Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an American actress.
She first attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the
younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom
Rhoda, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She is best known for her voice
role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons.
She also voices other characters for the show, including Marge's
mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, and sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier.Known
for her improvisation and distinctive "honeyed gravel voice", Kavner
was cast in her first professional acting role as Brenda Morgenstern
in Rhoda in 1974. She received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations
for playing the character, winning the award in 1978, the year that
the series ended. Starting in 1987, Kavner started appearing on The
Tracey Ullman Show. The Tracey Ullman Show included a series of
animated shorts about a dysfunctional family. Voices were needed for
the shorts, and the producers asked Kavner to voice Marge. The shorts
were spun off into The Simpsons.Kavner has been described as "nearly
reclusive"; part of her contract says that she will never have to
promote The Simpsons on video. For her work as Marge, Kavner received
another Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in
1992 and an Annie Award nomination for her performance as the
character in The Simpsons Movie.
She first attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the
younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom
Rhoda, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She is best known for her voice
role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons.
She also voices other characters for the show, including Marge's
mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, and sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier.Known
for her improvisation and distinctive "honeyed gravel voice", Kavner
was cast in her first professional acting role as Brenda Morgenstern
in Rhoda in 1974. She received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations
for playing the character, winning the award in 1978, the year that
the series ended. Starting in 1987, Kavner started appearing on The
Tracey Ullman Show. The Tracey Ullman Show included a series of
animated shorts about a dysfunctional family. Voices were needed for
the shorts, and the producers asked Kavner to voice Marge. The shorts
were spun off into The Simpsons.Kavner has been described as "nearly
reclusive"; part of her contract says that she will never have to
promote The Simpsons on video. For her work as Marge, Kavner received
another Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in
1992 and an Annie Award nomination for her performance as the
character in The Simpsons Movie.
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