Kira Buckland was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She first decided to become a performer while in middle school and originally wanted to be a rock singer, but in high school she started getting into Japanese animation and video games and learning about the craft of voice acting. After hearing about “online voice acting” from a friend, Kira began participating heavily in online communities and lending her voice to independent projects. At the time, she became recognized as the familiar female voice that people would hear in a lot of Flash animations and games. She also became one of the pioneers of the early Internet voice acting scene by founding the Voice Acting Club, which got rebooted in late 2016 and is now an active worldwide online community with over 30,000 members.
After taking acting classes in addition to pursuing online indie work, Kira moved to the Los Angeles area in 2011 and began landing roles in projects such as anime and video games, eventually becoming a full-time voice actor as of 2018. She is also a regular at anime and comic conventions, spending many weekends per year traveling around the country to meet fans and sign autographs.
In 2021, Kira booked her all-time dream role as the English voice of “Jolyne Cujoh” in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Some of the other franchises Kira is most known for include Demon Slayer, Genshin Impact, NieR:Automata, Zenless Zone Zero, Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Street Fighter, Soulcalibur, Edens Zero, Ace Attorney, YashaHime, Dead or Alive, and many others. She has been heard as the voice of hundreds of characters in anime and video games across the world.
Kira is the proud owner of a 1983 DeLorean time machine car, and has five cats. When not acting, she enjoys playing Pokemon GO, roller skating, watching makeup tutorials, and streaming on Twitch as the cow VTuber “Josie McFly”.
