September 18, 2011

Voice Actress - Tress MacNeille

Tress is a legendary voice actress, with hundreds of performances for television and video games to her credit, best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Rugrats, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Animaniac.

Her most notable characters on The Simpsons include Agnes Skinner, Brandine Spuckler, and Lindsey Naegle, while her performance as Mom is her most notable Futurama role. Tress MacNeille became the voices of Betty Boop in 1998 (after Mae Questel's death) with Tara Strong and Daisy Duck in 1999.

MacNeille has also provided voices on numerous other television shows and cartoons such as Animaniacs, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Histeria!, Hey Arnold! and Tiny Toon Adventures, listed below, as well as dubbing work on English language anime translations. She was also the voice of Leon from Lilly the Witch.

MacNeille sang and appeared in the music video (as Lucille Ball) with "Weird Al" Yankovic on his song, "Ricky", which was based on the I Love Lucy television show and parodied the song "Mickey" by Toni Basil.[1] MacNeille also appeared on Yankovic's 1999 album Running with Scissors, on the track "Jerry Springer". MacNeille performed in "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi". MacNeille also appeared as an angry anchorwoman in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and served as the voice of Elvira's Great-Aunt Morganna Talbot. MacNeille was a member of The Groundlings for 10 years.

See her HUGE credit list here.

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