Tara Strong

Two of the most recognisable boy heroes in American cartoons, Timmy Turner and Ben Tennyson, are voiced by a woman from Toronto. That is the quickest way to describe Tara Strong's career, though it undersells the volume. Her animation credits include The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Teen Titans, Xiaolin Showdown, Ben 10, Drawn Together, The New Batman Adventures, Rugrats, The Proud Family, Chowder and Unikitty.

Her range is unusual even by voice acting standards because the extremes are so far apart. Bubbles on The Powerpuff Girls is pitched somewhere near helium. Raven on Teen Titans is a flat, dry mutter delivered from behind a hood. They come from the same throat, in the same era, and Strong can hold a scene playing both sides of a conversation without either voice bending toward the other.

She has also become one of the defining voices of DC animation, playing Batgirl across multiple films, and she carries an enormous games career, including Mortal Kombat X, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Jak and Daxter, Blue Dragon, the Batman: Arkham series and Rikku in Final Fantasy X and X-2.

The best recent example of what she does is Miss Minutes in Loki: a chirpy animated clock with a Southern accent, deployed as the most quietly unsettling presence in a live action Marvel series. The sweetness is the weapon.