Tara Strong

Tara Lyn Strong (née Charendoff; born February 12, 1973; age 51) is a Canadian-American actress and voice actress. She is best known for her voice-over work in animation, websites, and video games. Some of her roles include Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents, Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls, Raven from Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Dil Pickles from Rugrats, Ben Tennyson from Ben 10, Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Melody from The Little Mermaid: Return to the Sea, among others. For her voice-acting, she has earned and  nominations and won an award from the.

Biography
Tara Lyn Charendoff was born on February 12, 1973, to Syd and Lucy Charendoff. At age four, she became interested in acting and volunteered to be a soloist at a school production. During her childhood, she worked with the Yiddish Theater; she had to memorize her lines phonetically because she did not know the Yiddish language.

Strong's first major cartoon role, at the age of 13, was of . Since then, she had voiced numerous cartoon characters, mainly from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and DC Animation. These characters include Timmy Turner and Poof from The Fairly OddParents, Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls, Raven from Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Dil Pickles from Rugrats, Ben Tennyson from Ben 10, Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Truffles from Chowder, Terrence from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, the title character from Unikitty!, among others. She has also voiced Disney characters, most notably as Ariel's daughter Melody in The Little Mermaid: Return to the Sea. She also appeared in the animated series The Proud Family, 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and Kim Possible.

Outside of animation, Strong has also voiced characters in video games played roles in live-action series.

Trivia

 * Tara Strong has worked with Dee Bradley Baker on .
 * Tara Strong shares the same birthday as Scott Menville.