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The woman of a thousand voices.

Teressa Claire MacNeille (née Payne; born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and many Disney projects (even being the current official voice of Daisy Duck and Chip).

Her most notable characters on The Simpsons include Agnes Skinner (Principal Skinner's controlling mother), Brandine Spuckler (Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel's wife/sister/cousin), Dolph Starbeam (one of the three bullies, along with Jimbo Jones [whom Tress initially voiced, but was replaced with Pamela Hayden] and Kearney Zzyzwicz), and Lindsey Naegle (the generic businesswoman/network executive/image consultant/financial planner), while her performance as Mom (a cruel, elderly businesswoman) is her most notable Futurama role. She even became the voice of Daisy Duck in 1999. MacNeille has also done dubbing work on English language anime translations. She was also the voice of Leon from Lilly the Witch. She's been the industries' go-to voice for old lady characters for quite some time, and it's always easy to recognize her.

MacNeille sang and appeared in the music video for "Ricky" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, which was based on the I Love Lucy television show and parodied the song "Mickey" by Toni Basil. (MacNeille played Lucy and Yankovic played Ricky.) She also appeared on Yankovic's 1999 album, Running with Scissors, on "Jerry Springer", and did several one-shot voices on The Weird Al Show. MacNeille also appeared as an angry anchorwoman in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) and served as the voice of Elvira's Great-Aunt Morganna Talbot. She also dubbed a helicopter-based news reporter, Kelly King (played by Walker, Texas Ranger actress Sheree J. Wilson), for Universal Studios' Kongfrontation, alongside New York newsman Rolland Smith (best known as the "Fighting the Frizzies" guy, then employed at WWOR-TV 9, which was MCA-owned at the time) the footage of King dated back to 1986 when the King Kong Encounter ride opened at the Hollywood park (there, the in-studio anchor was Sander Vanocur).

Due to the sheer amount of voice work in her resume, Tress is no doubt a Woman of a Thousand Voices and is considered the female equivalent of Frank Welker, Billy West, Mel Blanc, and Jim Cummings (1952).

Roles:

Voices on The Simpsons:

