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Nicole Cowgill Jaffe (born May 23, 1941) is a retired Canadian actress, best known as the original voice actress for Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1973.

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Nicole Jaffe
Born	Nicole Cowgill Jaffe (1941-05-23) May 23, 1941 (age 81) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1968–1986, 2002–2004
Spouses	Brad David ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1979)​ Brian Braff ​ (m. 1982)​

Biography

A life member of The Actors Studio,[1] David – under her maiden name Nicole Jaffe – had previously appeared in The Trouble with Girls (1969) with Elvis Presley (and Scooby-Doo voice actor Frank Welker) and in Disney's The Love Bug (1968).

Jaffe starred in a 1969 stage production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Patty,[2] where she was seen by Hanna-Barbera recording director Gordon Hunt, who auditioned her for and eventually cast her as Velma on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

During the second season in 1970, after Stefanianna Christopherson, who voiced Daphne on Scooby-Doo, left the show, Jaffe recommended her roommate Heather North as a replacement;[2] North voiced Daphne in various Scooby productions for the next three decades. Velma was Jaffe's only voice role, which she reprised in the spin-off series The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–74). During this time, Nicole also appeared in a starring role in the Room 222 second season episode "What Would We Do Without Bobbie?" in 1970.

Jaffe retired from acting after marrying Actors Studio classmate Brad David[1] in 1973 and went into talent representation. With Arnold Rifkin, Nicole David formed the Rifkin/David agency in 1982, which was merged two years later into the Triad Artists agency.[3] Triad was sold to the larger William Morris Agency in 1992 for over $20 million.[3][4] David worked as a senior agent and senior vice president at William Morris and its successor William Morris Endeavor until 2013; her clients over the years have included John Travolta, Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, and Elijah Wood.[4][5] She temporarily returned to the Scooby-Doo series for two 2003 direct-to-video movies: Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	The Love Bug	Girl In Dune-buggy
1969	The Trouble with Girls	Betty
	Marlowe	Lilly	Uncredited
1969–1970	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!	Velma Dinkley (voice)	25 episodes
	Room 222	Bobbie Walstone, Student in Pete's Class	2 episodes
1971	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Hot Pants	Episode: "Broken Melody"
1972–1973	The New Scooby-Doo Movies	Velma Dinkley (voice)	24 episodes
1976	Dynomutt, Dog Wonder	Damsel Woman In Distress (voice)	Episode: "The Wizard of Ooze"
1977–1980	Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels	Additional voices	38 episodes
1978	The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour		Episode: "The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face"
1979–1982	Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo		3 episodes
1983	The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries	Additional voices	Episode: "The Mark Of Scooby/The Crazy Carnival Caper"
	The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show		Episode: "Wedding Bell Boos!"
1986	Scooby's Mystery Funhouse		1 episode
2002	Scooby-Doo! Winter Wonderdog	Velma Dinkley (voice)	Direct-to-video
2003	Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire
	Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico

References

External links

• Nicole Jaffe at IMDb

Preceded by None	Voice of Velma Dinkley 1969–1973, 2003	Succeeded by Pat Stevens

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