Grey DeLisle

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Grey DeLisle
Born Erin Grey Van Oosbree
August 24, 1973 (1973-08-24) (age 36)
Fort Ord, California, U.S.
Occupation Voice actress/Singer-songwriter
Years active 1998–present
Spouse(s) Murry Hammond (2002–present); 1 child
Christopher DeLisle (1992–1993)
Official website

Grey DeLisle (born August 24, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, and voice actress.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life and early career

Grey DeLisle was born Erin Grey Van Oosbree in Fort Ord, California, of Irish, Dutch, French, Mexican, and Hispanic descent.[1] She had a difficult childhood; her mother was addicted to drugs. She was primarily raised by her grandmother, Eva Flores Ruth, a vocalist who performed with salsa legend Tito Puente.[2]

DeLisle was heavily into goth bands like The Cure, but her mother, who had become a born-again Pentecostal, set a strict rule forbidding secular music. In her late teens, she started singing old gospel tunes, and entered the world of stand-up comedy on the advice of a close friend. In her comedy routine, DeLisle imitated voices very well, and was advised to take a shot at voice acting. Her first starring role came in the first English version of Crayon Shin-chan, as the voice of characters Georgie and Uma, in 1994.[2]

[edit] Career success

Billed as a "Superstar Voice Actress" on the Anime News Network, DeLisle currently plays the leading role in at least six current animated series.[3] Harp has called DeLisle "golden-voiced" and recognized her for her roles in The Fairly Oddparents as well as Clifford the Big Red Dog and its prequel, Clifford's Puppy Days. She is the most recent actress to voice Daphne Blake in What's New Scooby Doo?.[4] In addition to her numerous English-speaking roles, she also speaks Japanese as the character Yumi on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. DeLisle has had voice acting roles in many computer and video games, such as Escape from Monkey Island, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and several Star Wars games. As a voice actress, she portrays the Dark Jedi, Asajj Ventress, in 5 episodes of Star Wars: Clone Wars and reprises her role as Ventress in a bonus level in the Force Duel mode of the PSP version of the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. As a voice actress, she portrays Azula on Avatar: The Last Airbender, several voice roles (though mainly Mandy) on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Therese and Jeanette (Tourette) Voerman in the White Wolf RPG PC game Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, Frida Suárez in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Sam Manson in Danny Phantom, as well as Vicky in The Fairly OddParents and in Xiaolin Showdown as Kimiko Tohomiko.

Her full range of vocal talents was on display in the cartoon Batman: The Brave And The Bold episode "Mayhem of the Music Meister!" The characters were driven to burst into song by the Music Meister; DeLisle provided the voice for the heroine Black Canary singing about her unrequited love for Batman, and later Green Arrow.

DeLisle has released four music CDs, which include goth-inspired folk and Americana tunes, and a few gospel-style songs.[1]

[edit] Personal life

In 2002, DeLisle married musician Murry Hammond, the bassist for the Old 97's, after a few months in a long-distance relationship.[2][5] They were featured in an episode of the TLC program A Wedding Story.[2] Their first child, Jefferson Texas "Tex" Hammond, was born on January 31, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.[6]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Live-action

[edit] Animated series

[edit] Animated films

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Grey Delisle". http://www.greydelisle.com. Retrieved 2007-05-04. 
  2. ^ a b c d Steve Leggett. "allmusic (((Grey Delisle)))". http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jzfexqy0ld0e~T1. Retrieved 2007-05-10. 
  3. ^ "Florida Supercon Announces New "Super Sized" Location Plus Initial 20 Guests". http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2007-12-05/florida-supercon-announces-new-super-sized-location-plus-initial-20-guests. Retrieved 2007-12-12. 
  4. ^ Randy Harward (March/April 2007). "More Rock Vox". HARP Magazine. http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5234. 
  5. ^ "Delisle bio" (doc). Sugar Hill Records. http://www.sugarhillrecords.com/pubmedia/DeLisleBio.doc. Retrieved 2007-05-10. 
  6. ^ "Grey Delisle's Official MySpace Page". http://www.myspace.com/greydelisle. Retrieved 2007-05-13. 

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Preceded by
Mary Kay Bergman		 Daphne Blake voice
2001-present		 Succeeded by
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