Michele Knotz

Michele Knotz (born October 27) is an American voice actress who works for New York-based studios such as TAJ Productions. She is currently recording at DuArt Film and Video, where she provides the voices for various characters in the Pokémon anime.

Born in New Jersey, she studied acting at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania before transferring to study television and radio production at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Knotz was the winner of the 2003 Anime Idol voice acting contest held at the now defunct Big Apple Anime Fest convention in New York City and debuted in the role of Hajime Yagi in The World of Narue. Since 2006, she has been the voices of Nurse Joy and Team Rocket's Jessie in Pokémon.

TV roles

 * The World of Narue - Hajime Yagi
 * Shootfighter Tekken - Takako
 * The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon - Misty, Jessie and May
 * Pokémon — May (Seasons 9 and 11 only), Jessie (Seasons 9-present), Nurse Joy (Seasons 9-13), Piplup and Pokédex (Season 10-13), Snivy (Seasons 14-present).
 * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out Of The Gate! - Chikorita
 * Genshiken - Oguie Chika
 * Kujibiki Unbalance - Koyuki Asagiri
 * To Heart - Matsumoto
 * The Third - Cindy, Rozali, The Fairy
 * Queen's Blade - Tomoe, Airi
 * Timmy and Toby’s Guessing Games - Toby
 * Once Upon A Time - Narrator
 * Musti - Musti
 * Pikachu’s Island Adventure - Squirtle, Cacnea
 * Tarchin and Friends - Tarchin, Yellow Crayon, Cloud 2, Various
 * Magical Witch Punie - Potaru Tanaka, Inumi

Video game roles

 * Captain Sabertooth - Sirikit
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Pokémon Trainer, Squirtle, Piplup, Torchic, Jirachi, Manaphy & Gardevoir
 * PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure - Piplup, Squirtle, Jirachi, Chikorita, Bulbasaur, Latios, Latias, Torchic, Bidoof, Oddish, Psyduck, Mudkip, Kirlia, Sneasel, Prinplup, Drifloon and Manaphy
 * Heathcliff: The Fast and the Furriest - various characters
 * PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond - Piplup, Snivy, Cottonee, Minccino, Woobat, Swoobat, Petilil, Klink, Klang, Klinklang, and many others
 * Street Fighter X Tekken - Roll, Alisa Bosconovitch