Lani Minella

Lani Minella

Lani Minella is the voice director for every 3D Sonic game before Shadow the Hedgehog.

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.

Roles

• Astal (1995) - All voices
• Sonic Adventure (1998) - Default menu theme, Station Square Station announcer, Twinkle Park announcer, Eggman's computer
• Blue Stinger (1999) - Janine King
• Final Fight Revenge (1999/2000) - Poison
• Sonic Shuffle (2000) - Void
• Illbleed (2001) - Eriko Christy
• Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) - Rouge the Bat, Omochao, News reporter
• Sonic Battle (2003) - Rouge the Bat
• Sonic Heroes (2003) - Rouge the Bat, Omochao
• Golden Axe: Beast Rider (2007) - ?
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) - Pit, Lucas, Lyn
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS Version) (2009) - Omochao
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS & Wii U (2014) - Lucas, Larry Koopa, Wendy O. Koopa, Morton Koopa Jr., Lemmy Koopa, Lyn
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2016) - Larry Koopa, Wendy O. Koopa
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - Lucas, Larry Koopa, Wendy O. Koopa, Morton Koopa Jr., Lemmy Koopa, Lyn

Production Credits

• Sonic Adventure (1998) - Voice Recording Director
• Sonic Shuffle (2000) - Casting Director
• Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) - Voice Recording Director
• Sonic Heroes (2003) - Voice Recording Director
• Sonic Advance 3 (2004) - Voice Recording Director
• Illbleed (2001) - Recording Director

Interviews

• Lani Minella interview by GameSpot (June 30, 2000)
• Lani Minella interview by Josh AKA Knuckles Echidna (April 21, 2001)

External Links

• Lani Minella at IMDB