Laura Bailey

Laura Dawn Bailey is an American screen and voice actress and voice director, who is best known for her extensive voice work in various anime and video games.

For Disney, she is best known for voicing Black Widow in various Marvel cartoons and video games since Avengers Assemble. She also voiced Tigerlily in the English dub version of Stitch! and Spider-Gwen and Crimson Dynamo in Spider-Man.^[1]

Bailey was born in Mississippi. She has an older sister named Jenny. Her father was in the Air Force, causing the family to move around frequently. They lived in Oklahoma before moving to San Antonio, Texas, and then moved throughout North Texas, all before Bailey was six years old. They eventually settled in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. She had a passing interest in acting and performed in school plays, but was planning to become a biologist. She did not realize she could make a career out of acting until she watched a Dawson's Creek behind-the-scenes special, in which Katie Holmes was interviewed. She attended the theatre program at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas, where she participated in Broadway production plays.