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| Born | Rebecca Forstadt December 16, 1953 Denver, Colorado |
| Other name(s) | Rebecca Lynn Olkowski, Reba West, Becky Olkowski |
| Occupation | Voice Actor |
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, in Costa Mesa, CA, Ms. Forstadt began 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 area. Most notably, 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 and Laura Branigan, and Round Numbers with Kate Mulgrew and Samantha Eggar. She also appeared as a television actress in Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, and LA 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 voiced dozens of other anime characters and has branched into non-anime cartoons, live-action shows (such as Masked Rider and Power Rangers: Time Force), commercials and radio work, and has performed background voices for movies such as Antz, Dr. Doolittle, and The Santa Clause.
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Notable Roles
Anime Roles
- 3x3 Eyes - Pai Ayanokoji
- Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari (Tales of Little Women) - Amy March
- Armitage: Dual Matrix - Yoko Oldman
- Around the World with Willy Fog - Princess Romy
- Battle Athletes - Young Akari Kanzaki, Child, Student
- Birth - Child
- Blood: The Last Vampire - Sharon
- Bottle Fairy - Tamachan
- Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran - Gin
- Code Geass - Nunnally Lamperouge
- Devadasy - Amala
- Dragon Ball (franchise)- Chaozu/Chiaotzu (Harmony Gold dub)
- Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime) - Ai
- Eiken (manga) - Komoe Harumachi, Kyoko Morooka
- Fushigi Yūgi Eikoden - Chosei
- Gate Keepers 21 - Ayane Isuzu
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikoma (Batou's Tachikoma)
- Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics - Various Roles
- Hand Maid May - Cyberdoll Rena
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Rika Furude
- Kannazuki No Miko - Corona
- Kikaider - Girl with cat
- Kyo Kara Maoh! - Greta
- Little Snow Fairy Sugar - Sugar (credited as "Reba West")
- Love Hina - Mei Narusegawa
- Love Hina Again - Mei Narusegawa
- Lucky Star - Kanata Izumi (credited as Rebecca Olkowski)
- Magic Knight Rayearth - Primera (credited as "Reba West")
- Mahoromatic - Chizuko Oe (most of "Something More Beautiful", replacing Melissa Fahn from Episode 1-4, and 12-14)
- Maple Town - Patti Rabbit
- Metropolis (2001 film) - Tima
- Noozles - Additional Voices
- Outlaw Star - Iris, Hanmyo
- Please Twins! - Kaede Misumi
- Pretty Sammy OVA - Mihoshi Mizutani (episodes 2 and 3)
- Robotech - Lynn Minmei (credited as "Reba West")
- Rozen Maiden - Suiseiseki
- Samurai X(Sony Dub) - Cory Kamiya(Kaoru Kamiya)
- Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea - Rebecca
- Tenchi Muyo! - Mihoshi Kuramitsu (Tenchi in Tokyo, Tenchi Universe [Toonami edit], Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness, Tenchi Forever!, Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki), Ayeka Jurai (GXP), Erma (GXP)
- The Return of Dogtanian - Juliette
- Vampire Princess Miyu TV - Morishita, Yuki
- Zatch Bell! - Rushka (Episodes 40-41)
- The World of the Talisman - Little Girl
- Wowser - Linda
Other animated roles
- The Return of Dogtanian - Juliette
Live Action Roles
- Delta Pi - Karen
- Hill Street Blues - Girl Onlooker
- L.A. Law - Waitress
- Masked Rider - Ocusect (voice)
- Power Rangers: Time Force - Computer Voice
- Power Rangers: Wild Force - Newscaster (uncredited)
- Round Numbers - Receptionist
- St. Elsewhere - Nurse Lucy
Writer
Documentaries
- Adventures in Voice Acting - Herself
Non-Anime Roles
- Hey Arnold! - Cindy/Show Spokeswoman
- The Mr. Men Show - Little Miss Giggles (credited as Reba West)
External links
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