Ashly Burch

Ashly Burch (born June 19, 1990) is an American voice actress, singer, and television writer. She is known for her roles as Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, Chloe Price in the Life Is Strange series, Mel in The Last of Us Part II, Tiny Tina in the Borderlands series, Miss Pauling in Team Fortress 2, Dark Willow in Dota 2, the web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, Rowdy from Fallout 4, Mayuri Shiina from Steins;Gate, Sasha Braus from Attack on Titan, Ray and Desiree from Fortnite: Save the World, Viper from Valorant, Parvati Holcomb from The Outer Worlds, Enid from OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, Molly from The Ghost and Molly McGee, Ash Graven from Final Space and Kate Bishop from Marvel's Avengers. Burch grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and has an older brother named Anthony. Her mother is an immigrant from Thailand. She mentioned her mother was very spiritual, giving food to spirits and praying to them. She credits her career path as a voice actress to playing Metal Gear Solid at age 12. Upon seeing voice actor David Hayter's name alongside that of the main characters, she looked him up and realized that there were actual people who voiced the characters, as she realized that was what she wanted to do as a career. She graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2012. After starting Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, Burch got her first voice acting role when her brother, Anthony Burch, was hired as a writer for Borderlands 2 and he suggested she try out for Tiny Tina. For Life Is Strange, she was cast in the role of Chloe Price, after having also auditioned for the roles of Max Caulfield, Victoria Chase and Kate Marsh. She later said that she was surprised by what she could do and had the "opportunity to do in voiceover."