Tara Sands

Tara Sands is an American voice actress and co-host of Cartoon Network's Fridays from 2005 to 2007. Sands has voiced in anime dubs and cartoons, including Bulbasaur in the Pokémon anime series, Spyler in I Spy, Kari Kamiya in Digimon Adventure tri., Anna Kyoyama in Shaman King, Mokuba Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, as well as Chase on Fighting Foodons and Filia Ul Copt in Slayers. She also provides narration on audio books.

Biography

Much of Sands' work is in anime dubbing, with multiple roles in franchises such as Pokémon, Slayers, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Digimon Adventure Tri, and Hunter x Hunter. She has worked for 4Kids Entertainment, Bang Zoom!, Funimation, TAJ Productions, NYAV Post, Studiopolis, Central Park Media, and VSI Los Angeles.

Sands has narrated over 300 audio books, including Wendelin Van Draanen's Sammy Keyes series, After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and two books in the Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine: Welcome to Dead House and One Day at HorrorLand.

In addition to providing voice-overs for commercials, Sands was co-host of Cartoon Network Fridays for over 100 episodes.

As of 2021, Sands provides the voice for "sidekick" Joan of Arc in the Forever Dog podcast Godcast.

Filmography

Live action

• Disjointed - Sadie, Plants (voice)
• Fridays (Cartoon Network) - Co-Host
• Everybody Hates Chris - Hotel Clerk, Waitress
• The Fresh Beat Band - Interviewer
• The Sarah Silverman Program - Campaign Manager
• The Newsroom - Secretary

Anime

Animation

• Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse - Summer
• Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures - Dreamhouse Door
• Danger Rangers - Additional Voices
• Electric City - Roger Moore
• Enchantimals: Tales of Everwilde - Danessa Deer, Larissa Lemer
• Generator Rex - Circe
• I Spy (HBO animated series) - Spyler (as Tara Jayne)
• Pinkfong Wonderstar - Jeni and Rachel
• Shadow of the Elves - Nayade, Rowan
• Supernormal - Buzz Girl, Eric's Mom
• Rainbow High (YouTube animated series) - Ruby Anderson, Ms. Pamela Morton
• Team Umizoomi - Horse
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) - Angel (Season 1-4), Tyler
• Valt the Wonder Deer - Trika
• Welcome to Eltingville - Jane

Films

• Ah! My Goddess: The Movie - Chrono
• Digimon Adventure tri. - Kari Kamiya (Hikari Yagami), Homeostasis
• Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna - Kari Kamiya (Hikari Yagami), Ayaka, Newswoman
• Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning - Kari Kamiya (Hikari Yagami)
• Ice Age: Continental Drift - Additional Voices
• My Kid Could Paint That - Voice Over Talent
• Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys - Tory Lund
• Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright - Nancy
• Sailor Moon Super S: The Movie - Queen Badiane (Viz Media/Studiopolis Dub)
• The Orbital Children - Mina Misasa
• Time of Eve - Naoko Sakisaka
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions - Mokuba Kaiba

Video games

• Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls - Masaru Daimon
• Dead Island - Jin, Various Characters
• Final Fantasy Type-0 - Additional Voices
• Infamous Second Son - Activist
• Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - Additional Voices
• Pokémon Channel - Smoochum, Teddiursa
• Scarlet Nexus - Additional voices
• Singularity - Additional English Voice Talent
• Valkyria Chronicles 4 - Teresa Leach, Rebecca Longhurst, Rosie
• Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia - Sonya
• Fire Emblem Heroes - Sonya, Olwen (Righteous Knight)
• Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes - Additional voices
• Nier: Automata - Additional voices
• Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139... - Red-Bag Woman, additional voices
• One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows - Child Emperor
• Relayer - Additional voices
• Resident Evil: Resistance - Becca Woolett

Podcasts

• Godcast - Joan of Arc

References

External links

• Official website
• Tara Sands at IMDb
• Tara Jayne at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Tara Sands convention appearances on AnimeCons.com