Saffron Henderson

Early life, family and education

Saffron Henderson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a daughter of Canadian musician Bill Henderson, the lead guitarist and singer of the Canadian rock band Chilliwack. Her sister is singer Camille Henderson.

She recalled in an interview that she worked as a showgirl in Spain when she was seventeen years old.

Career

Henderson tends to be cast as mature and flirtatious women, young boys and teenage girls, as well as foreign women and motherly figures. Her best known roles are Kid Goku and Kid Gohan in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Shenhua in Black Lagoon, Sachiko Yagami in Death Note, Lucrezia Noin in Gundam Wing and Oxnard in Hamtaro.

Henderson has acted in live-action roles, as well. She makes a brief appearance in The Fly II as Veronica Quaife (replacing Geena Davis who had starred in the first film), the romantic comedy Cousins as Terri Costello, and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as rocker J.J. who is killed by Jason Voorhees with her own guitar.

Henderson has performed backing vocals on several albums, including for ex Free/Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers' 2000 album Electric. She is also an instructor for the On the Mic Training voice-over training school in Vancouver.

Personal life

Henderson has stated that, if she weren't an actress, she would have been a psychologist in order to help people with diabetes, from which she suffers. She has mentioned Peter Sellers as an influence.

Henderson married Chris Pritchett, a professional baseball player, in 2001. They have two sons.

Voice roles

.hack//Roots – Midori

A Christmas Adventure... From a Book Called Wisely's Tales – Rachael, Cupid

Adventures from the Book of Virtues – Julie

Animated Classic Showcase – Various Characters

Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow – Lumina

Billy the Cat – Nelson

Black Lagoon series – Shenhua, Frederica Sawyer/Sawyer the Cleaner, Mami

Brandy & Mr. Whiskers – Additional Voices

Cardcaptors – Vicky (episode 14)

Class of the Titans – Padma

Death Note – Sachiko Yagami

Dragon Ball (BLT Productions/FUNimation dub) – Goku (episodes 1–13 and movie 1)

Dragon Ball Z (FUNimation/Saban Entertainment dub) – Gohan (episodes 1–67 (edited into 53 episodes) and movie 3 (edited into 3 episodes))

Dragon Ball Z (FUNimation/Pioneer dub) – Gohan (movies 1–3)

Dragon Ball Z (Westwood Media/AB Groupe dub) – Gohan (episodes 123–165/edited 108-150)

Dragon Ball Z Kai (Ocean Productions dub) – Gohan

Fat Dog Mendoza – Gothic Girl, Cissy Poole

Singing roles

Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997 / closing credits)

Rainbow Fish (2000 / backing vocals, main title)

The Bitsy Bears (1992 / main title)

Simon (singing voice)