Philece Sampler was an American voice and television actress, whose credits include various characters in anime. She also goes by the aliases of Sue Beth Arden, Victoria Pryne, and Debra Cunningham. She was the voices of Sabine Cheng, Olga Mendeleiev, and Soraya Khan in the English dubbed version of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
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Career
After graduating from the University of North Texas in 1975 with a drama degree, she went to Hollywood and quickly landed guest roles in a few TV movie and TV series, including an episode of The Incredible Hulk.
Sampler first made a name for herself playing Renée DuMonde on the soap Days of Our Lives. The Renee character became the focus of a major 1983 murder mystery, resulting in one of the most spectacular send-offs in daytime history. After leaving Days of our Lives in September 1983, she went on to the TV series Rituals, which ran from 1984–1985. The show also starred future soap stars Mary Beth Evans (Kayla, Days) and Jon Lindstrom (Kevin, GH), as well as veteran soap star Kin Shriner (ex-Scotty, GH; ex-Brian, B&B) and Tina Louise (Ginger from Gilligan's Island.) After Rituals, Philece went on to Another World in 1986 to play Donna Love, a role she took over from originating actress Anna Stuart. She left AW in 1989 when Stuart reclaimed the role. She had a couple guest starring roles on TJ Hooker as Sue Ann and on Hunter as Casey. She then took a sabbatical to Japan with her then-fiance. She returned to the US with a few screenplays and formed Philman Entertainment, a production company.
Sampler worked as associate producer of the Los Angeles stage hit Sordid Lives by Del Shores. She performed in UPN's animated series, The Incredible Hulk, as the voice of Betty Ross. She remains pals with her former Days of our Lives love-interest Gregg Marx (David Banning). She performed a voice over on Real Monsters - "Ollie Ollie Oxen Free." She did a voice on Nickelodeon's Rugrats, where she played Emma (Chuckie's love interest) in the episode "He Saw, She Saw". She later voiced Francine, a character from the Rugrats spin-off series All Grown Up! and was well known for voicing Mimi Tachikawa & Cody Hida in the anime series Digimon. She also voiced Toph Beifong in the "The Legend of Korra" series.
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Trivia
- Sampler is given a posthumous credit in Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie where her name is seen on the "Cast" list.
- As revealed by Ezra Weisz on his Instagram, the cast initially started recording their lines for the first version of the movie on February 18, 2020.[4] He later revealed in an interview on Twitch that during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, both the movie and the scripts were rewritten multiple times.[5] So, while there's no official confirmation yet, it's likely Sampler recorded the initial lines for Sabine Cheng for the movie before her passing and Anne Yatco took over for the final version.
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References
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192291/
- ↑ https://heavy.com/news/philece-sampler-dead-cause-of-death/
- ↑ https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/news/603631/days-of-our-lives-another-world-alum-philece-sampler-dead/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B8tmN59n4UJ/
- ↑ https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1551308999?t=0h25m04s