I have learned a terrible truth...

I have strayed from my Shadow Chronicles commentary to mention something that I have just learned…

The voice actor that gave Dana Sterling life has passed away. The voice actor was credited as Melissa Newman aka Lisa Michaelson. While listening to Space Station Liberty during the Reba West aka Rebecca Forstadt interview, other listeners and Rebecca confirmed that the voice actor was in fact a girlfriend of Greg Snegoff and died in a car accident many years ago. I did my own research and found that Lisa Michaelson died in 1991. Although her death isn’t recent, I felt it was something new to me.

Many have thought she didn't do any other voice work after Robotech. Yet, if you pull up Lisa Michaelson on IMDB she did a few other roles in the late 80s. Some include: My Neighbor Totoro, Robot Carnival and Zillion.

This is sad news as we have lost a true talent and unfortunately, Dana (if she appears in any future Robotech movies) will be voiced by a new actor.

I remember back in the 80's I read somewhere that Lisa aka Melissa Newman was a friend of another voice actor working on Robotech and when producers just couldn't find their Dana, she had accidentally spoken up in the studio to which they knew that was the voice. Thus, she really wasn't a voice actor by trade. I feel we have a few more pieces of the puzzle…

If anyone has more information on this I would be interested in reading about it.