Describe Cristina Valenzuela here, or I'll devour you!
Cristina Danielle Valenzuela (born July 11, 1987), better known as Cristina Vee, is an American voice actress of mixed Mexican, Lebanese and Native American heritage born in Norwalk, California. She's been pretty much every medium that requires voice acting. In video games, she's best known as Noel from BlazBlue. In anime, she's best known as Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Killua from Hunter × Hunter. And in cartoons, Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug.
She caught the attention of dubbing studio Bang Zoom! Entertainment from a voice acting panel at Anime Expo 2004, an anime convention in Southern California. Since then, Bang Zoom! has continually invited Vee to do voice work in anime, foreign films, and commercials. She has appeared at conventions throughout the United States where she sometimes sings live concerts (this apparently landed her the live action role as ASOS Brigade leader
in Haruhi Suzumiya season 2). Vee's also one of the co-hosts of Anime Olympics and season 2 of Anime TV. At one point (the video has since been made private), she dubbed a BlazBlue webcomic, voicing... who else? Noel. As you can guess, she's One of Us, and that's not even mentioning that she wants a shot at voicing Sally Acorn. She has been working as the voice director of Skullgirls.
Despite her new start, she quickly racked up popularity amongst the new age of voice actors during The New '10s, making her a fan favorite and most of her appearances in many projects will be met with much rejoicing. Yes, that's right, in a quick moment, she started to rival the popularities of accomplished ones, the likes of Johnny Yong Bosch, Michelle Ruff, Stephanie Sheh, etc. Since then she has been constantly improving her image professionally and shows no signs of slowing down her career. She was engaged to musician/voice actor Nathan Sharp of NateWantsToBattle, but they broke up months later.
In addition to her personal website, she has a Formspring account. Mind you that since she's really busy on her voice acting work, she may not have time to reply to any submitted questions at her Formspring account. But she does reply to them, eventually. She also has a Twitter account as well.
She has her own "Vocaloid", in Veecaloid Pop
Cristina knows about this trope page. And she does give her approval.
Tikki, Tropes On!
Anime
- Aika Sumeragi in AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission
- Alicia Rue in Sword Art Online
- Amaryllis Astaroth in Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
- Ami Enan in Lupin III: Part 5
- Aoi Ichijō in High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World
- Aria Kurenaino in Occultic;Nine
- Athena Asamiya in The King of Fighters: Destiny
- Camilla Pareto in The Asterisk War
- Charlotta and Ferry in Granblue Fantasy and Shadowverse
- Compa in Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation (first role with Funimation)
- Crystal in Carole & Tuesday
- Cubone, Red's Nidoran♂, and a Lass in Pokémon Origins
- Cyborg 003 / Françoise Arnoul in Cyborg 009: Call of Justice
- Darkness/Lalatina Dustiness Ford in KonoSuba
- Ebisu in Dorohedoro
- Elsa Granhiert in Re:Zero
- Fiona in Last Hope (2018)
- Fitoria in The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Fujiko Mine in Lupin III: Gravestone of Daisuke Jigen
- Hawk in The Seven Deadly Sins
- Homura Akemi and Walpurgisnacht in Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Also reprises this role for a Celebrity Endorsement gag in The Abridged Series.
- Izumi Shimomura in Ajin
- Kahvel in I'm Standing on a Million Lives
- Kanaria from Rozen Maiden: Träumend
- Karla Milla-Foden in ID-0
- Kasha Graham in Tiger & Bunny: The Rising
- Kicha in Children of the Whales
- Killua Zoldyck in Hunter × Hunter (2011 version)
- Konishi in Charlotte
- Kotori Minami in Love Live!
- Lafter Frankland and young Gaelio Bauduin in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
- Layla in Pokémon the Series: Black & White: Rival Destinies
- Lenny in Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?
- Louise in The Familiar of Zero (season 1 only)
- Makoto Oono in High Score Girl (season 2 only)
- Mana Itosu/Coral Merrow in Accel World
- Maria von Riessfeld in The Asterisk War
- Meiko Mochizuki in Digimon Adventure tri.
