Creator / Tara Strong

Tara Lyn Charendoff 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, so if you see a pre-2001 animated show or movie and hear her voice, but see "Tara Charendoff" in the credits, it's not a mistake) 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.

She got her start in voice acting as Hello Kitty in 1987, and had roles in Madeline, X-Men, Super Mario World, Beetlejuice, and Gadget Boy before moving to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1993. If it's an American cartoon from the late 1990s or 2000s, particularly if it's a Nelvana, Cartoon Network, or Nickelodeon show she's probably in it somewhere. She's also done voice acting for many video games, as well as a couple anime titles. Some of her most famous roles include Batgirl in The New Batman Adventures, Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls, Baby Dill in Rugrats, Timmy Turner and Poof in The Fairly OddParents, Raven in Teen Titans, Ben Tennyson in Ben 10, Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Harley Quinn in the Batman: Arkham Series.

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).

Strong has made some on-screen acting appearances over the years, most notably in National Lampoon's Senior Trip, Party of Five, and Big Time Rush. Notably, she was once roommates with Neve Campbell, and they both auditioned for role of Julia on Party of Five.

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 two dogs, and bunnies(which are in a lot of her Vines). 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:

• Captain Obvious Reveal:invoked 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.
• The Cast Showoff: Aside from being a well known voice actor, Tara has an excellent singing voice.
• Cousin Oliver: Has voiced at least three of these (Baby Dil, Poof and Ping Pong).
• 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.
• Friend to All Children: She adores kids, and sometimes uses her Brony army to help those children suffering from some illness.
  • She is ESPECIALLY fond of her autistic fans, being a VERY active spokeswoman for several charities and she WILL hug you like she's known you for years.
• 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.
• Helium Speech: For some characters, like Bubbles and Poof, and she doesn't even need helium!
• 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, and still looks like this now, when posing for event photos, or taking selfies. 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. A perfect example is her stance on conventions. After a disastrous brony convention, she was very tempted to quit the con circuit, but opted to instead just take a small breather due to several fans openly saying that they'd protect her and that "not all bronies are nuts". Nowadays, she's back on the run and, true to word, a couple fans have acted as a sort of "Strong-Arm Guard.", making sure no stalkers or obnoxious people get to her, but allowing the fans, kids, and generally nice people to have talks and photos and such.
• Older Than She Looks: Is 40+ years old, but looks like she's in her mid 20's. And this is after getting marrried, and having two kids.
• 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.
• 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.
  • Poked at this when she was asked to do a "sexy naked Vine"
• 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!
  • A major example in recent years, is Timmy and Poof on The Fairly Oddparents. Similar when doing a background character on the show, interacting with Timmy.
  • Sadly averted in the Teen Titans GO! and Powerpuff Girls 2016 crossover special, where she voiced Raven, but not Bubbles.
• 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 and Poof, 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.
    • Apperently, when asked about this at a con in 2013, she said, she had no idea about it, until watching clips of Raven in the game. So it was probabally a voice pitcher machine that caused it.
  • 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.
    • This is a regular thing at San Diego Comic Con as well, though it's more often done with public domain fairy tales than Star Wars.

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