Teressa Claire "Tress" MacNeille (; born June 20, 1951) >https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/macneille-tress-1951 is an American voice actress, who has contributed to voice-over work with credits including voicing Dot Warner on the animated television series ''

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'' and its revival, Babs Bunny on ''

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'', Chip and Gadget Hackwrench on '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'', Anastasia Tremaine in various ''

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'' media since 1994, Daisy Duck in various

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media since 1999, and Merryweather in ''

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'' media since 2006. She has also worked on animated series such as ''

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'', '' Rugrats'', and '' Hey Arnold!''

Early life

Teressa Claire Payne was born in

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on June 20, 1951. MacNeille loved cartoons as a child and wanted to be a voice actress from the age of eight, but instead chose a "practical" career, feeling she would never be able to realise her ambition. She graduated from the

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, and attended broadcasting school, becoming a

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Career

MacNeille worked in numerous jobs and had many minor voiceover roles before becoming a regular on an animated TV show. In her words: "I'd been doing radio spots, some TV, demos, sound-alikes, industrial narrations—anything that came my way for about two years." She was also a member of the improvisational comedy group The Groundlings for ten years. MacNeille took acting workshops and worked as a casting assistant for voice acting talent agent Bob Lloyd in what she calls "The University of Voice-over". Lloyd and fellow agent Rita Vennari got MacNeille her first role on an animated show: a part in an episode of the 1979 '' Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo''. She sang and appeared (as

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) in the music video for

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's song " Ricky" (1983), which was based on the ''

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'' television show and parodied the song " Mickey" by Toni Basil. MacNeille and Mary Kay Bergman also appeared on Yankovic's 1999 album '' Running with Scissors'', on the tracks " Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" and "Jerry Springer". MacNeille was cast as Babs Bunny in ''

'' (1990–1992). Writer Paul Dini said that MacNeille was good for the role because she could do both Babs's voice and the voices of her impressions. MacNeille commented: "The best part of doing Babs is that she's a mimic, like me...In the show I do Babs doing Billie Burke,

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, and

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." The success of ''

'' led to the series ''

''. MacNeille was brought in to voice Dot Warner, one of the show's three main characters, because Dot's character was very similar to Babs Bunny. Andrea Romano, the voice director and caster for ''

'', said that the casters had "no trouble" choosing the role of Dot: "Tress MacNeille was just hilarious (...) And yet he hadthat edge." MacNeille was nominated for an

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for her performance on the show in 1995. She has provided voices for numerous films, television shows, video games and commercials, garnering over 200 credits. MacNeille says: "The characters that I do all come from people in my own life – as well as the material I've stolen from my friends!". Her TV roles include characters on ''

'', where she voices Agnes Skinner, Brandine Spuckler and Lindsey Naegle, and ''

'', in which her main role was the character Mom. MacNeille has provided voices on many other television shows and cartoons such as '' Rugrats'' (as Charlotte Pickles), '' Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers'' (as Chip and Gadget Hackwrench), '' TaleSpin'' (as Kitten Kaboodle), '' Histeria!'', '' Hey Arnold!'' and '' Dave the Barbarian'' (as Fang), as well as

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work on English-language anime translations. She is the voice of Daisy Duck and Wilma Flintstone since 1999 and 2000 respectively. MacNeille also appeared as an angry anchorwoman in '' Elvira, Mistress of the Dark'' and served as the voice of Elvira's Great-Aunt Morganna Talbot. She provided voice acting for the 2003 Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner short feature '' The Whizzard of Ow''.

Personal life

During an interview for

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' podcast "Toon'd In! with Jim Cummings", her friend and ''

'' castmate Rob Paulsen mentioned that she has a husband named Mike.podcast.apple.com 00:47:08-00:47:17
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Filmography

Film

Animation

Anime

Video games

Live-action

Theme parks

Music videos

Audiobooks

References

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