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Years active
1979–present
Agent
SBV Talent
Name
Tress MacNeille
Role
Voice actress
Born
June 20, 1951 (age 72) (
1951-06-20
)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation
Voice actress, disc jockey
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Movies
The Simpsons Movie, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance
TV shows
The Simpsons, Futurama, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Similar People
Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor, Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, Julie Kavner
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Tress MacNeille (born Teressa Claire Payne; June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voices of Dot, Daisy Duck, Chip, Gadget Hackwrench, Wilma Flintstone, Mom, Agnes Skinner, Dolph Starbeam, Babs Bunny, and various other characters in various animated television series such as The Simpsons, Futurama, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Disney's House of Mouse, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, SWAT Kats, Rugrats, and Dave the Barbarian.
MacNeille was born in Chicago, Illinois. She 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 realize her ambition. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended broadcasting school, becoming a disc jockey.
Career
MacNeille worked in a variety of jobs and had numerous 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 in the music video (as Lucille Ball) for "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Ricky" (1983), which was based on the I Love Lucy television show and parodied the song "Mickey" by Toni Basil. MacNeille 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 Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1995). Writer Paul Dini said that MacNeille was good for the role because she could do both Babs' 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, Hepburn, Bette Davis, Madonna and Cher. I even have her doing Jessica Rabbit." The success of Tiny Toon Adventures led to the series Animaniacs. 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 Animaniacs, said that the casters had "no trouble" choosing the role of Dot: "Tress MacNeille was just hilarious (...) And yet [she had] that edge." MacNeille was nominated for an Annie Award 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 The Simpsons, where she voices Agnes Skinner, Brandine Spuckler and Lindsey Naegle, and Futurama, in which her main role is 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), Histeria, Hey Arnold, as well as dubbing work on English language anime translations.
She is the current voice of Daisy Duck and Wilma Flintstone. 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.
Lindsey Naegle, generic businesswoman or television network executive in "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", "Girly Edition", "You Kent Always Say What You Want", and other episodes
Dolph, one of the three hooligan/ruffians (along with Jimbo Jones and Kearney Zzyzwicz) (the character has red hair, cut asymmetrically, and wears a green shirt).
Cookie Kwan, a territorial Asian-American realtor with a heavy accent (despite growing up in Springfield), who threatens anyone who tries to sell houses on "the west side".
Ms. Albright, the Sunday School Teacher seen in "Homer's Triple Bypass" and "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment".
Mrs. Glick, the elderly shut-in lady (replacing original voice actress Cloris Leachman)
Bernice Hibbert, the recovering, alcoholic wife of Julius Hibbert
Brunella Pommelhorst, the stern school gym teacher (first mentioned by name only in season six's "The PTA Disbands")
Poor Violet, the Dickensian little orphan girl
Crazy Cat Lady, the psychotic, old woman surrounded by pet cats she frequently hurls
Gino Terwilliger, Sideshow Bob's son seen in the season 17 episode, "The Italian Bob" and the season 19 episode "Funeral for a Fiend".
Lunchlady Doris in the season 17 episode, "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer" and the season 19 episode, "The Debarted", replacing Doris Grau.
Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, Apu's wife (only for the season 13 episode "The Sweetest Apu"; Manjula was previously voiced by Jan Hooks)
Belle, the burlesque house Madam, first appeared in "Bart After Dark"
Mrs. Muntz, Nelson Muntz's mother (first heard in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", first seen in "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" and again in The Simpsons Movie)
Colin, an Irish boy in The Simpsons Movie
Medicine Woman, in The Simpsons Movie
Maya, a beautiful woman with dwarfism whom Moe Szyslak meets over the Internet in the season 20 episode "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe".
Kumiko Nakamura, a Japanese manga artist who becomes the Comic Book Guy's wife in "Married to the Blob".
Various other characters
Voices on Futurama
Mom, the owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company and series antagonist.
Linda, the cohost of Good Morning, Earth
Hattie McDoogal, the crazy, old cat lady
Tinny Tim, a Tiny Tim-esque child robot first seen in "Xmas Story"
Munda, Turanga Leela's long-lost mother
Fanny, wife of Donbot
Deep Blue
Monique, a fembot who appears in All My Circuits
Ndnd, Lrrr's wife, from Omicron Persei VIII (pronounced nn-NN-da prior to season two, and nn-da NN-da in season three)
Vyolet
Petunia
The Slurm Queen
Guenter, the hyper-intelligent monkey from the episode "Mars University."
Various one-shot characters
Warner Bros. character roles
Dot Warner, Hello Nurse, Marita Hippo (Animaniacs, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action)
Babs Bunny, Rhubella Rat, Marcia the Martian (Tiny Toon Adventures, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action)
