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Emily Bauer

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5372051
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Emily Bauer Jenness is an American voice and stage actress. She has worked in a number of English language dubs of Japanese anime shows including Shinobu in Ninja Nonsense, Megumi Morisato in Ah! My Goddess, Dawn from the Pokémon anime and Lastelle in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Early life

Growing up in Millburn, New Jersey, Bauer took dance, acting and singing classes at a local performing arts school and later performed in professional plays and musicals at the Paper Mill Playhouse. She attended Millburn High School and majored in both business and theatre at New York University. She graduated cum laude in 2002 and also received the Presidential Honors Scholar Award for maintaining one of the highest cumulative GPAs.

Career

Bauer has acted in Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts and Long Distance with Monica Keena. In 2005, she voiced in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Alison Lohman, Patrick Stewart and Uma Thurman. In 2007, she was cast as the lead role of Dawn and as the Sinnoh League Champion Cynthia in the Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl anime series. In 2014, Bauer voiced main character Zuzu Boyle/Ray Akaba and her counterparts in Yu-Gi-Oh!

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The public source identifies “Emily Bauer” as american actress. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Emily, Bauer and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2005, 2007, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-07-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Emily, Bauer and American providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5372051. VIAF identifies the subject as 32024127. The Library of Congress control number is no2008155792. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Emily Bauer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.