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Lara Jill Miller (born April 20, 1967)[1] is an American actress and voice actress. She plays Samantha "Sam" Kanisky on the 1980s sitcom Gimme a Break! and as Kathy on The Amanda Show.

Lara Jill Miller
Born	(1967-04-20) April 20, 1967 (age 55)[1] Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.[2]
Education	New York University (BA) Fordham University School of Law (JD)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1978–present

She voices characters in Clifford's Puppy Days, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, and Henry in Henry Hugglemonster. She voices the character Widget in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Lambie in Doc McStuffins, Fink in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Lisa Loud in The Loud House, and Libby Stein-Torres in The Ghost and Molly McGee, in addition to Izzie in SciGirls, Allie in Curious George, and Cat in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Early life and education

Miller was born April 20, 1967, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Lois (née Noll; 1937-2014) and Stanley Miller. She is Jewish.[3][2] She first started acting in a dinner theater she found in a newspaper ad, and she did not know what the word audition meant. She asked her Dad what that meant and he told her.[2] She graduated from Allentown's William Allen High School.[4] Her father was a pajama factory owner and her mother founded the talent agency Star Talent Management.

Career

Miller's professional acting career began on Broadway, where she appeared as Amaryllis in a revival of The Music Man with Dick Van Dyke.[5][2]

In 1981, after her appearance on Broadway, she joined the cast of Gimme a Break!, playing the role of the tomboyish Samantha "Sam" Kanisky opposite Nell Carter. When the series ended its six-year run on NBC in 1987, Miller returned to New York University, where she played on the university's women's varsity tennis team and continued performing on stage nationally. Four years later, she received her J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law, leaving graduation early to portray Peter Pan in a production at the Pennsylvania Youth Theater. She subsequently was admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, and her native Pennsylvania.[6]

In 1999, Miller resumed her on-camera acting career with recurring roles on the Nickelodeon series The Amanda Show and All That and on General Hospital. She also began working in animated series, lending her voice to various characters, including Kari in Digimon (both the series and the feature film), Koko in Zatch Bell!, Alejo in Astro Boy, and Scheris Adjani in s-CRY-ed. Miller also provided the singing voice of Dorothy Gale in the National Public Radio adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the voices of the title characters on Cartoon Network's The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Disney Junior's Henry Hugglemonster, and the PBS Kids Clifford's Puppy Days (prequel to Clifford the Big Red Dog).[7]

Miller appears in the recurring roles of Pookie, Wiki, and Tini on Disney Channel's Higglytown Heroes, Haruka of Daigunder, and the Nick Jr. series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as Widget, the show's problem-solving pink creature resembling a rabbit, both PBS series Curious George as Allie and SciGirls as Izzie,[5][7] and regular guest-starring roles on several other animated series.^{[citation needed]}

For six seasons, she performed voice work on the Disney Channel/Disney Junior television series Doc McStuffins as the voice of Lambie and on the Nickelodeon television series The Loud House in which she voices Lisa Loud, Liam, Becky, Persephone, and Nurse Patti.[7]

In 2020, she voice acted for two cartoons, the episode "All About Zee" in DC Super Hero Girls and the English dub for Beastars as Haru. She continues to perform the role of Libby in the Disney production, The Ghost and Molly McGee.[8][9]

Filmography

Live-action

List of acting performances in live-action television and film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[10]
1981–1987	Gimme a Break!	Samantha "Sam" Kanisky	Main role	[11]
1986	Touch and Go	Courtney
1999–2002	The Amanda Show	Kathy
2000	Chicken Soup for the Soul	The Teacher	TV series
2002	General Hospital	Kate Whittaker	Episode #1.9927
2005	Shushybye	Snoozles, Dozie, and Zeez
2009	iCarly	Mrs. Kravitz	Episode: "IFind Lewberts Lost Love"

Anime

List of dubbing performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[10]
1999	Digimon Adventure	Kari Kamiya
2000	Digimon Adventure 02	Kari Kamiya
2001	Digimon Tamers	Nami Asaji
2002	Daigunder	Haruka
2002	Argento Soma	Second Lt. Sue Harris
	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	Tachikoma	also in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (series 2)
	Great Teacher Onizuka	Anko's friend
2003	.hack//Legend of the Twilight	Random Girl
	Planetes	Nobo
	S-CRY-ed	Scheris Adjani
2004	Astro Boy	Alejo, Vivienne, C.J., Mimi, Nina	Sony Pictures / Kids WB
	Rave Master	Haul
2005	Zatch Bell!	Koko
	Naruto	Matsuri
2007	Blood+	Min, Lulu, Javier
	Please Twins	Karen Onodera
	Rave Master	Hole
2008	Lucky ☆ Star	Misao Kusakabe
	Strait Jacket	Kapelteta Fernandez		[12]
2010	Nodame Cantabile	Yuiko Miyoshi
2020–present	Beastars	Haru		[9]

