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Eternally known as the voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright is one of the most prolific voice actors of her time. Born in an Ohio suburb in the late `50s, she grew up doing community theater and watching cartoons. In her last year at Ohio University, she got a chance to meet Hanna-Barbara voice actor Daws Butler. Better known by his character names Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, and Quick Draw McGraw, Butler suggested she transfer to U.C.L.A. and start going to auditions. By 1980, Cartwright had her first professional job as the voice of Gloria on Richie Rich. With her new Screen Actors Guild card, she also got normal acting roles on the TV movie Marian Rose White, the feature film Twilight Zone: The Movie, and several television guest appearances. Her voice was heard as multiple characters on beloved `80s cartoons like My Little Pony & Friends, Pound Puppies, Space Ace, and Galaxy High School. Eventually Cartwright started to get singular roles like Kip on ShirtTales and Daphne on Snorks. In 1987, she auditioned for the role of Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons but she landed the role of Bart instead. After a few years of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons got its own time slot on FOX in 1990. Cartwright won an Emmy and an Annie award for her work, which has expanded to several other Springfield youths including Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Milhouse, Kearney, and Nelson. While still working on The Simpsons, she also did voices for Animaniacs, Goof Troop, and The Critic, as well as numerous short-lived cartoons (remember God, the Devil and Bob?). Cartwright has also found time to perform the one-woman play In Search of Fellini and write her autobiography My Life as a Ten-Year-Old Boy. In 2001 she took over for Christine Cavanaugh in the role of Chuckie on Rugrats while working on Kim Possible and launching her Internet animation company, SportsBlast. Her voice can also be heard on the web cartoons The Kellys and Timberwolf. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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Quotes Grammar is not a time of waste Life is a paradox, you`re damned if you do and damned if you don`t The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force. On auditioning for "The Simpsons" (1989): I went in, saw Lisa, and didn`t really see anything I could sink my teeth into. But the audition piece for Bart was right there, and I`m like, `Whoa, 10 years old, under-achiever and proud of it? Yeah, man - that`s the one I want to do!. The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan. I don`t use the voice of Bart when I`m making love to my husband, but Marge`s voice turns him on a little. The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far. I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers. Adding "just kidding" doesn`t make it okay to insult the Principal. I will not get very far with this attitude. I didn`t do it, nobody saw me do it, there`s no way you can prove anything! Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun. Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does. I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.Trivia Was friends with Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and hundreds of others. They regularly exchanged letters, and soon he was addressing her "Dear Pixie." He sent her scripts to record, and then critiqued the tapes she returned. At 12, she joined a children's theatre company and made her first stage debut in "An Old-Fashioned Christmas". The director asked her to join his summer theatre group. She traveled with them for four years. As a senior, she was president of the Forensic League at Fairmont West High school. She met the future Supervising Director of "The Simpsons" (1989), David Silverman, when they were both students in UCLA's Art Department in the late 1970s. They jokingly made an agreement they would one day work on a show together, but didn't find out their deal came through until they saw the credits of the first episode of the series. Attended Ohio University from 1976-1978 as an interpersonal communication major and was awarded the Cutler Scholarship for academic excellence and leadership. Ironically her character Ethel in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) - years before her role as Bart Simpson - is "wished" into a television set where she is chased around and then eaten alive by a cartoon monster. Her character, Bart Simpson, was rated number 2 in Comedy Central's newest show 'Mouthing Off: 51 Greatest Smartasses'. The segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) in which she appears is based on the same episode that was later parodied in a "Simpsons" Halloween special. Children, with Warren Murphy, Lucy Mae and Jackson. Was offered the chance to do the female voices for "South Park" (1997), but turned it down because she felt the show was too offensive. When she auditioned for "The Simpsons" (1989), she was rehearsing for the voice of "Lisa Simpson", not "Bart Simpson". During final preparations while reading the script, she realized she could do "Bart Simpson"'s voice. Appointed Honorary Mayor of Northridge, California, USA (2005) For her birthday, a 1992 episode of "The Simpsons" featured its opening of Bart writing as punishment on the chalkboard, "I am *not* a 35-year-old woman.". Like many tourists, Cartwright attempted to disturb the notoriously unflappable guards at Buckingham Palace in London. When she blurted, "I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?", she succeeded. | ||
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