Karen Bernstein
Canadian voice actress
Karen Bernstein is a Canadian talent agent and retired voice actress. She is best known in North America as the original English voice of Sailor Mercury in the Canadian dubbing of the first two seasons of Sailor Moon. She was replaced by Liza Balkan.
Bernstein is also known for voicing Hello Kitty in the mid-1990s, and for portraying Tara Belle and Jett in Beverly Hills Teens in the 1980s.
Since 2017, she has run the talent agency KB Artists Management.
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