Marisha Ray


 * This page is about the actor. For the character from a one-shot campaign, see Marisha Ray (character).

Marisha Ray is a voice actress who plays Laudna, in the third campaign. She played Keyleth, a half-elf druid, in the first campaign and Beauregard Lionett in the second one. She was also the Dungeon Master for and. Marisha is the creative director of Critical Role Productions LLC.

Pre-Stream
Before the first campaign, Marisha played another D&D game with the same Dungeon Master, Matthew Mercer. Also before the first campaign, she was in another pen-and-paper RPG game with fellow voice actor and player Taliesin Jaffe. She has also played a tabletop version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Marisha helped Matt host the first pre-stream session of the campaign that later became Critical Role, which was supposed to be a one-time game. She did not play as a character in that particular session.

Upon joining the campaign, Marisha assigned Keyleth's lowest stat to Charisma and played her as very introverted, which worked well because Marisha didn't know the other players well and decided to reflect that uncertainty in her character.

Critical Role
Marisha has the honor of being the first player to roll a natural 20 on Critical Role, which she rolled for a performance check while in the shape of a bear, trying to save Trinket from a bar fight.

When asked if she could play any character, Marisha chose Scanlan or Pike.

Marisha's Player Characters
See also: Player characters played by Marisha Ray

Main Storyline

 * Keyleth, half-elf druid (Campaign One: Vox Machina)
 * Beauregard, human monk (Campaign Two: The Mighty Nein)
 * Laudna, human sorcerer/ warlock (Campaign Three)

One-Shots and Miniseries

 * Edna, human wizard
 * Snizzler, goblin alchemist
 * Sudis Alifehr, human
 * Marisha Ray (character), human monk
 * Marisha Ray (vampire)
 * Rhinestone, raccoon
 * Cranberry Stockings
 * Alexandra Elise O'Neil, world traveler and smuggler
 * Arabella Whitlock ("UnDeadwood")
 * Hazel Copperpot, dwarven bard
 * Tauro, demon hunter
 * Dr. Nomen L Frenno, astrobiologist

Trivia

 * On Talks Machina, the host Brian Wayne Foster liked to "#ThankMyGuests" with names that were either mispronounced or a wordplay but close to the original. Here are the names for Marisha Ray:
 * Marisha and Matthew Mercer got married between the ending of Campaign 1 and the beginning of Campaign 2.
 * Marisha's chosen drink for her Between the Sheets interview was a jalapeno margarita'''.
 * Every Halloween, the cast of Critical Role dresses up in costume for one episode. Marisha has dressed up as Violet from Rat Queens (2015), Anna Ripley (2016), Lisa Frank Castle (2018), Soldier B (2019), Celia Ovesso (2020), and Taliesin Jaffe (2021).
 * Marisha currently holds the top attendance record out of the main cast members for the main campaigns, with just two more episode appearances than Liam O'Brien. However, if one-shots are counted, she takes second place behind Liam.