Best known for her work on
The Simpsons,
Nancy Cartwright
has been doing cartoon voices since
Hanna-Barbera's version of
Richie Rich in the early 1980s. She is also an animation producer, responsible for NASCAR.com's
Web Animation series
The Kellys. She has adapted her book,
My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, into an audiobook and a one-woman stage show.
Cartwright has also appeared in live action, including
Joe Dante's segment of
Twilight Zone: The Movie and the
Made-for-TV Movie Marian Rose White, and the American
Godzilla movie (which also had
Hank Azaria and
Harry Shearer of
The Simpsons). She even was a celebrity guest on Tom Bergeron's
Hollywood Squares and Donny Osmond's
Pyramid. Outside show business, Cartwright is a prominent member of the
Church of Scientology.
Cartwright has done character voices for the following animated series:
- Richie Rich (Hanna-Barbera's version)
- Shirt Tales (season 2 only, as Kip Kangaroo)
- The Snorks
- Popeye and Son
- Saturday Supercade (season 2 only, in "Space Ace" segments)
- Galaxy High
- Animaniacs (Mindy, additional voices)
- The Simpsons (Bart Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Muntz, Kearney [the bully who looks like a teenager, but isn't], Todd Flanders, and any one-shot boy characters. Cartwright also provides vocal effects [mostly cooing, laughing and crying] for Maggie Simpson and was the replacement voice for Elizabeth Taylor when the season 13 episode of The Simpsons showed a clip from season 4's "Lisa's First Word", where Maggie finally says her first word — "Daddy" — after Homer wishes that she never speak)
- Rugrats (Chuckie season 8 onward)
- Goof Troop (Pistol Pete)
- The Critic (Margo Sherman)
- Kim Possible (Rufus)
- The Replacements (Todd Daring)
- Mike Lu And Og (Lu)