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Grey DeLisle

Grey DeLisle is an actor, born 1973.

Grey DeLisle, credited variously as Grey DeLisle-Griffin and Grey Griffin, is one of the most heavily worked voice actors in American animation, and she is also a comedian and a singer songwriter. She has voiced Daphne Blake across the Scooby-Doo franchise since 2000, and her recurring roster includes Vicky and Tootie in The Fairly OddParents, Mandy in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Frankie Foster in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Sam Manson in Danny Phantom, Kimiko in Xiaolin Showdown and Emily Elizabeth in Clifford the Big Red Dog.

The reason she gets hired so often is that she can put menace into a pleasant voice. Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender is the definitive example: the character almost never shouts, and DeLisle plays her as someone with total confidence and perfect manners, which is far more frightening than screaming would be. Mandy is the same instinct pushed to a flat, affectless monotone that has no interest in your feelings at all.

She works at the other end of the range just as easily, playing boys, mothers, grandmothers and narrators, sometimes several within one production. On The Simpsons she voices Martin Prince. On Adventure Time she is the Ice Queen. In Invincible she plays Shrinking Rae and Monster Girl, and in The Legend of Korra she is Ming-Hua.

Her DC animated credits are equally deep, taking in Barbara Gordon in Batman: Year One and Lois Lane in Justice League: Doom.

Movies (157)

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Where to start with Grey DeLisle

Head straight for the second and third seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender, where Azula becomes the best written antagonist in modern American animation and DeLisle plays her with a calm that gets worse the longer you sit with it.

Then go to The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy for the deadpan version and The Fairly OddParents for the shriek, which together mark out the whole width of her range.

Danny Phantom and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated are the long running teen roles, and the latter is a genuinely strange, well plotted show that deserved more attention. For recent work, INVINCIBLE gives her two very different characters in the same series, and The Legend of Korra hands her a memorable villain with almost no screen time to build it in.

Avatar and the great modern cartoons

Azula in Avatar is the finest voice performance on this page and one of the best-written villains in American animation, played almost entirely without raising the volume. The rest are the best-made cartoons of the last twenty years.

Scooby-Doo and the Disney work

She has been Daphne Blake since 2000, across films, series and specials, which is longer than anyone else has held the part. Mystery Incorporated is a far stranger and better-plotted series than the franchise suggests.

The DC and adult animation

The work aimed at adults. The Dark Knight Returns films are the best of the DC animated features, and Invincible is the recent series where the same voice gets used for something considerably bleaker.

Genres Grey DeLisle works in