Cassandra Lee Morris

Cassandra Lee Morris (born April 19, 1982) is an American voice actress.

After starting her career as a teenage program host for an educational video series called Real World Science, she worked as a journalist in New York City and Los Angeles writing for local newspapers and programs as well as numerous fashion and style blogs such as About.com, David's Bridal and Patch.com.

She got into voice-over starting with Alice and then Yubel in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and has since worked on a number of animation, anime shows and audiobooks.

Her major roles include Ritsu Tainaka in K-On!, Suguha Kirigaya/Leafa in Sword Art Online, Sue in Doraemon, Aoi Fukasaku in Coppelion, Kyubey in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Taiga Aisaka in Toradora and Pelops II in Godzilla Singular Point.

In video games, she voices Fie Claussell and Alfin Reise Arnor in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series, Totooria "Totori" Helmold in Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland, Edea Lee in Bravely Default, Lin Lee Koo in Xenoblade Chronicles X, Operator 6O in Nier: Automata, Morgana in the Persona 5 series, and Aoi Asahina and Angie Yonaga in the Danganronpa series.

Morris was born on April 19, 1982 in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Trumbull.

She grew up in an Italian-American family.

She recalls her first-ever voice-over role as recording for an English as a Second Language learning cassette when she was 12.

Her parents would occasionally pull her out of school to take her to auditions in New York City.

When she was in middle school at around age 14, she was involved in an educational video series called Real World Science where she served as the on-screen program host as well as provide narration for the science videos being presented.

She described her experience as good practice reading scripts, and noted that the producers at Mazzarella Media kept calling her back to do more videos, so she continued working on those through high school and college, where she would later help the company in production and script writing for other educational videos.

She got involved in journalism when she wrote for the local newspaper The Trumbull Times where she covered high school sports.

She graduated in 2004 from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.

In New York, she wrote for US Weekly magazine, New York Press, The Aquarian and Metro New York.

She also worked as an associate producer and blogger on Cool in Your Code, a local television show that covered a different New York City zip code every episode.

In 2010, she moved to the Los Angeles area, wrote for Patch.com, served as a blog writer and editor in the Prom and Formal Dances at About.com, and wrote blog articles for David's Bridal.

While in New York, she got involved in voice acting at 4Kids Entertainment and NYAV Post with English parts in anime dubs.

Her first ever anime role was in Magical Doremi, and her first anime television role was with Yu-Gi-Oh! GX where she voiced Alice, and later Yubel, which was her first major anime role.

In an interview she said that she would get instructions on how to voice the character based on a brief description and sometimes a picture of the character.

Prior to voicing in anime, she was only aware of a few titles such as Dragon Ball Z which her brother liked, and Sailor Moon which her friends liked.

She said "It's surreal because I took the original role (in Yu-Gi-Oh) because I liked the character and, of course, as an actor you want to work, but it came with this bonus of all these fans. It's amazing to be part of such a close-knit excited community."

She would later voice in Pokémon as well as cartoons such as Winx Club and Chaotic.

Morris would continue voice acting after moving to Los Angeles.

In 2011 she got a starring role of Ritsu Tainaka, the drummer and outspoken character in the girl band anime K-On!.

In 2011, she voiced the title character Totooria "Totori" Helmold, an alchemist, in the role-playing video game Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland.

In 2012, she voiced Kyubey, the mascot character in the magical girl drama Madoka Magica; she says the Kyubey was one of the most controversial anime characters, and made people react strongly.

In Sword Art Online, released in 2013, she voices Leafa.

The show was broadcast on the Toonami block of Adult Swim, and ran for two seasons.

In the romantic comedy Toradora, released in 2014, she voices Taiga Aisaka, the lead heroine who pairs up with a guy in order to court his best friend while he courts Taiga's best friend.

She liked playing the tsundere personality of Taiga.

The show was one of the first anime to be dubbed and released by NIS America.

In 2014, she voiced Sue in Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future, the English dub of Doraemon which broadcast on Disney XD.

In the anime film Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror, she voiced Teo, the co-lead to the title character.

She also voiced the title character in Patema Inverted, a film where her character discovers a world where everything is upside down and gravity causes her to fall to the ceiling of a room.

Other anime film roles include Akiko in Time of Eve, Noriko in Welcome to the Space Show, and Natsuki in Psychic School Wars.

In cartoons, she provided the voice of Lola, one of the three main kids in the cartoon series Angelo Rules which was run on Cartoon Network as well as Netflix.

Morris voiced Bubbles in the Netflix cartoon series Popples, based on The Toys of the same name.

She provided the voice of Frankie Stein in the Monster High reboot film, Welcome to Monster High.

She also provided the voice of Diaspro in the sixth season of Winx Club, replacing the singer Ariana Grande, who previously voiced Diaspro in the second one-hour special as well as the third and fifth seasons.

She voiced the role of Saki Mikajima in the Durarara!! series which aired on Cartoon Network and which had a sequel in 2015.