Klariz Magboo

Klariz Laurelle Magboo (Kanji: Klariz Magboo) is a half-Swiss half-Filipino Philippine voice actress. Magboo is also known for her dubbing work in Tagalog-language anime adaptations and as Ash Ketchum in animated series Pokémon.

Career

The main role of Ash Ketchum was given to Magboo, who is also a professional singer, model and stage performer. She also voices Ash's mother, Delia Ketchum. Her most famous roles include Inoue Orihime in Bleach (manga) from episode 10 onwards, Vanilla Mieux in Sugar Sugar Rune, Powered Buttercup and Hyper Blossom in Powerpuff Girls Z, Mikan Sakura in Gakuen Alice (Alice Academy), Tenma Tsukamoto in School Rumble, TOMOKO in GTO- Great Teacher Onizuka, and the five-year old Lambo (Reborn!) in Katekyo Hitman Reborn!.

Magboo is also one of the first batch of 30 girls of Take Me Out who are in hopes to meet the man of their dreams. Take Me Out! is a television dating game show hosted by Jay-R (with occasional co-hosts Gladys Guevarra and Janna Dominguez). The show is a version of Australian game show Taken Out, created by Frenmantle Media France. It premiered on April 26, 2010 on GMA Network and is currently shown twice a day, 5-5:30pm from Mondays to Fridays in a half hour slot. The programme is hosted by the Philippines' ‘Platinum Prince of Soul’ Jay-R (Jay R Sillona), in what is the country's first-ever studio-based dating game show.

Magboo has also appeared in several television programs such as Wowowee, Eat Bulaga, Go Bingo, Sabado Boys The Beat,Voice of the Youth and Dear Friend

Personal life

Magboo began participating in school's oral interpretation contest when she was 7 years old. Magboo, is a two-time Declamation Grand champion in Tagig's Vox Juvenum's Inter-school Tagisan ng Talino. The first was on February 11, 1996 in elementary division when she was in grade IV and on February 26, 2000 in high school division when she was in 2nd year. Both were held at Sta. Ana Parochial School (now Colegio de Santa Ana) in Tagig City. The Inter-school's Vox Juvenum was followed by Saint Francis of Assisi College System's Inter-Campus contest during its "English Week" celebration in the same year and it was considered by Magboo to be her "most memorable"contest participation, for they were only two from grade IV along with other grade V and grade VI contestants. She was also the "youngest" and "the only female" in the group for elementary category . As she remembers she was being mocked by other students during the contest because of her costume and they say the piece has to be rendered by a male. The oratorical piece was entitled "Brutus Speech in th Forum". It was in this year where Magboo received a special Declaimer of the Year award upon consistently bagging the Champion place during its Inter-campus and Inter-school competition. From then, she became a consistent and undefeated champion for all the elocution contest she had participated during her elementary and high school years.

She began acting in school plays when she was in grade school, in Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Samson and Delilah and Linggo Ng Wika "Pagsasadula" where she won her first Best Actress award in grade V. Magboo had no professional training in voice acting but her regular participation in Quiz Bee's Elocution Contests in her school Saint Francis of Assisi College System-Tagig with her mother as her voice coach and trainer. She has also trained in singing through participation in school's singing contests and took formal voice lessons later on.

Her first job as a voice actor came when she was 14 years old by her fellow TV commercial model Karl Angelo Legaspi, who recommended that she audition for a telenovela which he also dubbed. Synchmaster Studio and Ms. Vangie Labalan then discovered her and gave way to Magboo's voice acting career. Since then she has been among the better-known and more popular voice actors. Magboo also won the Best Single Entry for Voice-over commercial by ADFARM in Ad Congress Philippines in 2004. She received the 2010 "Charm Me Campus Jock" title being the Grandchampion for Charmee SupahStar Campus Search held recently participated by hundreds of students from eight universities.

Magboo's first theater experience was"The Magic Staff" where she played Samsara (in the disguise of 3 princesses). The Magic Staff-A Musical Adventure in Three Acts is a play created by 8-year-old Cy Tamura and directed by Henry Tejero.

Filmography (Tagalog version)

Anime/Cartoons

Telenovelas

MOVIES(TV)

Commercials

TV Appearances

External links

• Youtube Channel for Klariz Magboo 1

• Youtube Channel for CharmeeSupahStar 2

• Klariz Magboo in Take Me Out! (Philippines) 3

• Klariz Magboo at K-Zone Philippines(children's magazine) 4

• Klariz Magboo at Bulbapedia (Pokémon encyclopedia) 5