Kate Higgins

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Kate Higgins is an American voice actress, singer and jazz pianist. She is best known for her voice-acting roles of Sakura Haruno in Naruto, Miles "Tails" Prower in the video game series Sonic the Hedgehog, Frankie Stein in Monster High, Sailor Mercury in Sailor Moon, Pauline in Super Mario, Barbie in , and as Purah in and .

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Early life Higgins attended Auburn University where she studied music with jazz artist Bob Richardson. She would often play classical piano in her mother's Opelika restaurant, The Greenhouse. Higgins was a member of the band the Auburn Knights and has played shows at various bars and lounges. She graduated in 1991 with a degree in music and moved to Los Angeles to pursue her music career.

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Career

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Voice acting career

Higgins first worked on commercials with singing after graduating, then landed a small voice-acting job as a singing cartoon squirrel. She was then approached to be a voice-over actress to do bumpers for the Disney Channel in 1998. Since then Higgins's major voice roles have been in English-language adaptations of Japanese anime, and she is best known as the voice of Sakura Haruno in Naruto and Talho Yuuki in Eureka 7. She has also voiced CC in Code Geass and Saber in the original Fate/stay night. Between 2010 and 2013, Higgins voiced Tails in the video game series Sonic the Hedgehog. In 2014, Higgins was cast as Sailor Mercury in the Viz English dub of Sailor Moon. She is the current voice of Princess Aurora since 2010, a Disney Princess character originally seen in Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. She also played the voice of Frankie Stein in Monster High and Briar Beauty in Ever After High. She also starred as Barbie in in 2012. Since the release of Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, she has been the voice of Pauline in the Mario franchise.

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Music career

Higgins is a trained jazz pianist. In 2002, she released her first jazz album, The Tide is Low. Her second jazz album is Stealing Freedom. She is also in a band called Upper Structure.

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Filmography

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Anime

+ List of dubbing performances in anime ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"	Notes ! class="unsortable"
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	As Kate Davis
	Tokyopop dub
CA
	Media Blasters dub
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CA
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CA
	Ep. 10
(Following the Japanese credits of this episode, the closing credits are presented in English with: English Vocal Cast, Japanese Vocal Cast).
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CA
CA
CA
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2022–present		Nanao Ise, Retsu Unohana/Yachiru Unohana		CA

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Animation

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2013–2016	Ever After High series	Briar Beauty, Baba Yaga
	6 episodes
	Ep. "Return of the Guapos Part 2"; "Return of the Guapos Part 3"
2021

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Films

+ List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"	Notes ! class="unsortable"
	Audiobook edition
Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love Closing Credits
2022	Drifting Home	Girl Students

+ List of voice performances in feature films ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"	Notes ! class="unsortable"
2019		C.C.
2021	Sailor Moon Eternal	Ami Mizuno / Super Sailor Mercury	Viz dub	Behind the Voice Actors: Sailor Moon Eternal (2021) Behind the Voice Actors, Retrieved December 19, 2021
2024	Sailor Moon Cosmos	Ami Mizuno / Eternal Sailor Mercury
2025		Ma Plankton

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Video games

+ List of voice performances in video games ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"	Notes ! class="unsortable"
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CA
In-game credits
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Blaze and the Monster Machines: Axle City Racers	Starla
2022
2024	Disney Speedstorm	Joy, Aurora	Listed under "Featuring the Voice Talents Of"
	Super Mario Party Jamboree	Pauline
	Marvel Rivals	Scarlet Witch
2025	Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition	Avatar (Female; Joker), Omomo, additional voices
	Mario Kart World	Pauline
		Additional voices
		Wave the Swallow

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Audio drama

+ List of voice and dubbing performances in audio dramas ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"	Notes ! class="unsortable"	Source
2026		Wave the Swallow, Edna Knackerworth

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Discography

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Studio albums

• The Solid Rock (Concord, 1998)
• The Tide is Low (2002)
• Bigger than Love (Concord, 2006)
• Jazz Standards
• A Very Merry Christmas
• Little Parts (2009)
• Sweet and Blue (2016)

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Collaborations

• 6 by 5 by Upper Structure (2004)

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Songs

• "Jump Up, Super Star!" – Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
• "Break Free (Lead the Way)" – Super Mario Odyssey (2017)

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External links

Categories: Official Website, Living People, Actresses From Virginia, American Jazz Pianists, American Jazz Singers, American Video Game Actresses, American Voice Actresses, American Women Jazz Pianists, American Women Jazz Singers, Concord Records Artists, Modal Jazz Pianists, Year Of Birth Missing, 20th-century American Actresses, 21st-century American Actresses, 20th-century American Pianists, 21st-century American Pianists, 20th-century American Singers, 21st-century American Singers, 20th-century American Women Singers, 21st-century American Women Singers, Auburn University Alumni

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