Saffron Henderson
Saffron Henderson (born December 27, 1967) is a Canadian voice actress and singer who often works with Ocean Productions in numerous anime dubs. Career Henderson tends to be cast as mature and flirtatious women, young boys and teenage girls, as well as foreign women and motherly figures. Her best known roles are Kid Goku and Kid Gohan in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Shenhua in Black Lagoon, Sachiko Yagami in Death Note, Lucrezia Noin in Gundam Wing and Oxnard in Hamtaro. She's the daughter of Bill Henderson, the lead guitarist and singer of the Canadian rock band Chilliwack, and has a younger sister named Camille, who is also a singer. Henderson has appeared in live-action work roles, (including a brief appearance in The Fly II as Veronica Quaife replacing Geena Davis who had starred in the first film), the romantic comedy Cousins as Terri Costello, and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as rocker J.J. who is killed by Jason Voorhees with her own guitar. Henderson has also provided backing vocals on several albums, including for ex Free/Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers' 1999 album Electric, as well as being an instructor for the On the Mic Training voice-over training school in Vancouver. In an interview with Toon Zone, Henderson said that, if she weren't an actress, she would have been a psychologist in order to help people with diabetes, from which she suffers. She mentions Peter Sellers as an influence and that she worked as a showgirl in Spain when she was seventeen. Voice roles .hack//Roots – Midori A Christmas Adventure... From a Book Called Wisely's Tales – Rachael, Cupid Adventures from the Book of Virtues – Julie Animated Classic Showcase – Various Characters Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow – Lumina Billy the Cat – Nelson Black Lagoon series – Shenhua, Frederica Sawyer/Sawyer the Cleaner, Mami Brandy and Mr. Whiskers – Additional Voices Cardcaptors – Vicky (episode 14) Class of the Titans – Padma Death Note – Sachiko Yagami Dragon Ball (BLT Productions/FUNimation dub) – Goku (episodes 1–13 and movie 1) Dragon Ball Z (FUNimation/Saban Entertainment dub) – Gohan (episodes 1–67 (edited into 53 episodes) and movie 3 (edited into 3 episodes)) Dragon Ball Z (FUNimation/Pioneer dub) – Gohan (movies 1–3) Dragon Ball Z (Westwood Media/AB Groupe dub) – Gohan (episodes 108–165) Dragon Ball Z Kai (Ocean Productions dub) – Gohan Fat Dog Mendoza – Gothic Girl, Cissy Poole Galaxy Express 999 (movie) – Tetsuro Hoshino Adieu Galaxy Express 999 – Tetsuro Hoshino Generation O! – Baby Powder The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – Kazuko Yoshiyama G.I. Joe Extreme – Additional Voices Hamtaro – Oxnard, Maria Inuyasha – Sōta Higurashi, Eri (First voices, later replaced with Rebecca Shoichet) Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time – Sōta Higurashi, Eri Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass – Sōta Higurashi, Eri Joon Joon and Friends – King Pow, Josh Josh, Hannah Tatsuma Key the Metal Idol – Miho Utsuse, Beniko Komori Kleo the Misfit