Karen Strassman

Biography

Karen Strassman is an actress, voice-over artist and dialect coach, known the world over for hundreds of characters she has created in many forms.

Whether on-camera or behind a mic, Karen is extremely versatile.  She has played roles as varied as the brilliant and empathic scientist, Devra Bogdanovich, of Ingress; a dying immigrant from Northern Ireland; doctors and lawyers, the quirky bookish OCD accountant recurring on Weeds; to a killer’s trailer trash mother on Criminal Minds.

She has created hundreds of voice-over characters of all shapes, sizes, genders, ages, and species, from classic Disney princesses, to iconic villainesses, to talking jellyfish and shy tadpoles.  Karen stars as ‘Jinja’ in the new Nicktoons series, Monsuno, and she also voices every other female character in the show (over 24 at last count).