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Yeardley Smithers
Yeardley smith
Gender Female
Born July 3, 1964 (1964-07-03) (age 48)
Cast status Active; starring

Occupation- Voice Artist

First appearance "Good Night"

Martha Maria Yeardley Smithers (born July 3, 1964) is a French-born American actress. She is the voice of Lisa Simpson. She actually auditioned for the role of Bart Simpson because the producers thought she had a funny voice. So they made her role for Bart, but it kept sounding like a girly voice she tried over and over again. Until one of the producers told her there was a little sister, and rolled for the part and got it and that is how Lisa Simpson came to have a unique voice.

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Smithers was born in Paris, France, and raised in Washington, D.C., USA. She became a professional actress after
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she graduated Drama School in 1982. She is the daughter (and namesake) of Joseph Yeardley "Joe" Smithers (March 8, 1932–July 17, 2005), The Washington Post's first official obituary editor (1977–1988), who continued working full time for The Post until 1996. Her mother, Martha Mayor was a gallery worker. Her parents then later divorced.

In addition to performing as the voice of Lisa Simpson and other occasional characters on The Simpsons, Smithers also appeared on the sitcoms Herman's Head and Dharma and Greg and guest-starred on Showtime's Dead Like Me, the Disney Channel's Phil of the Future, the "Mathnet" segment of the Children's Television Workshop show Square One and The Big Bang Theory. Smithers co-starred on Herman's Head with Simpsons actor Hank Azaria. One notable line of hers on the show referred to her voice acting when she angrily answers a call with "I do not sound like that Lisa Simpson character on TV!"

She also appeared in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Some of her film credits include The Legend of Billie Jean, Maximum Overdrive, City Slickers and As Good as It Gets.

Yeardley admitted on The Jane Pauley Show that she had struggled with bulimia for 25 years. Coincidentally, her character Lisa Simpson suffered through an eating disorder in the episode "Sleeping with the Enemy". She is currently performing in a one-woman show called More where she exposes her eating disorder. Yeardley has been cured of bulimia as of 2005.

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Cast and Crew
Starring
Dan Castellaneta | Julie Kavner | Nancy Cartwright | Yeardley Smith | Hank Azaria | Harry Shearer
Also Starring
Pamela Hayden | Tress MacNeille | Maggie Roswell | Russi Taylor | Karl Wiedergott | Christopher Collins | Doris Grau | Jo Ann Harris | Marcia Mitzman Gaven
Special Guest Voices
Kelsey Grammer | Maurice LaMarche | Joe Mantegna | Marcia Wallace | Greg Berg | Albert Brooks | Phil Hartman | Jan Hooks | Jane Kaczmarek | Jon Lovitz | Frank Welker
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