An Animated Cat Chat with Yeardley Smith - The Iconic Voice of Lisa Simpson!
¡Ay, caramba!! This week Michelle Fern has a super fun conversation with Emmy Award-winning actress Yeardley Smith about her cool cats, Zipper and Petunia, as well as her 30+ year career with The Simpsons, true crime podcast Small Town Dicks and cooking show Oil & Water. How successful was she training her cats to walk on a leash, use a human bathroom and exercise in the cat gym she built for them? Tune in to find out!
BIO:
YEARDLEY SMITH is an Emmy Award-winning actress, novelist, and playwright who has appeared on television, film and Broadway. She has been the voice of Lisa Simpson on Fox's hit television show The Simpsons since 1987. Film appearances include All Square, which she also produced and which received the2018 Spotlight Audience Award at SXSW, New Year's Eve, Miles, As Good As It Gets, Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, City Slickers, and The Legend of Billie Jean.Television appearances include The Mindy Project, The Big Bang Theory, Mom, Fresh Off the Boat, Hot In Cleveland, Mad Men, the sitcom classic Murphy Brown, five years as Greg’s crabby secretary ‘Marlene’ on Dharma and Greg, and three years as ‘Louise Fitzer’ on one of the Fox network’s earliest sitcoms, Herman's Head. She wrote and performed her one-woman show, “MORE” off-Broadway in 2004, and in Los Angeles in 2005. She published her first novel, I Lorelei, through HarperCollins Children's Books in 2009. She owned her own women’s luxury shoe line called Marchez Vous for five years beginning in 2010 with business partner Ben Cornwell. In 2015, she co-founded the entertainment development company, Paperclip Ltd, for the purpose of developing stories in their earliest stages across all mediums. Paperclip Ltd recently played GLAAD-advised dramatic feature Gossamer Folds in various film festivals, as well as is currently in post-production on a coming-of-age transgender young adult novel Gracefully Grayson. Yeardley co-hosts and co-produces the hit true crime podcast “Small Town Dicks” and also hosts her very own cooking show “Oil & Water.” She lives in Los Angeles.
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