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Tiana Camacho Interview | JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Pokémon, Street Fighter 6 & More
Sep 9, 2025
Voice actor Tiana Camacho (Hermes Costello in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Nessa in Pokémon, Lily in Street Fighter 6, Frenzy in Transformers: EarthSpark, and more) joins us for a conversation about her career in anime, video games, and beyond.
She shares stories about:
Playing Frenzy in Transformers: EarthSpark
Maining herself in Street Fighter 6
Working on Starfield, Fallout 76, Fire Emblem, Call of Duty, and Demon’s Souls
Advice she’d give her younger self starting out in voice acting
The quotes fans most often request at autograph signings
Tiana’s energy, humor, and insight make this a must-watch for fans of anime, gaming, and voice acting.
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Hello, my name is Tiana Kamacho and I'm
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the voice of Be and Nessa in Pokemon. I
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Corora Ray in Destiny Rising. Trans in
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Transformers. I play Frenzy in
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Transformers Earth Spark. And I'm the
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voice of many wonderful characters like
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Lily in Street Fighter 6 and Hermes
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Costello and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure,
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Stone Ocean, and many, many others. And
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I'm very excited to answer some
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questions today. What's one show you had
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a small role on that you wish you could
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have been more involved with?
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Transformers Earth Spark. So, Frenzy is
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a character type I don't often get to
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play a lot. Um, I don't really get to be
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a silly little guy a lot. Uh, I tend to
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be like really stoic and really hardened
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and tough or I'm always a warrior, which
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is like, okay, those are the really
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meaty roles. There's a lot going on
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behind all of the mask that they put on
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to survive through the world. and I get
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to unpeel that and make them vulnerable
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and that's really rewarding as an actor.
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But in real life, I'm just a silly
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little guy. So, I feel like with Frenzy,
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I had this opportunity to play myself,
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which I don't really get with a lot of
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my characters. She was just like a
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mischievous teenage girl who liked emo,
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I guess, and would watch cage fights and
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ran away from home and went to drive-in
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movies and was basically like living
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among the Terran for a little bit. And I
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really wonder what that was like. And I
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also feel like the dynamic with
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Soundwave was really interesting because
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this is a home that she kind of escaped
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from. What was really going on there? I
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would have loved to explore that more.
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just talking as me, Tiana the actor, but
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I really love the work I already did on
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it. And I feel like I don't think I'd
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want to touch it and do anymore. The
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writers did what they did because that's
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how much they had for the character, you
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know? But man, being Frenzy was so much
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fun. I just miss her so much. You voiced
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video game characters in games like
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Fallout 76 and Pokemon Masters. Which
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one of your games is your favorite to
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play?
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This is a hard question. Uh, but it's
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not a hard question because I mained
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Cammy in Street Fighter for 10 years
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before I booked Street Fighter. So, as
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it turns out, it's Street Fighter 6 and
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I main myself because I realized I was
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playing Cammy like a really fast
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grappler, but that's literally just what
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Lily is. So, I realized that Lily fit my
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play style better. And I wasn't trying
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to be a malignant narcissist to me like
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I made myself in Street Fighter. It just
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kind of happened that way. So, I now
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made myself in Street Fighter. You've
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been a part of iconic games like Fire
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Emblem, Call of Duty, and Demon Souls.
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Which one gives you the most bragging
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rights? I don't know because honestly,
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it's all kind of like a blur to me. I
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work on a lot of stuff. Um, I will say
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I'm really proud of the work I did on
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Starfield. Um, because they had me be a
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variety of characters that were all
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pretty different and distinct from one
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another and that game was like two years
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of my life. I don't know if that really
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gives me bragging rights over it or ones
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that I would brag about the most. Um,
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but you know, there's games that I feel
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like I've put a lot of myself in and a
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lot of myself into as an actor, and that
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would definitely be games like Street
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Fighter. I really, you know, like I
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really care about the franchise and the
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IP, so I put a lot of myself into Lily.
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Um, things like, uh, all of Starfields,
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there's a lot of myself in Sophia Grace.
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Uh, I really personalized that character
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and made her really real for me, but I
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don't know if it's something I would
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have bragging rights about. There's just
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sessions and games that are more
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memorable to me because they mean a lot
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to me in my craft. What advice would you
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give to your former self when you were
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recording your first roles from your
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college dorm?
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You have no clue where this is going to
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take you. It's going to be really crazy.
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It might even be an adventure and it
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might even be quite bizarre. Uh you will
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meet people in your life that matter a
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lot to you and people that you think
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will matter but will not. But at the end
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of the day, you will be living your
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dream and you will have all the things
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that you want even if they take a little
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longer to get there than most would have
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that. So keep doing what you're doing
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and follow your ambition. You have no
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clue where it's going to lead you. When
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signing autographs, what quotes do fans
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ask for the most.
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I tend to have a couple on deck so that
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they don't really have to ask me. And
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usually the ones I pick are the ones I
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remember most in the session because
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they were the most fun to do. So because
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of that, they don't really have to ask
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me um for a quote. Sometimes I get some
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Nessa quotes if I don't have any on
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deck, but for the most part I kind of
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just have a lot of fun with it and the
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fans have a lot of fun with it and they
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trust me to put the best quote on there
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and they leave happy every time. And
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that's it. Thanks so much for having me.
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You can follow me on Twitter, Tiana
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Kamacho VO, and at Instagram, Tiana
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Kamacho, and you can also find me on
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Blue Sky. Thanks for having me. Have a
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great day everyone.