  • Agnes Skinner, Principal Skinner's elderly, controlling mother — though the first time she was introduced in Season 1's "The Crepes of Wrath" [the episode where Bart is sent to France after flushing a cherry bomb down the boys' room toilet while the Simpsons house a boy from Albania who is actually a spy for the Communist government], Agnes Skinner was merely an amazingly embarrassing mom who called her son "Spanky," though most fans and writers have concluded that because of Bart's cherry bomb prank, Agnes Skinner has become the woman she is today.
  • Lindsey Naegle, the generic businesswoman (though she is often used as a TV network executive character in such episodes as "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", "You Kent Always Say What You Want", "Helter Shelter", and "E Pluribus Wiggum"). Changes jobs constantly because she's a sexual predator. Is a Blonde Republican Sex Kitten in a lot of episodes, though she was seen as a Democrat (who had a husband who left her after realizing that he was a homosexual) in the Season 19 episode "E Pluribus Wiggum".
  • June Bellamy, the voice actress who plays Itchy and Scratchy (even though in real life, Dan Castellaneta is Scratchy and Harry Shearer is Itchy) as seen in "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show." She also voiced the Road Runner (though she only said, "Meep" and it was doubled on the soundtrack without her knowledge).
  • Dolph Starbeam, one of the three bullies (along with Jimbo Jones and Kearney Zzyzwicz); has red hair cut asymmetrically and wears a green shirt, black pants, and matching black sneakers. Not much is known about him, except that he may be the youngest out of the three bullies, he speaks Esperanto, Swahili, and Klingon, he's Jewish and attends Hebrew school, and, judging by his last name, his parents may be or have been hippies.
  • Brandine Spuckler, Cletus Spuckler's wife (though some episodes reveal that Brandine may also be Cletus's sister and/or cousin).
  • Cookie Kwan, a territorial Asian American realtor who threatens anyone who tries to sell houses on "the west side." First seen in Season 9's "Realty Bites" (the episode where Marge goes into real estate and Homer buys Snake Jailbird's car at a police auction).
  • Ms. Albright, the Sunday school teacher on the Season 6 episode "Bart's Girlfriend". Ms. Albright was seen in Season 2's "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (her first appearance), and "Homer's Triple Bypass", but she was voiced by Maggie Roswell in those instances (her voice in those two episodes sounded more like Lisa's second-grade teacher Ms. Hoover).
  • Mrs. Glick, the elderly shut-in lady who let Bart work for her on Season 2's "Three Men and a Comic Book"; on that episode, Cloris Leachman was the voice of Mrs. Glick. When Mrs. Glick appeared in the Season 8 X-Files crossover episode "The Springfield Files", Tress MacNeille provided her voice.
  • Bernice Hibbert, the recovering alcoholic wife of Julius Hibbert (on the occasions that Dr. Hibbert's wife speaks; normally, she's The Voiceless)
  • Brunella Pommelhorst, the stern school gym teacher (first mentioned by name only in Season 6's "The PTA Disbands") who quit so she could get a sex change operation and get hired as the new woodshop teacher, though she was still seen as a woman in "Moms I'd Like To Forget" and The Simpsons Movie.
  • Poor Violet, the little orphan girl seen in Season 9's "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" and Season 12's "I'm Goin' to Praiseland".
  • Crazy Cat Lady, a psychotic old lady surrounded by pet cats she uses as weapons (was once an aspiring doctor/lawyer named Eleanor Abernathy whose future went downhill when she suffered from mental exhaustion, succumbed to alcoholism, and became obsessed with cats)
  • Gino Terwilliger, Sideshow Bob's son seen in the Season 17 episode, "The Italian Bob".
  • Lunchlady Doris in the Season 18 episode, "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" and the Season 19 episode, "The Debarted", replacing Doris Grau (who died during the show's seventh season; Grau's final episode was "Team Homer").
  • Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's wife (only for the Season 13 episode "The Sweetest Apu"; Manjula is usually voiced by former SNL castmember Jan Hooks. Because of Hooks' death, MacNeille may be her permanent replacement in the event that Manjula appears again)
  • Belle, owner of Springfield's only burlesque house "The Maison Derriere" as seen in Season 8's "Bart After Dark" (originally, the producers wanted a female celebrity to voice Belle, but when they couldn't find a good match, they called in Tress. The role was so big, Tress was billed with the regular voice actors).
  • Mrs. Muntz, Nelson Muntz's promiscuous, drug-addict mother (first mentioned as being a jailbird in Season 4's "Marge in Chains" and having a cough drop addiction in Season 8's "A Milhouse Divided"; first heard in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" first seen in "'Tis the Fifteenth Season")
  • Colin, the environmentalist boy who served as Lisa's Satellite Love Interest in The Simpsons Movie
  • The Medicine Woman, who Homer referred to as "Boob Lady" in The Simpsons Movie.
  • Various other characters

Voices on Futurama:

  • Mom, the evil owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company
  • Linda, the cohost of "Good Morning, Earth"
  • Hattie McDoogal, a crazy, old cat lady with a lazy eye
  • Tinny Tim, a Tiny Tim-esque child robot
  • Munda, Turanga Leela's long-lost mother
  • Petunia, an elderly prostitute often holding a cigarette
  • Ndnd, Lrrr's wife, from Omicron Persei VIII
  • Dr. Cahil, a doctor who looks and acts like a Brainless Beauty
  • Monique, a fembot who appears in "All My Circuits" as Calculon's love interest
  • Fanny, the wife of Donbot with a propeller on her rear
  • Guenter, a hyper-intelligent monkey created by Professor Farnsworth
  • The Slurm Queen, a huge slug-like alien that produces slurm cola
  • Various other characters

Disney character roles

Other roles

Tropes:

  • Acting for Two: Many times. Notably in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, she became notable as one of the few voice actors ever to flirt with themselves. (MacNeille voices Chip and Gadget Hackwrench. Her Chip voice is so sped-up that casual viewers wouldn't know it was her. Now, her Gadget voice is recognizable, as she has used that voice for several bit female characters on other shows, and is very similar to Babs).
  • Catchphrase: "My baby!" She's had this line in pretty much every production she's been in (often multiple times given her tendency to voice more than one character and often when she's voicing a mother or mother-like character whose baby is in danger), the commentary for Superman: The Animated Series hung a lampshade on this.
  • The Other Darrin: In The Simpsons, her role as Kumiko was Darrined by Jenny Yokobori.

 
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