Creator / Grey DeLisle

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Billed as a "Superstar Voice Actress" on the Anime News Network, Grey DeLisle^note That last name is pronounced "De-lyle" and is of French origin meaning "from the island" or "of the island" due to her being of French descent as well though some of her voice acting roles that were released around or after that time may still credit her under her previous last name of "Griffin" (or a hyphenated last name combination of DeLisle-Griffin), (depending on when the cartoons were produced), was born on August 24, 1973 in Fort Ord, California, as Erin Grey van Oosbree.

She has been cast as evil teenage girls (Vicky, Sally Avril), sweet kids (Lizzie, Emily Elizabeth, Wubbzy), villains (Azula, Jacqueline Natla, Femme Fatale) and heroines (Kimiko Tohomiko, Daphne Blake, Kitty Katswell). She's also been heard as Betsy from Curious George, Lady Redundant Woman from WordGirl, Ginger from The Tom and Jerry Show (2014), Black Canary from Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Portia Gibbons from The Mighty B!, Flicker from Handy Manny, Ms. Marvel and Amora the Enchantress from The Super Hero Squad Show, Brianna Buttowski from Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Dr. Rebecca Holiday from Generator Rex, Cotilla of Zevo-3, the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress and Padme in Star Wars: Clone Wars, and various characters in MAD. After the passing of Russi Taylor in 2019, she was chosen to take over as the voice of Martin Prince and the twins Sherri and Terri.

Outside of cartoons, she's notable for Catwoman in Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Knight and Injustice: Gods Among Us and its sequel. Other roles include Escape from Monkey Island, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, and several Star Wars games. She reprises her role as Ventress in a bonus level in the Force Duel mode of the PSP version of the video game The Force Unleashed and appeared in two of Blizzard's main franchise games as the Dominion Ghost Nova in StarCraft II and as the female wizard in Diablo III (and reprised both roles in Heroes of the Storm, the latter re-christened as Li-Ming.).

Other notable roles include Therese and Jeanette (Tourette) Voerman in the White Wolf RPG PC game Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Frida Suarez in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Sam Manson in Danny Phantom, Frankie and Goo in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Riley Daring and Buzz Winters in The Replacements, Wonder Woman/Diana Prince in both iterations of DC Super Hero Girls, Lily Loud and twins Lola & Lana in The Loud House, and Princess Mira and High Priestess in Samurai Jack. Out of all of her most notable characters, Azula is her favorite character to voice.

Perhaps her most unusual role is being on the top right corner on the box cover art of the Nintendo Switch game 1-2-Switch. She noted Nintendo inexplicably photoshopped her nose to be "bigger" rather than smaller.

Like Kath Soucie, she also has talent with accents as seen on Mighty Magiswords, Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) and The Mummy: The Animated Series (British); Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Carmen Got Expelled!, and My Gym Partner's a Monkey (Mexican Spanish); Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (French); Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Hungarian); and Invincible (2021) (Russian). She's even spoken a bit of Japanese and German as Yumi on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.

She can play the autoharp and the clarinet, and has made several albums of various genres such as: country, rockabilly, americana music, and folk music, using the money from her extensive voice acting work to fund her musical aspirations. On her 2005 album Iron Flowers, she covered "Bohemian Rhapsody", one of the most well-known songs by the British rock band Queen.

Grey is also a stand-up comedian. In 2018, she released "My First Comedy Special" on Amazon Prime. It's free to watch if you have an Amazon Prime account.

She eventually became a fan of Homestuck, joining her fellow Avatar castmember Dante Basco, and even recording small audio clips in the roles of Vriska and Rose. She also lent her voice to a certain grey, cross-eyed, muffin-loving pony in this little animation.

She is fluent in Spanish and is able to do a Mexican accent in most roles due to her being of Mexican descent and grew up in a Mexican-American household and was raised by her late Mexican grandma Eva Flores, who was a singer and performed with Latin jazz legend Tito Puente and she describes herself as "a 75% white woman".

Her niece is YouTuber and fellow voice actress Anna Brisbin, better known as Brizzy Voices.

• She's the daughter of her brother.

• Interestingly, Grey's son Tex Hammond is also Anna Brisbin's first cousin.

• She has also been a significant mentor and cheerleader to her as she has transitioned into a successful professional voice acting career herself.

She's of Irish, Dutch, French, Mexican, and Norwegian descent.

