Ali Hillis

Ali Hillis
Hillis at the 16th Annual MovieGuide Faith and Values Awards Gala, February 12, 2008
Born	Alecia Hillis Huntington Beach, California, U.S.[1]
Status	Married[1]
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
Alma mater	East Carolina University[1]
Occupation	Actress, voice actress
Years active	1999–present
Home town	Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, U.S. Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.[1]
Spouse(s)	Matt Swartz (m. 2008)
Website	alihillis.com

Alecia "Ali" Hillis is an American actress and voice actress who appeared in television and film roles with a voice character in a number of video games. She is widely known for her work as Dr. Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Lightning in the Final Fantasy XIII series, and Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising.

Biography

At the age of six months, Hillis moved with her family to Normal, Illinois and at age 3, to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. She moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at age 13^[2] and performed at The Children's Theater.^[3] She auditioned for Broadway plays in New York City with TV shows of Felicity (2 episodes in 1999), FreakyLinks, Undressed (2000), Baywatch, JAG, Boomtown and Less Than Perfect.^[4] Her several film roles are All the Wrong Places, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Must Love Dogs, Open Water 2: Adrift, The Ultimate Gift, and The Heartbreak Kid^[2] and the Los Angeles play, A Good Soldier. Her video game roles are Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII, its sequels and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Ariel Hanson in Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Karin in the Naruto series, Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising and Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair in Fuse.

In 2012, she starred in a YouTube web series called Fix Me by ModernMom, in which she plays Sydney Lang, a housewife who tries to fix everything around her.^[5]

Filmography

Feature films

List of live-action acting performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[6]
2000	All the Wrong Places	Marisa Baron
2002	The Month of August	August
2005	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Marleah		[7]
2005	Must Love Dogs	Christine
2005	American Gun	Gunshop Patron
2006	Adrift	Lauren
2006	The Ultimate Gift	Alexia
2007	The Heartbreak Kid	Jodi the Bride
2008	Over Her Dead Body	Karen
2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua	Angela
2009	Space Buddies	Astro Spalding
2012	Nesting	Sarah
2012	Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups	Agnes Bright
2013	The Ultimate Life	Alexia Drummond
2014	The Road Within	Monica

List of voice performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[6]
2012	Back to the Sea	Teaching Fish

Television

List of live-action acting performances on television and related media

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[6]
1999	Felicity	Chloe	Eps: "Docuventary", "Assassins"
2000	Undressed	Kim	Eps: "Crossdresser", "Identical Twins", "Handcuffs"
2000	MK3		FOX pilot	[8]
2000	FreakyLinks	Crystal	Ep: "Subject: Fearsum"
2001	Baywatch Hawaii	Ivy Latham	Ep. "A Good Man in a Storm"
2001	Inside Schwartz	Laine	Ep. "Roommates"
2002	Boomtown	Melanie Stone	Ep. "The Squeeze"
2002	Less Than Perfect	Tiffany	Ep. "The Pole"
2004	Jessica	Holly	TV pilot with Jessica Simpson	[8]
2004	JAG	Rachel Hanna	Ep. "Retrial"
2005	Life on a Stick	Jenny	Ep. "Things People Stand For"
2007	Heartland	Heather Hartog	Ep. "I Make Myself Into Something New"
2007	My Boys	Rachel	Ep. "The Estates of Hoffman"
2008	The New Adventures of Old Christine	Denise	Ep. "Beauty is Only Spanx Deep"
2010	Miami Medical	Heidi Pelton	Ep. "88 Seconds"
2011	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Olivia Fowler	Ep. "Hitting for the Cycle"
2011	Memphis Beat	Stacy Ekler	Ep. "At the River"
2012	Fix Me	Sydney Lang	Web series for ModernMom.com	[9]
2015	Castle	Megan Brooks	Ep. "At Close Range
2015	Bones	Lynette O'Malley	Ep. "The Senator in the Street Sweeper"

List of voice performances in television and direct-to-video

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[6]
2005	Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Additional voices
2011-12	X-Men	Emma Frost	English version
2013	Naruto Shippuden	Karin	English version
2013	Stitch!	Toriko	English version	[10]
2013; 2015–16	Regular Show	Various characters		[11][12][13][14][15]
2015	Bear in Underwear	Eloise		[16]
2015	Regular Show: The Movie	Ship Computer, Rigby's Mother	Television Film	[17]

