Yeardley Smith
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 Yeardley Smith facts

• She is best known for her long-running role as Lisa Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons
• She was born in Paris and moved with her family to Washington, DC, in 1966
• As a child, Smith was often teased because of her voice
• She became a professional actress in 1982 after graduating from drama school and moved to New York City in 1984, where she appeared in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing
• She made her film debut in 1985's Heaven Help Us, followed by roles in The Legend of Billie Jean and Maximum Overdrive
• She moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and received a recurring role in the television series Brothers
• In 1987, she auditioned for a role in a series of animated shorts about the Simpson family on The Tracey Ullman Show
• Smith intended to audition for the role of Bart Simpson, but the casting director felt her voice was too high, so she was assigned the role of Lisa, instead
• She voiced Lisa for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, and in 1989, the shorts were spun off into their own half-hour show, The Simpsons
• For her work as the character, Smith received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992