Debi Mae West is an Americanvoice actor who, to date, is best known as the English voice of Meryl Silverburgh in Metal Gear Solid and its 2004 GameCube remake. A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Meryl Silverburgh is the name of two different video game characters designed by Hideo Kojima. ... Metal Gear Solid ), commonly abbreviated as MGS, is a stealth-based game developed by Konami and first published for the PlayStation video game console in 1998. ... Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is a stealth-based game that was developed by Silicon Knights and Konami for the GameCube and released in March 2004. ...
Aside from voicing Meryl, she also voices Gigi on the animated TV series Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Reycom and Hideaki on the anime series Zatch Bell!, and Sephie on the video game Tales of Symphonia, among others. She also provided the voice for Kat in Max Steel as the title character's secondary main side-kick. Zatch Bell!, known in Japan as Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (anime) and Konjiki no Gash!! (manga) (éè²ã®ã¬ãã·ã¥ãã«!! Konjiki no Gasshu Beru!! literally translates to Golden Gash Bell!!), is a shÅnen manga series by Makoto Raiku, which has been adapted as an anime TV series by Toei Animation. ... // Tales of Symphonia ) is a video game first released for the Nintendo GameCube and later for the PlayStation 2. ... Max Steel is a TV show which originally aired on February 2000 and ran for three series totalling thirty-five episodes with a predicted audience of young males from the ages of eight to twelve. ...
In Metal Gear Solid, she was credited as Mae Zadler, due to union regulations. She is also sometimes credited as Debbie Mae West.
MaeWest was born on August 17, 1893, in Brooklyn, New York.
Like her trampy late-century protégé, Mae was not out there to forward an agenda, or to break new moral ground; she was out there to forward MaeWest, and was brazen enough not to care much about bending some conventions to do so.
But what she did do was play the MAEWEST character on stage and off for nearly all of her life after the death of her manager, Timothy because that is what her fans demanded of her.