Saffron Henderson

Saffron Henderson
Born (1965-09-25) September 25, 1965[1][2]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupations
  • Voice actress
  • singer
Years active1979–present
Spouse
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(m. 2001)​
[3]
Children2
FatherBill Henderson
RelativesCamille Henderson (sister)

Saffron Henderson (born September 25, 1965) is a Canadian voice actress, actress and singer. She has often worked with Ocean Productions in numerous anime dubs.

Early life, family and education

Saffron Henderson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a daughter of Canadian musician Bill Henderson,[4][5] the lead guitarist and singer of the Canadian rock band Chilliwack. Her sister is singer Camille Henderson.[4]

She recalled in an interview that she worked as a showgirl in Spain when she was seventeen years old.[6]

Career

Henderson tends to be cast as mature and flirtatious women, young boys and teenage girls, as well as foreign women and motherly figures. Her best known roles are Kid Goku and Kid Gohan in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Shenhua in Black Lagoon, Sachiko Yagami in Death Note, Lucrezia Noin in Gundam Wing and Oxnard in Hamtaro. Henderson has acted in live-action roles, as well. She makes a brief appearance in The Fly II as Veronica Quaife (replacing Geena Davis who had starred in the first film),[7] the romantic comedy Cousins as Terri Costello, and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan[8] as rocker J.J. who is killed by Jason Voorhees with her own guitar.

Henderson has performed backing vocals on several albums, including for ex Free/Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers' 2000 album Electric. She is also an instructor for the On the Mic Training voice-over training school in Vancouver.[5]

Personal life

Henderson has stated that, if she weren't an actress, she would have been a psychologist in order to help people with diabetes, from which she suffers.[6] She has mentioned Peter Sellers as an influence.[6][9][10]

Henderson married Chris Pritchett, a professional baseball player, in 2001.[3][11] They have two sons.[11]

Voice roles

Singing roles

References

  1. ↑ Henderson, Saffron [@SafHen] (October 1, 2015). "@JobsOverFifty thx for the wishes, but Wiki is so wrong!! I'm actually born during a different month in 1965. Hee hee" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 "Saffron Henderson (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors (Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources). Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Ewen, Steve (May 12, 2008). "Pritchett ends up in Vancouver, FAMILY FIRST: It used to be a place he'd try to get away from". The Province. p. 44 – via pressreader.com.
  4. 1 2 "Saffron Henderson". discogs.com. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Saffron Henderson". onthemictraining.com. Vancouver: On the Mic Training. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 Henderson, Saffron (May 3, 2005). "Magical Girl: Toon Zone Talks to Saffron Henderson". toonzone.net (Interview). Interviewed by Maxie Zeus. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  7. ↑ Ochoa, George (2011). Deformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose of Horror Films. McFarland. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-786-48654-0.
  8. ↑ Stine, Scott Aaron (2003). The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s. McFarland. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-476-61132-7.
  9. ↑ "Animerica: Animerica Feature: Gundam Wing Voice Actors". animerica-mag.com. Archived from the original on January 22, 2001. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  10. ↑ Henderson, Saffron. "Henderson Interview". elay987.com. Interviewed by Daniel Kurland. E.B.E. Records. Archived from the original on March 23, 2002. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  11. 1 2 Ewen, Steve (April 16, 2022). "Canadians return to The Nat, where everyone knows your name". theprovince.com. Retrieved August 17, 2026.
  12. ↑ Grimes, Rae (October 25, 2021). "Naruto: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Kurenai". CBR. Valnet Publishing Group. Archived from the original on September 1, 2024. Retrieved September 15, 2024. When Kurenai debuts in Episode Three, her English voice actress is Saffron Henderson. Afterward, she's voiced instead by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, though it's not stated exactly why this change ends up being made.
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