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 a versatile voice.

Born Tara Lyn Charendoff in Toronto, Ontario, her 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 "Lay Down Your Arms" with the Habonim Youth Choir, where she sang the lyrics in both English and Hebrew.

Her voice acting career began in 1987, with the role of Hello Kitty, from Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater, a Canadian-American-Japanese joint production. She would later move from Toronto to Los Angeles in 1993. She was a popular voice actor for the companies Nelvana, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon. She has done live action work as well - notably as Gwen in the Sabrina the Teenage Witch Made For TV Movies - but says that voice acting takes up most of her time.

She frequent co-stars with fellow actress Cree Summer; the two are childhood friends and grew up in Toronto together. She is married to American actor Craig Strong and they have two sons. Together, they founded 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..

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Tara Strong's voice-acting credits include:

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Tropes found in her voice acting:

• Former Child Star: Very Averted! While she was a star as a child, as an adult now she's very stable.
• Talking to Herself: Tara often voices multiple characters in her works:
  • On Drawn Together, she voices two main characters, Toot and Clara, so their interactions are frequent.
  • During Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Malicious Mr. Mind", she voices Shazam characters Billy and Mary, as well as toddler Batman, while they try to re-age the Caped Crusader.
  • An amusing example is Hip and Hop in the Super Mario Bros. cartoons where as two separate characters, Tara would finish her own sentences.
  • She voices main character Timmy on The Fairly Oddparents, as well as numerous background characters who tend to interact with him. When they added baby Poof to the fairies, she was given that job as well.
  • She reprises her roles from Batman: Arkham Series and Teen Titans in Injustice: Gods Among Us as Harley Quinn and Raven, respectively.
• 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.
  • This will presumably be seen within a single role in A Series of Unfortunate Events, as over the course of the story Sunny Baudelaire gradually goes from an infant speaking gibberish to a young girl able to speak normally.
• 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 Lyca, 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, Ingrid Third, Lyca and Ashi are the only roles she's done using her natural speaking voice.^note However, in the Lavender Castle episode Bird of Prey, she uses her Bubbles voice for the scene when the Paradox and its crew are shrunk down by the black hole.
  • She can also go deep in her voice, as Raven from Injustice: Gods Among Us demonstrates.
    • Apparently, 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 probably pitched down in post.
  • To elaborate further, in 2012, Emerald City Comic Con featured a sketch where famous voice actors voiced 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.) This later lead to the Twisted Toonz series of panels.

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