- Melissa in Tweeny Witches
- Miki Makimura in Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman, DEVILMAN crybaby (where she also voiced Tako) and Re: Cutie Honey
- Mio Akiyama in K-On!
- Moe Fukuoka in Wanna Be the Strongest in the World!
- Mosquito Girl in One-Punch Man
- Morgiana in Magi: Labyrinth of Magic
- Nagisa Saito in Squid Girl (Season 1 only, Darrin'd by Stephanie Wittels in Sentai Filmworks' dub of Season 2)
- Nanoha Takamachi in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Noel Vermillion, Nu-13, and Lambda-11 in BlazBlue: Alter Memory (Role Reprises)
- Pandora in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
- Peggy Sue in Belle (2021)
- Pino in My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
- Ran in Heavenly Delusion
- Rayet Areash in Aldnoah.Zero
- Rei Hino/Sailor Mars in Sailor Moon (Viz Media/Studiopolis dub) and Sailor Moon Crystal
- Rei Hououmaru in Kill la Kill
- Reina Kousaka in Liz and the Blue Bird
- Rikka Sakuragawa in In/Spectre
- Riruka Dokuragamine in Bleach (first anime role with Studiopolis)
- Rory Takakura in B-Daman Crossfire
- Ruri Hijiribe in Durarara!!
- Sachi and Grania in Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne
- (Real) Saji Genpou in Ikki Tousen: Great Guardian
- Sakura Matou in the Fate Series (replacing Sherry Lynn from the 2006 version)
- Saniwa in Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu
- Saphentite Neikes in Monster Girl Doctor
- Young Satoru Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen
- Shelly in Pokémon Generations
- Shizuka Hattori in Strike Witches: The Movie as well as the 501st Take Off! retelling of said movie and third season of the main series
- Sister in Magical Sempai
- Suyako and Ginko in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Takako Kobuchizawa in A Place Further than the Universe
- Takami Akai in GunBuster
- Swan in Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
- Ultima in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Takeru, Kukuri and Erika Kazama Flick in B: The Beginning
- Tiephoyd in Cannon Busters
- Viola in One Piece
- Vivy/Diva in Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song
- Yamai Ren in Komi Can't Communicate
- Yayoi Kusakabe in High-Rise Invasion
- Princess Yohime in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
- Yuko Tani in Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, and Godzilla: The Planet Eater
- Yuriko Nishinotouin in Kakegurui
Film
- Alisa Boskonovitch in Tekken: Blood Vengeance (Heck, she cosplayed as her)
- Anzu Yamazaki in GANTZ:O
- Marinette Dupain-Cheng / Ladybug in Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie
- Roxie the Rock Star Rubber Band in Bands on the Run
Video Games
- 5-Volt and 13-Amp in WarioWare Gold
- Alice in Mary Skelter
- Amaterasu and Discordia in Smite
- Annette and Lindis in Arena of Valor
- Arabelle, Marina, and Scarlet in Guardian Tales
- Bennett and Xingqiu in Genshin Impact
- Bobonote in Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen
- Bugsy, Phoebe, and Marnie in Pokémon Masters
- Charlotta and Ferry in Granblue Fantasy Versus
- Charmallow, Cheezer, Inchwrap, Paletoss, Snakpod, and Snaquiri in Bugsnax
- Celia Arvier in Tales of Luminaria
- Cerebella and Aeon in Skullgirls (she also did the voice direction!)
