# 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, Amore and Lockette in the Nickelodeon version of Winx Club, Elsie in Stanley, 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.

## Early life and career

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
### 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 | |
| 2006 | Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 | Hitomi | English dub |
| 2009 | Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall | Princess Bubblegum | |
| 2010 | Final Fantasy XIII | Cocoon Inhabitants | English dub |
| 2010 | Ninety-Nine Nights II | Rinn | English dub |
| 2010 | Dead or Alive Paradise | Hitomi | English dub, shared role with Eden Riegel |
| 2011 | Kinect: Disneyland Adventures | Alice | |
| 2011 | Knights Contract | Rapunzel | |
| 2011 | Generator Rex: Agent of Providence | Breach | |
| 2012 | Kid Icarus: Uprising | Viridi | English dub |
| 2012 | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | Additional voices | English dub |
| 2012 | Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! | Princess Bubblegum | |
| 2013 | Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know! | Princess Bubblegum | |
| 2014 | Broken Age | M'ggie, Ch't, Rose Maiden | |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie Videogame | Additional voices | |
| 2014 | Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U | Viridi | English dub; uncredited |
| 2014 | The Sims 4 | Sim | |
| 2014 | Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix | Alice | Re:coded Cutscenes; English dub |
| 2015 | Lego Dimensions | Princess Bubblegum, Starfire | Year 2 additions only |
| 2015 | Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations | Princess Bubblegum | |
| 2016 | Skylanders Imaginators | Master Chopscotch | |
| 2018 | Fallout 76 | Maxine Ballard, Miss Rachel, Angie Decland | |
| 2018 | Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion | Princess Bubblegum, Candy Person #2 | |
| 2019 | Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order | Supergiant | |
| 2020 | Fallout 76: Steel Dawn | Dagger | |