Cree Summer

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Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. Winifred "Freddie" Brooks is a fictional actress who appears on the NBC sitcom A Different World.

Summer was the original voice of Penny in the 1983 cartoon Inspector Gadget.

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In the Horrible Histories, she also portrayed the character Mo.

In Kermit's Swamp Years, she also spoke to Kermit's Mother, Star, and Pilgrim.

Early life

Summer was born in Los Angeles on July 7, 1969, and he grew up on the Red Pheasant Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. Don Francks, a Canadian actor and singer, and Lili Clark from North Richmond, California, an African American adopted member of the Plains Cree First Nations, are her parents. During her childhood, she and her family moved and lived around British Columbia, and she began public school in Toronto at the age of nine. Rainbow Sun Francks, her brother, is an actress and a former MuchMusic VJ.

Personal life

Summer had been married to actress Angelo Pullen for almost ten years; they officially announced their divorce in May 2022. The couple have two children, Brave Littlewing, who was born in 2011, and Hero Peregrine, who was born in 2013 (named after the peregrine falcon). Rainbow Sun Francks, a Canadian actor and songwriter who was also an on-air host on Much, a Canadian music video and variety television network, was also on-air at Summer.

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Career

Penny's acting career began in 1983 when she was cast as Penny in Inspector Gadget's first season. Her distinctive, throaty voice was instantly recognisable to viewers, as well as casting agents, who began regularly casting her in animated programs. Many of these were part of cult franchises, like The Care Bears (1985) and Ewoks (1985, which were part of the Star Wars series).

In 1988, summer was portrayed as the freespirited "Freddie" Brooks in The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. She remained a regular cast member of the show from 1988 to 1993.

Summer continued to perform in voice acting during A Different World's run. She appeared on the short-lived television series Sweet Justice from 1994 to 1995 before its cancellation in 1995. Summer and her A Different World co-star Jenifer Lewis appeared in the prime time drama Courthouse, which was cancelled two months after it premiered. Summer's first work since being limited to voice acting has been limited to guest appearances on other live-action television shows such as Living Single and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

The cartoon series The Real Ghostbusters episodes, which premiered in 1988, were stretched from their original half-hour format to an hour. The show was redesigned to be more youthful. Episodes were designed to be less dramatic and scary. Cree introduced the charming and helpful Chilly Cooper, the neighborhood ice cream woman and Slimer's innocent love interest.

Between 1983 and 2006, Summer Voices produced over 102 animated characters. These include video games, cartoon television series, animated films, and advertisements. in PBS Kids' Clifford (Season 1) as Penny, Ginger, Myra, and the Brain) as Penty, Tequila, and Blackael's Children's Dream in Nickelodeon's As Taught by Ginger, as Thy, Tiff from Nickelodeon's As Taught by Ginger, Tiff from Nickelodeon's 'My Life as a Teenager Robot, Laura Payne in PBS Kids in Poodle in Poodle in Payne, Page in Poodle's In Poodle's in Poodle, as Elmyra a Poodle, a Poodle in Poodle in Poodle in Poodle in Poodle in Poodle in a Poodle in a Poodle, Page in "Ad a's In Poodle's In Poodle, Tiff a Poodle's Una & the Dragon (Adodeon's As Tiff, Chest in Teenage Robotic Infinitopian's The Genie, a Cleo & the Poodle, a. Princess 'Kida' Kidagakash's franchise of Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire also featured her. Kida has been one of her summer favorite roles, although she also considers the person's appearance in the official Disney Princess line. Lady Marmalad appeared in the episode "The Haunting" and appeared on Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated as Lady Marmalad.

In an episode of the web-series Nostalgia Critic, Summer reprised her role as Penny from Inspector Gadget in December 2016. She appeared on The Patrick Star Show, a SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff, where she plays Patrick Star's mother and grandmother Squidward Tentacles.

Summer is a frequent co-star of Canadian-American actress Tara Strong; the two children are childhood pals who grew up in Toronto, Ontario.

She appeared in Baldur's Gate: Black, Black, and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. In Diablo 3, she played Auriel and reprised the role as Heroes of the Storm. In Final Fantasy X-2, Lenne/Calli's Tandi's Son of Tandi, She was also the voice of Tandi in Fallout 2 and First Citizen Lynette, and in Knight of Talism: The Lost Expedition. In the game Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS, she voices Medusa. In Crackdown 2, she voiced Catalina Thorn, the cell's leader. She appeared in Mass Effect in a small way. In World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, she also made misjudgeous voices. She-Hulk in Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet resurfaced, and she sang of her character. In the intro video for the MMORPG Wildstar, she also voiced Kit Brinny. Roller Brawl, a vampire derby girl in the Skylanders series, appears. Professor Penelope Young, a minor character original in Batman: Arkham Asylum, has also appeared in Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Summer has been singing since an early age and has performed in her first band at 13. She made the theme tune for OWL/TV in 1985. In 1990, she appeared on two tracks for fellow A Different World cast member Jasmine Guy's self-titled album. Submitting to Change, a 1993 release by her band Subject to Change, as the lead singer. Capitol Records did not officially release the album due to creative inconsistencies; the records that were released were sold as promos and are considered a rare find. With a strong political message and a rock-soul fusion sound, the band remained popular as a co-headlining act with other musicians. Summer 1998, Lenny Kravitz, a local and visiting guest artist, released her solo album Street Faerie, which had moderate success. Despite the fact that Summer toured as Kravitz's opening act, her brand was no longer available, and a planned spot with Lilith Fair was postponed. The label continued to advertise the album, sending out a four-track sampler and issuing remix singles of the song "Revelation Sunshine" in Europe, as well as a special single dedicated to Austria.

Summer recorded "Savior Self" for which she produced a music video starring Zo Kravitz, actor Lisa Bonet's daughter, and rocker Lenny Kravitz. The video was posted online, but the song was never made available commercially, nor was it broadcast to the radio.

A number of the Summer's portrayed characters (animated or otherwise) are actors or performer songs within a show's soundtrack.

The character of Susie in All Grown Up!

Summer was portrayed as a natural performer, allowing him to sing in the role. The opening theme song for All Grown Up! is also performed by Summer. Foxxy Love in Drawn Together was a singer, with hits like "La-La-La-La-Labia" and "Crashy Smashy" and "Crashy Smashy" from Codename: Kids Next Door performed a lullaby to sleep, according to Numbuh 5: Kids Next Door performed a lullaby to lull babies. On Tiny Toon Adventures, Elmyra Duff performed many times. "Cool Kitty," Tara Strong's song that accompanied a cartoon called Class of 3000, was directed and written for Cartoon Network by André 3000. In The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, she played during montage scenes. Priscilla on Sheriff Callie's Wild West appears on several occasions.

Summer performed on The Frank Zappa Birthday Bundle in 2008, a tribute to Zappa's "Dirty Love" with Dweezil Zappa on guitar and backup vocals by Linda Perry.

Frank Zappa, Al Green, and Dinah Washington were among the summer's musical influences.

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