Myrna Velasco

Myrna García Velasco is a Mexican-American voice actress. She is best known for voicing Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern in DC Super Hero Girls, Carla Delgado in Elena of Avalor, Torra Doza in Star Wars Resistance, and Tater Ramírez-Humphrey in Primos. She was born with the name "Myrna García Velasco." In an interview in July 2025, Velasco said she came from a "really big Mexican family" in L.A. and liked "one-upping" her big sister. On social media she said that she grew up as a "Mexican American in a Whyte American neighborhood" without any community support, and claimed to have been bullied in school for her food choices, skin color, and told not to speak her "native language."

In 2010, she played Nicki in the film The Drive-By Chronicles: Confession of a Gangster. Her first voice role would be as voiced CJ in Descendants: Wicked World. Prior to that role, she played Ms. Garcia in Jessica Darling's It List.

Career

DC Super Hero Girls In 2019, Velasco began one of her well-known roles, as Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern, a protagonist of DC Super Hero Girls. The series creator Lauren Faust would describe the character as a "woke teen" whose powers are limited by her personal ideals as a vegetarian and a pacifist.

Velasco told Comics Beat that she tapped into her own anxiety and clinical depression when voicing the character, said she was "lucky enough" to work on the show, and opined that voicing the character inspired her to be "as open as possible". The publication described Velasco as a "relative newcomer in the voiceover industry", noted her voice roles for Elena of Avalor and Star Wars Resistance, and said it was fitting to have her play Jessica Cruz, a character who had been "gaining mainstream popularity both in comics and other media since her debut a few years ago." Velasco would later state that she gave her "own spin" to Cruz's character, but didn't own the character because others had voiced the character before her and was inspired by a live-action depiction of Cruz in Doom Patrol, calling it grounded and real, and worked with Phil LaMarr when beginning to voice the character. and animated shorts. She voiced the same character in the 2022 film Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse. She later appeared on panels at WonderCon, and other conferences, with other voice actors and crew from the series.

Animated series Apart from her voice role for DC Super Hero Girls, she is known for voicing two recurring characters in other series, specifically Carla Delgado in Elena of Avalor, from 2017 to 2020, and Torra Doza in Star Wars Resistance, from 2018 to 2020. In the latter series, the character had a prominent role, especially in the show's second season. She was interviewed about the role on "Friends of the Force", a Star Wars fan podcast in which she talked about her voice acting career, "importance of family," representation within the Star Wars franchise, and other topics. The show's art director, Amy Beth Christenson, also said that one of the character's outfits was "inspired by the jacket that Leia wears in Echo Base on Hoth." Velasco would attend a special premiere of the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in Hollywood, California, in December 2019, as a special guest.

From 2020 to 2022, Velasco voiced a villain, Escarlata La Pirata, in Santiago of the Seas,

In 2022, Velasco voiced Coco Diablo, a girlfriend of Velma Dinkley in the film Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!. Also in 2022, Velasco voiced Wonder Girl and Lara in Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons.

In June 2023, it was announced that Velasco would be the voice of Tater Ramírez-Humphrey, the 10-year-old protagonist of Primos. Following criticism of the show's trailer on social media, including from some Latinos and Mexicans, Velasco stated on her Instagram that the Spanish language was forced on people in Latin America by the conquistadors and defended the series.

In July 2024, the series creator, Natasha Kline later said that Velasco's audition for Tater had a "weird inflection" and that she read lines like "no one else," noting that Velasco was excited to audition because in her view this show reflected her family, story, and ethnicity, and said she felt like she was the character, having a deep connection to the material. The same month, Velasco told ABC11 that she felt supported by the show's voice actors, and was amazed to be working with people like Melissa Villaseñor and Cheech Marin, saying she was "mostly...just freaking out" as a result. In June 2025, it was confirmed that the Primos would not be returning for a second season and had ended production.

In 2023, Velasco voiced two characters in another Disney series, Hailey's On It!: Mrs. Sanchez and Gloria, in the episode "Kristine-ceañera," calling it an episode with "some wholesome laughs about the hardest and best birthday a Latina teenager can have," and was proud to voice Mrs. Sanchez. In August 2024, Velasco voiced a character in the second season of Big Nate named Juniper.

Video game voices and other work In 2021, Velasco played Cristina Romo in the short film Enough Room. The year before, she voiced Aranna Starseeker in Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, saying she would use her "my school Shakespeare" skills in voicing the character, and noted the challenges in the voice role. That same year, 2020, in an episode of the live-action series, Sydney to the Max, Velasco would be a guest star, named Mimi.

Velasco voiced Roka in the video game Concord in 2024, one of her many video game voice roles, with other credits including characters in Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. She voiced Wren in a VR game named Behemoth the same year. She would later say that Wren was one of the hardest characters she had ever voiced, due to having to keep her voice soft and low.

Personal life In August 2024, Velasco wrote, on National Latina Day, that she was "proud to be Latina" and was proud of her "roots as a culturally Mexican person with roots in this land that is older than a country's boarder [sic]."

Filmography Year Title Role Notes Ref 2010 The Drive-By Chronicles: Confession of a Gangster Nicki 2017-2020 Elena of Avalor Carla Delgado Voice only 2018-2020 Star Wars Resistance Torra Doza Voice only 2019-2022 DC Super Hero Girls Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern Voice only 2020 Sydney to the Max Mimi Guest star 2020-2022 Santiago of the Seas Escarlata La Pirata Voice only 2020 Enough Room Cristina Romo 2021 Madagascar: A Little Wild Lucia Voice only 2022 Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern Voice only Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! Coco Diablo Voice only Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons Wonder Girl Voice only Lara Voice only2023Hailey's On It! Mrs. SanchezVoice only Gloria 2024-2025 Primos Tater Ramírez-Humphrey Voice only 2024 Big Nate Juniper Voice only

Video games Year Title Role Notes Ref 2020 Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Aranna Starseeker Voice only 2024 Concord Roka Voice only 2024 Behemoth Wren Voice only