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Barbara Goodson

Barbara Goodson

American voice actress

Barbara Goodson is an American voice actress who has done voice-over work in cartoons and shows. Her best-known role was providing the English dub voice of the main villain Empress Rita Repulsa in the Power Rangers franchise, starting with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and including Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and Power Rangers in Space.

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Early life

Goodson was born in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in New Jersey.

Career

In 1988, Goodson did her rendition of Red Fraggle in Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series.[2]

In the 1990s, Goodson was known for voicing Rita Repulsa in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and her other appearances in Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and Power Rangers in Space. Other Power Rangers characters she has played include Prince Sprocket and Orbus in Power Rangers Zeo, and Mandilok in Power Rangers Wild Force. She also voiced Ladyborg in Beetleborgs Metallix, and Mother Talzin on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, receiving for the latter a Best Actress award from the website Behind The Voice Actors.[2]

She also voiced in HBO's Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Tom and FLCL as Naota. For her work in the series CloudBread, in which she is a cast member as Wooley, Ruiz, Grandma, and Teacher Ellie, she was nominated for Best Children's Programming in 2011 for an Annie Award. She was also awarded an Earphones Award for narrating Blair Clemons in the Time/Warner book On a Night Like This.[1]

She reprised her role as Rita Repulsa revived into a robotic body in a 30th anniversary Power Rangers special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always.[3]

Personal life

Goodson lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband Bruce Gustafson.

Filmography

Animation

Live-action

Anime

Films

Video games

Documentary

References

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    "Viz Media's Coppelion Dub Casts Erica Lindbeck, Cassandra Lee Morris, Shelby Lindley". Anime News Network. November 24, 2014.
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    "Departure × And × Friends". Hunter × Hunter. Episode 1. Viz Media. April 16, 2016. Adult Swim.
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    "Test × of × Tests". Hunter × Hunter. Episode 2. Viz Media. April 23, 2016. Adult Swim.
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    Love Hina, Volume 5 – Summer By The Sea. Bandai (DVD). 2002. ISBN 9781594097201. – select Extras, Credits, page to "Featuring the Voices Of"
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    "Barbara Goodson (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved March 27, 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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    "Barbara Goodson | Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo". Archived from the original on April 4, 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
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    FromSoftware. Armored Core: Verdict Day. Bandai Namco Entertainment. Scene: Ending credits, 2:13 in, CAST LIST. Credited as Barbra Goodson.
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    "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Hinokami Chronicles (2021 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved December 1, 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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    "Final Fantasy XIII (2010 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
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    "Fire Emblem Heroes". Nintendo. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
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    Toylogic Inc. Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139... Square Enix. Scene: Ending credits, 21:44.
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    "Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Adding Rita Repulsa". December 10, 2021.
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