barbara goodson
voice actor
Barbara Goodson’s career covers many years and many genres. Among her hundreds of characters, the throat ripping voice of “Empress Rita Repulsa” on Mighty Morphin Power Ranger’s TV series, past films and live shows is still her claim to fame. Barbara also created the voice of “Mother Talzin” in Star Wars: The Clone Wars in which she received a Best Actor Award and reprising that role in a soon to be released TV series. She was the voice of “Naota” in FLCL and “Tami” in FLCL Progressive, “Zirconia” in Sailor Moon Eternal, “Clumby Clumbernut” in Bugsnax, “Valsirenn” in Elder Scrolls, “Shinya Oda” in Persona 5 Royal, “Marianne Lenoir” in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, “Enyaba” in Jo Jo’s Bizarre Adventure. Other notables are “Princess Leia” and “Mother Talzin” for Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Terrifying Tales, “Noby’s Grandma” in Stand By Me Doraemon 2, “Laharl” in Disgaea and Phantom Brave, “Baroness Vashj” in World of Warcraft, “Kid Goku/Zero” in 1990’s Dragon Ball Z, “Red Fraggle” in the animated Fraggle Rock, “Granny Chiyo” in Naruto, “Song’s Mother” in The Last Airbender, "The Shaman” in Legend of Korra, “Salomon & TK’s Mom” in Digimon, “Sera” & “Marie Crystal” in Robotech, “Takashi & Kaori” in Akira, “Kiki’s Mom” in Kiki’s Delivery Service, “Doris” in Vampire Hunter D, “Darling” in Lady and the Tramp II, and “Cruella Deville”&“Cinderella’s Step Mother” for Disney-On-Ice. Barbara also received an Earphones Award for narrating “Blair Clemons” for the book On A Night Like This and was so proud to be a part of the wonderful cast of the children’s series CloudBread, playing “Wooli” the sheep and “Ruiz” the fox, “the grannies” and numerous “kids voices” which was nominated for an Annie Award and an International Emmy Award for children’s programming. Barbara is the voice of “The Queen” in Dreamwork's: Kung Fu Panda TV Series, “Lady of the Tree” in Nickelodeon’s Middlemost Post and “Mrs. Withers” in Wylde Pak , “Agnes" in Mr. Pickles for Season 2 & 3 and played on camera as “Mrs. Erickson” in a gray wig for Episode 2 of Harley Quinn & The Joker VS. The Real World. She has also voice matched “Jacki Weaver” in The Five-Year Engagement and Life of the Party, was in the Oscar nominated I Lost My Body voicing "Mrs. Lussac”, can be heard in the DreamWorks animated feature: The Bad Guys as the pivotal “little old lady” and “Aiko” in Miyazaki’s Oscar winning best animated feature The Boy and The Heron. Her “Turbo Granny”/“White Cat Doll” role in DanDaDan has become quite popular and she will be returning for Season 2 as well as Pascale” in Synduality: Noir that also just aired on Netflix (and another anime role she is not yet permitted to mention 🤫). Barbara is also thrilled to be playing “Belinda” in the new on camera comedy pilot Now What?
She is so deeply grateful to her fans and looks forward to meeting you all! ❤️