Rebecca Forstadt

Rebecca Forstadt
Born	Rebecca Lynn Forstadt (1953-12-16) December 16, 1953 Denver, Colorado
Other names	Rebecca Lynn Olkowski, Reba West, Becky Olkowski, Riva West
Occupation	Voice Actress/Blogger

Rebecca Lynn Forstadt (born December 16, 1953), also known as Rebecca Forstadt, is an American voice actress, best known for playing young female roles in various animated series. After studying theater at Orange Coast College, in Costa Mesa, California, Forstadt began her acting career by working at Knott's Berry Farm's Bird Cage Theater, performing melodramas, often as the damsel in distress character. Later, she went to Hollywood where she worked as a wardrobe mistress on such television shows as The White Shadow and Hill Street Blues, as well as for the film S.O.B.. She also spent several years doing live theater in the Los Angeles area. Most notably, she won some recognition for her portrayal of the character Josette in the world premiere of Eugène Ionesco's Tales for People Under 3 Years of Age at the Stages Theatre Center in 1982. She starred in several low-budget movies such as Mugsy's Girls, with Ruth Gordon and Laura Branigan, and Round Numbers with Kate Mulgrew and Samantha Eggar. She also appeared as a television actress in Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, and L.A. Law. 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. Since then, she has voiced hundreds 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.

Voice roles

Anime

• 3x3 Eyes – Pai Ayanokoji (Streamline dub)
• Aesop's Fables – Additional Voices
• The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island – Rebecca Becca Robinson
• Akira – Additional Voices (Animaze dub)
• Armitage: Dual Matrix – Yoko
• Around the World with Willy Fog – Princess Romy
• Back to the Forest – Peter
• Battle Athletes – Young Akari Kanzaki, Child, Student
• Battle Athletes Victory – Elaine Reshpigi
• Blood: The Last Vampire – Sharon
• Bottle Fairy – Tamachan
• Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran – Gin, Sayo Takakagi
• Code Geass – Nunnally Lamperouge, Miya I. Hillminck
• Cowboy Bebop – Boy Witness, Muriel
• Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog – Various
• Destiny of the Shrine Maiden – Corona
• Detatoko Princess – Annie
• De;vadasy – Amala
• Digimon Tamers – Ai
• Dragon Ball (franchise) – Penny, Chaozu/Chiaotzu (Harmony Gold dub)
• Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds – Juliette
• Eiken – Komoe Harumachi, Kyoko Morooka
• Fighting Fantasy Girl Rescue Me: Mave-chan – Fern 2
• Fushigi Yūgi Eikoden – Chosei
• Gate Keepers 21 – Ayane Isuzu
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Tachikoma (Batou's Tachikoma)
• Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics – Various Roles
• Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite – Lemon
• Hand Maid May – Cyberdoll Rena
• Honeybee Hutch – Additional Voices
• Kaze no Yojimbo – Miyuki Tanokura
• Kikaider – Girl with Cat (Ep. 4)
• Kyo Kara Maoh! – Greta
• Little Women – Amy March
• A Little Snow Fairy Sugar – Sugar
• Love Hina – Mei Narusegawa
• Lucky Star – Kanata Izumi, Hikage Miyakawa
• Lupin III: Part II – Alice Henderson (Ep. 27)
• Magic Knight Rayearth – Primera
• Magical Princess Minky Momo – Momo
• Mahoromatic – Chizuko Oe (most of "Something More Beautiful", replacing Melissa Fahn from Episode 1–4, and 12–14)
• Maple Town – Patti Rabbit
• Metropolis – Tima
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Trilogy – Kika
• Noozles – Additional Voices
• Outlaw Star – Iris, Hanmyo
• Planet Busters – Child
• Please Twins! – Kaede Misumi
• Pretty Sammy – Mihoshi Mizutani, Chihiro Kawai (Eps. 2–3)
• Robotech – Lynn Minmei
• Robotech II: The Sentinels – Lynn Minmei
• Rozen Maiden – Suiseiseki
• Rurouni Kenshin – Marimo Ebisu
• Saint Tail – Mari, Mayu, Shoko, Saori
• Samurai Girl Real Bout High School – Miyuki Onizuka
• Space Pirate Captain Harlock – Maia Devlin
• Samurai X – Cory Kamiya (Kaoru Kamiya)
• Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea – Rebecca
• Tenchi Muyo! – Mihoshi Kuramitsu (Tenchi in Tokyo, Tenchi Universe [Toonami censored lines], Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness, Tenchi Forever!, Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki), Matsuno (Tokyo), Ayeka Masaki Jurai (GXP), Erma (GXP)
• Trigun – Elizabeth (Child, Ep. 6), Additional Voices
• Ultra Maniac – Pine
• Vampire Princess Miyu – Morishita, Yuki
• When They Cry – Rika Furude
• Wild Arms: Twilight Venom – Nieza
• The World of the Talisman – Little Girl
• Wowser – Linda
• Zatch Bell! – Rushka (Eps. 40–41)

Live action

• Adventures in Voice Acting – Herself
• Delta Pi – Karen
• Hallo Spencer – Peggy (voice)
• Hill Street Blues – Girl Onlooker
• L.A. Law – Waitress
• Masked Rider – Ocusect (voice)
• Power Rangers: Time Force – Computer Voice
• Power Rangers: Wild Force – Newscaster (uncredited)
• Round Numbers – Receptionist
• St. Elsewhere – Nurse Lucy
• Weather Girl – Kiyomi Ito (voice)

Non-anime

• Hey Arnold! – Cindy/Show Spokeswoman
• Oliver Twist – Additional Voices
• The Little Polar Bear – Anna
• The Mr. Men Show – Little Miss Giggles (credited as "Reba West")
• The Return of Dogtanian – Juliette
• Willy Fog 2 – Princess Romy
• Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville-Eva

Video games

• .hack – Additional Voices
• Galerians: Ash – Spider, Additional Voices (as Reba West)
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Tachikoma
• The Granstream Saga – Arcia (as Reba West)
• Robotech: Battlecry – Lynn Minmei, Izzy Randal
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time – Farleen (uncredited)

Theme Song Performance

• Magical Princess Minky Momo
• Robotech

Production Credits

Script Adpatation

• Argento Soma
• Digimon: Digital Monsters
• Kurogane Communication
• Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective
• Samurai Girl Real Bout High School
• Samurai X
• Wild Arms: Twilight Venom

ADR/Looping

• Antz
• Dr. Dolittle
• The Santa Clause

External links

• Rebecca Forstadt: Voice-Over and Anime Actor
• Rebecca Forstadt at the Internet Movie Database
• Rebecca Forstadt at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia