Megumi Hayashibara is a veteran Japanese voice actress and singer who voices Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, one of the most recognized castings of the 1990s anime boom.
Amanda Winn-Lee is an American voice actress and ADR director most widely recognized for voicing Rei Ayanami in Neon Genesis Evangelion, part of a broader anime-dubbing career that also includes writing and directing scripts through her own company, Gaijin Productions.
Greg Ayres is an American voice actor born in 1968 who is well known in anime dubbing circles, and he voiced Kaworu Nagisa in the ADV Director's Cut version of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Kent Williams is an American voice actor known for English-language anime dubs, who lent his voice to Kozo Fuyutsuki across the Rebuild of Evangelion film series.
Monica Rial, an American voice performer active since the late 1990s, built her career writing and recording English adaptation scripts for Funimation, Crunchyroll, and Sentai Filmworks, with credits tied to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Phil Parsons is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Ray Chase is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Ryan Bartley is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Tetsuya Iwanaga is a voice actor who voices Kensuke Aida, one of Shinji Ikari's closest classmates, in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Yuriko Yamaguchi is a Japanese voice actress who has played Ritsuko Akagi, the level-headed NERV scientist, across the entire Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, from the original television series through the Rebuild of Evangelion films.
Aaron Krohn is a voice actor who voices Ryoji Kaji, Misato's undercover-agent friend, in the English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Aaron Roberts is a voice actor who voices Hideki Tama in the English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Abby Trott is an American voice actress connected to the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. She built her career through Bang Zoom! Entertainment after early experience in Japanese puppet theater, and is more widely known for lead roles including Nezuko in the Demon Slayer franchise, Momo Ayase in Dandadan, and Yoh Asakura in the Shaman King remake.
Ai Shimizu is a Japanese voice actress connected to Neon Genesis Evangelion, born in 1981. Beyond voice work she has recorded as a singer under the Lantis label and has taken occasional professional wrestling matches since late 2013; her frequent anime collaborations with fellow actress Mai Nakahara include DearS and My-HiME.
Akio Otsuka is a veteran Japanese actor credited within the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. Elsewhere his deep, calm voice is far better known: he originated Solid Snake for the Metal Gear series, played Batou in the Ghost in the Shell franchise, and voices Blackbeard on One Piece; he also serves as the standard Japanese dub voice for stars like Samuel L. Jackson and Denzel Washington, and is the son of actor Chikao Ohtsuka.
Akira Ishida is a Japanese voice actor who provides Kaworu Nagisa's voice in Neon Genesis Evangelion, one of many landmark anime roles across a career now spanning more than three decades.
Alejandro Saab is an American voice actor and VTuber (channel name CyYu) connected to the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. His wider dub work includes Gabimaru in Hell's Paradise, Tatsuya Shiba from The Irregular at Magic High School, and Sae Itoshi on Blue Lock, plus game roles such as Cyno in Genshin Impact and Jing Yuan in Honkai: Star Rail.
Allison Keith is an American voice actress best known for voicing Misato Katsuragi across the ADV Films dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion, a role she later reprised for the Rebuild of Evangelion films.
Amy Seeley is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Anri Katsu is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Benjamin Diskin is a veteran American voice actor with decades of credits across animation, anime dubs, and video games, and he lent his voice to the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise.
Bijou Vann is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Bill Jenkins is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Billy Kametz was an American voice and stage performer whose anime and video game dubbing career began in 2016 and included work connected to the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise; he died from colorectal cancer in 2022 at age 35.
Brett Weaver is an American voice actor, born in 1966, whose anime dubbing career began at ADV Films, the Texas-based studio that produced the original English-language dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Brina Palencia is an American voice actress whose extensive English-dub résumé includes major anime roles plus on-camera television work, with credits reaching back to the mid-2000s.
Caitlin Glass is an American voice actress, ADR director, and script writer who has worked on English versions of Japanese anime and video games since the mid-2000s, with credits tied to the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise.
Carol Amerson is a voice actor who worked on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Carrie Keranen is an American voice actress and voice director best known in the Neon Genesis Evangelion fandom for playing Misato Katsuragi in the 2019 Netflix English dub.
Casey Mongillo is an American voice actor whose most prominent anime credit is voicing Shinji Ikari, the protagonist of Netflix's 2019 English redub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Cherami Leigh is an American voice actress, born in 1988, who has spent much of her career voicing English-dub versions of anime shows, movies, and video games.
Christine Marie Cabanos is a Filipino American voice actress who lends her voice to Maya Ibuki in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Clifford Chapin is an American actor and director for anime dubs, born January 29, 1988, best known to Evangelion fans as the voice of Kaworu Nagisa in the show's 2019 Netflix redub.
Colleen Clinkenbeard works as an American voice actress and ADR director, and her Evangelion credit is Ritsuko Akagi in the FUNimation dub of the Rebuild of Evangelion films.
D. C. Douglas is an American character actor who lends his voice to Keel Lorenz, leader of SEELE, in the Netflix redub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Daman Mills is an American voice actor working across anime and game dubs, and he plays Kaworu Nagisa throughout the Rebuild of Evangelion film series.
Daniel MK Cohen is an American actor and voice actor who plays Makoto Hyuga in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Deneen Melody is an American voice actress and dancer who voices Mari Illustrious Makinami across the Rebuild of Evangelion films.
Erica Lindbeck is an American voice actress born in 1992 who provides the voice of Ritsuko Akagi in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Felecia Angelle is a prolific American voice actress and dub director whose Evangelion work includes Sakura Suzuhara in Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo.
Fumihiko Tachiki is a Japanese voice actor and narrator born in 1961, and he originates the role of Gendo Ikari in the Japanese-language version of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Greg Chun works as an American voice actor and musician, and Evangelion fans know him as Ryoji Kaji in the show's Netflix redub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Greg Dulcie is an American voice actor based at FUNimation Entertainment who voiced Koji Takao in the English dub of the Evangelion Rebuild film Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, part of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise.
Guil Lunde is an American voice actor who worked with ADV Films and voiced Kozo Fuyutsuki, NERV's deputy commander, in the original English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Hiro Yūki is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo who has worked in anime, video games, and Japanese dubbing since the late 1980s. He voices Makoto Hyuga, a NERV bridge operator, in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Hōchū Ōtsuka is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with talent agency Crazy Box who voiced Shiro Tokita in Neon Genesis Evangelion's seventh episode.
J. Michael Tatum, an American voice performer who also works behind the mic as an ADR director and script writer, voiced Ryoji Kaji in the Rebuild of Evangelion film Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.
J. P. Karliak is an American voice actor and comedian who voiced NERV deputy commander Kozo Fuyutsuki in the 2019 Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Jake Eberle is an American voice actor and sound professional based in Los Angeles who voiced Koji Takao in the Amazon Prime Video English dub of the Rebuild of Evangelion films.
Jason C. Lee, credited under the stage name Jaxon Lee, is an American voice actor who voiced NERV bridge operator Shigeru Aoba in the original ADV Films English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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