Sarah Natochenny

Sarah Natochenny

Sarah Natochenny is an American actor, voice actor, and film editor. She has been the voice of Ash Ketchum and many others for the English-language dub of the Pokémon anime since 2006.

Biography

Natochenny lives in Manhattan, New York City, New York. She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. As an actress, film editor and fashion model, she has appeared in international magazine editorials, done several independent films, done a weekly improv show in NY, and walked in NY Fashion Week shows Fall 2008. She speaks fluent Russian, and is learning German and French.

When she first auditioned for the dub, she feared the backlash of her replacement as Ash and living up to her performance, especially since she herself "has the utmost respect for her" and thinks "she's really fantastic at what she does".

Natochenny joined the anime starting with the redub of The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon, replacing Jamie Peacock (and by extension Veronica Taylor) as Ash. Since then, she has also voiced numerous other roles in the series.

She is featured in the Vanity Fair video “How Pokémon Is Dubbed From Japanese To English”, posted in March 2020, where she explains how the Pokémon anime is dubbed.

Her favorite Pokémon are Mew and Pikachu, and her favorite character to voice is Buneary.

Pokémon roles

Anime

Humans

Major

• Ash Ketchum (AG146-present, M09-present, The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon redub)
• Delia Ketchum (AG192-present, M20)
• Cindy (AG177-present)
• Solidad
• Johanna
• Rhonda (DP029)
• Cheryl
• Holly
• Skyla
• Mirror Ash
• Ash Ketchum (M20)

Minor

• Corina
• Ryan
• Luna
• Cassie
• Female Team Flare Grunt (XY133)
• Madame (SM007)

Pokémon

Major

• Ash's Starly, Staravia and Staraptor
• Dawn's Buneary
• Nurse Joy's Chansey (AG174-DP016, M20)
• Toren's Chansey
• Nurse Joy's Blissey (SM004-present)
• Drew's Roselia (AG162-present)
• Nando's Budew, Roselia and Roserade
• Zoey's Shellos
• Barry's Staraptor
• Barry's Roserade
• Fantina's Misdreavus and Mismagius
• Cheryl's Burmy
• Lusamine's Clefable (SM085-present)
• Forsythia's Budew, Roselia and Roserade
• Medicham (Team Meanies)
• Wigglytuff (Wigglytuff's Guild)
• Mimikins

Minor

• Paul's Starly
• Gardenia's Roserade
• Cher's Roserade
• Orson's Starly
• Orson's Staravia
• Orson's Staraptor
• Elma's Roserade
• Lilia's Buneary
• DJ Leo's Diglett
• Lusamine's Mismagius
• Starly
• Staravia
• Staraptor
• Sunkern
• Roselia
• Roserade
• Mismagius
• Luxio
• Luxray
• Lopunny
• Blitzle
• Espurr
• Meowstic
• Diglett
• Wingull (SM001)
• Baby Kangaskhan (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!)
• Larvitar (AG188)
• Chinchou (SM062)

Other

• Narrator (PK27)

Other animation

Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 Animated Trailer

• Elesa

Video games

Pokémon Learning League

• Ash

PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure

• Starly
• Staravia
• Staraptor
• Budew
• Buneary
• Lopunny
• Mismagius

PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond

• Budew
• Buneary
• Lopunny

Other non-Pokémon roles

• Alicia (Bullet Witch)
• Bellatrix Lestrange (Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7)
• Aura Sentia (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V)
• Various characters (The Dark Knight Rises video game)
• Additional voices (Littlest Pet Shop video game)
• Additional voices (Gangstar Vegas video game)
• Additional voices (World of Winx, spin-off)

Trivia

• In 2017, Natochenny founded a non-profit organization called Voices for Fosters following the dub of One Journey Ends, Another Begins... with Lisa Ortiz.

External links

• Official website
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube channel

This article is part of Project VA, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on voice actors in Pokémon animation and Pokémon games.