Linda Young

Happy Birthday Linda Young

"It's Time You BIT the Bullet and Started Caring about Something with ALL your Heart and Energy.... But You Can't Care about it if You're ALWAYS Holding Yourself Back in Case it Doesn't Work Out....

CONCENTRATE on What's Important Yusuke.... Then COMMIT to it ALL THE WAY....."

Happy birthday, Linda Young.

She might have been miscast as Frieza but she was good as Baba and Genkai.

Happy Birthday Linda Young!

I absolutely love her work as Frieza, Genkai, and Fortune Teller Baba.

It looks like she's finally been doing a lot more cons lately, and you can find several recent Q&A panels on YouTube. Some interesting things I learned:

- She says she's become good friends with Ryusei Nakao, from doing several cons together. She says he's super nice, and brings her gifts every time they meet, and his daughter does too. Despite the language barrier, they can still sort of understand each other. He finds her version of Frieza amusing.

- She's very familiar with Team Four Star's DBZ Abridged, and enjoys it a lot.

- She likes Chris Ayres' version of Frieza, and is very understanding of FUNi wanting to go in another direction with the character. She says she's just thankful for the 10 years she had voicing the role, and that it's somewhat easier for her singing career anyway. She still gets plenty of work at FUNi.

She'd be absolutely PERFECT as Big Mom in One Piece!

Linda is one talented voice actress she great as Fortuneteller Baba, Shan, Porlyusica, Frieza, and Genkai

Happy Birthday Linda Young!

My top 5 favourite roles from her are:

1.) Genkai (Yu Yu Hakusho)
2.) Porlyusica (Fairy Tail)
3.) Fortuneteller Baba (Dragon Ball Z)
4.) Piiza (Dragon Ball Z)
5.) Shan (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

I actually like the fact that even though she's no longer Freeza, Chris Sabat did at least keep her as Baba and Piiza, I definitely prefer her in both of those roles.

I do have to wonder if Chris Sabat will cast her or Brina Palencia as Arale for when her episodes in Super are dubbed. Come to think of it I have no idea how that sounds. I'm a bit curious how Linda portrays a little girl robot.

also it's interesting and amusing that she's John Burgmeier's mother. Genkai being Kurama's mother and son in real life.

Her performance as Frieza in DBZ back in 1999 is kinda outdated. She's improved tremendously since then if you look at the video games from 2009-2011. She 's actually quite comparable to Chris Ayers.

Happy Birthday Linda Young!

While I've never been that big of a fan of her Frieza. I do however think she was just perfect as Genkai in Yu Yu Hakusho, she had a lot of spunk to the role of the wise old mentor.

She was also pretty good as Porlyusica in Fairy Tail also.

It'd be nice to see her get another major role again in the near future.

The Texas Melodee Spevack.

She was a great Frieza and spot on as Genkai. A lot of people like Chris Ayers better, but I'm half and half. I think she gave Frieza a more creepy feel, where as, Ayers made Frieza more articulate.

The original Frieza.

shame she doesnt play more old ladies in the anime culture.
her, Barbara Goodson and juli erickson are one of the voices that come to mind when I think of it.
for me, the voice of Genkai really worked.

Never been a big fan of her Frieza but he is unbeatable as Genkai

It appears that Linda's made a sort of comeback in voice acting for anime. She's had roles in several shows recently. Granted, not big roles, but she does have a knack for playing older women (it would've been interesting if she had played the grandmother in Summer Wars). It would be interesting if she was cast as some younger women. Her voice does have an interesting tone to it, and it would work well for younger women in certain cases, such as Fasha in DBZ (granted that casting was likely a result of FUNi having a very small talent pool at the time, but still, I enjoyed that voice).

Um, crediting her as Frieza for DBZ Kai is kind of misleading since she only voiced his laughs in the first episode's opening. Chris Ayres voiced him afterwards.