Tara Strong (born February 12, 1973) 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 OddParents, fellow voice actress and often co-worker Grey DeLisle, Drawn Together co-star Jess Harnell (another voice actor who appeared in a lot of 1980s and 1990s cartoons), The Powerpuff Girls co-stars Cathy Cavadini and Elizabeth Daily, Melissa Joan Hart from Sabrina the Teenage Witch (via her role as Gwen in the made for TV movies "Sabrina Goes to Rome" and "Sabrina Down Under"), and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic creator Lauren Faust (Tara was among the very first people to learn what Lauren had in store for the My Little Pony reboot).

If it's an American cartoon from the 1990s or 2000s, particularly if it's a Nelvana, Cartoon Network, or Nickelodeon show – and notably My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – 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.

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..

As noted in the quote above, she has a Twitter account. She is very silly with it.

Also, whatever you may have heard, Bronies are not her private army and she is not in the process of taking over the world.

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Tara Strong's voice-acting credits include:

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Tropes found in her voice acting:

• Absurdly Youthful Mother
• Captain Obvious Reveal: She loves to post "spoilers" of her future roles on her Twitter, such as the fact that Omi will say "Dojo", the new Teen Titans series has Raven and Cyborg returning, and that the third season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic will have ponies in it.
• Casting Gag / Role Reprisal: She plays Batgirl/Barbara Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series, Gotham Girls, Super Best Friends Forever, and Beware the Batman.
  • She also voices a pony-parody of possibly Twilight Sparkle in Pretty Pretty Pegasus, in which her character Raven is a closet fan of.
• Cousin Oliver: Has voiced at least three of these (Baby Dil, Poof and Ping Pong).
• Cross-Dressing Voices: She voices quite a few boys, such as Timmy Turner, Terrence, Ben Tennyson, and Omi.
• Expy: Unintentional, but there are two characters that she voices who are similar to Raven.
  • The goth girl in Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare has purple hair, likes to be alone, and found the camp activity trivial until she later finds that she enjoys them and the other campers.
  • Twilight Sparkle has a purple mane, is a magic user, loves books, and thought she didn't need any friends until she was proven wrong.
• Fake American: Sort of. She was born in Canada, but her parents are American.
• Friend to All Children: She adores kids, and sometimes uses her Brony army to help those children suffering from some illness.
• The Gadfly: Loves to tease fans.
• Genki Girl: Both in many of her roles and she's one in real life, which is one the reasons why Lauren Faust originally wanted to cast her to play Pinkie Pie in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic before Andrea Libman received the job.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Most definitely.
• Happily Married: As noted above, to Craig Strong, with two children.
• I Am Not Spock: Played with on her twitter, she often posts pictures or fanart of her characters saying things like "Here's me naked!" <screenshot of Timmy Turner>, "Here I am in my sexy swimsuit!" <fanart of Raven>, "Dancing with yourself is important" <fanart of Twilight Sparkle and a pony version of herself>, "Here's me about to give you tongue!" <screenshot of Ember McLain>.
  • Though she did once cosplay as Twilight Sparkle...
• Large Ham: Oh God yes. Even in person at Comic Cons.
• Ms. Fanservice: Quite a few of her characters are pretty fanservice-ish, she's even been this in live-action in her younger days. She also parodies this on her Twitter feed, see I Am Not Spock above.
  I'm a particularly fun celebrity cuz you think, hey...does voice overs, must be ugly...and then...boobs.
• Nice Girl: Many of her roles. She's one in real life too.
• Older Than She Looks: Is 40+ years old, but looks like she's in her mid 20's. And this is after having two kids.
• One of Us: Oh so very much. Seems to have hit some kind of critical mass with the Brony thing, but it's always been there; one need only check out her interviews.
• Pigeonholed Voice Actor: Sort of averted in a strict sense, because she's that versatile. However, she is called more often than not to play young boys and Genki Girls.
• Playing Against Type:
  • As Doctor Octopus 2099 and Harley Quinn.
  • Princess Clara, Toot and Juliet Starling are also oddities on her resume, as she's mostly known for being on kid's shows but those characters are very much not kid friendly.
• Promoted Fangirl: She was a huge The Little Mermaid fan and got to play Ariel's daughter in the sequel. She often tells the story of when she first met Jodi Benson in the studio, Tara burst into Tears of Joy.
• Relationship Voice Actor: She often appears alongside Grey DeLisle and Cree Summer. The fact that they're good friends in real life probably helps.
  • She and Max Casella even worked on two projects together: The Little Mermaid II and Jak and Daxter (third game onwards).
  • She also appeared alongside James Arnold Taylor in Final Fantasy X, the Ratchet & Clank games, Drawn Together, and plenty more.
  • She's also worked alongside her fellow Teen Titans cast members in other projects, with Scott Menville and Khary Payton being the ones she tends to work with the most.
  • She and Tabitha St. Germain, aside from playing two of the Mane Six, have also worked on the latter two Super Mario Bros. cartoons and Beetlejuice.
• Star-Making Role: While she's known for many, many roles, Bubbles is arguably the role that put her on the map as far as voice actors go.
  • Given the relative success of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight Sparkle is also a pretty significant turning point in her career.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: While she's not opposed to playing Ms. Fanservice characters, she does apparently draw a line at full nudity. She sometimes tells the story at cons of how she turned down a role in a horror film because it would have required her to be topless for a scene and she doesn't want young fans (or perverts) looking up nude photos of her online.
• She Also Did: A mother of two, her children inspired her to create the "babababy" feeding system.
• Talking To Herself: Tara often 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.
  • An amusing example is Hip and Hop in the Super Mario Bros. cartoons where as two seperate characters, Tara would finish her own sentences!
• Vocal Evolution: Her earliest roles sound very different from her later ones. But she can still pull off some of her 90's-era voices if prompted.
  • Hell, she can do the first role she did from the age of 13 pretty faithfully.
• 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 Sari Sumdac, to Twilight Sparkle and even to Raven, Doctor Octopus 2099, and Harley Quinn – with Bubbles, Toot, and (to a lesser extent) Timmy Turner the only three that sound similar to anyone with a trained ear.
  • Batgirl and Ingrid Third are the only roles she's done using her natural speaking voice.
  • She can also go deep in her voice, as Raven from Injustice: Gods Among Us demonstrates.
  • To elaborate further, in 2012, Emerald City Comic Con featured a sketch where famous voice actors viced some of their famous roles in place of the characters from the movie Star Wars (e.g. Yakko and Wakko as two Death Star admirals, Calculon as Tarkin, etc.), switching every scene. Tara voiced everyone from Raven to Toot to Twilight Sparkle to Princess Clara.

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