Tara Strong facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Tara Strong
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Strong at GalaxyCon Columbus in 2023
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| Born |
Tara Lyn Charendoff
February 12, 1973 |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Craig Strong
(m. 2000; div. 2022) |
| Partner(s) | Willie Morris (2022–present) |
| Children | 2 |
Tara Lyn Strong (born February 12, 1973), originally named Tara Lyn Charendoff, is a famous actress from Canada and the United States. She is best known for using her voice to bring many animated characters to life in cartoons, websites, and video games.
You might know her voice from popular shows like Teen Titans (as Raven), The Powerpuff Girls (as Bubbles), The Fairly OddParents (as Timmy Turner), Rugrats (as Dil Pickles), and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (as Twilight Sparkle). She has also voiced characters in many video games, including Final Fantasy X and Batman: Arkham. Tara Strong has been nominated for important awards like the Annie Award and the Daytime Emmy Award, and she has won an award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Early Life
Tara Lyn Charendoff was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on February 12, 1973. She is the younger daughter of Syd and Lucy Charendoff. Tara has said that her Jewish background is a very important part of who she is. She also has an older sister named Marla.
When Tara was only four years old, she became very interested in acting. She even volunteered to sing by herself in a school play. She worked with the Yiddish Theater, where she learned her lines by listening and repeating them, even though she didn't know the Yiddish language. She also performed with the Toronto Jewish Theater and sang on an audiotape with the Habonim Youth Choir.
Amazing Voice Acting Career
Tara Strong's first professional acting job was when she was 13. She played Gracie in a play called The Music Man. Around the same time, she got her first big cartoon role, voicing the main character in Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater. She also appeared in a TV show called Mosquito Lake. Tara took acting classes to improve her skills and continued to act in both cartoons and live-action shows. In January 1994, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career further.
Tara has voiced many beloved characters that kids and teens know well. Some of her most famous roles include:
- Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls
- Timmy Turner in The Fairly OddParents
- Raven in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!
- Dil Pickles in Rugrats
- Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Ben Tennyson in Ben 10
- Unikitty in Unikitty!
- Batgirl and Harley Quinn in DC Super Hero Girls
One funny story from her career happened while she was recording lines for Dil Pickles in Rugrats. Her crying sounds were so realistic that a woman in the studio actually started producing milk! Tara was proud of this, especially since the role was almost given to Madonna.
She has also lent her voice to English versions of Japanese animated movies like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. In video games, she has voiced characters like Rikku in Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, and she took over the role of Harley Quinn starting with the game Batman: Arkham City. She even had a small voice role for the teddy bear Ted in the movie Ted.
Besides voice acting, Tara has also appeared in live-action shows. She was Miss Collins in the Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush from 2010 to 2013.
Tara Strong has received several awards for her amazing voice work. In 2004, she won an Interactive Achievement Award for her role as Rikku in Final Fantasy X-2. She has also been nominated five times for Annie Awards, which are very important awards for animation. In 2013, she won a Shorty Award for being the "Best Actress" because of how well she used social media. The Behind the Voice Actors website also named her "Voice Actress of the Year" in 2013. More recently, she voices Miss Minutes in the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki.
A Difficult Situation
After a conflict began in 2023, Tara Strong shared her thoughts about it online. She posted messages on Twitter that caused some discussion. Because of her online activity, an animation studio called Bandit Mill Animation decided to remove her from their upcoming series Boxtown. They explained that this decision was due to her posts about the ongoing conflict.
After this, Tara Strong said she felt she was "fired for being Jewish." However, a co-writer for Boxtown, Spencer Rothbell, said this was not the reason. He pointed out that many people working on Boxtown, including himself and voice actor Alex Hirsch, are Jewish.
Personal Life
In 1999, Tara Strong met Craig Strong, who was a real estate agent and former actor. They got married on May 14, 2000. They have two sons named Sammy (born in February 2002) and Aden (born in August 2004). They used to own a company called VoiceStarz, which taught people how to become voice actors. Tara filed for divorce in 2019, and it was finalized in 2022. Later that same year, she started dating Willie Morris, who runs a farm called Happy Goat Farm.
Tara Strong is a vegan, which means she does not eat or use animal products. She also supports charities. In 2013, she helped a group called Bronies for Good raise money for a family whose daughter had a brain tumor.
