Michelle Ruff

Michelle Suzanne Ruff is an American voice actress known for her work in anime and video games. In her early voice acting career, she used her mother's name, Georgette Rose, as a pseudonym. Some of her roles include Chi in Chobits, Rukia Kuchiki in Bleach, Aoi Sakuraba in Ai Yori Aoshi, Elie in Rave Master, Yuki Nagato in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yoko Littner in Gurren Lagann and Sinon in Sword Art Online. In video games, she is the voice of Jill Valentine in the Resident Evil series and Crimson Viper in the Street Fighter series.

Career
Ruff grew up in Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University. While she was there, she worked at a talent agency and attended a radio audition, which marked her first venture into the voiceover business. In Chicago, she studied with Second City, Players Workshop and Improv Olympic.

After moving to Los Angeles, she worked with some directors on looping and voice work for films and TV shows. In an Anime Dream interview, Ruff credits Richard Epcar, Steve Kramer and Michael Sorich for training her to dub anime. In the Digimon series, she was referred by director Mary Elizabeth McGlynn to audition for Lopmon and Antylamon in Digimon Tamers, and in Digimon Frontier, she landed the lead role of Zoe Orimoto. Ruff said that it was her first show that made it to TV, and a show that let her "work my acting muscle". She played tomboy-ish characters Miyao in Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran and Kiki Rosita in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.

In 2007, Ruff received two nominations for the American Anime Awards, one for Best Actress for her work in Bleach and Lupin the 3rd, and one for Best Actress in a Comedy for Lupin the 3rd, but lost to Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Debi Derryberry, respectively. In 2009, the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation gave her an SPJA Industry Award for Best Voice Actress (English) for her work as Rukia Kukichi in the Bleach movie Memories of Nobody.

Personal life
Ruff is married to ADR Engineer Eddie Correa.

Anime

 * Arc the Lad – Meril
 * Battle B-Daman – Marilyn
 * Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan – Chieri Ono
 * Brigadoon: Marin & Melan – Moe
 * Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure – Mitsuki Sanada
 * Fafner in the Azure – Yumiko Toomi
 * Fate/Zero – Aoi Tohsaka, Martha McKenzie
 * Fighting Spirit – Mari Iimura
 * Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo – Eugenie Danglars
 * Gate Keepers – Kaoru Konoe
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Togusa's Wife
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society – Tachikoma, Togusa's Wife
 * Great Teacher Onizuka – Urumi Kanzaki
 * Hand Maid May – Kasumi Tani
 * Jungle de Ikou! – Nami
 * K – Sumika Inaba
 * Kamichu! – Martian
 * Kekkaishi – Miki Hatori
 * Kyo Kara Maoh! – Anissina von Karbelnikoff
 * Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne series – Lan (credited as Sophie Roberts)
 * Leave it to Piyoko – Rabi~en~Rose (Hikaru Usada)
 * Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine – Fujiko Mine
 * Mega Man Star Force – Hope Stelar
 * Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn – Mihiro Oiwakken
 * Naruto Shippuden – Matsuri, Shizuka (Ep. 235), Ameyuri Ringo (Ep. 289)
 * Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan – Yura Keikain (credited as Sophie Roberts)
 * Paranoia Agent – Tsukiko Sagi
 * Pilot Candidate – Kizna Towryk
 * Please Twins! – Koishi Herikawa
 * Rurouni Kenshin – Sekihara Tae, Sanjo Tsubame
 * Samurai Champloo – Yatsuha
 * Samurai Girls: Rise of The Elements – Aria Sayoka
 * S-CRY-ed – Ayase Tarada, Keika
 * Stitch! – Hazuki, Mrs. Sickly, various
 * Trigun – Lina
 * Tokko – Ryoko Ibuki
 * The Twelve Kingdoms – Risai
 * Vampire Knight: Guilty – Juri Kuran, various
 * Vandread – Belvedere Coco
 * Vanguard Princess (Anime)-Saki Mitonoya
 * Wild Arms: Twilight Venom – Laila/Gina Angel/Goddess
 * Wolf's Rain – Leara
 * X-TV – Kotori Monou
 * Zenki – Chiaki Enno
 * Zetman – Konoha Amagi (credited as Sophie Roberts)

Video games

 * Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica - Infel, Aurica Nestmile
 * Asura's Wrath – Narrator
 * Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny – Viese Blanchimont (uncredited)
 * Atelier Iris 3: The Grand Phantasm – Iris Fortner (uncredited)
 * Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland - Astrid Zexis (uncredited)
 * Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland – Filly Dee, Gisela Helmold (uncredited)
 * Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland – Filly Dee, Astrid Zexis (uncredited)
 * Brave Story: New Traveler – Yuno
 * Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles - Maria Renard
 * Castlevania: Harmony of Despair – Shanoa
 * Cross Edge - Aurica Nestmile, Etna
 * Cy Girls – Ice
 * Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
 * Drakengard 3 – One (uncredited)
 * Dragon's Dogma – Aelinore
 * Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen – Aelinore
 * Final Fantasy XIII-2 – Additional Voices
 * Final Fantasy VI
 * Final Fantasy XI
 * Galerians: Ash – Nitro
 * Ghost in the Shell
 * Grandia III - Miranda
 * Gods Eater Burst – Sakuya Tachibana (uncredited)
 * Guitar Hero World Tour
 * Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart - Tsunemi, Lady Wac
 * Hyperdimension Neptunia – Nisa (uncredited)
 * Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 – Nisa (uncredited)
 * Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 – Nisa (uncredited)
 * Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu – Mahbu
 * Lineage II
 * Luminous Arc 2 – Fatima (uncredited)
 * Lunar: Silver Star Harmony - Jessica Alkirk, Phacia (uncredited)
 * Lupin III: Treasure of the Sorcerer King – Fujiko Mine
 * Outlaw Golf 2
 * Power Rangers – Various characters
 * Rave Master – Elie
 * Resident Evil Outbreak - Cindy Lennox (uncredited)
 * Rune Factory Frontier - Iris Blanche, Iris Noire (uncredited)
 * Shadow Hearts: Covenant – Alice Elliot, Ouka (credited as Georgette Rose)
 * Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers – Mayone (uncredited)
 * Spectrobes – Jeena (Webisodes, Spectrobes: Origins)
 * The Last Remnant – Glenys
 * The Lego Movie Videogame – Additional Voices
 * Time Hollow - Ashley Threet
 * Trinity Universe – Etna (uncredited)
 * Ultra Street Fighter IV − Crimson Viper
 * Warriors Orochi series - Sun Shang Xiang, Zhen Ji (uncredited)
 * Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury – Naomi, Hyde, Sugino