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Stephanie Louise Vallance, commonly known as Stevie Vallance, also credited as Louise Vallance during the 1970s90s, is a
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actress and musician who has worked on numerous films and television series, both live-action and animated. Vallance is most recognized as Jenny in ''
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'', Det. Stevie Brody in ''
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'', and Whazzat Kangaroo in ''
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''. As a director, she received a ''
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'' for voice-directing the music and dialogue on the children's animated series ''Madeline'', in which she also portrayed "Miss Clavel" and "Genevive".


Early life and career

Montreal-born, Toronto-raised Stephanie Louise Vallance began work as a professional actress at age eleven. At that time she was discovered by Alan Lund, who cast her in the lead role of Adele in the
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musical production of ''Jane Eyre'', which performed at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre (now the
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). As a teenager, Vallance made numerous television appearances including leading roles on Canadian television networks in ''
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''; ''Police Surgeon''; '' The Tommy Hunter Show''; Norman Campbell's ''The Wonder of It All''; and ''A Bird in the House'', directed by
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Film and television

After graduating from the
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in New York, she moved to Los Angeles, where David Jacobs cast her as Sylvie in the first two seasons of ''
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'' on CBS before ABC asked her to join the second season of ''
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'' as Jenny, the orphaned newspaper ‘boy’ whom Stanley and Helen found living in their attic; with
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, and
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. As an LA-based actor, Vallance guest-starred on multiple network television series including ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. She played
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's love interest, Erma Terradiddle in the
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feature film ''
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''. In ''
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'', she played Sally, opposite
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. In the 1980s and 1990s, Vallance commuted between Los Angeles and Toronto, starring in many US/Canadian co-productions including '' Poltergeist: The Legacy'', ''The Outer Limits'', '' F/X: The Series'', ''Cobra'', '' First Wave'', '' Dracula: The Series'', ''
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'', and ''
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'', where she was whisked away on a horse by
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. During that time, she was best known for her role as series regular Det. Stevie Brody on the CBS late-night series ''
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'' with
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, and
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. She followed that up with a very different sort of role as a pink kangaroo named Whazzat Kangaroo on the
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series ''
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'', filmed entirely in California's
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.


Animation

Vallance has done voice acting in many animated television series, including ''
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'' (as Mouse and Rocky Raccoon); ''
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'' (as Dixie Kong); ''
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'' (as the singing voice of Sonia Hedgehog and both singing and speaking voices of Mindy LaTour); ''
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'' (as Genevieve, Miss Clavel and numerous incidental roles); '' Gadget Boy'' (as the villain Spydra); '' InuYasha'' (as Jinenji's Mother); ''
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'' (as the computer G.L.A.D.I.S.); ''
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'' (as Gnat); ''
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'' (as Proud Heart Cat); and '' Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot'' and '' The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie'' (as Share Bear); '' Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot'' (as True Heart Bear); '' Dennis the Menace'' (as Alice Mitchell); ''
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'' (as Princess Dei and Teryx); ''
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'' (as Duchess Ravenwaves and Maiden Curly Crown); '' Popples'' (as Party, Puffball, Prize and Punkity); ''
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'', (as Tigrerra and Rabeeder); '' Silverwing'' (as Breeze); ''
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'' (as multiple incidental voices) and '' Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie'' (as Yelan Li). Vallance also voiced numerous characters in
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's animated features, such as ''
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'' and ''
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''. Vallance (alongside Chalk, Tickner, St. Germain and several other voice actors) also dubbed voices on several British cartoons, including '' Penny Crayon'' (additional voices), '' Becky and Barnaby Bear'' (as Barnaby) and ''
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'' (as Nellie).


