Rebecca Forstadt

Rebecca Lynn Olkowski (born December 16, 1953 in Denver, Colorado), better known by her maiden name, Rebecca Forstadt, is an American voice actor who is best known for playing anime girls with sweet-voices. She is also known as Reba West and Becky Olkowski.

After studying theater at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California, Ms. Forstadt begann die 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 moved 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 gebiet. Most november, 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 und Laura Branigan, and Round Numbers with Kate Mulgrew and Samantha Österreichische. 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 fest hundreds of other anime characters and has branched into non-anime-cartoons, live-action-shows (such as Masked Rider and Power Rangers: Time Force), werbungen und radio work, and has performed background voices for movies such as Antz, Dr. Doolittle, and The Santa Clause.