Tara Strong
Tara Strong was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on February 12th, 1973 and is the Voice Actress. At the age of 51, Tara Strong biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Tara Lyn Strong (née Charendoff; born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian-American actress who has performed in live-action and animation.
Her animations include Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents, Teen Titans, The Fairly OddParents, Chowder, and DC Super Hero Girls, as well as Mortal Kombat X and X-2 and Batman: Arkham.
She has been nominated for Annie Award and Daytime Emmy nominations as well as an Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award.
Early life
Strong was born in Toronto, Canada, on February 12, 1973, the younger sibling of Syd and Lucy Charendoff. Strong has described her Jewish roots as "a significant piece of her identity." Marla is her older sister. Strong began to be interested in acting and volunteered to be a soloist at a school production at age four. She worked with the Yiddish Theater, where she memorized her lines phonetically because she didn't know the Yiddish language. Strong performed at the Toronto Jewish Theater, where she appeared in A Night of Stars and was included in an audiotape for "Lay Down Your Arms" with the Habonim Youth Choir, singing the lyrics in both English and Hebrew.
Personal life
Strong met Craig Strong, a retired U.S. real estate agent and former actor in 1999. Sammy and Aden, the couple's two sons, were born on May 14, 2000, and have two children named Sammy (born February 2002) and Aden (born August 2004). They lived in Los Angeles and were formerly the owners of VoiceStarz, an online business that teaches people how to get into voice over services. She applied for divorce on July 24, 2019.
Strong attended a lunch with military supporters in New Jersey at the BronyCon event in 2012. She was affiliated with Bronies for Good, a charity group that helped them raise funds for a family whose daughter had a brain tumor.
She follows a vegan diet and is a vocal supporter of PETA.
Career
Strong's first professional role was Gracie in Limelight Theater's production of The Music Man at the age of 13. She had a guest role in the action series T. and T. Her first major cartoon role, also at the age of 13, was the title role in Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater. Strong starred in the short-lived CBC Television sitcom Mosquito Lake. She took improv classes at The Second City in Toronto and continued acting in both animated and live-action shows and films, before moving to Los Angeles in January 1994.
Strong is the voice of numerous animated characters, including main roles in The New Batman Adventures as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! as Raven; Fillmore! as Ingrid Third; The Fairly OddParents as Timmy Turner and Poof; Rugrats and All Grown Up! as Dil Pickles; The Powerpuff Girls as Bubbles; Ben 10 as Ben Tennyson, Upgrade, Blitzwolfer, and Buzzshock; Chowder as Truffles; Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends as Terrence; the singing voice of Meg Griffin and additional voices on Family Guy; My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as Twilight Sparkle, Unikitty! as Princess Unikitty, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as Daizy, and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz as Joanni.
She has also lent her voice to English-dubbed localizations of Japanese anime such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as several video games, including her work as Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops; Paz Ortega Andrade in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; Rikku in Final Fantasy X, its sequel Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II; Krista Sparks in Twisted Metal: Head-On; Talwyn Apogee in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and its sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty; Kiera in Jak and Daxter series; Harley Quinn in Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Knight, replacing Arleen Sorkin from the franchise; and Juliet Starling, the main character of Lollipop Chainsaw. She also has a minor voiceover for the teddy bear Ted in the motion picture Ted. In Blue Dragon, she is the voice actor for Kluke for the Xbox 360 game, but not in the anime series.
She has appeared in live roles in National Lampoon's Senior Trip, Sabrina Goes to Rome, Sabrina Down Under, and The Last White Dishwasher. She also made guest appearances on such shows as Forever Knight, Street Legal, Touched by an Angel, Take Home Chef, Party of Five, Comic Book: The Movie, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, 3rd Rock from the Sun and The Drew Carey Show. In January 2013, she voiced the character Plum in Cartoon Hangover's Bravest Warriors, created by Pendleton Ward. She recurred as Miss Collins in Nickelodeon's live-action series Big Time Rush from 2010 to 2013.
In 2004, she won an Interactive Achievement Award for her role as Rikku in Final Fantasy X-2. She also served as the announcer for the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards, appeared as a guest panelist at several fan conventions (including BotCon, Jacon, Comic-Con International, and Anime Overdose), and was featured on the front cover of the July/August 2004 issue of Working Mother magazine, in which she said, "My son is now old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about." Strong has been nominated five times for Annie Awards.
In 2013, Strong won the Shorty Award for "Best Actress" for her use of social media. The Behind the Voice Actors website selected her for a BTVA Voice Acting Award for Voice Actress of the Year for 2013, having nominated her for 2011 and 2012.
Strong is currently starring in the Canadian series Pretty Hard Cases as Tiggy Sullivan, the head of a drug trafficking gang. She also voices Miss Minutes in the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki.