Billed as a "Superstar Voice Actress" on the Anime News Network, Grey DeLisle-Griffin, formerly known as Grey Griffin and Grey DeLisle, was born on August 24, 1973 in Fort Ord, California, as Erin Grey van Oosbree.
She has been cast as evil teenage girls (Vicky, Sally Avril), sweet kids (Lizzie, Emily Elizabeth, Wubbzy), villains (Azula, Jacqueline Natla, Femme Fatale) and heroines (Kimiko Tohomiko, Daphne Blake, Kitty Katswell). She's also been heard as Betsy from Curious George, Lady Redundant Woman from WordGirl, Ginger from The Tom and Jerry Show (2014), Black Canary from Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Portia Gibbons from The Mighty B!, Flicker from Handy Manny, Ms. Marvel and Amora the Enchantress from The Super Hero Squad Show, Brianna Buttowski from Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Dr. Rebecca Holiday from Generator Rex, Cotilla of Zevo-3, the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress and Padme in Star Wars: Clone Wars, and various characters in MAD. After the passing of Russi Taylor in 2019, she was chosen to take over as the voice of Martin Prince and the twins Sherri and Terri.
Outside of cartoons, she's notable for Catwoman in Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Knight and Injustice: Gods Among Us and its sequel. Other roles include Escape from Monkey Island, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and several Star Wars games. She reprises her role as Ventress in a bonus level in the Force Duel mode of the PSP version of the video game The Force Unleashed and appeared in two of Blizzard's main franchise games as the Dominion Ghost Nova in Starcraft II and as the female wizard in Diablo III (and reprised both roles in Heroes of the Storm, the latter re-christened as Li-Ming.).
Other notable roles include Therese and Jeanette (Tourette) Voerman in the White Wolf RPG PC game Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Frida Suarez in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Sam Manson in Danny Phantom, Frankie and Goo in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Riley Daring and Buzz Winters in The Replacements, Wonder Woman/Diana Prince in both iterations of DC Super Hero Girls, Lily Loud and twins Lola & Lana in The Loud House, and Princess Mira and High Priestess in Samurai Jack. Out of all of her most notable characters, Azula is her favorite character to voice.
Perhaps her most unusual role is being on the cover of the Nintendo Switch game 1-2-Switch — no, not voice acting, she's the woman on the cover. She's noted
they inexplicably photoshopped her nose to be bigger.
Like Kath Soucie, she also has talent with accents as seen on Mighty Magiswords, Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) and The Mummy: The Animated Series (British); Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Carmen Got Expelled!, and My Gym Partner's a Monkey (Hispanic); And Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Hungarian). She's even spoken a bit of Japanese and German as Yumi on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
She can also play the autoharp and the clarinet, and has made several albums of country and folk music, using the money from her extensive voice-over work to fund her musical aspirations. On her 2005 album Iron Flowers, she covered "Bohemian Rhapsody", one of the most well-known songs of the band Queen. After 15 years of not releasing music, she and her brother created "The Dress Ups". Their first and only album, featuring song covers from bands compromised of siblings, was released on Bandcamp in April 2020.
Grey is also a stand-up comedian. In 2018, she released "My First Comedy Special" on Amazon Prime. It's free to watch if you have an Amazon Prime account. She frequently posts about her shows (and sometimes may even give away tickets) on Twitter, so follow her on Twitter if you want to know when her next show will be.
She eventually became a fan of Homestuck, joining her fellow Avatar castmember Dante Basco, and even recording small audio clips in the roles of Vriska and Rose. She also lent her voice to a certain grey, cross-eyed, muffin-loving pony in this little animation.
Has a Twitter account, an Instagram account, and a YouTube channel she sparingly uses.
