Amanda Winn-Lee

Amanda Winn-Lee is an American semi-retired voice actress, ADR director and script writer who works mainly on anime dubs. She was the voice of Mimiru in .hack//SIGN, Rally Vincent in Gunsmith Cats, Yohko Mano in Devil Hunter Yohko, Momiji Kushinada in Blue Seed and was featured most notably as Rei Ayanami of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame. Aside from voice work she quite often handles production, ADR direction and the scripting of various projects for her dubbing company Gaijin Productions, LLC. She has also been credited as Amanda Winn, before she was married.
Career
She can be heard in the commentary for the Region 1 The End of Evangelion DVD along with fellow voice actors Taliesin Jaffe and husband/Gaijin co-owner Jaxon Lee.
Expanding on her anime work, Winn-Lee also provided the voice of Konoko, the protagonist of the Bungie video game Oni.
Winn-Lee served as ADR director, script writer and producer for the English versions of The End of Evangelion and Evangelion: Death and Rebirth. She also directed and performed leading roles in the English versions of Dead Leaves and the Read or Die OVA.
She had been working with ADV Films for years before she moved out to create Gaijin Productions.
It was suggested by Spike Spencer (her friend as well as fellow voice actor) at Nan Desu Kan 2007 that she was interested in reprising her role(s) in the upcoming Rebuild of Evangelion films. However, in May 2009, North American anime distributor Funimation announced that the role of Rei for the first film Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone would be voiced by Brina Palencia, who is under contract to voice Rei Ayanami for the three remaining Evangelion "Rebuild" films. However, Winn-Lee returned to voice Rei for the 2021 Amazon release of the entire Rebuild series, including the new Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time.
Personal life
Amanda and Jason Lee's son, Nicholas "Noodle" Lee, was born in November 2004. Her son was soon discovered to have infant leukemia, requiring extensive treatment before he was one year old. Amanda and Jason were not involved in any new projects for several years, because they were caring for their son. However, by November 2008, Nicholas has been cancer-free for three years, which is the benchmark for doctors that his odds of cancer recurrence are virtually non-existent. She wrote a book about these experiences in a memoir called The Noodle Chronicles: Everything I Know About Cheating Death I Learned from My Kid, which was released as an e-book.
Dubbing roles
Anime dubbing
.hack//Intermezzo – Mimiru
.hack//SIGN – Mimiru
.hack//Legend of the Twilight – Magi
.hack//Unison – Mimiru
Battle Angel – Gally / Alita (ADV Films dub)
Blue Seed – Momiji Fujimiya, Kaede Kunikida
Burn Up! – Reimi (debut role)
Burn Up W, Burn Up Excess – Rio Kinezono
Dead Leaves – Pandy
Devil Hunter Yohko – Yohko Mano, Ayako Mano
Dragon Half – Princess Vina
Ellcia – Crystel
F3 – Hiroe Ogawa (Soft Cel dub, credited as Helen Bed)
Fire Emblem – Elis
Geneshaft – Mika Seido
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Kurutan
Golden Boy – Girl A, producer
Gunsmith Cats – Rally Vincent
Marchen Awakens Romance – Gido
Neon Genesis Evangelion – Rei Ayanami, Pen Pen, Yui Ikari (movies only)
Persona 4: The Animation – Yukiko Amagi
Persona 5: The Animation - Ichiko Ohya
Plastic Little – Titaniva Mu Koshigaya
Read or Die (OVA) – Nancy "Miss Deep" Makuhari
Spriggan – Flight Attendant
Sukeban Deka – Saki Asamiya
Super Atragon – Annette
Video game credits
.hack//Quarantine – Mimiru
.hack//Outbreak – Mimiru
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle – Yukiko Amagi
Bravely Second: End Layer – Magnolia Arch
Heavy Gear II – Pinter, O'Neill
Oni – Konoko
Persona series – Ulala Serizawa, Yukiko Amagi, Ichiko Ohya
Revolution 60 – Crimson 09
Saints Row: The Third – Additional Voices
Saints Row IV – Additional Voices
Star Trek: Elite Force II – Kleeya
Tail Concerto – Alicia Pris
Trauma Team – Maria Torres
Production staff
ADR director/voice direction
A Silent Voice
Battle Angel
Blue Seed
Burn Up Excess
Burn Up W
Dead Leaves
Devil Hunter Yohko
Ellica
The End of Evangelion
Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
Fire Emblem
Gunsmith Cats
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Plastic Little
Read or Die
Script adaptation
A Silent Voice
Blue Seed
Burn Up Excess
Dead Leaves
Ellica
The End of Evangelion
Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
Project ARMS
Read or Die
References
External links
Amanda Winn: Meet the voice of AD Vision news article
Amanda Winn Lee's public Facebook page
Living people
Actresses from Houston
Actresses from Los Angeles
American television writers
American video game actresses
American voice actresses
American voice directors
American women screenwriters
American women television writers
Screenwriters from California
Screenwriters from Texas
Wesleyan University alumni
Writers from Houston
Writers from Los Angeles
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
American feminists