Tara Strong

Tara Strong is a Canadian-American actress, voice-over artist, comedian, and singer, perhaps best known for voice acting in animated films and television. She has an extremely versatile voice.

Born Tara Lyn Charendoff (and credited as "Tara Charendoff" until she married) in Toronto, Ontario, to American parents. Strong's acting career began when she volunteered to be a soloist in an upcoming school production at age four. Soon, she began acting in the Yiddish Theater; though she didn't speak the Yiddish language, she memorized her lines phonetically. During this time, she also performed at the Toronto Jewish Theater, where she acted in A Night of Stars, and was featured in an audiotape for "Lay Down Your Arms" with the Habonim Youth Choir, where she sang the lyrics in both English and Hebrew, a feat she repeated on February 10, 2005, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel during the March of the Living dinner in honor of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Strong is a Jewish vegetarian and has one older sister, Marla. She is frequent co-stars with fellow actress Cree Summer (who also did voice acting in kids' cartoons, particularly ones from the 1980s and 1990s); the two are childhood friends and grew up in Toronto together. She is also close friends with Butch Hartman, the creator of  The Fairly Odd Parents, fellow voice actress and often co-worker Grey DeLisle, Drawn Together co-star Jess Harnell (another 1980s/1990s cartoon voice actor), and The Powerpuff Girls co-stars Cathy Cavadini and E.G. Daily.

If it's an American cartoon from the 1980s or 1990s (and some in the 2000s, particularly if it's a Nelvana, Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon show), she's probably in it somewhere.

Strong has made a few rare on-screen acting appearances over the years, most notably in National Lampoon's Senior Trip in which it was revealed that, aside from having a magical voice, she also possesses the Most Common Superpower...

She is currently married to American actor Craig Strong and they have two sons; Sammy James Strong (born February 2, 2002), and Aden Joshua Strong (born August 25, 2004). They currently reside in California with their dog, Baci. She and Craig are the founders of VoiceStarz, Inc., an Internet-based company which teaches people how to get into the voice-over business, of which Craig is the C.E.O.. Strong is a natural brunette, but dyes her hair blond.

