Lisle Wilkerson

Lisle Wilkerson grew up in Tokyo, Japan.She is fluent in Japanese and has been working in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. She is the voice behind such video game powerhouse female fighters such such as TEKKEN (Nina Williams, Christie Monteiro) VIRTUA FIGHTER (Sarah Bryant), as well as Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, and many others. 

As a media correspondent, Lisle worked as a main correspondent for NHK’s popular show TOKYO EYE, and has also done Interviews/interpreting for numerous red carpets for Hollywood’s biggest events, such as the Grammys, the Academy Awards, The Golden Globes, and the Emmys. Some of the people she has interviewed on the red carpet include: Amy Adams Christian Bale, Kevin Costner, , Jennifer Lawrence, Mike Tyson, Hugh Jackman, and Glen Close. Lisle had her big screening acting debut in the Academy Award-winning film, “Lost in Translation”, with Bill Murray and Scarlet Johannson.  She also played a major role in the indie award-winning film “Kamataki”. 

Lisle also does bilingual event MCing and interpreting, and handled the world premiere screening event of Makoto Shinkai’s “Your Name”, as well as working many times with the lovely ladies of Love Live Aquos, Evangelion’s Yoko Takahashi, and many of the top seiyuu/musicians/industry guests from Japan. 

She also does interpreting/cultural consulting for many US companies including Space X, SONY @ SxSW, Adobe, the US Open, etc. 

During Covid she started a weekly Twitch Stream called “The Adventures of a Blonde Geisha”, where she talks about her experiences growing up in Japan as well as about working/doing voice acting in Japan. 

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