Cristina Vee

Cristina Danielle Valenzuela (born July 11, 1987), known professionally as Cristina Vee, is an American voice actress and singer. She is known for her work in video games and English dubs of anime.

Early life Vee was born Cristina Danielle Valenzuela in Los Angeles on July 11, 1987. She has Lebanese, Mexican (Tepehuán), and Spanish ancestry. She grew up in Norwalk, California, where she attended public school. One of her early interests was music, and she participated in the Norwalk All City band in middle school and high school. She struggled with her mental health during college and later said, "Even though I loved studying theater and performing in shows, college was a really hard time for me. Because of depression and panic attacks, there were a couple of years where it was extremely hard for me to go to classes." By 16, she had accumulated four years of voice acting for amateur online projects. In 2008, she voiced the title character in Aika R-16: Virgin Mission, Louise in The Familiar of Zero, Vee described her voicing of Rei as different in Crystal because her character is more serious and regal compared to her character in the original series. In 2021, she voiced Vivy in the Bang Zoom! Entertainment English dub of the original anime series Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song.

Animation projects Vee has been involved in several animation projects. In March 2012, she started a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to produce an animated music video in conjunction with Cybergraphix Animation and Studio APPP. The main character of the video, "Cristina Veecaloid", was designed by Skullgirls creative director Alex Ahad, In 2015, Vee began voicing Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug in the English dub of the animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. The show premiered on Nickelodeon in December 2015, In 2021 and 2024, Vee voiced Verosika Mayday in the animated web series Helluva Boss, starring in the episodes "Spring Broken", "Ozzie's" and "Apology Tour".

In June 2023, it was announced that she would voice Tere and Toñita in the animated series Primos, which premiered in July 2024 on Disney Channel.

Video games, hosting, and other projects Vee has been involved in voice-overs for video games, mostly with English localizations of Japanese titles produced by Atlus USA and NIS America. Some of her major roles are Noel Vermillion in BlazBlue, Velvet Crowe in Tales of Berseria, Riven the Exile in League of Legends, Four in Drakengard 3, Compa in Hyperdimension Neptunia, 13-Amp and 5-Volt in the WarioWare series, Marnie in Pokémon Masters EX, Tulin in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, title character of the Shantae series She has directed and produced the voices for the video game Indivisible, which was crowdfunded with a total amount of $1.5 million on December 2, 2015.

In addition to performing live as Haruhi Suzumiya, Vee has appeared on screen on various web series, television shows and events. She was a host on Anime TV where she reviewed shows and interviewed people, and appeared on Funimation On Demand and Crunchyroll. She was a live-action host of IGNs IPL4 and IPL5 League of Legends video game tournaments in Las Vegas.

Music Vee is also a professional singer, and has performed the theme songs for two Shantae video games: "Dance Through the Danger" for 2016's Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and "Rise and Shine Shantae" for 2019's Shantae and the Seven Sirens. She also performed the theme song "Until I'm Broken" for the 2012 visual novel Loren the Amazon Princess. She performed multiple songs for the mobile gacha game Arknights: "Boiling Blood" in 2019, "ALIVE" in 2021, "Spark for Dream" in 2022 and "Water Quench" in 2023. In 2023, she sang the English dub ending theme for Digimon Adventure:, "KUYASHISAWA TANE".

Vee has uploaded several renditions of anime songs on YouTube. She and YouTuber Nathan Sharp (NateWantsToBattle) released a cover of Charlie Puth's song "Attention" in August 2017. She also signed with an indie record label called Give Heart Records. She also recorded a cover of The Living Tombstone's song "Animal" with the 8-Bit Big Band in an arrangement by Charlie Rosen. In April 2024, Vee released a cover of "Whatever It Takes" from the Prime Video animated series Hazbin Hotel (set in the same fictional universe as Helluva Boss), featuring content creator, cosplayer and voice actress Sofia Gomez and musician Tre Watson.

Personal life Vee has lived in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles since 2012. She became engaged to fellow voice actor and musician Nathan Sharp in January 2018, but they separated eight months later.

In February 2024, an anonymous Twitter user falsely included Vee on a list of Zionist voice actors, prompting Vee and her fans to respond with proof of her support for Palestine and participation in anti-Zionist boycotts.