Philece Sampler Biography

Philece P. Sampler (born September 1, 1956) is an American voice actress and television actress, whose credits include various characters in anime. She also goes by the aliases of Sue Beth Arden, Victoria Pryne, and Debra Cunningham. She got her start on the serial Days of our Lives and the soap opera Another World.

Philece's vocal range is one of the best among voice actors: She has demonstrated the ability to play male roles (Cody from Digimon), old women roles (Tiptory in Eureka Seven), as well as being able to use her normal voice in many roles.

Career

After graduating from the University of North Texas in 1975 with a drama degree, she went to Hollywood and quickly landed guest roles in a few TV movie and TV series, including an episode of The Incredible Hulk.

Sampler first made a name of herself playing Renée DuMonde on the soap Days of our Lives. The Renee character became the focus of a major 1983 murder mystery, resulting in one of the most spectacular send-offs in daytime history. After leaving Days of our Lives in September 1983, she went on to the TV series Rituals, which ran from 1984"1985. The show also starred future soap stars Mary Beth Evans (Kayla, Days) and Jon Lindstrom (Kevin, GH), as well as veteran soap star Kin Shriner (ex-Scotty, GH; ex-Brian, B&B) and Tina Louise (Ginger from Gilligan's Island.) After Rituals, Philece went on to Another World in 1986 to play Donna Love. She left AW in 1989. She had a couple guest starring roles on TJ Hooker as Sue Ann and on Hunter as Casey. She then took a sabbatical to Japan with her then-fiance. She returned to the US with a few screenplays and formed Philman Entertainment, a production company.

Sampler worked as associate producer of the Los Angeles stage hit Sordid Lives by Del Shores. She performed in UPN's animated series, The Incredible Hulk, as the voice of Betty Ross. She remains pals with her former Days of our Lives love-interest Gregg Marx (David Banning). She performed a voice over on Real Monsters - "Ollie Ollie Oxen Free." She did a voice on Nickelodeon's Rugrats, where she played Emma (Chuckie's love interest) in the episode "He Saw, She Saw". She later voiced Francine, a character from the Rugrats spin-off series All Grown Up! and was well known for voicing Mimi Tachikawa in the anime series Digimon.

Philece got married on July 10, 1999 to her old flame, Larry Dean, whom she first dated twenty years ago.

Roles

As Philece Sampler

• Another World (1987"89) - Donna Love Hudson
• Argento Soma - Ai
• Battle B-Daman - Mie, Ms. Karat
• Bleach - Ayame, Chizuru Honsho, Waineton (Cain's Doll)
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - HiTV reporter (Ep. 21), Additional Voices
• Daigunder - Dr. Bridget
• Days of our Lives - Renée DuMonde (1981"83, 1984)
• The Incredible Hulk "Dark Side" - Laurie Schulte (1980)
• The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series) - Betty Ross (1997)
• Digimon Adventure - Mimi Tachikawa
• Digimon Adventure 02 - Cody Hida, Mimi Tachikawa
• Digimon Frontier - Floramon, Shinya Kanbara
• Digimon Tamers - Alice McCoy
• Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon - Jeri Katou
• Digimon Data Squad - Nanami, Thomas's Mother (Ep. 15)
• Dinozaurs - Rena
• Eureka Seven - Tiptory (Ep. 8-9)
• .hack//Liminality - Kiyoka
• Idaten Jump - Kakeru Sakamaki, Sho's Mom
• Last Exile - Alister Agrew, Claus Valca (Young)
• Lucky Star - Hiyori Tamura
• Mars Daybreak - Anya
• Mouse - Mei's Grandmother, Samasa Morijima
• Please Twins - Futaba Mashita
• Rituals (1984"85) - Lacey Jarrett Gallagher
• SD Gundam Force - Mayor Margaret Gathermoon, Noah
• Shinzo - Binka
• Tokko - Sakura Rokujo
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise - Kelly
• Zatch Bell! - Lori

As Lori Young

• Love Hina - Tsuruko Aoyama
• éX-Driver - Lorna Endou

As Victoria Pryne

• X - Yuzuriha Nekoi, Tokiko Magami

As Sue Beth Arden

• Ai Yori Aoshi - Taeko Minazuki
• Burn Up Scramble - Lilica Evette
• Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie 2 - The Sealed Card - Kaho Mizuki
• Leave it to Kero-chan! Theatrical Version (Cardcaptor Sakura short movie) - Spinel Sun (small form)
• Figure 17 - Mina Sawada, Kyoko Iburagi
• Idol Project - Layla B. Simmons
• Mobile Suit Gundam F91 - Manuela Panopa
• Sakura Wars: The Movie - Tsubaki Takamura
• Samurai Champloo - Budokiba
• The Twelve Kingdoms - Gobo
• Wild Arms: Twilight Venom - Jerusha

As Jessie Green

• Viewtiful Joe - Silvia

As Debra Cunningham

• Arc the Lad - Robby
• Brigadoon - Lili, Tamemi Ebichya, Wakana Konno
• Great Teacher Onizuka - Chikako Shiari (Ep. 9-43), Hidemi Ohta, Tomoko Nomura
• Marmalade Boy - Asst. Principal Kyoto
• Rurouni Kenshin - Makimachi Misao
• Samurai Girl Real Bout High School - Madoka Mitsurugi
• Vandread - Barnette Orangello

As Vicky Green

• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo - Beauty
• Bottle Fairy - Sarara
• Kyo Kara Maoh - Nicola
• Requiem from the Darkness - Shiragiku, Tatsuta
• Ultra Maniac - Maya Orihara

As Alex Simon

• [[Haré+Guu]] - [[Haré+Guu#Characters|Haré]]

As Caren Love

• Here is Greenwood - Sumire Hasukawa, Dorm Lady (Media Blasters dub)

Video games

• Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - Z'an Al'urin
• Blue Dragon - Child, Female Village, Devour Village Old Woman
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Taokaka
• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift - Taokaka
• Castlevania Judgement - Maria Renard (English voice)
• Castlevania: Harmony of Despair - Maria Renard (English voice)
• Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love - Yumedono
• Suikoden V - Lymsleia

Documentary

• Adventures in Voice Acting - Herself