Lani Minella

Lani Minella is one of the original American VAs for Sonic Team and one of the most popular of the Sonic voices to date as she is the only Sonic VA still voicing video game characters (recently Pit and Lucas in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Luke in the Professor Layton series) since she joined Nintendo.

Roles in Sonic Games

 * Sonic Adventure - narrator, announcer at Station Square, Eggman's computer
 * Sonic Shuffle - Void
 * Sonic Adventure 2 - Rouge the Bat, Omochao
 * Sonic Battle - Rouge the Bat
 * Sonic Heroes - Rouge the Bat, Omochao

Production Credits

 * Sonic Adventure - Voice Recording Director
 * Sonic Adventure 2 - Voice Recording Director
 * Sonic Heroes - Voice Recording Director
 * Sonic Advance 3 - Voice Recording Director

Roles in other media

 * Soul Calibur III - Ivy Valentine
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Pit, Lucas, Lyn
 * New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Larry Koopa, Lemmy Koopa, Wendy O. Koopa, Morton Koopa. Jr

Later in history
After the death of Deem Bristow, Minella and Ryan Drummond kept in touch with fans whenever there were announcements concerning their voice work on the Sonic the Hedgehog games. One of these announcements was that they, along with all the other actors, were fired and replaced with the 4Kids Entertainment Sonic X cast. Minella was not only replaced with Kathleen Delaney as the voice of Rouge, but she also lost her place as voice director.