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Kate Higgins

So that's what Kuroi-Sensei looks like in real life!

Kate Higgins is the West Coast equivalent of Eric Stuart, as she is an anime voice actress and a musician as well. Her best known role is Sakura Haruno in Naruto. She usually is casted as Tsunderes or Cool Big Sisters. However, she avoided typecasting herself by also being capable of voicing other types of characters when needed such as older women, villains, comic reliefs, and even young boys* is one of the most recent and best examples of this part]]. You can easily tell her voice when she's angry.

She can play the piano and write her own music as well. She trained under famed jazz pianist Bob Richardson. She is also in a band called Upperstructure.

Here's her MySpace page

Notable roles by Kate Higgins:

Sakura Haruno and Udon in Naruto
Karin Kurosaki, Retsu Unohana, Nanao Ise, and Lilly in Bleach
C.C. in Code Geass
Tina Armstrong in Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2
Miki Kurosaki in Digimon Savers
Emi Isuzu in Tenjho Tenge
Talho and Linck in Eureka Seven
Saber in Fate/stay night
Jessica Darlin in IGPX
Nanako Kuroi in Lucky Star
Scarlet Witch in Wolverine and the X-Men
Yuri and Seyama in Samurai Champloo
Megumi Oumi, Kolulu, and Laila in Zatch Bell!
Jessica Philomele of Mana Khemia. Like Sakura, she is also a pink-haired Combat Medic.
Tails and Wave in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, as of Sonic Free Riders onwards.
Deadra in the XBLA release of Zeno Clash
Rhyme and Uzuki in The World Ends With You
Subaru Kujou in Sakura Wars: So Long My Love
The female announcer in Marvel vs. Capcom 3
IF in Hyperdimension Neptunia
Zefiris in Scrapped Princess
Angel in Stitch!
Fuka Kazamatsuri in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Hisui in Kagetsu Tohya
Pascal in Tales of Graces

Discography:

The Solid Rock (1998) - Concord Records
The Tide is Low (2002) - Concord Jazz - with Eric Alexander and Steven Bernstein
Upper Structure 6 by 5 (2004)
Bigger than Love (2006) - Concord
Stealing Freedom (2009) - Concord Jazz - with Eric Alexander and Steven Bernstein

Tropes associated with Kate Higgins:

Idol Singer: As its been mentioned before she is a fairly accomplished singer before she went into voice acting. Its certainly a lot easier to notice when not only does she do the speaking voice of Megumi she is also Megumi's singing voice as well.

Tropes frequently associated with characters Kate Higgins has played:

Cool Big Sis
Cry Cute: Sakura and C.C being the big examples.
Pigeonholed Voice Actor: You may think she's typecast into Tsunderes and is comparable to Rie Kugimiya. But no, she's capable to voicing a variety of characters.
Tsundere: Sakura Haruno from Naruto is easily the biggest example but is by no means her only role like that.
- Karin usually slips into Tsundere territory, but seeing as her seiyuu is Rie Kugimiya...