Voice acting Voice actor
Kent Williams spotted Bailey at one of her college plays and invited her to audition for
Funimation while they were working on
Dragon Ball Z. Her first major role on
Dragon Ball Z was
Kid Trunks, Bailey initially tried to do the role alongside her college career, but stopped attending on the advice of her lecturer to focus on voice acting. She voiced the starring character
Marlene Angel in
Blue Gender, which was the first project Funimation did outside of the
Dragon Ball world, Bailey had been working with Funimation for about four years before she started
ADR directing. She worked on
Blue Gender: The Warrior and some episodes of
Case Closed. Her first major ADR directing project was
Gunslinger Girl, in which she also voices Henrietta. She also co-directed parts of
Kodocha.
Jaina Proudmoore in
World of Warcraft,
Rise Kujikawa in
Persona 4,
the Female Protagonist in
Persona 3 Portable,
Chun-Li in
Street Fighter,
Serah Farron in
Final Fantasy XIII,
Blaze the Cat in
Sonic the Hedgehog, the title role in
Catherine, Serana in
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dawnguard, multiple characters in
Fallout: New Vegas,
Lucina in
Fire Emblem Awakening,
Abigail "Fetch" Walker in
Infamous Second Son and
First Light, Fiona in
Tales from the Borderlands, Spartan Olympia Vale in
Halo 5: Guardians, Nadine Ross in ''
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy, and Kait Diaz in Gears of War''. In 2022, Bailey was nominated for Best VA Performance (EN) at the
Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
Live-action In 2001, Bailey played a minor role in an episode of
Walker, Texas Ranger (titled "Saturday Night") as the daughter of a club owner (
Frank Stallone Jr.) with ties to the
Mafia. She later had a brief appearance in an episode of
One Tree Hill ("It gets worse at night"), which was filmed in Texas. She has appeared in the films
Mr. Brooks,
Ruffian, and
The Staircase Murders. Bailey is also a cast member of the popular
Dungeons & Dragons web series
Critical Role, where she played Vex'ahlia ("Vex") in
Campaign One, Jester Lavorre in
Campaign Two, Imogen Temult in
Campaign Three and Thimble in
Campaign Four.
Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019
Webby Awards; the show was also both a Finalist and the Audience Honor Winner at the 2019
Shorty Awards. After becoming hugely successful, the
Critical Role cast left the
Geek & Sundry network in early 2018 and set up their own production company,
Critical Role Productions. Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on
Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million. Bailey reprises her role as Vex. Bailey is also one of the narrators for the
audiobook edition of the novel
Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith & Kin (2021). Bailey made an appearance in the season finale of HBO's live-action adaptation of
The Last of Us in a cameo role as a Firefly nurse, a character she voiced in the original game. ==Personal life==