- Cinque in Final Fantasy Type-0
- Compa and Croire in the Neptunia series
- Dark Lord in Relayer
- Deborah Kim in Friday the 13th: The Game
- Edelgard in the Fire Emblem: Three Houses E3 2018 trailer
- Elma in Trillion: God of Destruction
- Enero and Ibuki (Season Five) in Street Fighter V
- Enterprise in Victory Belles
- Estra in MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death
- Ezana Qlinka and Lyla Viscraft in Triangle Strategy
- Fire Emblem:
- Tatiana in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
- Nerþuz, Tatiana, Lachesis and Athena in Fire Emblem Heroes
- Merrin in Fire Emblem Engage
- Four in Drakengard 3
- Frost Queen Cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom
- Fuuka in Rune Factory 5
- Hasebe and Kaori in River City Girls
- Hella in Path to Nowhere
- Hestu in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
- Ionasal kkll Preciel in Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star
- Ionela and Alma Shilage in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
- Kloe Rinz in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and Cold Steel IV
- Lianshi in Dynasty Warriors 7
- Mahina in Octopath Traveler II
- Majolene in Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny
- Megumi Yakushiji in 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
- Mercedes in MapleStory
- Milk and Ume Ochazuke in Food Fantasy
- Milky in Veecaloid Pop
- Monaca in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
- Musashi (female) in Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido
- Nell in Advance Wars
- Nezaria Netherland in The Witch and the Hundred Knight
- Noel Vermillion, Nu-13, Lambda-11, and Mu-12 in BlazBlue
- Nonoka in Stella Glow
- Nova in Tales of Xillia 2
- Ophilia Clement in Octopath Traveler
- The "Peppy" Female Voice option for the Player Character in Xenoblade Chronicles X
- Pippin and Lola in Fairy Fencer F
- Razmi in the Prototype version of Indivisible
- Rena in Elsword
- Riven in League of Legends
- Saki, Sarapatra, Filament, and Sakia Lumei in Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel
- Shantae and Risky Boots in Shantae, as of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, and Harmony in Shantae and the Seven Sirens
- Skadi, Skadi the Corrupting Heart, and Gummy in Arknights
- Sylphy in Avalon Code
- Tamamo-no-Mae in Kessen! Heian-kyō
- Tzitzi in Indivisible
- Tulin in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Velvet Crowe in Tales of Berseria (and Tales of Zestiria the X)
- Vera Oberlin and Joy in Monster Prom
- Vibrio in Vitamin Connection
- Waka Kumon in Phantom Breaker: Omnia
- Wilbell in Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk
- Ying in Paladins
- Ys:
- Karna and Bami in Ys: Memories of Celceta
- White Cat/Krysha Pendleton in Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
- Yuma Mashiro in Zanki Zero
Other
- Ariel Val'Sarghress in the official Anniversaries Videos of Drowtales (the first of which, interestingly enough, predates just about all of her other roles on this page)
- Band Drummer in Traci Hines' webseries Life Lessons From A Hipster Mermaid (Episode 3: "GO FOR THE COFFEE, STAY FOR THE BAND")
- Carmen Major in Rainbow High
- Dustbunny in Chris Niosi's webseries TOME
- Elely in the English dub of Wakfu note
- Fwench Fwy the Dragon in Kyra Kupetsky's Chikn Nuggit shorts on Twitter and TikTok.
- Jay-Ten and Little Voice in Steven Universe
- Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug in Miraculous Ladybug
- Matilda on the English dub of Paper Port
- Mirta on The Casagrandes
- Robyn Hill in RWBY
- Sea Star on Blaze and the Monster Machines
- Various cards note in Shadowverse
- Verosika Mayday in Helluva Boss
- Vesper Leigh Vasquez / Coeus Cerberus Black Ranger in Power Rangers Hyperforce
- Violetta in the English dub of Violetta (which the dub falls under No Export for You in the US)
- Virgil on Pickle and Peanut
- Xochi Jalapeno in Victor and Valentino
- Young Donald Duck in DuckTales (2017) (replacing the late Russi Taylor)
- Spot in Lalaloopsy Girls: Welcome to LALA Prep School
ADR staff:
ADR Director
Cristina Valenzuela and her works provide examples of:
- Boyish Short Hair: Sported a pixie cut from 2014 to 2017.
- The Cast Showoff: She got a fair amount of attention doing song covers on her YouTube channel, and her professional work occasionally makes use of that experience.
- In the Viz Media dub of the 54th episode of Sailor Moon R, Vee sings in-character as Rei for the song "Eternal Melody". She also translated the lyrics.
