Emily Marie Neves (born July 29, 1982) is an American actress, singer, script writer and voice director. In 2005, she was a preliminary contestant for the fourth season of American Idol at the Las Vegas auditions where she advanced to the Hollywood round and was then eliminated. She is a resident actress at the Alley Theatre in Houston, and a voice actress for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks/Seraphim Digital, the latter of which she also voice directs and the former of which she writes ADR scripts.