Loredana Nicosia (born May 9th, 1964) is an Italian voice actress. She is a cousin of the four Izzo sisters, who are all voice actresses.
She started to get her first voice roles at 17 (1981), after she moved to Rome to learn voice acting with her uncle Renato Izzo. In the mid-90s, she moved back to Milan, where she still works as a voice actress.
Some of her voice roles include:
Anime
- Kaho Mizuki in Cardcaptor Sakura
- Emi Ogasawara Ghost Sweeper Mikami
- Narrator and Eimi Haneoka in Kaitou Saint Tail
- Mitsuya Sensei in Kodocha
- Clara Popple in Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow
- Emeraude in Magic Knight Rayearth
- Risa Sarashina in Miracle Girls
- Queen of the Witch World in Ojamajo Doremi
- Juri in Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Various characters in Sailor Moon
- Deep Blue in Tokyo Mew Mew (first voice)
- Shizuru Kuwabara in YuYu Hakusho (first voice)
Films – Animation
- Eilonwy in The Black Cauldron
Films — Live-Action
- Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny
- Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction
- Thelma Dickinson in Thelma & Louise
Live-Action TV
- Helen in Drake & Josh
- Hilary Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Claire McLeod in McLeod's Daughters
- Audrey in Twin Peaks
Western Animation
- Predacon ship computer in Beast Wars
- Gadget in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
- Ms. Bitters in Invader Zim
- Smurfette in The Smurfs (1981) (Seasons 3-9)
Her works provide examples of:
- Real-Life Relative: Many examples, at least when she still worked in Rome with her family of voice actors.
- She and her cousin Rossella Izzo voiced the title characters in Thelma & Louise.
- In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Loredana voiced Hilary. Ashley was voiced by Myriam Catania, the daughter of Loredana's cousin Rossella Izzo.
- In The Smurfs (1981), Loredana was Smurfette from season 3 onwards, replacing her cousin Fiamma Izzo (who voiced Smurfette in the first two seasons). Meanwhile, her other cousin Giuppy Izzo was the voice of several other Smurfs in the entire show.