- She also got to sing the song "Dance Through the Danger" for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.
- Her guest role in Helluva Boss also has her in-character as Verosika Mayday singing the song "Vacay to Bonetown".
- Creator's Favorite: Since the work was one of her motivations in becoming a voice actor in the first place, getting the role of Rei Hino/Sailor Mars in Sailor Moon was one of her biggest gigs. Likewise, she's said in interviews to find playing Marinette to be one of the most enjoyable projects she's done.
- Magical Girl: Rei Hino, Nanoha Takamachi, Homura Akemi, and Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
- Playing Against Type: Invoked with:
- Monaca who comes off as the typical Nice Girl until she starts throwing childish and whiny tantrums and eventually reveals that she's the true Big Bad and a Faux Affably Evil Sociopath to boot. Christina gets extra kudos for pulling off Monaca's frightening tantrums and personality a little too well.
- In The Seven Deadly Sins, she plays a talking male pig named Hawk.
- Her casting as Killua has been met with this reaction, since it's the first notable instance of her being cast as a human boy.
- Velvet Crowe. While she's no stranger to Broken Bird characters, Velvet would be the first where her character is a full-blown Anti-Hero, with elements of a Byronic Hero, and rage-induced hellbent on revenge.
- Darkness is what happens if Velvet Crowe's voice and Nu-13's Combat Sadomasochist tendencies did a Fusion Dance.
- Verosika Mayday is one of the crudest, rudest, and most aggressively sexually charged characters on Cristina's resume, being a very foul-mouthed and horny succubus who makes a literal career out of having sex with numerous people, with the closest thing to sexual aggression she usually portrays outside this role being the Combat Sadomasochism of Darkness and Nu-13
- And then we have Yamai Ren, a yandere who is only slightly better than Nu-13, but is still nonetheless a Psycho Lesbian who is creepy towards Komi and violently hostile towards Tadano.
- Promoted Fangirl:
- She's a huge Sailor Moon fan, and fandubbed the opening theme and "Moon Revenge". Eventually, she gets to be Sailor Mars in the new Viz dub of Sailor Moon. Nice. She also stated at Katsucon 2015 that she is especially looking forward to dub the Sailor Moon R movie (which has "Moon Revenge").
- She also was part of the cast called back for Sailor Moon Crystal.
- Worked with Pied Piper to license, Kickstart, and dub the anime adaptation of Skip Beat!, a show she's a massive fan of.
- She expressed her desire to join RWBY via a tweet back in 2016. She was cast as Robyn Hill in Volume 7.
- She's a huge Sailor Moon fan, and fandubbed the opening theme and "Moon Revenge". Eventually, she gets to be Sailor Mars in the new Viz dub of Sailor Moon. Nice. She also stated at Katsucon 2015 that she is especially looking forward to dub the Sailor Moon R movie (which has "Moon Revenge").
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor: At the start of her voice acting career, she is often the "sweet girl" (which is reflected with her earlier role as Nanoha). Later in her career, she's often typecasted into Broken Bird characters instead such as Homura, Riven, Sakura, Velvet, and Noel. Though that doesn't mean she no longer gets "sweet girl" roles again, sometimes both mix.
- Stage Names: She's alternately credited as Cristina Valenzuela or the stage name Cristina Vee, the latter being more common and the name she's better known by. In November 2020, she announced that, to honor her ancestry, she would be dropping the Cristina Vee name and go exclusively by her real surname.
- Star-Making Role: Though she started doing anime voice work since 2007, her roles as Mio Akiyama in K-On! and Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica helped solidify her stardom. For video games, her roles as Noel from the BlazBlue series have got her name recognized in the community.
- Shrinking Violet: As Mio and Noel.
- Tsundere: As Louise, Riruka Dokuragamine, and Rei Hino (aka Sailor Mars).
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: She can go from voicing little girls, to voicing sweet high-pitched teens, to voicing lower-pitched badasses, to voicing a boy, and even Donald Duck.
