin III: Part 6 onwards
- Meiko in Marmalade Boy
- Rina Touin in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
- Patricia O'Sullivan in Mischievous Twins: The Tales of St. Clare's
- Sakura in Naruto
- Onpu Segawa in Ojamajo Doremi
- Nami in One Piece
- Jessie in Pokémon: The Series
- Meteo in Princess Comet
- Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden
- Anna Kyoyama in Shaman King
- Utau Hoshina in Shugo Chara!
- Lina Inverse in Slayers
- Minto Aizawa in Tokyo Mew Mew
- Momoko Hanasaki in Wedding Peach
Films – Animation
- Pebbles in some The Flintstones movies
Live-Action TV
- Britta Perry in Community
- Aisha Campbell in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
- Claire Sawyer in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
- Ashley Hammond in Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers in Space
- Lulu Johnson in True Jackson
Video Games
- Emmy Altava in Professor Layton
- Maya Fey in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2 (Remake)
Western Animation
- Cindy Vortex in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
- Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Betty in Atomic Betty (Season 2)
- Barbie in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse
- Sissi in Code Lyoko
- Valerie Grey in Danny Phantom
- Quinn Morgendorffer in Daria
- Sanata in Dofus: Kerub's Bazaar
- Emmy in Dragon Tales
- Princess Clara in Drawn Together
- Madeline Hatter in Ever After High
- Snail in Franklin
- Pandora (second voice) in Geronimo Stilton
- Cindy in A Kind of Magic
- Minka Mark in Littlest Pet Shop (2012)
- Janet in The Magic School Bus
- Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Alex in Totally Spies!
- Miss Frisella and Terry in Trulli Tales
- Cornelia Hale in W.I.T.C.H.
Her works provide examples of:
- Typecasting: As seen above, she is often cast as the Stock Shōnen Hero's female friend who is usually One of the Boys. Her characters also tend to be of the short-tempered Tsundere and/or Lovable Alpha Bitch type.