Grey DeLisle's voice-acting and acting credits include:
- Afro Samurai - Oyuki
- Afro Samurai: Resurrection - Tomoe
- Batman Ninja - Catwoman
- Bayonetta: Bloody Fate - Jeanne
- Crayon Shin-chan - Cosmo and Uma
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend - Kibo
- Only Yesterday - Taeko's mother
- When Marnie Was There - "Auntie" Setsu Oiwa
- Batman: Bad Blood - Samantha
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight - Sister Leslie, Jason Todd, and Selina Kyle's singing voice
- Bolt - Penny's mom
- The Book of Life - Anita Sanchez
- Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore - Security Bulldog, Catherine's Niece, Cat Spy Analyst
- DC Showcase: Green Arrow - Black Canary (reprises the role for Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold ), Radio Personality, Female Security Guard
- Frozen II - Villager 9, Female Guard, Laughing Boy
- Hulk Vs. - Sif
- Luck - Old Lady, Female Goat at a bar in Badluck, Additional Voices
- I Know That Voice - Herself
- The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! - Jane Jetson
- JLA Adventures: Trapped In Time - Wonder Woman (reprises the role for the Lego Justice League projects and DC Super Hero Girls)
- Justice League: Doom - Lois Lane and Queen of the Royal Flush Gang (reprises the former role for the Lego Justice League projects)
- Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox - Martha Wayne, Nora Allen, young Barry Allen
- Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge - Satoshi Hasashi, Kitana, Johnny Cage's ex-girlfriend.
- Onward - Dewdrop
- Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen and Bumblebee - Arcee
- Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans - Mrs. Megan Claus
- Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes - Red
- Ultimate Avengers - Wasp
- That '70s Show - Ms. Kaminsky
- WandaVision - Lagos Commercial Narrator
- The Boys (2019) - Two Birds
- Pirates of the Caribbean - Redd
- Alpha Protocol - Uli Booi
- Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits - Lilia
- Armored Core 5 - Rosary/Cordelia Stratford, Computer voice #3
- Baldur's Gate - Brielbar, Nereid, Skie Silvershield, Viconia De Vir
- Baldur's Gate II - Raelis Shai, Viconia De Vir, Nalia De'Arnise
- Throne of Bhaal: Nyalee, Illasera
- Batman: Arkham City - Catwoman, Vicki Vale
- Batman: Arkham Origins - Vicki Vale
- Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Catwoman
- Batman: Arkham Knight - Catwoman, Vicki Vale
- Bayonetta - Jeanne
- Broken Age - Levina
- Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion - Mandy, Blossom, Mac
- Clash of the Titans - Io, Medusa, Deino, Narrator
- Code Name: S.T.E.A.M - The Fox
- Diablo III - The female Wizard
- Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening - Velanna
- Doom³ - Theresa Chazar, Computer
- Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel - Nadia, Wasteland Doctor, Vault Elder's daughter
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - Dr. Elizabeth Darling
- Final Fantasy X-2 - Pukutak
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - Baroness
- Heroes of the Storm - Nova, Li-Ming (the aforementioned female Wizard)
- Injustice: Gods Among Us - Catwoman
- Just Cause - Maria Kane
- LEGO Batman - Harley Quinn
- Marvel Super Hero Squad - Ms. Marvel
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite - Captain Marvel
- Mass Effect series - Lieutenant Marie Durand, Nassana Dantius, Kahlee Sanders, Dalatrass Esheel
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Amanda Valenciano Libre
- Neverwinter Nights - Sharwyn
- Ninja Gaiden II - Elizébet
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time - Inspector Carmelita Fox
- Starcraft II - Nova Terra
- Super Hero Squad Online - Emma Frost
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - Queen Amidala/Padme
- Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords - Handmaiden
- Star Wars: The Old Republic - The female Bounty Hunter
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Underworld - Jacqueline Natla
- Worldof Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria - Taoshi
- Valkyria Chronicles - Aika Thompson, Juno Coren, Lynn, Elysse Moore, Nadine
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - Jeanette, Therese, Tourette
- X-Men Legends I & II - Mystique/Raven Darkholme
- Epic Rage Time: The Incredible Derp - Derpy Hooves
- Fred Again - Alexandria Abelson, Ryder Abelson, Nanette, Luis
- Garbage Island - Stinky
- Gorilla Girl - Jenny Silverback
- Keeping Up With The Joneses 2004 - Corrin Jones
- Kubo Punko - Bee, Rollo
- Lobo (Webseries) - Darlene Spritzer, the Nutcracker Sisters
- Ollie & Scoops - Julia Goldberger
- The Stump - Bernice Plutz, Cindy Pryde
- Super Models - Runway
- Adventure Time - Ice Queen, Breakfast Princess, Peanut Princess
- All Grown Up! - Additional voices
- American Dad! - Akiko Yoshida (first two speaking appearances only)
- As Told by Ginger - Brandon Higsby
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Azula, Michi (Mai's mother), Ta Min (Roku's wife), Kya (Katara and Sokka's mother), the actor playing Katara, and the servant with the cherries.
