Nancy Jean Cartwright is an American actress, voice actress, painter, sculptor and philanthropist. She is known for her long-running role as Bart Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons. She has also voiced other characters for the show, including Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Kearney, Database, and Maggie. In 2000, she published her autobiography, My Life as a 10-year-old Boy, and four years later, adapted it into a one-woman play.
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Nancy Jean Cartwright is an American actress, voice actress, painter, sculptor and philanthropist. She is known for her long-running role as Bart Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons. Cartwright has also voiced other characters for the show, including Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Kearney, Database, and Maggie. In 2000, she published her autobiography, My Life as a 10-year-old Boy, and four years later, adapted it into a one-woman play. In 2017, she wrote and produced the film In Search of Fellini, about the life of Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. She has also starred in the television movie Marian Rose White and her first feature film, Twilight Zone: The Movie. Her mother, Miriam, died late in the summer of 1978, but nearly changed her relocation plans for Westwood, Los Angeles, as they had a four-hour lesson and she didn’t have a daughter of her own. She moved to Hollywood in 1978 and trained alongside voice actor Daws Butler. Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated series Richie Rich, which she followed with a starring role in the TV movie MarianRose White. In 1987, she auditioned for a role in a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family that was to appear on The Tracey Ullman Show. Matt Groening, the series’ creator, allowed her to audition for Bart and offered her the role on the spot.
For her subsequent work as Bart, Cartwright received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992 and an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in the Field of Animation in 1995. She also voiced numerous other animated characters, including Daffney Gillfin in The Snorks, Rufus in Kim Possible, Mindy in Animaniacs, Pistol in Goof Troop, Margo Sherman in The Critic, Todd Daring in The Replacements, and Chuckie Finster, Jr. in Rugrats and All Grown Up! in 2000. She was born in Dayton, Ohio, on October 25, 1957, Frank and Miriam Cartwright’s fourth of six children. She won a school-wide speech competition with her performance of Rudyard Kipling’s How the Camel Got His Hump. She continued to compete in public speaking competitions; during her sophomore year, she placed fifth in the National Speech Tournament’s exposition category with her speech \”The Art of Animation\”. In 1976, she 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. Cartwright called him and left a message in a Cockney accent on his answering machine. He mailed her a script and instructed her to send him a tape recording of herself reading it. She returned to Ohio University for sophomore year.
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