You gotta give it up for the original rug rat. This woman should technically not even be on this list because she created the game. She has been killing it as every character in any cartoon ever, since before I was born. You know that moment when you hear her voice and go “Oh… Susie!” She has been in 277 films and TV shows from, A Different World (Winifred ‘Freddie’ Brooks),Young Justice, Batman Brave and Bold, World of Warcraft video game, Drawn Together, Batman Arkham Asylum, Star Wars: Old Republic Knights of the Eternal Throne, Ultimate Spider-Man, Transformers: animated (2007), My Gym Partner’s a Monkey, Danny Phantom, Mass Effect, Inspector Gadget, Tiny Toons, Gargoyles, Fallout, Rugrats, Atlantis, even Pepper Ann. Just to name a few.
Besides being the founder of our past times, at 47, Cree has a potent blend of black girl magic potion, looking as flawless as she did day one on the set of A Different World.
To really round out her full career and on the fringe personality, she is a bonafide black hippie. She has two children with the names Brave Littlewing and Hero Peregrine and creates righteous 90s Alternative Rock/folk music. Touring with Lenny Kravitz – being in a band called “Subject to Change” for a bit and releasing a solo album titled Street Faërie. To top it all off her natural hair story gives all us women hope for our future in the business. In an article with “Curly Niki” she talks about her trials and tribulations with natural hair from home remedies to straighten and the failed attempts at bangs. I feel like I am on the right track to killin’ it hearing these stories.
So when she’s not in the booth recording the voices we know and love again and again, she’s show stopping Lilith Fair and raising butterfly children – it’s the best! I wonder if her children listen to their mother’s voice when they watch TV shows like the current popular children’s show, DC Superhero girls, do they recognize her?
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