Catherine Taber

Catherine Taber
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Website	cattaber.com

Catherine Taber is an American actress. She is known for voicing Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Lori Loud and Katherine Mulligan on The Loud House.^[1][2] Taber is also known for her role as the protagonist Jesse (female) in Minecraft: Story Mode.

Career

In 2000, Taber made her feature film debut starring alongside Soleil Moon Frye and Wil Wheaton in the coming of age dramedy The Girls' Room, where she and Frye play college roommates with contrasting lifestyles.^[3][4][5]

Taber got her break into video game voice-overs in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic in 2003,^[6] where she played Mission Vao.^[7][8] She voiced Penelo in Final Fantasy XII, for which she was nominated for a National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers (NAVGTR) Award for Supporting Role in a Drama in 2006.^[9]

She was the voice of Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated film and television series that aired on Cartoon Network from 2008 to 2014. Although she auditioned for the part, she credits her video game roles in the Star Wars universe as helping her become a fan and landing the part.^[10] She also voiced Amidala in the related Star Wars video games, as well as the character Vette in Star Wars: The Old Republic. She voiced Princess Leia in the Star Wars: Force Unleashed video games,^[1] and provided voices during production of the now cancelled animated comedy series Star Wars Detours. Meanwhile, in live-action roles, she had a starring role in the horror movie The Morningside Monster which screened at the Phoenix Film Festival in April 2014.^[11]

Outside of science fiction films and video games, she voiced Ginger the Pig in A Pig's Tail, an animated 2012 short film made by Aardman Animations for The Humane Society.^[12][13][14]

In 2016, Taber provided voice work on Nickelodeon's The Loud House, where she voices such characters as Lori Loud, Katherine Mulligan, and Girl Jordan.^[15]

Taber also voiced female Jesse in both seasons of the video game Minecraft: Story Mode (2015–17), which was first released by Telltale Games on October 12, 2015.^[16][17]

In 2021, Taber reprised her role as Katherine Mulligan from The Loud House in the live-action film A Loud House Christmas.^[18]

Philanthropy

Taber runs a charity website called Games for Soldiers where she collects video game donations for U.S. soldiers overseas.^[19][20]

Filmography

Animation

Television series

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2004	Stroker and Hoop	Miss Hoe Cakes		[15]
2008–14, 2020	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Padmé Amidala, others		[20][21][22][15]
2012–2022	Robot Chicken	Various voices		[23]
2012	Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil	Kendall Perkins	Episode: "Rocked"	^[citation needed]
2013	Mad	Various voices
unreleased	Star Wars Detours	Princess Leia		[24]
2015	Bear in Underwear	Quinn		Tweet[25]
2016	Guardians of the Galaxy	Medusa	2 episodes	[15]
2016–present	The Loud House	Lori Loud, additional voices	Main role	[15][26]
2016	Star Wars Rebels	Numa		[22]
2016–2017	Avengers Assemble	Medusa, Vapor	4 episodes	[15]
2017–18	Star Wars Forces of Destiny	Padmé Amidala, Child
2018	Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors	Awkward Girl, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent	Television film	[15]
2019–2022	The Casagrandes	Lori Loud	6 episodes	[27][28][15]
2020	Glitch Techs	Nancy		Episode: "Karate Trainer"[15]
2023–2024	My Adventures with Superman	Silver Banshee	4 episodes	[29]

Film

List of voice performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2008	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Padmé Amidala		[30]
2010	Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!	Tina		[15]
2011	Waltz of the Demon King	Cosette	Short film Festival release	[31][32]
2012	A Pig's Tail	Ginger	Short film for The Humane Society of the United States	[12][13][14]
2014	We Wish You a Merry Walrus	Jangrah, DJ Cadence		[15]
2015	Club Penguin: Monster Beach Party			[15]
	Club Penguin: Halloween Panic!			[15]
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Hangar Control Center Officer, Weapon Technician, additional voices		[33]
2021	The Loud House Movie	Lori Loud		[34][15]
	Seal Team	Seals		[15]
2024	No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie	Lori Loud		[35][15]

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2003	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic	Mission Vao		[6][8][36][15]
2005	X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse	Rogue		[10][15]
2006	Final Fantasy XII	Penelo		[15]
	Baten Kaitos Origins	Lolo		[15]
2008	Star Wars: The Force Unleashed	Princess Leia		[37][36][15]
2009	Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes	Padmé Amidala		[38]
	Resistance: Retribution	Boilers		[15]
2010	Resonance of Fate	Rebecca		[15]
	Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker	Cécile Cosima Caminades		[15]
	Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II	Princess Leia		[37][15]
2011	Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars	Padmé Amidala		[15]
	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Vette		[37][39][40][15]
2012	Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City	Party Girl		[15]
	The Secret World	Rose White, Cassandra King, Karen Olson, Saccharissa		[41]
2013	Marvel Heroes	Rogue, Shanna the She-Devil		[15]
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	April O'Neil		[15][42]
2015	Final Fantasy Type-0 HD	Andoria, others		[15]
	Disney Infinity 3.0	Padmé Amidala		Tweet[43][44]
	Minecraft: Story Mode	Jesse (Female)		[45][15]
2016	Titanfall 2	Monarch Titan OS		Tweet[46]
2017	Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two	Jesse (Female)		[15]
2018	Lego DC Super-Villains	Golden Glider		[15]
2018	Spyro Reignited Trilogy	Zoe		[15]
2021	Psychonauts 2	Norma		[15]
2022	Tactics Ogre: Reborn	Deneb Rove		[15]

Audiobooks

• Gods in Alabama (2005)^[47]
• Star Wars: Empire & Rebellion: Razor's Edge^{[broken anchor]} (2013)^[48]
• Gray Mountain (2014)^[49]
• Star Wars: Queen's Shadow (2019)^[50]
• Star Wars: Queen’s Peril (2020)
• Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original (2020)^[51]
• Star Wars: Queen’s Hope (2022)

Live-action film

List of acting performances in film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2000	The Girls' Room	Grace		[3][4]
2014	A Stitch in Time (for $9.99)	Rebecca	Short film	[37]
2014	The Morningside Monster	Mandy Jenkins	Film festival release	[52][53]
2019	Haven's End	Allison
2021	A Loud House Christmas	Katherine Mulligan	Television film	[18]

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External links

• Official website
• Catherine Taber at IMDb 
• Catherine Taber at Behind The Voice Actors
• Catherine Taber on Twitter