Nika Futterman (born October 25, 1969 in New York City, New York) is an American voice actress who possesses a very distinctive husky, raspy, and New York accented speaking voice which is often compared to an older Cyndi Lauper. It usually causes her to wind up playing either boys (like Miguel in Maya & Miguel and Adam Lyon in My Gym Partner's a Monkey) or tomboys (like Mike in Mike, Lu & Og or Smellerbee in Avatar: The Last Airbender). Next to Candi Milo (Her Maya & Miguel co-star), she's the most prominent voice actress for Latina characters, such as Lola Caricola in CatDog or Zita Flores in Kim Possible. Capable of doing very feminine voices, such as Celsius in Tales of Symphonia and Velvet Velour in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, as well as sinister-sounding ones, like that of Asajj Ventress on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, and Silhouette on Destroy All Humans!.
She is married to Teddy Xentaras, and they have one daughter born in 2008.
Her voice acting roles are often confused with Cree Summer due to their similar raspy voice however, the main difference is that Cree's rasp is a lot lower and rougher while Nika's rasp is a lot higher and softer.
- Fun Facts:
- She is a passionate poker player.
- She performed the "Give it to me, baby Uh huh, uh huh" refrains alongside Heidi Villagran in The Offspring's 1998 hit single "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)".
Notable roles:
Anime
- Tenkai Knights: Beni
Video Games
- Blue Dragon: Marumaro
- Castle of Illusion: Starring Mickey Mouse: Mizrabelle
- Destiny: Eva Levante
- Doom Eternal: The Khan Maykr and Dr. Elena Richardson
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Lara-Deesei, Norrareth, Paheiza, and Xokomar from Summerset, Clan Mother Tadali and Jun-Jassa from Elsweyr
- Evolve: Sunny
- Fallout 4: Jezebel (from the Automatron DLC)
- Fat Princess Adventures: Princess Muffintop
- Fight Club: Marla Singer
- Halo Wars 2: Alice-130
- inFAMOUS 2: Nix
- Jurassic Park: The Game: Nima Cruz
- Kid Icarus: Uprising: Pandora
- Lost Odyssey: Mack
- League of Legends: Vayne
- Marathon (2026): Recon/Blackbird
- Marvel Rivals: Hela
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance: Black Widow/Natalia Romanov, Deathbird, Valkyrie
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Raging Raven
- Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams: Akane Yagyu
- Psychonauts: Dogen Boole
- Ratchet: Deadlocked: Juanita Alvaro, Courtney Gears, Hydro Girl
- Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus: Zurkon Jr., Vendra Prog
- The Secret World: Carmen Preda
- Sonic Boom: Sticks the Jungle Badger
- StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm: Zagara
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Velvet Velour
Western Animation
- Archer: Sia
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Smellerbee
- Avengers Assemble - Gamora (replaced by Vanessa Marshall starting with Guardians of the Galaxy (2015))
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Sif, Hela
- Barnyard: Additional Voices
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Lashina and Catwoman
- Bugs Bunny Builders: Billie Featherbottom
- CatDog: Lola Caricola (credited as Nika Frost)
- DC Super Hero Girls - Hawkgirl, Cheshire
- Dead Space: Downfall: Alissa Vincent
- Fanboy and Chum Chum: Chum Chum
- The Fairly OddParents!: Ani
- Geppettos Secret: The Magic Wood / Pinocchio
- G.I. Joe: Renegades: Lady Jaye
- Green Eggs and Ham (2019): Receptionist, Waitress, Crony 2 and Happy Kid
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Dora
- Handy Manny: Squeeze & Stretch
- Hey Arnold!: Olga
- Kim Possible: Zita Flores
- The Lion Guard: Zira
- The Loud House: Luna Loud, Boris
- The Casagrandes: Alexis Flores (Loud House Season 4 to Casagrandes Season 2)
- Mike, Lu & Og: Mike
- Minnie's Bow-Toons - Cuckoo Loca (reprises the role for Mickey and the Roadster Racers, Mickey Mouse Funhouse and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+)
- My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Adam Lyon, Ms. Chameleon
- Sanjay and Craig: Belle Pepper
- Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon - Jennifer Severin
- Sofia the First - Madama Ubetcha
- Sonic Boom: Sticks the Jungle Badger
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Asajj Ventress, TC-70, Gardulla the Hutt, Sy Snootles, Shaeeah Lawquane, Chi Eekway Papanoida, Dono, and some additional voices
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Asajj Ventress, Shaeeah Lawquane
- Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld: Asajj Ventress
- Star Wars Rebels: Presence
- Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures: Prue Canti
- The Super Hero Squad Show: Captain Brazil
- Vampirina - Buttons
- The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly: Fry Kid #3
- The Woody Woodpecker Show (1999 and 2019 versions): Splinter
- Xyber 9: New Dawn - Anakonda