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Note's	Notes	Source[10]
2021	The Ghost and Molly McGee	Libby Stein-Torres
2021	Looney Tunes Cartoons	Petunia Pig
2020-2022	The Casagrandes	Lisa Loud, Female Voice	In the episode Cursed! and Kick Some Bot
2020	DC Super Hero Girls	Casey Krinsky	In the episode All About Zee
2018	Bunnicula	Lil Capone	In the episode Haunted Dog House
2017–2019	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	Fink
2017–present	If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	Cat
2016–present	The Loud House	Lisa Loud, Liam, Becky, Margo Roberts (2016-2018), Nurse Patti, Levi Loud, Persephone, Additional Voices
2012–2020	Doc McStuffins	Lambie		[11]
2013–2015	Henry Hugglemonster	Henry Hugglemonster
2011–2016	Poppy Cat	Mother Bumblebird
2006–2010	Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!	Widget, Huggy, Old Lady Zamboni
2003–2006	Clifford's Puppy Days	Clifford
2005–2007	The Life and Times of Juniper Lee	Juniper Lee
2009–present	Curious George	Allie
2010–2015	SciGirls	Izzie
2011–2015	Winx Club	Chatta, Tune, Livy	Special 4, season 3–4 Nickelodeon version
2004–2008	Higglytown Heroes	Pookie, Wiki, Tini
2006	Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi	Julie
2004	All Grown Up!	Olivia
2006–2007	Shorty McShorts' Shorts	April	In the episode My Mom Married A Yeti
2004	Megas XLR	Little Girl, Kelly		[13]
2004	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Girl/Kid C	Episode: "Which Came First?/Substitute Teacher"
2002	Rocket Power	Girl #1, Kid #1	Episode: "Beach Boyz and a Girl/X-treme Ideas"
2002	Static Shock	Teen Girl #2	Episode: "Power Play"	[13]
2001-2013	Totally Spies!	Ariel	Episode: W.O.W.

Film

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[10]
2005	Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon	Kari Kamiya	[13]
2008	Wubbzy's Big Movie!	Widget, Huggy, Old Lady Zamboni		[13]
2013	Curious George Swings Into Spring	Allie, Balloonist		[13]
2013	Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest	Allie		[13]
2021	The Loud House Movie	Lisa Loud, 1600's Lisa		[citation needed]

List of voice performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[10]
2000	Digimon: The Movie	Kari, Young Kari		[13]
2011	Puss in Boots	Additional Voices

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source[10]
2020	Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory	Chirithy
2020	Legends of Runeterra	Crackshot Corsair, Ava Achiever
2020	Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind	Chirithy
2019	Kingdom Hearts III	Chirithy
2017	Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue	Chirithy		[14]
2016	World of Warcraft: Legion	Korine
2011	Once Upon a Monster	Shelby
2003	Tak and the Power of Juju	Dinky Juju		[13]
2004	Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams	Dinky Juju		[13]
2005	Tak: The Great Juju Challenge	Dinky Juju
2008	de Blob	Comrade Black, Zip, Graydians		[13]
2011	de Blob 2	Comrade Black, Papa Blanc, Inkies
2009	FusionFall	Juniper Lee
	Learn Through Music	Leo the Lion (singer)
2000	Adiboo: Discover series	Adiboo
1998	Baldur's Gate	Girl
1999	EverQuest	Various characters
2004	EverQuest II	Various characters
2005	Psychonauts	Milka Phage		[13]
	Hooked on Phonics	Pig Wig
2006	Barnyard	Zak Boy, various
2010	White Knight Chronicles	Various		[15]
2002	Nickelodeon Party Blast	Jimmy Neutron
2007	Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots	Bustup Ballerina, Mr. Huggles, Springy Rabbit		[13]
2003	Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne	Jaina Proudmoore		[13]
2002	Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos	Jaina Proudmoore
2002	Digimon Rumble Arena	Kari		[13]
2001	Diablo II: Lord of Destruction	Assassin		[13]

Personal life

In 2006, Miller's mother was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a progressive brain disease, which forced her to close her talent agency; Miller has since helped spread awareness of the disease.[16]

References

External links

• Official website
• Lara Jill Miller on Twitter
• Lara Jill Miller at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Lara Jill Miller at IMDb
• Lara Jill Miller at the Internet Broadway Database

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