- Avengers Assemble- Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers.
- Back at the Barnyard - Bronco Betsey, Juanita, Hanna the Hen
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold - Fire, Black Canary
- Ben 10 - Heatblast (Gwen version), Xylene, Camille, Camille's mother
- Beware the Batman - Magpie
- Brickleberry - Astral, Ethel (Woody version), Connie (Young), Tammy Jane
- The Boondocks - Kardashia, Siri
- Carmen Got Expelled! - Carmen
- ChalkZone - Terry Bouffant, Sophie MacNillie, Tillie MacNillie
- Chowder - Senorita Mesquite, Adult Panini
- Clifford the Big Red Dog - Emily Elizabeth Howard
- Codename: Kids Next Door - Lizzie Devine, Grandma Stuffums, Mega Mom, Crazy Old Cat Lady
- Curious George - Betsy, Marco
- The Cuphead Show! - Ms. Chalice, Screw Driver, Hilda Berg, additional voices
- Danger Rangers - Kitty
- Dan Vs. - Additional voices
- Danny Phantom - Sam Manson, Medusa and the original voices of Princess Dora (non-dragon form), Valerie Grey and Star
- Dawn of the Croods - Sandy, Lerk
- Devil May Care - Coma
- El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera - Frida Suárez
- DC Super Hero Girls - Wonder Woman, Platinum, Giganta, Silver St. Cloud, Damian Wayne, Lois Lane (Lego Brain Drain , Lauren Faust series)
- Elena of Avalor - Dr. Mendoza, Ash Delgado, a spirit squirrel, Olivia's mother, baby Isabel, royal painter, Trudy
- The Emperor's New School - Moxie, Yasmin (Teen Yzma)
- Evil Con Carne - Major Doctor Ghastly
- The Fairly OddParents! - Vicky, Tootie, Principal Waxelplax, Veronica, Chad, The Tooth Fairy, Ms. Sunshine/Ms. Doombringer, A.J.'s mom, Molly, Swizzle, Additional voices
- Farzar - Queen Flammy, Xylah
- Fish Hooks - Baby Unicorn
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - Frankie Foster, Duchess, Mac's Teacher, Goo Goo Gaga, Mac's Mom, Louise
- Generator Rex - Dr. Holiday, ZAG-RS
- G.I. Joe: Resolute - Scarlett, Baroness, Dial-Tone, and Cover Girl
- Gravity Falls - Mrs. Gleeful, Gorney, Grunkle Stan's female voice, additional voices
- Green Lantern: The Animated Series - Aya, Bleez, Queen Aga'po, Lady Catherine, Ilana
- Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai - Claw, Duckface
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy - Mandy, Milkshakes, Aunt Sis, Carol, Major Doctor Ghastly
- Handy Manny - Flicker
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - Debbie, Dr. Gale Melody, Mary
- Harvey Street Kids - Lucretia, Frufru, The Harvey Street Bow
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021) - Evelyn/Evil-Lyn, Mo'squita-ra
- Henry Hugglemonster - Gertie, Estelle, and many female characters
- Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - Yumi Yoshimura, Evil Yumi, Jang Keng, Timmy, Sunikura, Mondo Swell Betty, Ami and Yumi's fan club president
- House of Mouse - Roxanne
- Invincible (2021) as Monster Girl, Shrinking Rae
- It's Pony - Henrietta
- Justice League Unlimited - Shifter, Downpour
- Kamp Koral - Preda Tory, Big Roxie, Elwood
- Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil - Brianna Buttowski
- The Legend of Korra - Dark spider spirit, Spirit mushroom, Ming-Hua, young Lin Bei Fong (flashback).