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Credits

 * One Hundred and One Dalmatians: The Series - Spot, Two Tone, Vendela
 * American Dragon: Jake Long - Kara & Sara, Veronica, Stacey
 * Armored Core 5 - Francess "Fran" Batty Curtis, Angie, Computer voice #1
 * The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 - Lemmy "Hip" Koopa and Iggy "Hop" Koopa
 * Asura's Wrath - Durga
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender - Mai's mother, Tom-Tom, Actress Azula
 * Batman: Arkham City: Harley Quinn
 * Batman the Animated Series - Batgirl/Barbara Gordon
 * Batman the Brave And The Bold - Billy Batson, Mary Marvel, Huntress
 * Beetlejuice - Clare Brewster, Bertha
 * Ben 10 - Ben Tennyson, Upgrade, Future Gwen, Buzzshock, Benwolf, Lucy, Ken Tennyson, Sandra Tennyson, Additional voices
 * Ben 10 Alien Force - Incursion Princess Atea
 * Big Time Rush - Miss Collins (live-action)
 * Blue Dragon - Kluke (game only)
 * The Boondocks - Cindy McPhearson
 * Camp Lazlo - Amber, Tootie, & Honey
 * Captain N and the Adventures of Super Mario Brothers 3 - Hip and Hop Koopa
 * Captain N and the New Super Mario World - Hip and Hop Koopa
 * Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion - Bubbles, Buttercup, Chowder, Dexter
 * Celebrity Deathmatch - Paris Hilton
 * Chowder - Truffles.
 * Codename: Kids Next Door - Mushi Sanban (Numbuh 3's sister), Additional voices
 * Danny Phantom - Ember McLain, Star, Penelope Spectra, Tiffany Snow
 * Dan Vs. - The Bank Manager
 * Drawn Together - Princess Clara, Toot Braunstein
 * Duck Dodgers - Counselor Dish, Ellomold the Enchantress, Katma-Tui
 * Extreme Ghostbusters - Kylie Griffin
 * The Fairly Odd Parents - Timmy Turner, Poof, Man-Die, Additional voices
 * Family Guy - Amanda, Meg's singing voice on the season four episode "Don't Make Me Over," Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Japanese Girl, Jack and Sarah's adoptive children
 * Fat Princess - The Princesses
 * Fillmore! - Ingrid Third
 * Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Kingdom Hearts II - Rikku
 * Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - Terrence
 * The Garbage Pail Kids - Patty Putty
 * Hot Shots Golf Fore! - Emma
 * Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater - Hello Kitty
 * Jak and Daxter - Keira (Jak 3 onward), Seem
 * Killer7 - KAEDE Smith
 * Kim Possible - Tara, Joss Possible, Britina, Espadrille
 * Kung Fu Panda, Secrets of the Furious Five - Young Tigress
 * La Pucelle: Tactics - Goddess Poitreene, Chocolat
 * The Life and Times of Juniper Lee - Roger, Lila the Sasquatch
 * Lilo & Stitch: The Series - Angel (#624)
 * The Little Mermaid 2: Return To The Sea - Melody
 * Lollipop Chainsaw - Juliet Starling
 * Lost Odyssey - Seth Balmore
 * Madeline - Chloe (Season 1).
 * Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - X-23
 * Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Paz Ortega Andrade
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic - Twilight Sparkle
 * Ninja Gaiden - Rachel
 * No More Heroes - Margaret Moonlight, Cloe Walsh
 * The Powerpuff Girls - Bubbles
 * The Proud Family - Bebe Proud, Cece Proud, Puff
 * Psychonauts - Sheegor
 * The Raccoons - Donna (one of her earliest roles)
 * Rugrats/All Grown Up! - Timmy McNulty, Dil Pickles
 * The Replacements - Sierra McCool
 * Shaman King - Young Yoh
 * Shrek 2 - Lil' Red (video game only)
 * Samurai Jack - Queen/Verbina
 * Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions - Doctor Octopus 2099
 * Spirited Away - Yubaba's baby (Boh)
 * Spyro: A Hero's Tail - Ember, Flame
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic - Risha
 * Sym-Bionic Titan - Princess Ilana
 * Super Best Friends Forever - Batgirl
 * Tales of Symphonia - Presea Combatir, Corrine
 * Teen Titans - Raven, Kitten, Kole, Teether, and Jinx and Gizmo in their final appearances.
 * Tekkaman Blade II - Yumi Francois/Tekkaman Hiver
 * The Superhero Squad Show- Scarlet Witch and the Invisible Woman.
 * Transformers Animated - Sari Sumdac, Female Starscream (Slipstream), Slo-Mo, Strika, Red Alert, Mayor Edsel's press secretary, Carly Witwicky, Teletran-1 (Basically almost any major female character)
 * Ultimate Spider-Man- Mary Jane Watson
 * Wolverine and the X-Men - Dust, X-23, Stepford Cuckoos, Magik
 * Xiaolin Showdown - Omi

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Tropes found in her voice acting:

 * Casting Gag: In Super Best Friends Forever she voices Batgirl once again.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices: She voices a lot of boys, such as Timmy Turner, Ben Tennyson, and Omi.
 * Expy: Unintentional, but there are two characters that she voice that are like Raven.
 * The goth girl in Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare who has purple hair, who likes to be alone and found the camp activity trivia until she later finds that she enjoys them and the other campers.
 * Twilight Sparkle who has a purple mane, is a magic user, loves books, and thought she didn't need any friends until she was proven wrong.
 * Woman Of A Thousand Voices: Tara can go from Bubbles, to Timmy Turner, to Toot and Clara, to Dil Pickles, to Batgirl, to Rikku, to Twilight Sparkle and even to Raven and Harley Quinn.
 * Older Than They Look: She is 39, but looks to be in her late 20's.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: She often appears alongside Grey DeLisle and Cree Summer, the later whom is a childhood friend.
 * Taking To Herself: Tara usually voices multiple characters in her works, who most likely end up interacting. An extreme case is Drawn Together, where she voices two main characters, Toot and Clara.
 * Another example is the Batman the Brave And The Bold episode "The Malicious Mr. Mind" where she voices Billy, Mary and toddler Batman.
 * Troll: She loves teasing fans on her twitter account in various ways, she is after all Twilightlicious.
 * Vocal Evolution: Her earliest roles sound very different from her later ones.