Dawn M. Bennett

Birth Date: 13/12/1992

A music student at Berklee College of Music who stumbled into voice acting through a campus club, Bennett built her career through years of anime dubbing before landmark roles made her a fixture in major franchises. Of Filipino and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, she relocated from Texas to Los Angeles in 2019. Best known for Aigis in Persona 3 Reload, Kale/Kefla in Dragon Ball Super, and Nabbit in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, she earned a Golden Joystick Award nomination for the former.

Website: https://www.dawnmbennett.com/

Dawn M. Bennett’s Rise from Music School to Anime Powerhouse

What began as an accidental detour at Berklee College of Music became one of the more unexpected origin stories in American voice acting. Enrolled with a focus on music, Dawn M. Bennett attended a single event at the campus Video Game Music Club during her first semester – a moment that redirected her entire career. Encouraged by the club’s president to keep at it, she spent her college years volunteering on engineering students’ projects and gradually shifted her attention from music to voice performance. By August 2014, Funimation had cast her in the English dub of Fairy Tail as Frosch, marking the official start of a decade-long run across anime, games, and animation.

Dragon Ball Super and the Role That Changed Everything

Filipino-Jewish American in heritage and Texas-raised, Bennett spent years building a foundation of supporting roles before landing Kale in Dragon Ball Super – a character who fuses the raw fury of a Legendary Super Saiyan with unexpected emotional depth. The casting was personal: Bennett had grown up loving Dragon Ball, and once the Universe Survival arc arrived, she brought a fan’s investment and a trained performer’s control to a role that also became Kefla, the fusion with Caulifla. That dual performance extended across Dragon Ball FighterZ, Dragon Ball Legends, Xenoverse 2, and Dragon Ball Super: Broly, cementing her place within one of the franchise’s most beloved character arcs.

Aigis, Persona 3 Reload, and a Golden Joystick Nomination

The defining achievement of Bennett’s career to date arrived with Atlus’s 2024 remake. Aigis in Persona 3 Reload is a robotic anti-Shadow weapon whose arc moves from programmed purpose toward something approaching genuine selfhood – a performance requiring precision at both the mechanical and emotional registers. The work earned Bennett a Golden Joystick Award nomination, placing her among gaming’s most recognized voice performances of the year. Her handle on that tonal shift – cold authority giving way to warmth and grief – demonstrated a range her decade of supporting credits had been quietly building toward.

Across Franchises: Nintendo, HoYoverse, and Beyond

Beyond anime dubbing, Bennett’s video game resume spans major publishers. Nabbit in Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Mario Kart World, Yukong in Honkai: Star Rail, female Shez in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Sash Lilac in Freedom Planet – each role lands in a different tonal register, illustrating the breadth she has developed since relocating to Los Angeles in 2019. Studio affiliations with Funimation/Crunchyroll, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, and Sound Cadence Studios have kept her active across both dubbed anime and original English-language productions.