The Guest List

Lisle Wilkerson

Lisle Wilkerson grew up in Tokyo, Japan. She is fluent in Japanese and has been working in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. She is the voice behind such video game powerhouse female fighters such as TEKKEN (Nina Williams, Christie Monteiro), VIRTUA FIGHTER (Sarah Bryant), as well as Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, UltraMan, and even Hello Kitty’s BFF, Bad Badtz Maru!

As a media correspondent, Lisle has worked as a main correspondent for many of Hollywood’s biggest events, such as the Grammys, the Academy Awards, The Golden Globes, and the Emmys. one of NHK’s most popular shows, “TOKYO EYE”, she is also doing reporting for several Japanese tv and radio shows, including the popular NHK TOKYO EYE.

Lisle’s big screen acting debut was in the Academy Award-winning film, “Lost in Translation”, with Bill Murray and Scarlet Johannson, and she also played a major role in the indie award-winning film “Kamataki”. And she has won several awards for her Japanese voice acting in the Canadian short film, “Team Teenettes”.

Lisle does bilingual event MCing and interpreting, and handled the world premiere screening event of Makoto Shinkai’s “Your Name”, as well as working with many iconic Japanese guests over the years…such as Love Live Aquos, Evangelion’s Yoko Takahashi, Masako Nozawa (voice of Goku from “DBZ”), Toshio Furukawa (voice of Piccolo from “DBZ”) and Junko Takeuchi (voice of Naruto) and many others.

She also does interpreting/cultural consulting for many US companies, including Space X, SONY @ SxSW, Adobe, the Ladies US Open, etc.

Lisle’s latest passion is her new podcast, “Adventures of a Blonde Geisha”, where she talks about her experiences growing up and working in Japan as well as has guests on the show to talk about everything from growing up a TCK (third culture kid) to voice acting to working in the entertainment biz.