3 min read
Ryan Bartley (born February 3, 1998, in Fort Worth, Texas)1 is an American actress and voice actress best known for her prolific work in English-language anime dubbing and video game voice acting. She is particularly recognized for voicing Ram in Re and Rei Ayanami in Netflix's 2019 redub of Neon Genesis Evangelion.2 In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), she provided the voices of the Mini-Pufts.3
Join the community
Free accounts post in the forum, upload to the gallery, edit the wiki, and follow your favorite franchises. No credit card. No catch.
Bartley was raised in Texas and began performing in theater, film, television, and radio as a child. She attended the theater program at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas, one of the country's most selective arts magnet schools. She graduated early and relocated from Dallas to Los Angeles to pursue a professional career.1
She earned a degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, majoring in Cinema-Television Critical Studies with a minor in Screenwriting, giving her a grounding in both the production side and the critical theory of the entertainment industry.4
After arriving in Los Angeles, Bartley broke into the anime dubbing industry, working with major studios including Bang Zoom! Entertainment and VSI Los Angeles. Her voice acting range spans soft-spoken, emotionally complex characters to high-energy leads.5
Her most recognized anime role is Ram, one of the twin maids in Re:ZERO: Starting Life in Another World, a multi-season fantasy series with a substantial international following. She also voices Rei Ayanami in the English-language redub of Neon Genesis Evangelion produced for Netflix in 2019, taking on one of the most iconic characters in anime history.2 Other significant anime credits include Gilda in The Promised Neverland, Komugi in Hunter x Hunter, Makomo, Hanako, and Young Rengoku in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Shoko Ieri in Jujutsu Kaisen, Yuna/Yuuna Shigemura in Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale, Misa and Yusa Nishimori in Charlotte, and Shizuku Kitayama in The Irregular at Magic High School.2
In video games, Bartley is the established English voice of Plachta across the Atelier franchise (Koei Tecmo/Gust). Additional game credits include Sage in Sonic Frontiers and Marian and Modernia in Nikke.2
Her live-action film work has included uncredited additional-voice contributions to large-scale productions: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), The Boss Baby (2017), Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), and the 2025 live-action Lilo and Stitch.2 In animation, she has voiced Young Zeta on Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine and characters in the Shopkins franchise.2
Bartley provided the voices of the Mini-Pufts in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife directed by Gil Kenan. The Mini-Pufts are a group of small mischievous creatures derived from the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Her work on the film was uncredited. She shared the Mini-Pufts voice duties with fellow voice actress Shelby Young.3
Bartley has described herself publicly as a Texas Rangers baseball fan, an animation enthusiast, and an animal rights advocate.1
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
"Ryan Bartley," biography, IMDb, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2876104/bio/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
"Ryan Bartley," filmography, IMDb, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2876104/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
Bartley, Ryan (@RyanBartley). "Had the honor of voicing the Mini Pufts in the latest Ghostbusters movie Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!!!! @shelby_young (who also voices Mini Pufts) and I went to see it in #4DX and it was such a blast!!!" X (formerly Twitter), April 3, 2024, https://x.com/RyanBartley ↩ ↩2
"Ryan Bartley," AnimeCons.com, accessed 2026-06-13, https://animecons.com/guests/bio/6856/ryan-bartley ↩
"Ryan Bartley," TV Tropes, accessed 2026-06-13, https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RyanBartley ↩