Voice direction

Vallance has voice-directed more than 500 episodes of children's TV, working with children, actors, sports stars and celebrities. She was a recipient of a Daytime Emmy Award in 2002 for casting and voice-directing her first series, the dialogue and music-vocals on 70 episodes of the children's animated series ''
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'' for
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, wherein she also voiced Miss Clavel and Genevieve. She then went on to voice-direct '' Silverwing'' for Bardel Animation Studios, and ''
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'' for
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Network, in which she voiced G.L.A.D.I.S.. In 2007, she was nominated for her third Emmy for casting and voice-producing the
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and Mike Young Productions animated series, ''
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''. On the 9 Story series ''
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'', Vallance served as voice director on 52 episodes. She then cast and voice-directed the Teletoon Detour pilot ''Celebutard Nation'', which premiered at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival. From 2011 to 2013, Stevie headed back to Los Angeles to cast and voice-direct two animated series for executive producer Bill Schultz: '' Guess How Much I Love You'' for
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, based on the children's book of the same name by Sam McBratney; and Seasons 1 and 2 of ''
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'' for
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, starring skateboard guru
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. From 2014 to 2017, Stevie was based in Toronto as the Voice Director on Season 1-2 of Corus/ Nelvana's action-adventure series ''
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''.


Teaching

Vallance teaches actors how to infuse personality into cartoon characters with her brand name Tooned In! Animation Voice-over Workshops. The first workshop took place in North Vancouver,
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, in 1995. Since then Vallance has taught children and adults how to do cartoon voice-overs in
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, Phoenix and
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. In 2009 and 2010, Stevie taught 400 Animators at the
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. In late 2010, 400 Animation fans participated in her high-energy ‘one-person panel’ seminar at the
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.


Music

In 1995, Vallance moved to
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, British Columbia where she met Michael Creber (piano;
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). Together in 1998, they recorded Vallance's debut jazz CD ''Practically Naked''. In Vancouver, she sang jazz regularly at The Jazz Cellar and Rossini's, where she performed alongside some of the city's well-known jazz musicians at the time. For her second CD, ''Always (A Salute to Patsy Cline)'', Vallance derived inspiration from her portrayal of
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(with whom she shares a birthdate) in Dean Regan's staged production of ''A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline''. Vallance toured western Canada with this production for six years, performing at numerous venues including two runs at the Granville Arts Club in Vancouver and the
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in Calgary. Vallance opened for the
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as "Patsy", in 1999. Motivated by the loss of a close personal friend, Vallance conceived the ''Divas for Life'' jazz benefit concerts held in Vancouver, B.C. In addition to producing the first concert at the Vogue Theater, in 2001, she negotiated a national distribution deal for the CD ''Divas for Life: Live At The Vogue!'', which was released and performed as part of the 2001 Vancouver International Jazz Festival line-up. On Valentine's Day 2002, she produced ''Divas for Love''. The proceeds of all concerts raised C$70,000 for people living with a life-threatening illness. As a result, Vallance was presented with Vancouver's "Friend in Deed" philanthropy award. In 2004, Vallance debuted as a 'Jazz vocalist' in her hometown, Toronto, where she was accompanied by pianist Don Thompson, bassist
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, and drummer Ted Warren. She also performed for the first time in her birth town Montréal, at The Upstairs, with jazz pianist Steve Amirault, bassist Zack Lober, and drummer Jim Doxas. Vallance's fourth CD, ''Make My Night'', was released in February 2008. Arranged by guitarist Pat Coleman, it features many other Canadian jazz musicians: pianist Ross Taggart, trumpeter Mike Herriot, saxophonist Tom Colclough, drummer Buff Allen and bassist Miles Hill. In 2009, Vallance performed in the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival for the second year in a row and was the featured vocalist alongside Ernie Duff and the Stardust Big Band, in and around
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, ON. She also sang with the Charlie Bell Trio in the Thornbury and Kincardine Jazz Festivals. In 2010, Vallance organized a 10-concert series, Stevie Vallance & the Masters of Jazz, at the Bruce County Museum in Southampton, ON, presenting a line-up of world-class players who accompanied her as the vocalist for the series: Richard Whiteman (piano), Mike Grace (bass), Kevin Barrett (guitar), Kieran Overs (bass), Ted Warren (drums), Bobby Brough (sax), Rob Clutton (bass), Nancy Walker (piano), Ted Quinlan (guitar), Tim Posgate (guitar) and George Koller (bass).


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