- The Legend of Tarzan - Greenly
- Legend of the Three Caballeros - Xandra, Eugenia Ferdinand Ferdinand, lawyer, and many more
- The Legend of Vox Machina - Delilah Briarwood, Lady Johanna de Rolo
- Little Dogs on the Prairie - Darcy
- The Looney Tunes Show - Carol
- The Loud House - Lana, Lola, Lily (and their gender-flipped counterparts), Aunt Ruth, Scoots, Margie
- MAD - Various characters, Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie
- Maya and the Three - Xtabay, Goddess of Illusions and Bone, Goddess of Thievery
- The Mighty B! - Portia Gibbons, Millie, Chai Gallagher, Lola, Maude
- Mighty Magiswords - Vambre, Princess Zange, The Mysterious Hooded Woman, Füd, various background characters
- Miles from Tomorrowland - Stella, Queen Gemma, Cree Whippley
- The Mummy: The Animated Series - Evy O'Connell
- My Gym Partner's a Monkey - Lupe Toucan, Ingrid Giraffe, Nurse Gazelle, Mrs. Warthog, Joanie Ox
- Oh Yeah! Cartoons - Vicky
- The Owl House - Katya, Usurper, Roselle, Masha, additional voices
- Paradise PD - Karen Crawford, Patty Mae, Lady Gertrude, Agatha Culpepper, Mrs. Clappers
- The Patrick Star Show - Additional voices
- The Penguins of Madagascar - Darla the Baboon, Girl Baboon, Hysterical Woman, Possum Kid, Mother
- Pilar The Black Bandita - Yumi Kaburagi, Marco Del Santo/El Fantasma
- Popeye - Olive Oyl (cancelled film).
- The Powerpuff Girls - Femme Fatale
- Puppy Dog Pals - Nelly, Funny Bunny, Bonnie
- Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa - Jenna
- Regular Show - Mona, Various background characters (Season 5- present)
- The Replacements - Riley Daring, Buzz Winters
- Rugrats - Teddy McNulty, Terry McNulty, Reptar, additional voices
- Samurai Jack - Josephine Clench, Princess Mira, the High Priestess, the Scotsman's daughters
- Sanjay and Craig - Darlene Patel, Sandy Dickson, Scabs Dickson
- Scooby-Doo franchise - Daphne Blake and various others (2001-present)
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - Razz
- The Simpsons - Martin Prince, Sherri and Terri replacing the late Russi Taylor starting in 2019
- Sofia the First - Opal, Ellegra, raccoon mother
- The Spectacular Spider-Man - Betty Brant, Sally Avril (reprises the former role on The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)
- Marvel's Spider-Man - Black Cat, Rappaccini
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Queen Moon Butterfly, Jackie-Lynn Thomas, Grandma Diaz, Hope
- Star Wars: Clone Wars - Padmé, Shaak Ti, Asajj Ventress
- The Super Hero Squad Show - Ms. Marvel, Enchantress
- The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) - Ginger
- Thunder Cats 2011 - Young Cheetara
- Time Squad - Joan of Arc, Lizzie Borden, Marie Curie
- Totally Spies! - Donna Ramone, Pam, Alice, Felicia Mane, Brunette Girl
- T.U.F.F. Puppy - Kitty Katswell, Zippy, Little Chipmunk Girl, Additional Voices
- Unicorn: Warriors Eternal - Fox, Original Melinda, Additional Voices
- Unikitty! - Puppycorn
- Vampirina - Eve
- Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? - Mom Unit, Shannon, Connie, French teacher
- Where's Waldo? (2019) - Ticket Taker, Sirens, and more
- W.I.T.C.H. - Miranda
- Xiaolin Showdown - Kimiko Tohomiko
- The Weekenders - Lor McQuarrie
- Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) - Psylocke, Spiral, Network
- Woody Woodpecker - Frieda, Nutwinck the Gopher, Hogwash Junior, Laluna
- WordGirl - Beatrice Bixby, Lady Redundant Woman, Ms. Question, Ms. Ripley
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! - Wubbzy, Giant Goo-Goo, Growly-Gus, Tiny the Fleegle, Old Lady Zamboni, Kooky Kid
- Young Justice (2010) - Dreamer, Whisper A'Daire, Big Barda
- The Zeta Project - Andrea Donoso
- Zevo-3 - Cotilla, Cara, Florence
Tropes related to her performances:
- Acting for Two: She usually voices many characters in her works, who also usually interact with each other.
- In "Sister Act", Grey successfully has Lola and Lana Loud impersonate each other throughout the entire episode.
- The Cast Showoff: Sings as Daphne in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire.
