Erica Lindbeck

Erica Lindbeck (born May 29, 1992) is an American voice actress best known as the third voice of Barbie in the eponymous media franchise, succeeding Kelly Sheridan in 2015 and being succeeded herself by America Young in 2018.

She also works with ADR companies Bang Zoom!, Studiopolis and NYAV Post in voicing characters in English-dubbed anime and video games.

Having graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2014, Lindbeck has voiced numerous anime characters including main characters Kaori Miyazono from Your Lie in April, Eli Ayase from the Love Live! series, Irene Urzaiz in The Asterisk War, Ibara Naruse from Coppelion, Ritsuko Akagi in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Kanae Kotonami from Skip Beat! and Oei from Miss Hokusai.

She and fellow voice actress Mela Lee hosted their own web series called Lindbeck and Lee with local voice actor guests.

In 2018, Lindbeck voiced the character Felicia Hardy/Black Cat in Insomniac's Spider-Man video game.

She later voiced as Ashley in WarioWare Gold.

In 2019, Lindbeck voiced Cassie Cage in NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat 11 video game.

She also voiced Millie and Loona in the Helluva Boss pilot in 2019, but only voiced Loona in the full series in 2020, with Vivian Nixon rather voicing Millie.

As of 2019, she is the voice of Blaze the Cat and Omochao in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

On February 3, 2020, Lindbeck came out as bisexual via Twitter.

Lindbeck dated voice actor Billy Kametz until his death from colon cancer in June 2022.

On July 9, 2023, she left Twitter after criticizing a video for using a AI-generated voice, without her permission, of a character she voiced, Futaba Sakura singing Bo Burnham’s "Welcome to the Internet".

She was harassed by individuals on Twitter following her comments.

The original video was removed from YouTube, but the AI cover was reposted by additional accounts.

Various voice actors, such as Mike Pollock, Josh Keaton, Sean Chiplock, and Yuri Lowenthal, along with cartoonist Vivienne Medrano, stated their support for Lindbeck and their opposition to "use of AI-generated voices".

The account criticized by Lindbeck was later suspended by Twitter for violating the site's terms of service.

She returned to the site and resumed posting a week later.