Francoise Brun-Cottan (born 1944) is a French-American actress. She provided the voice of Nibbles in the ''

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'' shorts in the 1950s era. Brun-Cottan voices Nibbles in shorts like '' The Two Mouseketeers'', and ''Tuffy'' in ''

''. Brun-Cottan was six years old when she voiced Nibbles in '' The Two Mouseketeers''. She was one of the street kids in ''

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'' in 1951 and had bit parts in other movies. Brun-Cottan also voiced Fifi in

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's animated short ''The Flea Circus'' (1954). Her last voice acting role was reprising Nibbles for ''Royal Cat Nap'', which was released in 1958. In the 1970s and 1980s, Brun-Cottan was one of the executives of

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' film production company, Bigstick Productions. Francoise went on to have an academic and research career. Dr. Brun-Cottan became a Senior research scientist who spent over a decade as a Work Place Ethnographer and Interaction Analyst with

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and at the Palo Alto Research Center & Webster Research center. She now consults for libraries and government agencies as well as large corporations and research agencies, and also produces personal oral histories and memoirs for/with individuals.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brun-Cottan, Francoise 1944 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American voice actresses American child actresses Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio people 20th-century American actresses French emigrants to the United States