- Creator Backlash: She isn't fond of talking about Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa. She admits to cringing about doing that special every few months or so, purely because of how terrible it was. She'll even block people on Twitter for asking about the special, due to having been bombarded with tweets regarding it in the past.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: She voices quite a few boys, such as Chad, Brandon, Buzz, Wubbzy, Puppycorn, and the countless amount of additional voices she does.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Before her voice-acting career took off, her family (The Ruths) had been on Family Feud shown
here "Do you do voices?", indeed. - Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The first comedy special she ever did was appropriately named "My First Comedy Special"
- Fan Community Nickname: Affectionately refers to her fans as "Fire Nation peasants".
- Ink-Suit Actor: The animators based Azula's mannerisms off Grey's performance in the booth, which is part of why they look eerily similar.
- Large Ham: Self-admitted. She's expressed that characters like Azula and Mandy are a fun challenge to play because they're very unlike her real-life personality.
- Money, Dear Boy: She's narrated trailers for porn films, citing that she'll "do anything for scale-plus-ten."
- Promoted Fangirl:
- When she got cast as an extra on Mad Men, she was apparently so excited that the people who cast her felt the need to remind her that she was just an extra.
- Pirates of the Caribbean had been among Grey's favorite Disneyland rides for years, so she was excited to learn that she was cast as Redd.
- For a long time, Grey said that the one show wanted to be cast in was The Simpsons. She since took over for Russi Taylor on the show after the latter's passing in 2019.
- Another show she wanted to be cast in was SpongeBob SquarePants. She eventually did do voicework for it's spin-offs, Kamp Koral and The Patrick Star Show.
- She's said it was an honor to voice Betty Rubble in Flintstones on the Rocks with most of the original cast, as she was a fan of the series growing up.
- Real-Life Relative: In The Loud House, where she voices Lola, Lana, and Lily Loud among other characters, her son Tex Hammond voiced Lincoln Loud from "Game Boys" to "Room and Hoard", as well as minor character Lance.
- Stage Name: Her given name is Erin, but chose to go by Grey when she discovered that there was already an actor named Erin DeLisle. She's also never been credited by her maiden name, as DeLisle and Griffin were the names she took for her first and third marriages, respectively.
- Teacher's Pet: The complete opposite of her usual and most infamous characters, amazingly both elementary school-aged boys as both Brandan Higsby in As Told by Ginger and since taking over the role of Martin Prince in The Simpsons.
- Typecasting: Even Grey herself notices that she voices a lot of Jerkasses and villains.
- Vocal Evolution: Her standard boy voice has certainly improved from Chad in 2002, to Buzz in 2006 and Puppycorn in 2017.
- Woman of a Thousand Voices:
- Grey certainly has a large vocal range. She can go from a sweet kid to an evil villain in quite a short amount of time.
- Perhaps best demonstrated when she voiced Derpy in Epic Rage Time where she goes from being airheaded and ditzy to loud and furious within seconds.
- She's been doing a spot-on impression of Dorothy Gale as early as 1989 (seen here), to the point that she was cast as the character in Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz. And in a live show with Rob Paulsen, she also displays flawless impersonations of the munchkins and the the two witches while acting out a hypothetical Rule 34 version of the movie.
- She was the only cast member besides Keith Ferguson to appear in every episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends voicing at least one character per episode (a handful of which that didn't even have Frankie).
- What Could Have Been:
- She was originally going to voice Mother Gothel in Tangled. Considering how rare it is for professional voice actors to voice major characters in animated films, this might've been quite interesting.
- She auditioned for the role of Pearl on SpongeBob SquarePants; the role ultimately went to Lori Alan.
- Possibly averted with Olive Oil in Genndy Tartakovsky's feature adaptation for Popeye. The project had a test animation reel in 2014 as seen here before it was initially canceled by Sony amidst Executive Meddling. In May 2020, it was announced that the Popeye Feature adaptation will be happening after all. Grey even offered to record the entire movie from home, as the state of California was still under lockdown order due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
- She was one of the candidates for the titular character of Star vs. the Forces of Evil before ultimately being cast as Moon Butterfly and Jackie-Lynn Thomas.
- Written by Cast Member: She wrote the Evil Con Carne episode "Hector, King of the Britons".
