Cherami Leigh Kuehn (born July 19, 1988) is an American actress and voice artist who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series and video games with Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment and Studiopolis.
Leigh began acting at the age of six. She studied the Meisner-based Film Acting Technique with Nancy Chartier from the age of nine. As a child, she played Gretchen in Finding North, Marcia in Temple Grandin, the young LeAnn Rimes in Holiday in Your Heart (1997), Stacy Anderson in The President’s Man (2000), and appeared on the television series Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) multiple times. On-screen, she played Kim in Fast Food Nation (2006), a young LeAnn Rimes in Holiday in Your Heart and has appeared on Bones, Friday Night Lights, Longmire and Shameless. In 2014, she had the lead role in Shane Dawson’s Not Cool (2014).
As a voice artist, Cherami’s roles have included Sae Kashiwagi in Peach Girl, Lucy Heartfilia in Fairy Tail, Patty Thompson in Soul Eater, Asuna Yuuki in Sword Art Online, Cecily Campbell in The Sacred Blacksmith, Tamaki Kawazoe in Bamboo Blade, Kazari Uiharu in A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun series, Yoshika Miyafuji in Strike Witches, Eucliwood Hellscythe in Is This a Zombie, Mutsuki in KanColle: Kantai Collection, Aisa in One Piece, Mika Shimotsuki in Psycho-Pass, Shijima Kurookano in Nabari no Ou, Hibiki in Sekirei, Elizabeth Midford in Black Butler, Road Kamelot in D.Gray-man, Sailor Venus in the Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon, Plutia / Iris Heart in Hyperdimension Neptunia, Ulala in the Space Channel 5 series, Sarada Uchiha in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Chloe and Grookey in Pokémon, and Ilia Amitola in RWBY.
In video games, she voices Rottytops in the Shantae series, Gaige the Mechromancer in the Borderlands series, Arianrhod in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Minerva in The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Rhea in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Makoto Niijima in Persona 5 and the Female V in Cyberpunk 2077 for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Performer in a Leading Role.
Leigh attended Hebron High School in Carrollton, Texas and studied theater at Collin College in Plano. She worked for Radio Disney as a DJ and also voice-over promotions and commercials for ABC Radio for 10 years. In 2013 she moved to Los Angeles, and continued voice acting on video games and anime as well as take on live-action acting roles. She married fellow actor Jon Christie on April 13, 2014, whom she had dated since 2010.
