Lani Minella

Lani J. Minella is an American voice actor, director and casting director who provided the voices for the tour guide, Sprites, daughter, mother, grandma and screams in Neverending Light.
She's voiced characters in over 500 video games, cartoons and anime, with some of her most famous roles including:"Lani Minella" - Behind The Voice Actors"Lani Minella - Videogame Voices" - YouTube
*Ivy Valentine in Soulcalibur
*Nancy Drew in computer games (1998-2015)
*Rouge the Bat from the Sonic series (2001-2004)
*Larry, Morton Jr., Wendy and Lemmy Koopa in most Mario games since 2009
*Lucas, Pit (Brawl only) and Lyn in the Super Smash Bros. series
Minella also owns her own acting agency/production company called AudioGodz, which focuses on providing assistance with voice actors, directing, casting, writing, localizing and sound design."Lani Minella" - LinkedIn
She began her career on morning drive radio in the late 1980s, working in production, writing and doing on-air celebrity impressions. She was eventually hired to imitate voices from the movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest for a LaserDisc presentation."Performance Matters: Interview with Veteran Voice Actress Lani Minella". SuperNerdLand. November 2, 2015. 
Afterwards Minella was referred to the company's Children CD-Rom division where she provided hundreds of voices for games and assisted with script writing."Lani Minella interview by Josh AKA Knuckles Echidna". The Floating Island. April 21, 2001. Asking if other companies did similar work, they suggested she go to trade shows, which brought her to attend CES, the Game Developers Conference and E3. She realized it'd be easier to get jobs by becoming a one stop shop, leading her to start AudioGodz in 1992."Interview: Lani Minella, Voice Actor". Immortal Darkness. July 30, 2018.
Minella helped cast Jon St. John as the voice of Duke Nukem. She met John while working on a commercial he was producing. Impressed by her voices, John imitated voices back at her, prompting her to ask if he'd ever done voice acting for video games. She soon got him a phone interview with the series' creator where he received the part."Duke Nukem speaks: how a radio station director became one of gaming's most iconic voices". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 27, 2014.
==Roles==
Tour Guide
Sprites
Daughter (deleted scene)
Mother (deleted scene)
Granny (deleted scene)
==Links==
*Lani Minella on IMDb
*Lani Minella on YouTube
*Lani Minella on Anime News Network
*Lani Minella on Voice Chasers
*Lani Minella on MobyGames
*Lani Minella on Wikipedia
*AudioGodz's website
==References==
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Category:Neverending Light Articles