Rebecca Lynn Olkowski (born December 16, 1953), better known by her maiden name, Rebecca Forstadt, is an American voice actor who is best known for playing anime girls with sweet voices. It helps a lot that she really sounds like that in real life.
Her voice acting breakthrough came when she landed the leading role of Lynn Minmei in the English version of Robotech, the popular anime series of the 1980s; even now, the stage name "Reba West" lives in infamy. Since then, she has voiced dozens of other anime characters and has branched into non-anime cartoons, live-action shows (such as Masked Rider and Power Rangers Time Force), commercials and radio work, and has performed background voices for movies such as Antz, Dr. Dolittle, and The Santa Clause.
Notable roles by Rebecca Forstadt:
- Amy March in Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari
- Becca (changed from Flone) in The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island
- Cyberdoll Rena in Hand Maid May
- Gigi (child) (changed from Minky Momo) in Magical Princess Gigi (OVA Gigi and the Fountain of Youth aka La Ronde in My Dream only; she did not voice the character in the early '80s TV series' dub)
- Hanmyo in Outlaw Star
- Juliette in Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
- Kanata Izumi in Lucky Star
- Lynn Minmei in Robotech
- Marimo Ebisu in Rurouni Kenshin
- Kaoru (Kaori or Cory) Kamiya innote Samurai X.
- Mei Narusegawa in Love Hina
- Mihoshi in Tenchi Muyo! (following Ellen Gerstell's retirement)
- Erma in Tenchi Muyo! GXP
- Miss Giggles in The Mr. Men Show
- Miya I. Hillmick and Nunnally Lamperouge in Code Geass
- Patty Rabbit in Maple Town
- Pookie (Ranatan) in The Brave Frog
- Princess Romy in Around the World with Willy Fog
- Rika Furude in Higurashi: When They Cry
- Rita in Suikoden IV
- Sugar in A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
- Suiseiseki (minus the desu) in Rozen Maiden
- Tachikoma in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Usami/Monomi in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
- Various characters in Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
