THE LEGENDARY DAWN MICHELLE BENNETT (born December 13, 1992, in Dallas) is a Filipino-Jewish American voice actress who primarily works with Funimation. Born in Texas, she is probably best known as Sash Lilac in Freedom Planet and Kale/Kefla in Dragon Ball Super.
She has worked professionally in Los Angeles, California since December 2019.
You can find her personal website here
and her Tumblr is here. Despite her last name, she is not related to fellow voice actor Jeff Bennett.
Notable roles:
Anime:
- Absolute Duo: Beatrix
- Ace Attorney: Maggey Byrde
- AFTERLOST: Yumiko
- Akebi's Sailor Uniform: Riri Minakami
- Akiba's Trip: Onikuchi
- ALL OUT!!: Ririn
- Asteroid in Love: Ayano Usami
- Astra Lost in Space: Yun-hua Lu
- Attack on Titan: Frieda Reis
- Attack on Titan: Junior High: Frieda Reis
- Bikini Warriors: Dark Elf
- Black Clover: Sister Lily Aquaria
- Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall: Dead Master
- Brave Witches: Sadako Shimohara
- A Certain Magical Index: Princess Carissa
- Chaos;Child: Mio Kunosato
- Code Geass: Akito the Exiled: Kate Novak
- Dance with Devils: Ritsuka Tachibana
- Divine Gate: Aegis
- Dragon Ball Super: Kale, Keflanote and "Fairy C"note
- EDENS ZERO: Milon
- Eld Live: Misuzu Sonokata
- Fairy Tail: Frosch
- Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry: Riana
- Fena: Pirate Princess: O'Malley
- First Love Monster: Chiaki Yokouchi
- Gamers! (2015): Niina Oiso
- GARO: The Animation: Esmeralda
- The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?): Zeno
- Gleipnir: Hikawa
- Hanebad!: Nagisa Aragaki
- Hundred: Karen Kisaragi
- Hyouka: Shoko Yuasa
- If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die: Reo Igarashi
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Donatella Una
- Kado: The Right Answer: Sophie Fukami
- KanColle: Hiei
- Keijo!!!!!!!!: Miku Kobayakawa
- Konohana Kitan: Satsuki
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These: Jessica Edwards
- Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Mitama Yakumo
- Maria the Virgin Witch: Dorothy
- Masamune-kun's Revenge: Kikune Kiba
- The Misfit of Demon King Academy: Emilia Ludowell
- Noragami Aragoto: Akira "Yama" Yamashita
- Overlord (2012): Bukubukuchagama
- Puzzle & Dragons X: Haru
- Restaurant to Another World: Faldania
- The Rising of the Shield Hero: Eclair Seaetto
- Sakura Quest: Yuika
- Seven Mortal Sins: Satan
- Shomin Sample: Sumire Kiryu
- Show by Rock!!: A
- Sky Wizards Academy: Rico Flamel
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: Rus
- Super Cub: Reiko
- Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town: Micona Zol
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Shizue Izawa
- Three Leaves, Three Colors: Asako Kondo, Nishiyama's Cat
- Ultimate Otaku Teacher: Kiriko Shikishima
- Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knights: La Hire
- Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: Paimon
- Wonder Egg Priority: Neiru Aonuma
- YU-NO: Ayumi Arima
- Yuri!!! on Ice: Isabella Yang
- Zombie Land Saga: Tae Yamada
Video Games
- Cookie Run Kingdom: Twizzly Gummy Cookie and Canelé Cookie
- Cris Tales: Rhallus
- Fire Emblem Heroes: Ullr
- Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes and Fire Emblem Heroes: Female Shez
- Freedom Planet and Freedom Planet 2: Sash Lilac
- NieR Re[in]carnation: Yurie
- Smite: Celestial Isis and Blight Guardian Athena
- Tales of Luminaria: Michelle Bouquet
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel: Mariabell Crois
- Wargroove: Tenri
- Yandere Simulator: Asu Rito, Muja Kina, Hanako Yamada, Aoi Ryugoku
- Ys IX: Monstrum Nox: Aprilis
Web Original
- Chikn Nuggit: Sody Pop
- DEATH BATTLE!: Jeanne, Naruto Uzumaki
- Epithet Erased: Zora Salazar
- Pokémon Evolutions: Lusamine
- RWBY: An Ren, Elm Ederne
Dawn M. Bennett and her works provide examples of:
- Action Girl: The vast majority of her characters tend to be capable fighters.
- Contralto of Danger: Some of her roles has Bennett deepen her vocals to add some menace or authority from her characters. The same case occurs when she's singing rock music.
- I Don't Know Mortal Kombat: For a while, she admitted to not being very good at playing Lilac, the character she voiced in Freedom Planet. Thankfully, she got a lot better with many panel appearances with Galaxy Trail.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Despite her work as a voice actress in her own right, she confessed in a stream with Some Call Me Johnny that she has a hard time not fangirling with some of the veterans at Funimation.
- Nice Girl: Many of her characters tend to be sweet girls.
- Old Shame: A downplayed example, but she's claimed that if there was anything about her work as Lilac she could re-record, it would be the character's screams when she was captured by Lord Brevon.
- Promoted Fangirl: She grew up loving Dragon Ball during their youth, and even voiced a one-off role (Fairy C) during Super's early Funimation days. That being said, she also really likes The Incredible Hulk for the same amount of time. Once the Universe Survival Saga dub rolled around, she managed to snag up Kale, a role that combined both her interests into one. So much that she commissioned a convention art print combining both ideas into a Dragon Ball-inspired homage to Hulk's debut comic cover.
- Purple Is Powerful: Female!Shez & Sash Lilac are the prominent examples. The former is due to her hair color. The latter has a meaningful name why she is colored Lilac.
