Walch was born on February 1, 1971 in
Davenport, Iowa. She is of German descent. She started her professional acting career on stage at age 11. At 16, she attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, majoring in voice. In 1989, she received the Presidential Scholarship and went to the
UNC School of the Arts in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After UNC, she went to
Chicago, Illinois, where she did plays, including
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice on Broadway, where she won the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as the title character. As a high school senior, she was awarded as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in drama. In 2005, she graduated summa cum laude from
UCLA with a B.A. in American Literature and founded the Hillside Produce Cooperative, a free exchange of local, organically grown food, for which she was named runner up Citizen Entrepreneur of the Year by Global Green USA. Hynden has been married to Sean McDermott since 1999. On television, she voiced
Starfire in
Teen Titans, Penny Sanchez on the
Nickelodeon show
ChalkZone, Elsie on the
Playhouse Disney show
Stanley,
Ace in
Justice League and
Justice League Unlimited,
Harley Quinn in
The Batman and in anime, she has voiced Amy Stapleton in
IGPX,
Emiri Kimidori in
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya,
Yutaka Kobayakawa in
Lucky Star, and
Nia Teppelin in
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. She also voiced both
Alice and
Wendy Darling in various Disney media after she replaced
Kathryn Beaumont who played both characters in
Alice in Wonderland, and
Peter Pan. In video games, she voiced Jasmine and Junko in
Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! and
Coco Bandicoot and
Polar in
Crash Team Racing. She provided the English voice of
Hitomi in
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 and
Dead or Alive Paradise. She voiced Viridi, the Goddess of Nature, in
Kid Icarus: Uprising, and her performance in the game was met with critical acclaim. In live action, she played
Mae Capone on
The Untouchables and Debbie in
Groundhog Day. ==Filmography==