Faye Mata

Faye Mata is an American voice actor. She is credited for her work as the voice actor for the character Yukako Yamagishi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable's English dub.

She is also well known for her roles as Aqua in, Astolfo in and Petra in.

Biography
Faye Mata was born in, United States. During her youth, she originally began her passion for voiceover work while hearing characters interacting with each other in various videogames, notably, as well as doing impressions to entertain her younger siblings. She briefly did theatre through school as well. Eventually, Mata began to join online fandom communities and helped collaborate on unnoficial fan-productions where she would often participate and lend her voice. It helped that there was a noticeable lack of available female voice talent online during that time.

Eventually Mata would go to join several idol contests at, testing out her impressions, but often getting eliminated in the first round several years in a row. In the end, she eventually moved to where she began to take voiceover more seriously. This would lead to her eventually meeting her longtime future voice director,.

Not long afterwards, Mata eventually began to abandon her dream of voiceover and instead went on to earn a degree in Biology. Upon chance, however, while with some friends at another Anime Expo, she joined a voice acting competition hosted by and unexpectedly came out as one of the winners. She later recieved a call back from the studio, which resparked her passion for voiceover.

After several missed opportunities and constant feedback, Mata eventually hit her stride in voiceover and continues to work with various studios and productions to this day.

Mata also does regular streams on her channel and is a partnered content creator with Panda Global.

Trivia

 * While Yukako was one of her most challenging roles, Mata also found her the most rewarding to play as it was very outside her usual comfort zone.
 * Mata took a lot of inspiration from the voicework of and Allegra Clark, learning from their preformances as "sexy" characters as she believed Yukako dipped into that realm a bit.
 * Mata considers her casting as Yukako to be a turning point in her career, feeling as if she was able to prove herself and the capabilties of her vocal range.
 * Despite working in separate booths for recording, Mata and her fellow actor, Zach Aguilar, would often work off of each other's established performances for their own lines due to the nature of their character's relationship.
 * After Yukako, Yoshikage Kira is Mata's other favorite character from Diamond is Unbreakable, her favorite Stand being Stray Cat.
 * When asked if she were to hypothetically have a Stand, what would its name and ability be, Mata has stated that she would name it "Caravan Palace" and that the Stand's ability would act as a teleportation hub, similar to Coco Jumbo's Stand: Mr.President. Entering "Caravan Palace" would allow the user to relocate themself to any other place on the world, exiting at the desired location.