Anairis Quinones is a voice actor notably recognized for her roles in anime, video games, and TV shows such as Downfall, Asagao Academy: Normal Boots Club, Dragon Ball Absalon, and Iridescent.
She is a remarkable voice actor who has proven to be quite good in her career and is still pushing to be better than she was when she first started voice acting.
Anairis Quinones is the one behind the voices of characters such as; Mirko in ‘My Hero Academia’, Nessa in ‘Pokemon’, Echidna in ‘ReZero’, and Yelena in ‘Attack on Titan’.
Brief Biography Of Anairis Quinones
Anairis Quinones was born on the 16th of September 1997 in Orlando, United States of America. She attended Eastern Florida State College.
Quinones was living in Florida up until 2018 when she got her first job as a voice actor and so had to move to Texas. She grew up in a close-knit family with her parents and even cousins.
Anairis Quinones is quite close to her family and even dreaded leaving them when fame came knocking for her.
Here’s Everything You Should Know About Her
1. Why did Anairis Quinones Get Into Voice Acting?
Anairis Quinones got into voice acting because she was always interested in acting but was a very shy girl as a kid.
However, as she got older, she became more interested in anime and this inspired her love for voice acting.
Watching anime and listening to the voice actors made her realize that it is something she could do without necessarily putting herself out there.
She started off recording herself mimicking weather reports and scenes from what she watched.
2. Her Cousin Influenced Her Love For Anime
Anairis became interested in anime because while growing up, she had a cousin who was really into anime. Her cousin was in love with them and spoke about them so much.
Quinones felt the need to be able to relate with her cousin so she became really interested in anime.
3. Quinones Started Voice Acting Officially In 2018
Anairis started voice acting as a hobby. She enjoyed the process of bringing animation to life by voicing its characters, however, because she was still very shy, she didn’t push to make her love for it a career.
She eventually joined a community of voice actors and grew her abilities at voice acting. A few years down the line, she became a little more serious with voice acting and it became a side job for her.
She became a part-time voice actor and earned some money while at it. Eventually, by 2018, Anairis got her first real job as a voice actor in the anime Kemono Friends.
However, even after booking this first gig, she was still shy to push for more. She thought she was just lucky to have gotten Kemono Friends and so she fell back into her shell.
4. She Does Character Studies
Before Anairis begins a new job at voice acting, she takes her time to research the character she would be voicing.
If the character is one who has been in existence before, she watches all about the character and tries to understand the character better.
Quinones takes a great deal of time and makes extra efforts to be able to relate with her characters before she begins to voice.
She even goes the extra mile to try and put herself in the same condition or environment with the character so as to execute the role better.
5. Anairis Was Initially Interested In Writing
Prior to acting, Anairis was initially interested in acting. She had a huge love and passion for acting and weaving words together in a creative manner.
She considers herself a character-driven writer who loves to see and play character-driven roles.
6. What Were Anairis’ Challenges
Quinones dabbled between her school work and her job as a part-time voice actor from when she joined the community of voice actors. She was still quite young at this time and juggled through this till she was 18 because of her timidity.
Anairis had to try to overcome being shy and decided to leave her family and comfort zone. She eventually had to leave Florida for Texas after bagging her first big role in 2018.
Apart from this, she also struggled with being accepted into the entertainment industry because of the color of her skin. She feared that her talent wouldn’t be enough to get her enough roles because she was a colored woman and so she had to try harder than other actors.
These made her quite skeptical and posed a huge challenge for her but she took inspiration from others who were there before her.
She only became quite confident in herself and her talent after getting the role to play Rwby.
7. Her Mother Is A Huge Inspiration To Her
Anairis is inspired to be better in voice acting by other voice actors in the industry. However, her biggest inspiration comes from her mother who is a hard worker.
Anairis’ mother is tough but also very caring and she inspires her daughter to be a hard worker as well as caring and sympathetic.
8. She Is Also A YouTuber
Anairis Quinones was into freelancing while still in college. She was doing freelance acting for Youtubers and took up other small projects as well.
She was part of the YouTube project, ‘Minecraft Diaries’ alongside Sebastian Todd.
Anairis also has a self-titled YouTube channel where she posts her ‘Let’s Play Videos’.
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9. She Used To Sing
Anairis remembers being told by her parents that she was quite a ‘hummer’ as a baby. She was so in love with music while growing up that she even attempted music. However, it was short-lived, partly because of her shyness and also because she wasn’t as passionate about it as she was about acting and voicing characters.
10. Anairis Quinones’ Advice To Other Creatives
26 year old Anairis Quinones advises other creatives to always push hard to achieve their dreams against any odd.
She preaches that if a creative does not find a niche for him/herself, one should be self-created to fit his/her talent and skills.
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