Cristina Danielle Valenzuela[1] (born July 11, 1987), known professionally as Cristina Vee, is an American voice actress. She provides voices for English dubs of anime, animation, and video games.
Vee was born on July 11, 1987. She is of Tepehuan, Spanish, and Lebanese descent.[4][5][6] She grew up in Norwalk, CA, near Los Angeles and attended public schools there.[7] One of her early interests was music, and Cristina participated in the Norwalk All City band while in middle school and high school.[7] But because of her passion for acting and animation specifically, her classmates called her "Sailor Moon girl," and Vee would go on to co-found the first anime club at John Glenn High School.[7]
Cristina studied theatre arts and graduated from California State University at Long Beach in 2007 where she took classes with Professor Hugh O'Gorman, who supported her career goals.[7][8][9] Vee has disclosed that she struggled for a period while in college: “Even though I loved studying theater and performing in shows, college was a really hard time for me. Because of depression and panic attacks, there were a couple of years where it was extremely hard for me to go to classes.”[7]
Vee has been involved in several animation projects. In March 2012, she started a Kickstartercrowdfunding campaign to produce an animated music video in conjunction with Cybergraphix Animation and Studio APPP.[34] The main character of the video, "Cristina Veecaloid", was designed by Skullgirls creative director Alex Ahad,[34] Her character was later named Milky and was made into an iOS game called Veecaloid Pop released in 2015.[35][36] In 2012, Vee was involved in voice casting and directing the Skullgirls video game and web series. The game was nominated at the 40th Annie Awards.[37] In 2015, Vee began voicing Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug in the English dub of the animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. The show premiered on Nickelodeon in December 2015,[38][39] and has aired five seasons and 3 specials on Netflix and now Disney+ and Disney Channel. Executive producer Jared Wolfsen said that Vee and the other English dub voice actors brought a lot of energy to their characters, and that Vee herself is just like Ladybug – sweet and kind, and so fun to watch.[40] In 2021 and 2024, Vee voiced Verosika Mayday in the animated web series Helluva Boss, starring in the episodes "Spring Broken", Ozzie's" and "Apology Tour".
In June 2023, it was announced that she would voice Tere and Toñita in the animated series Primos, which premiered in July 2024 on Disney Channel.[41][42]
In addition to performing live as Haruhi Suzumiya, Vee has appeared on screen on various web series, television shows and events. She was a host on Anime TV where she reviewed shows and interviewed people, and appeared on Funimation On Demand and Crunchyroll.[2][46][47] She was a live-action host of IGN's IPL4 and IPL5 League of Legends video game tournaments in Las Vegas.[10][48][49] She is a frequent guest at many anime conventions throughout the United States and worldwide.[50]
Music
Vee is also a professional singer, and has performed the theme songs for two Shantae video games: "Dance Through the Danger" for 2016's Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and "Rise and Shine Shantae" for 2019's Shantae and the Seven Sirens.[51][52] She also performed the theme song "Until I'm Broken" for the 2012 visual novel Loren the Amazon Princess.[53] She performed multiple songs for the mobile gacha game Arknights: "Boiling Blood"[54] in 2019, "ALIVE"[55] in 2021 and "Spark for Dream"[56] in 2022. In 2023, she sang the English dub ending theme for Digimon Adventure:, "KUYASHISAWA TANE".[57]
Vee has uploaded several renditions of anime songs on YouTube.[12] In 2015, she released an EP called Menagerie with DJ Bouche which was part of the Viewster's Omakase subscription service.[58][59] She and YouTuber Nathan Sharp (NateWantsToBattle) released a cover of Charlie Puth's song "Attention" in August 2017.[60] She also signed with an indie record label called Give Heart Records.[61] She also recorded a cover of The Living Tombstone's song "Animal" with 'The 8-Bit Big Band' in an arrangement by Charlie Rosen. In April 2024, Vee released a cover of "Whatever It Takes" from the Prime Video animated series Hazbin Hotel (set in the same fictional universe as Helluva Boss), featuring content creator, cosplayer and voice actress Sofia Gomez and musician Tre Watson.[62]
Personal life
Vee lives in the Los Angeles area.[63] In January 2018, she and musician/voice actor Nathan Sharp announced their engagement,[64] but Sharp later announced in August that the two had separated.[65]
In February 2024, she deactivated her Twitter account due to online harassment after she was falsely accused of being a Zionist.[66]
^"Welcome to Backstage at the Beach !". Backstage at the Beach. Alumni news section. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 18, 2017 – via Weebly. Christina Vee (Velenzuela) ('07) - Voice of the Ladybug on Nickelodeon's Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
^ abcKi (July 27, 2009). Cristina Vee Interview. The Ki Anime Report. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2015 – via YouTube.
^Kimlinger, Carl (January 10, 2009). "The Familiar of Zero". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 19, 2015. Of the English leads, Cristina Valenzuela is the more fortunate, as Louise has Eiji Usatsuka's blindingly cute design to fall back on. Valenzuela also has the good sense to tone down Louise's wilder swings, creating a slightly more mature variation on the character.
^Bruno, Travis (April 22, 2014). "The Familiar of Zero: Season 1 Review – Capsule Computers". Capsule Computers. Australia. Retrieved March 29, 2017. Only Louise, performed by Cristina Valenzuela is passable while every other character, including Saito's voice actor Jonathan Meza is terrible.
^Ohanesian, Liz (October 22, 2012). "How Puella Magi Madoka Magica Shatters Anime Stereotypes". LA Weekly. Retrieved November 19, 2015. Christina Vee, the voice of intriguing transfer student Homura Akemi in the dub, says that her character is the most "complex" she has played yet and that kind of character depth is prevalent throughout the show.
^Martin, Theron (June 24, 2015). "Review – Hyperdimension Neptunia [Limited Edition] –BD + DVD". Anime News Network. Curiously, Bang Zoom! Entertainment regulars Christine Marie Cabanos (as Nepgear) and Cristina Vee (as Compa) are make appearances in the cast.
^Martin, Theron (November 20, 2015). "The Seven Deadly Sins". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 7, 2016. Highlight performancess include Cristina Vee as the pig Hawk, Ben Diskin (Sai in Naruto Shippūden, Death Gun in Sword Art Online 2) as Ban, and Max Mittelman (Inaho in Aldnoah.Zero) as King, but really, even down to bit performances one would be hard-pressed to find even a mediocre delivery.
^Anders, Ella (July 2, 2015). "Part Magical Girl, Part Superhero; Ladybug Arrives State-Side in Fall". BSCkids. Retrieved March 6, 2016. I recall seeing someone say that it is Sailor Moon meets Kim Possible. Considering both series are extremely well-done that is a great thing to hear and shows the great potential this series has. Moreover it is a fair enough stamen. More so when the voice of Mariette, Christina Vee, is also that of Sailor Mars in the new Viz Media dub of the classic anime.
^CyberSportsNetwork (April 10, 2012). Cristina Vee at IPL4. Cyber Sports Network. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2016 – via YouTube.
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