Ashly Burch

Ashly Burch (born June 19, 1990) is an American voice actress, singer, and television writer. She is known for her roles as Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, Chloe Price in the Life Is Strange series, Mel in The Last of Us Part II, Miss Pauling in Team Fortress 2, Tiny Tina in the Borderlands series, the web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, Enid from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Molly from The Ghost and Molly McGee, Ash Graven from Final Space and the Rutile Twins from Steven Universe. Early life Burch grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and has an older brother named Anthony. Her mother is an immigrant from Thailand who she describes as spiritual, giving food to spirits and praying to them. She credits her career path as a voice actress to playing Metal Gear Solid at age 12. Upon seeing voice actor David Hayter's name alongside that of the main characters, she looked him up and realized that there were actual people who voiced the characters, as she realized that was what she wanted to do as a career. She graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2012. Career After starting Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, Burch got her first voice acting role when her brother, Anthony Burch, was hired as a writer for Borderlands 2 and he suggested she try out for Tiny Tina. For Life Is Strange, she was cast in the role of Chloe Price, after having also auditioned for the roles of Max Caulfield, Victoria Chase and Kate Marsh. She later said that she was surprised by what she could do and had the "opportunity to do in voiceover." Burch was a writer on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time. She co-wrote episodes such as "The Hall of Egress" and "Islands Part 4: Imaginary Resources", the latter winning a Primetime Emmy Award. She was also a writer of an Adventure Time graphic novel released in October 2016. The same year, she would voice characters in animation including Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in Lego Marvel's Avengers, April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, Hana in Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, and Quacho Queen in World of Final Fantasy.