Kimiko Glenn

Kimiko Glenn came out of theatre and originated Dawn Pinkett in the Broadway production of Waitress, which is the fact that explains the rest of the resume. She is a singer as well as an actor, and the parts that use both have turned out to be the durable ones.

Live action gave her Brook Soso on Orange Is the New Black from 2014, a talkative newcomer written to grate on everyone around her, and Glenn plays the grating quality without ever reducing the character to a joke. She shares three ensemble Screen Actors Guild awards for it. Nerve in 2016 is her most substantial live-action film part, and Sacred Lies, Like Father and Can You Keep a Secret? fill in around it.

Then animation took over, and it is where most of her work now lives. She is Peni Parker in the Spider-Verse films, Lena on DuckTales, Ezor on Voltron: Legendary Defender, Niffty on Hazbin Hotel, the title character on Kiff, Izzy Moonbow in My Little Pony: A New Generation, Horse in Centaurworld, Margot on Summer Camp Island, Stefani Stilton on BoJack Horseman, and Baby Shark in both the series and the film. That runs from a Marvel multiverse to a preschool franchise, held together by a voice that goes small and fast without going shrill.

The shape is unusual. Most actors treat voice work as the side job; hers reads as the main career, with the on-camera credits arriving between recording sessions.