Tara Strong 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 nother private army and she is not in the process of taking over the world.YMMV page here.
Ben10 and Ben 10: Omniverse - 10-year-old Ben Tennyson (and a few of his transformations who keep the same voice), Future Gwen, Lucy, Ken Tennyson, Sandra Tennyson, Additional voices
Family Guy - Amanda, Meg's singing voice on the Season 4 episode "Don't Make Me Over", Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, Japanese Girl, Jack and Sarah's adoptive children
Transformers Animated - Sari Sumdac, Slipstream (Starscream's Opposite-Sex Clone), Slo-Mo, Strika, Red Alert, Mayor Edsel's press secretary, Carly Witwicky, Teletran-1 (Basically almost any major female character)
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Troll: Very Downplayed, her trolling antics are mostly limited to minor teases on Twitter and various other social media sites. Like her parody of Fergie's "Fergilicious".
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.
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