Nancy Jean Cartwright is an American actress and voice actress, known for her long-running voice role as Bart Simpson in the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons (which she has continued to do following Disney's acquisition of Fox in 2019).
Her multiple Disney roles include voicing the Toon Shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Macaw in The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, Pistol Pete in Goof Troop, Fawn Deer in Bonkers and Raw Toonage, Sprites in the Aladdin TV series, Pumbaa Jr. in Timon & Pumbaa, Fred Bitters in Teacher's Pet, Rufus in Kim Possible, Todd Daring in The Replacements, Phantasmo and Shortstuff in Lilo & Stitch: The Series (along with reprising her role as Rufus in the crossover episode of the same name), and Goldilocks in The 7D. She also provided an additional voice in The Little Mermaid, as well as reprised her role as Rufus in the 2019 live-action adaptation of Kim Possible. Additionally, she reprised her role as Bart Simpson in The Simpsons: The Good, the Bart, and the Loki, The Simpsons in Plusaversary, and The Simpsons: When Billie Met Lisa.
Background[]
In 1976, Cartwright landed a part-time job doing voice-overs for commercials on WING radio in Dayton. A representative from Warner Bros. Records visited WING and later sent Cartwright a list of contacts in the animation industry. One of these was Daws Butler, known for voicing Hanna-Barbera characters, such as Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Elroy Jetson, Spike the Bulldog, Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey and Yogi Bear. Cartwright called him and left a message in a Cockney accent on his answering machine. Butler immediately called her back and agreed to be her mentor. He mailed her a script and instructed her to send him a tape recording of herself reading it. Once he received the tape, Butler critiqued it and sent her notes. For the next year, they continued in this way, completing a new script every few weeks. Cartwright described Butler as "absolutely amazing, always encouraging, [and] always polite".
Roles[]
(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
(Goof Troop)
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(Aladdin TV series)
(Teacher's Pet)
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(Lilo & Stitch: The Series)
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(Lilo & Stitch: The Series)
(The Simpsons: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year)
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Trivia[]
- In becoming a voice-over artist for animation, Cartwright was mentored by Daws Butler. It was at Hanna-Barbera Studios where she began her professional voice acting career (in which she played Gloria Glad in that studio's animated adaptation of Richie Rich and would voice other characters in various Hanna-Barbera productions).
