Hynden Walch

Hynden Walch (born February 1, 1971) is an American actress best known for voicing Starfire in the Teen Titans franchise and Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time. She also voiced Penny Sanchez in ChalkZone, Elsie in Stanley, Alice May in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, young Nia Teppelin in Gurren Lagann and Yutaka Kobayakawa in Lucky Star. Outside of animation, Walch has appeared in live-action films like Groundhog Day and Jerry Maguire, and TV series like Law & Order.

Biography Walch was born on February 1, 1971 in Davenport, Iowa. She is of German descent. She started her professional acting career on stage at age 11. At 16, she attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, majoring in voice. In 1989, she received the Presidential Scholarship and went to the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After UNC, she went to Chicago, Illinois, where she did plays, including The Rise and Fall of Little Voice on Broadway, where she won the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as the title character. As a high school senior, she was awarded as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in drama. In 2005, she graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in American Literature and founded the Hillside Produce Cooperative, a free exchange of local, organically grown food, for which she was named runner up Citizen Entrepreneur of the Year by Global Green USA. Hynden has been married to Sean McDermott since 1999.

On television, she voiced Starfire in Teen Titans, Penny Sanchez on the Nickelodeon show ChalkZone, Elsie on the Playhouse Disney show Stanley, Ace in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, Harley Quinn in The Batman and in anime, she has voiced Amy Stapleton in IGPX, Emiri Kimidori in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yutaka Kobayakawa in Lucky Star, and Nia Teppelin in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. She also voiced both Alice and Wendy Darling in various Disney media after she replaced Kathryn Beaumont who played both characters in Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan.

In video games, she voiced Jasmine and Junko in Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! and Coco Bandicoot and Polar in Crash Team Racing. She provided the English voice of Hitomi in Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 and Dead or Alive Paradise. She voiced Viridi, the Goddess of Nature, in Kid Icarus: Uprising, and her performance in the game was met with critical acclaim.

In live action, she played Mae Capone on The Untouchables and Debbie in Groundhog Day.

Filmography Film + List of voice performances in animated feature and direct-to-video films Year Title Role Notes 1998 The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue Jenny McBride Direct-to-video 2000 Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher Aladdin and the Adventure of All-Time Paige Singing voice2002 The Wild Thornberrys Movie Schoolgirl 2008 Batman: Gotham Knight Young Cassandra, young Bruce Wayne Direct-to-video 2010 Tangled Additional characters 2012 Back to the Sea Tiny Fish 2026 Adventure Time: Side Quests Princess Bubblegum TBA Starfire Starfire

Video games + List of voice performances in video games Year Title Voice role Notes 1999 Crash Team Racing Coco Bandicoot, Polar 2004 EverQuest II Kerra, Wood Elf 2006 Teen Titans Starfire Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 Hitomi English dub 2009 Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall Princess Bubblegum 2010 Final Fantasy XIII Cocoon Inhabitants English dub Ninety-Nine Nights II Rinn English dub Dead or Alive Paradise Hitomi English dub, shared role with Eden Riegel

Live-action + List of acting performances in feature films and television shows Year Title Role Notes 1992 Angel Street Blond 1993 Groundhog Day Debbie 1993–1994 The Untouchables Mae Capone 1994 Law & Order Angel Monroe Episode: "Blue Bamboo" 1995 Angela Darlene 1996 Jake's Women Waitress Sudden Manhattan Georgie Jerry Maguire Women's Group Member 1997 The Practice Sarah Fisher The Drew Carey Show Amy 2000 Charmed Marcie Steadwell NYPD Blue Lucy Sperling 2002 King Rikki Co-Worker

Theatre + List of acting performances in theatre Year Title Role Notes 1994 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Laura Hoff, Little Voice 1999 The Rocky Horror Show Columbia