Video games

List of performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[6]
2005	Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse	Mary Godwin, Shelley Godwin		[18]
2006	Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra	Mary Godwin, Shelley Godwin		[18]
2007	Mass Effect	Liara T'Soni		[18]
2010	Mass Effect 2	Liara T'Soni
2010	Final Fantasy XIII	Lightning		[18]
2010	Dead or Alive Paradise	Rio		[18]
2010	StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty	Ariel Hanson		[18]
2010	Valkyria Chronicles II	Audrey Gassenarl		[18]
2010–present	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series	Karin	Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution	[18]
2011	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	Lightning		[18]
2011	Saints Row: The Third	Pedestrian voices		[19]
2011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Additional voices		[20]
2012	Final Fantasy XIII-2	Lightning		[18]
2012	Resident Evil: Revelations	Jessica Sherawat	Uncredited for this role
2012	Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward	Akane Kurashiki	Uncredited[note 1]
2012	Mass Effect 3	Liara T'Soni		[18]
2012	Ninja Gaiden 3	Mizuki McCloud		[18]
2012	Kid Icarus: Uprising	Palutena		[18]
2012	The Amazing Spider-Man	Felicia Hardy (Black Cat), additional voices		[18]
2012	Adera	Jane Sinclaire		[21]
2013	Gears of War: Judgment	Sofia Hendrik		[22]
2013	Fuse	Isabelle Sinclair, Female Computer		[18]
2013	Marvel Heroes	Black Cat
2013	Shin Megami Tensei IV	Burroughs
2013	Tales of Xillia	Presa
2013	Saints Row IV	The Voices of Virtual Steelport		[23]
2013	Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus	Talwyn, Computer, Mrs. Zurkon		[18]
2014	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	Lightning		[18]
2014	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Black Cat/Felicia Hardy		[18]
2014	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Scout Harding, Visha		[24]
2015	Final Fantasy Type-0 HD	Emina		[18]
2015	Lego Jurassic World	Additional voices		[25]
2015	Mad Max	Additional voices		[26]
2015	Skylanders: SuperChargers	Additional voices		[27]
2015	Halo 5: Guardians	Additional voices		[28]
2016	Ratchet & Clank	Computer, Starlene, Mrs. Zurkon		[29]

Notes

1. The English voice actors were not listed in the closing credits.

References

1. "ALI HILLIS - Biography". alihillis.com. Retrieved April 5, 2016., also Hillis, Ali. "Ali Hillis – Bio". Alihillis.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-08. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
2. "Perfect People". perfectpeople.net.
3. When God Winks on New Beginnings, SQuire Rushnell, Thomas Nelson Inc. 2009 page 3
4. "Ali Hillis Biography – Ali Hillis Bio".
5. ModernMom. "Fix Me". YouTube. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
6. Hillis, Ali. "Ali Hillis – Resume". Alihillis.com. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
7. McCabe, Ian (August 24, 2014). "10 Voice Actors You Probably Didn't Notice In Live Action Roles – Page 7 of 11 – 5. Ali Hillis – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". WhatCulture.
8. "Devwatch". The Futon Critic. Retrieved June 15, 2015. Search for entry Jessica under "J".
9. Hillis, Ali (July 9, 2012). "Well, I got cast in this cute web series, and i think it turned out pretty well! Check out the first short webisodes of FIX ME on ModernMom.com! I'm not a mom, yet, but i can be one on the net! smile emoticon". Facebook. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
10. "Stitch! Best Friends Forever". Stitch!. Season 3. Episode 20.
11. "New Year's Kiss". Regular Show. Season 5. Episode 14. December 31, 2013. Cartoon Network.
12. "Mordecai and Rigby Down Under". Regular Show. Season 6. Episode 13. January 22, 2015. Cartoon Network.
13. "Married and Broke". Regular Show. Season 6. Episode 14. January 29, 2015. Cartoon Network.
14. "Happy Birthday Song Contest". Regular Show. Season 6. Episode 17. February 19, 2015. Cartoon Network.
15. "Gamers Never Say Die". Regular Show. Season 6. Episode 19. March 5, 2015. Cartoon Network.
16. "Bear in Underwear - Movie & Television Guide". Movie & Television Guide. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
17. Regular Show: The Movie (film). 2015.
18. "Behind The Voice Actors – Ali Hillis". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved March 13, 2015. – check mark indicates BTVA has verified the entries using screenshots of credits and other confirmed sources.
19. Volition (November 15, 2011). Saints Row: The Third. THQ. Scene: closing credits, 5:45 in, Character Voice Talent.
20. BioWare (December 20, 2011). Star Wars: The Old Republic. Electronic Arts, LucasArts. Scene: closing credits, 9:50 in, English Cast.
21. "Adera blends classic and new puzzle adventure elements, featuring Ali Hillis". nerdappropriate.com. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
22. "Gears of War: Judgment Credits". Microsoft Game Studios. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
23. Volition, High Voltage Software (August 20, 2013). Saints Row IV. Deep Silver. Scene: closing credits, 5:25 in, Character Voice Talent.
24. BioWare. Dragon Age: Inquisition PC. Electronic Arts. Scene: Closing credits, 2:40 in, Additional Voices.
25. Traveller's Tales. Lego Jurassic World. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Credits, 6:00 in, Voice Cast.
26. Avalanche Studios. Mad Max. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Credits, 5:40 in, Talent.
27. Vicarious Visions. Skylanders: SuperChargers. Activision. Scene: Closing credits, 7:13 in, Voice Actors.
28. 343 Industries. Halo 5: Guardians. Scene: Closing credits, 7:01 in Additional Voices.
29. Insomniac Games. Ratchet & Clank. Scene: Closing credits, 1:42 in, Cast.

External links

• Official website
• Ali Hillis at the Internet Movie Database