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Tiffany Lynn Grant (born October 11, 1968) is an American actress and writer, known for her English dubbing work with ADV Films (and its successor Sentai Filmworks) on such anime films and television series as Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu. Grant is also known for portraying Altena in Noir and Ryoko Subaru in Martian Successor Nadesico. Although she appeared in several ADV works, she is an independent contractor. A native Houstonian, Grant began her voice acting career in 1994 when she voiced Raina in Guy: Double Target and thus has the distinction of being the first anime voice actress from Texas.
Grant, along with a handful of other ADV contractors, also works with Fort Worth-based anime distributor Funimation on series such as Fullmetal Alchemist (2003). Grant enjoyed her role as Asuka so much that she became a professional Evangelion fangirl. She briefly reprised the character in the radio plays and fan-produced anime derived from the fanfiction series Neon Genesis Evangelion R. She has also reprised her role once again in the Rebuild of Evangelion films. She has also cosplayed as Asuka (in Asuka's familiar red EVA-02 plugsuit and her school uniform) at anime conventions. Also, her bedroom
is completely covered in Asuka merchandise. She also became friends with Yuko Miyamura, the Japanese voice of Asuka.
It has been thought the main reason Grant got the role as Juli Mizrahi in Xenosaga: The Animation was because many fans mistook her voice for that of Juli in the original game.
It should also be noted that Grant is quite fluent in the German language, hence the better implementation of Asuka's German dialogue in the English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Besides doing voice-over work, Grant has also appeared in live-action films as well as theater plays.
She married ADV's co-founder Matt Greenfield in 2003 and they divorced in 2018. That year, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia; she still does voice-over work there and in Houston.
Her personal website can be found here.
Notable Roles of Tiffany Grant:
- Altena in Noir
- Asuka Langley Soryu in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise and Rebuild of Evangelion
- Ayaka in Kurau Phantom Memory
- Bea in Brawl Stars
- Coco in Tsuritama
- Gema in Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat
- Haruka in Sister Princess
- Kaori (Kaorin) in Azumanga Daioh
- Kisaragi in the first episode of Elfen Lied
- Koume Sawagachi in Blue Seed
- Kudryavka Noumi in Little Busters!
- Kuriko Kazetsubaki in Maburaho
- Laura Bodewig in Infinite Stratos
- Lena in the Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light OVA
- Lune in The World God Only Knows: Goddesses Arc
- Martel in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Midoriko Sono in Girls und Panzer
- Momon in Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess
- Nojiko in One Piece
- Okano in From the New World
- Renren Tomaru in Chivalry of a Failed Knight
- Ryoko Subaru in Martian Successor Nadesico
- Satella Harvenheit in Chrono Crusade
- Saya Takatori in Ushio and Tora
- Shizuru Fujimura in Godannar
- The software company president in Golden Boy
- Sunako's Aunt in The Wallflower
- Yoko Tokashiki in Princess Nine
- Yukiyo Misaki (uncredited) and Yumi Ogura in Another
- Yuuki Onozawa in Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
- Pochacco in Hello Kitty's Animation Theater
Tiffany Grant's works provide examples of:
- Bilingual Bonus: She has extensive knowledge in fluency in German, which transfers into her German character roles like Asuka, Satella, Haruka, Christine Freidrich, and Laura Bodewig that either requires her to speak in a German accent or speak in German phrases.
- The Cast Showoff: Being fluent in German, Grant takes many opportunities in the original dub of Evangelion to pepper Asuka's speech with German phrases, and in one episode, carries an entire phone conversation in German.
- Creator Couple: She married ADV co-founder Matt Greenfield in 2003 and would remain together until their divorce 14 years later.
- Dawson Casting: Grant first voiced Asuka at age 27 during the recording sessions of Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1996 and would go on to voice the character in all subsequent incarnations, with the exception of the Netflix release of the original TV series. By the time the third Rebuild of Evangelion film was released in February 2016, she was 47 years old.
- DVD Commentary: She has provided audio commentaries for the DVD releases for the Evangelion Platinum editions and Gunsmith Cats, as well as the home media release of the second Rebuild film.
- Gratuitous German: She sprinkles a bit of German in her work involving such characters as Laura Bodewig, Asuka Langley Sohryu and Satella Harvenheit.
- Large Ham: She pulls off over-the-top histrionics quite well, which is perfect for her more emotional roles such as Asuka.
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor:
- Most of the characters she voices tend to be badasses or Cool Big Sis. Bonus points that some of them tend to be a bit hotheaded.
- Need someone to voice a German girl or woman in a Houston or Dallas based dub, hire this woman!
- She also voiced a metric ton of mecha pilots, to the point she was a shoo-in for all the mecha series ADV licenced. Quite understandably Grant has a big soft spot for the genre.
- Playing Against Type: While Grant isn't a stranger to voicing cute girls in the past, Little Busters! have her voice Kudryavka Noumi, the resident Token Mini-Moe, where she not only attempts a Russian accent with the said character, but also making her sound cute at the same time with a higher-pitch voice. She also voices Altena in Noir.
- Promoted Fangirl:
- A fan of the Hello Kitty franchise, Grant wrote the scripts for Hello Kitty's Animation Theater, in which she also starred as Pochacco.
- Her collection of Asuka merchandise fills multiple rooms.
- Romance on the Set: Grant met her future husband, Matt Greenfield, when she auditioned for ADV's first dubbed title, Guy: Double Target, in 1994; they married nine years later.
- She Also Did:
- While Grant is known for her voice-over work, she's also worked in both live-action and theater work. Most notably, she appeared as an uncredited graduate student in Arlington Road as well as Alicia Dimsdale in Laughing Boy.
- Her first role was Reina in Guy: Double Target, which was an early hentai dub.
- Throw It In!: When it comes to writing an ADR script for dubs produced by ADV and/or Sentai Filmworks, Grant often includes German dialogue for some characters like Asuka and Laura, given her fluency in the German language.
