Tara Strong

Tara Strong (née Charendoff) is a Canadian-American actress who has voiced many characters in animation, websites, and video games. She has worked on various animated series like The New Batman Adventures, Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents, The Proud Family, Xiaolin Showdown, Ben 10, Chowder, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Unikitty!, and DC Super Hero Girls. She has earned and  nominations and won an award from the.

Career
Strong's first professional role was Gracie in Limelight Theater's production of The Music Man at the age of 13. She had a guest role in the action series T. and T. Her first major cartoon role, also at the age of 13, was the title role in Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater. Strong starred in the short-lived CBC Television sitcom Mosquito Lake. She took improv classes at The Second City in Toronto and continued acting in both animated and live-action shows and films, before moving to Los Angeles in January 1994.

Strong is the voice of numerous animated characters, including main roles in The New Batman Adventures as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! as Raven; Fillmore! as Ingrid Third; The Fairly OddParents as Timmy Turner and Poof; Rugrats and All Grown Up! as Dil Pickles; The Powerpuff Girls as Bubbles; Ben 10 as Ben Tennyson, Upgrade, Blitzwolfer, and Buzzshock; Chowder as Truffles; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends as Terrence; the singing voice of Meg Griffin and additional voices on Family Guy; My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as Twilight Sparkle, Unikitty! as the titular princess, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as Daizy, and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz as Joanni.

She has also lent her voice to English-dubbed localizations of Japanese anime such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as several video games, including her work as Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops; Paz Ortega Andrade in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; Rikku in Final Fantasy X, its sequel Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II; Krista Sparks in Twisted Metal: Head-On; Talwyn Apogee in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and its sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty; Kiera in Jak and Daxter series; and Juliet Starling, the main character of Lollipop Chainsaw. She also has a minor voiceover for the teddy bear Ted in the motion picture Ted. In Blue Dragon, she is the voice actor for Kluke for the Xbox 360 game, but not in the anime series.

Beginning with the video game Batman: Arkham City, Strong would also succeed Arleen Sorkin as the voice of Harley Quinn.

She has appeared in live roles in ', ', ', and '. She also made guest appearances on such shows as ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ' and . In January 2013, she voiced the character Plum in Cartoon Hangover's Bravest Warriors, created by Pendleton Ward. She recurred as Miss Collins in Nickelodeon's live-action series  from 2010 to 2013.

In 2004, she won an Interactive Achievement Award for her role as Rikku in . She also served as the announcer for the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards, appeared as a guest panelist at several fan conventions (including BotCon, Jacon, Comic-Con International, and Anime Overdose), and was featured on the front cover of the July/August 2004 issue of Working Mother magazine, in which she said, "My son is now old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about." Strong has been nominated five times for Annie Awards.

In 2013, Strong won the Shorty Award for "Best Actress" for her use of social media. The Behind the Voice Actors website selected her for a BTVA Voice Acting Award for Voice Actress of the Year for 2013, having nominated her for 2011 and 2012.

Strong is currently starring in the Canadian series  as Tiggy Sullivan, the head of a drug trafficking gang. She also voices Miss Minutes in the live-action series .

Television

 * 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997-1998)
 * The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2018-2019)
 * The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
 * Super Mario World (1991)
 * American Dad! (2018-2020)
 * American Dragon: Jake Long (2005-2007)
 * Avengers Assemble (2017-2019)
 * Ben 10 (2005-2008)
 * Brandy & Mr. Whiskers (2005-2006)
 * Bravest Warriors (2012-present)
 * Breadwinners (2014-2015)
 * Camp Lazlo (2005-2007)
 * Chowder (2007-2010)
 * Clerks: The Animated Series (2000-2001)
 * Codename: Kids Next Door (2003-2006)
 * Danny Phantom (2004-2007)
 * DC Super Hero Girls (2015-2018)
 * The Fairly OddParents (2001-2017)
 * Family Guy (2000-2018)
 * Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004-2009)
 * Futurama (2013)
 * Gravity Falls (2012)
 * The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2005-2007)
 * Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003-2007)
 * Johnny Bravo (1999-2004)
 * Kim Possible (2002-2007)
 * My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003-2009)
 * King of the Hill (1998-2004)
 * The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (2005-2007)
 * Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003-2006)
 * My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010-2019)
 * The Penguins of Madagascar (2008-2015)
 * Phineas and Ferb (2007-2015)
 * The Powerpuff Girls (1998-2004)
 * The Proud Family (2001-2005)
 * The Replacements (2006-2009)
 * Rick and Morty (2015-2017)
 * Rugrats (1997-2004)
 * All Grown Up! (2003-2008)
 * Samurai Jack (2002-2017)
 * The Super Hero Squad Show (2009-2011)
 * Teen Titans (2003-2006)
 * Teen Titans Go! (2013-present)
 * Ultimate Spider-Man (2012-2017)
 * Unikitty! (2017-present)
 * Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (2008-2010)
 * Xiaolin Showdown (2003-2006)
 * Young Justice (2011-2019)

Film

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