Grey DeLisle's voice-acting and acting credits include:

Tropes related to her performances:

• Acting for Two: She usually voices many characters in her works, who also usually interact with each other.
  • In "Sister Act", Grey successfully has Lola and Lana Loud impersonate each other throughout the entire episode.
• The Cast Showoff: Sings as Daphne in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire.
• Creator Backlash:
  • She isn't fond of talking about Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa. She admits to cringing about doing that special every few months or so, purely because of how terrible it was. She'll even block people on Twitter for asking about the special, due to having been bombarded with tweets regarding it in the past.
  • According to this interview, she also isn't fond on working on the Vitello dub of Crayon Shin-chan, as she didn't think that the series couldn't be worthy to translate despite its popularity in Japan (as she felt that the series was crass and weird), and only did it to get paid.
  • She also admits she never liked voice acting in preschool cartoons like Clifford the Big Red Dog and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, because of how relentlessly cutesy they are.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: She voices quite a few boys, such as Chad, Brandon, Buzz, Wubbzy, Puppycorn, Elwood, and the countless amount of additional voices she does.
• Fan Community Nickname: Affectionately refers to her fans as "Fire Nation peasants".
• Ink-Suit Actor: The animators based Azula's mannerisms off Grey's performance in the booth, which is part of why they look eerily similar.
• Large Ham: Self-admitted. She's expressed that characters like Azula and Mandy are a fun challenge to play because they're very unlike her real-life personality.
• Money, Dear Boy:
  • As mentioned above, she only voiced on the Vitello dub of Crayon Shin-chan to get paid.
  • She's narrated trailers for porn films, citing that she'll "do anything for scale-plus-ten."
• Promoted Fangirl:
  • When she got cast as an extra on Mad Men, she was apparently so excited that the people who cast her felt the need to remind her that she was just an extra.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean had been among Grey's favorite Disneyland rides for years, so she was excited to learn that she was cast as Redd.
  • Grey has clearly been a lifelong The Wizard of Oz (1939) fan (see Woman of a Thousand Voices below), so one can imagine her excitement at officially voicing Dorothy in Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz.
  • For a long time, Grey said that the one show she wanted to be cast in was The Simpsons. She since took over for Russi Taylor on the show after the latter's passing in 2019.
  • Another show she wanted to be cast in was SpongeBob SquarePants. She eventually did do voicework for both the main show and it's spin-offs, Kamp Koral and The Patrick Star Show, as well as the film Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie.
  • She's said it was an honor to voice Betty Rubble in Flintstones on the Rocks, as she was a fan of the series growing up.
• Real-Life Relative: In The Loud House, where she voices Lola, Lana, and Lily Loud among other characters, her son Tex Hammond voiced Lincoln Loud from "Game Boys" to "Room and Hoard", as well as minor character Lance in "Deal Me Out".
• Stage Names: Her real name is Erin, but she chose to go by "Grey" when she discovered that there was already an actor named Erin DeLisle. She has reportedly never been credited under her maiden name of Van Oosbree, as DeLisle and Griffin were the names she took for her first and third marriages, respectively.
  • Though some of her voice acting roles that were released around or after that time may still credit her under her previous last name of "Griffin" (or a hyphenated last name combination of DeLisle-Griffin), (depending on when the cartoons were produced).
• Teacher's Pet: The complete opposite of her usual and most infamous characters, amazingly both elementary school-aged boys as both Brandon Higsby in As Told by Ginger and since taking over the role of Martin Prince in The Simpsons.
• Typecasting: Even Grey herself notices that she voices a lot of Jerkasses and villains.
• Woman of a Thousand Voices:
  • Grey certainly has a large vocal range. She can go from a sweet kid to an evil villain in quite a short amount of time.
  • Perhaps best demonstrated when she voiced Derpy in Epic Rage Time where she goes from being airheaded and ditzy to loud and furious within seconds.
  • She's been doing a spot-on impression of Dorothy Gale as early as 1989 (seen here), to the point that she was cast as the character in Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz. And in a live show with Rob Paulsen, she also displays flawless impersonations of the munchkins and the the two witches while acting out a hypothetical Rule 34 version of the movie.
  • She was the only cast member besides Keith Ferguson to appear in every episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends voicing at least one character per episode (a handful of which that didn't even have Frankie).
• What Could Have Been:
  • She was originally going to voice Mother Gothel in Tangled. Considering how rare it is for professional voice actors to voice major characters in animated films, this might've been quite interesting.
  • She auditioned for the role of Pearl on SpongeBob SquarePants; the role ultimately went to Lori Alan.
  • She was one of the candidates for the titular character of Star vs. the Forces of Evil before ultimately being cast as Moon Butterfly and Jackie-Lynn Thomas.
• Written by Cast Member: She wrote the Evil Con Carne episode "Hector, King of the Britons".