Lisa Simpson

Lisa Simpson can't wait for college. She's only 8 and already reads at a 14th grade level, and has written a number essays, one of which won her family a free trip to Washington, D.C. Her favourite activities include playing her saxophone, attending school and reading Non-Threatening Boys Magazine.

 
A fan of Malibu Stacy, Lisa tried unsuccessfully to create her own talking doll, Lisa Lionheart. Unfortunately, no one wanted to buy a talking doll that was as judgmental as Lisa. Lisa wants everyone to know that she is a vegetarian and that if she could have one thing (besides world peace), it would be a pony..

Yeardley Smith

Yeardley Smith is the voice behind Lisa Simpson. She is American but was born in Paris, France where her father served as a correspondent with UPI. By the time she was two, she and her family had moved to Washington, D.C., where she was raised. A shy, introverted child, she started her pixie-like young career as a teenager at a nearby dinner theatre where she played Tinkerbell in a musical adaptation of "Peter Pan." After receiving her high school diploma she apprenticed for a time at the famed Arena Stage, and then headed off to New York and bigger things.
 
Yeardley Smith has made a virtue out of her odd looks, small figure and distinctive, child-like nasal tones. Lending vocal life to the animated role of Lisa Simpson - the intelligent, caring, saxophone-droning, vegetarian member of the Simpson family - has been her bread-and-butter job for over a decade and a half.
 
Yeardley has made the TV rounds on-camera as well with amusing guest appearances on "Dharma & Greg" (1997), "Murphy Brown" (1988), "Empty Nest" (1988), "Mama's Family" (1983), and a regular role for three seasons as Louise on "Herman's Head" (1991). Other film supports include roles in City Slickers (1991), Jingle All the Way (1996) and As Good as It Gets (1997). In 2004, Yeardley performed front-and-center in her own one-woman autobiographical show entitled "More" in New York.