Tara Strong

Tara Lyn Charendoff-Strong (born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian-American actress, voice-over artist, comedienne, musician, singer, andbusinesswoman, perhaps best known for her extensive voice acting in animated films and television.

Early life and career
At age thirteen, Strong was accepted into a performing arts school, where she landed her first professional role: the role of Gracie in the Limelight Theater's production of The Music Man. That same year, she booked a guest starring role in Mr. T's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._and_T. T. and T.] Afterwards, she landed the title role in Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater and starred in the short-lived CBC Television sitcom Mosquito Lake'' before moving to Los Angeles in the midst of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.[1]

Strong is the voice behind a multitude of North American animated characters, including main roles in The New Batman Adventures as Batgirl; ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore! Fillmore!] as Ingrid Third; Rugrats and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Grown_Up! All Grown Up!] as Dil Pickles; The Powerpuff Girls as Bubbles; Ben 10 as Ben Tennyson, Upgrade, Benwolf, and Buzzshock; The Fairly OddParents as Timmy Turner and Poof; Xiaolin Showdown as Omi; Teen Titans asRaven; Drawn Together as Princess Clara and Toot Braunstein; The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World as Hip/Lemmy and Hop/Iggy Koopa; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friendsas Terrence; Transformers Animated as Sari Sumdac, Slipstream, Slo-Mo, Strika, Red Alert, Mayor Edsel's press secretary, and additional voices; Sym-Bionic Titan as Ilana Lunas; Chowder asTruffles, the singing voice of Meg Griffin and additional voices on Family Guy''; and currently voices Betty Boop in commercials with Tress MacNeille. She also provided the voice of Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn pony and the title character, in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.