Emanuela Pacotto

Emanuela Pacotto (born in Milan, Italy on June 7, 1965) is an Italian actress, voice actress, and singer best known for having voiced many Japanese animated series characters. She dubbed Bulma in Dragon Ball, Sakura Haruno in Naruto, Nami in One Piece, and Jessie of Team Rocket in Pokémon.
She herself is a fan of anime and is actively working to spread Japanese pop culture, participating in numerous exhibitions and events, performing with the voices of its celebrities and singing some original codes in Japanese. Sometimes, in the credits, she is mistakenly credited as Manuela Pacotto.
From an early age, she took her first steps in show business by participating in singing competitions, television dramas and advertising services. Her career continued singing in the choir of the Little Singers of Milan directed by Ninì Comolli, recording several television themes. In 1975, she was chosen from more than 500 children for The Abandoned Doll, making her stage debut, directed by Giorgio Strehler. After having formed a group with some of her former comrades in the choir of the singers of Milan, named "Teen Agers", Emanuela continued studying ballet. Despite frequentasse already attending the private drama school in Milan Active Center Theater directed by Nicoletta Ramorino, she passed the entrance exam at the Academy of Art Amateur Dramatics at 17 allowing her to graduate as an actress.
After several roles as an actress, she was cast as the role of Meiko Kajiwara in Love Me Knight, the Italian film version in the flesh eponymous Japanese cartoon. In this show, the figure and voice are separated, in fact the actors were redubbed by Italian voice actors of the same souls. At some point in the series, the voice actress of character Meiko Kajiwara, Elisabetta Cucci, is due to failing in her role, therefore, the problem arose of who should dub Emanuela, it was proposed that it was she who raddoppiare her character and so she remained hooked to world of dubbing.
It was the start of the voice actress for her Pacotto career, which led to her affirmation in various roles of some of the most watched Japanese cartoons in Italy. Among the best known she can remember are Bulma in Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super, Lisa in Saint Tail, Sakura Haruno in Naruto, Nami in One Piece, Jessie of Team Rocket in Pokémon, and Rina in Slayers.
With the production of Ambition World on November 3, 2012, she performed in a concert called "Emanuela Pacotto - AMBITION Idol Live Concert", becoming the first Western artist to have achieved an "Idol" show in style, interpreting the souls of Japanese abbreviations outside of Japan. She held two performances, the first at Lucca Comics & Games and the second at Etna Comics in June the following year. She played many protagonists of the first live action Italian anime Censors, written and directed by Massimiliano Coltorti. Censors is a movie for the web published on November 2, 2015 on YouTube, where Emanuela plays three different roles.
She is the co-producer, author and interpreter of the web series "FAVOLANANNA" directed by Massimiliano Coltorti. The first episode of the 12 planned was posted on October 30, 2016 on YouTube after the official presentation took place during Lucca Comics & Games 2016.
==References==
# http://www.animeclick.it/news/26328-emanuela-pacotto-messa-a-nudo-da-animeclickit-lintervista
# https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/interviste/epacotto.htm
# https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/voci/vociepac.htm
# https://www.youtube.com/user/emanuelapacotto
# http://www.emanuelapacotto.it/it/
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