Lara Jill Miller

Lara Jill Miller
Miller in 2021
Born (1967-04-20) April 20, 1967 (age 56)
Other namesLara Miller
EducationNew York University (BA)
Fordham University School of Law (JD)
OccupationActress
Years active1978–present

Lara Jill Miller (born April 20, 1967) is an American actress. She played Samantha "Sam" Kanisky on the 1980s sitcom Gimme a Break! and Kathy on The Amanda Show.

She voices the title characters in Clifford's Puppy Days, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and Henry Hugglemonster, respectively. She also voices Widget in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Lambie in Doc McStuffins, Fink in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Lisa Loud in The Loud House, Libby Stein-Torres in The Ghost and Molly McGee, Izzie in SciGirls, Allie in Curious George, and Cat in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Early life and education

Miller was born April 20, 1967, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Lois (née Noll; 1937-2014) and Stanley Miller. She is Jewish. She first started acting in a dinner theater she found in a newspaper ad, and she did not know what the word audition meant. She asked her Dad what that meant and he told her. She graduated from Allentown's William Allen High School. Her father was a pajama factory owner and her mother founded the talent agency Star Talent Management.

Career

Miller's professional acting career began on Broadway, where she appeared as Amaryllis in a revival of The Music Man with Dick Van Dyke.

In 1981, after her appearance on Broadway, she joined the cast of Gimme a Break!, playing the role of the tomboyish Samantha "Sam" Kanisky opposite Nell Carter. When the series ended its six-year run on NBC in 1987, Miller returned to New York University, where she played on the university's women's varsity tennis team and continued performing on stage nationally. Four years later, she received her J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law, leaving graduation early to portray Peter Pan in a production at the Pennsylvania Youth Theater. She subsequently was admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, and her native Pennsylvania.

In 1999, Miller resumed her on-camera acting career with recurring roles on the Nickelodeon series The Amanda Show and All That and on General Hospital. She also began working in animated series, lending her voice to various characters, including Kari in Digimon (both the series and the feature film), Koko in Zatch Bell!, Alejo in Astro Boy, and Scheris Adjani in s-CRY-ed. Miller also provided the singing voice of Dorothy Gale in the National Public Radio adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the voices of the title characters on Cartoon Network's The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Disney Junior's Henry Hugglemonster, and the PBS Kids Clifford's Puppy Days (prequel to Clifford the Big Red Dog).

Miller appears in the recurring roles of Pookie, Wiki, and Tini on Disney Channel's Higglytown Heroes, Haruka of Daigunder, and the Nick Jr. series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as Widget, the show's problem-solving pink creature resembling a rabbit, both PBS series Curious George as Allie and SciGirls as Izzie, and regular guest-starring roles on several other animated series.[citation needed]

For six seasons, she performed voice work on the Disney Channel/Disney Junior television series Doc McStuffins as the voice of Lambie and on the Nickelodeon television series The Loud House in which she voices Lisa Loud, Liam Hunnicutt, Becky, Persephone, and Nurse Patti.

In 2020, she voice acted for two cartoons, the episode "All About Zee" in DC Super Hero Girls and the English dub for Beastars as Haru. She continues to perform the role of Libby in the Disney production, The Ghost and Molly McGee.

Filmography

Live-action

List of acting performances in live-action television and film
Year Title Role Notes Source
1981–1987 Gimme a Break! Samantha "Sam" Kanisky Main role
1986 Touch and Go Courtney
1999–2002 The Amanda Show Kathy
2000 Chicken Soup for the Soul The Teacher TV series
2002 General Hospital Kate Whittaker Episode #1.9927
2005 Shushybye Snoozles, Dozie, and Zeez
2009 iCarly Mrs. Kravitz Episode: "IFind Lewberts Lost Love"

Anime

List of dubbing performances in anime
Year Title Role Notes Source
1999 Digimon Adventure Kari Kamiya
2000 Digimon Adventure 02 Kari Kamiya
2001 Digimon Tamers Nami Asaji
2002 Daigunder Haruka
2002 Argento Soma Second Lt. Sue Harris
  Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Tachikoma also in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (series 2)
  Great Teacher Onizuka Anko's friend
2003 .hack//Legend of the Twilight Random Girl
  Planetes Nono
  S-CRY-ed Scheris Adjani
2004 Astro Boy Alejo, Vivienne, C.J., Mimi, Nina Sony Pictures / Kids WB
  Rave Master Haul
2005 Zatch Bell! Koko
  Naruto Matsuri
2007 Blood+ Min, Lulu, Javier
  Please Twins Karen Onodera
  Rave Master Hole
2008 Lucky ☆ Star Misao Kusakabe
  Strait Jacket Kapelteta Fernandez
2010 Nodame Cantabile Yuiko Miyoshi
2020–present Beastars Haru

Animation

List of voice performances in animation
Year Title Role Note's Notes Source
2001-2013 Totally Spies! Ariel Episode: W.O.W.
2002 Static Shock Teen Girl #2 Episode: "Power Play"
2002 Rocket Power Girl #1, Kid #1 Episode: "Beach Boyz and a Girl/X-treme Ideas"
2003–2006 Clifford's Puppy Days Clifford
2004 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Girl/Kid C Episode: "Which Came First?/Substitute Teacher"
2004 Megas XLR Little Girl, Kelly
2004 All Grown Up! Olivia
2004–2008 Higglytown Heroes Pookie, Wiki, Tini
2005–2007 The Life and Times of Juniper Lee Juniper Lee
2006 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Julie Hinikawa Episode: "Manga Madness, Part II/Julie AmiYumi/It's Alive!"
2006–2007 Shorty McShorts' Shorts April In the episode My Mom Married A Yeti
2006–2010 Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Widget, Huggy, Old Lady Zamboni
2009–2022 Curious George Allie
2010–2023 SciGirls Izzie
2011–2012 Winx Club Chatta, Tune, Livy Special 4, season 3–4 Atlas Oceanic version
2011–2016 Poppy Cat Mother Bumblebird
2012–2020 Doc McStuffins Lambie
2013–2015 Henry Hugglemonster Henry Hugglemonster
2016–present The Loud House Lisa Loud, Liam Hunnicutt, Becky, Margo Roberts (2016-2018), Nurse Patti, Levi Loud, Persephone, Additional Voices
2017–present If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Cat
2017–2019 OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Fink
2018 Bunnicula Lil Capone In the episode Haunted Dog House
2020 DC Super Hero Girls Casey Krinsky In the episode All About Zee
2020-2022 The Casagrandes Lisa Loud, Female Voice In the episode Cursed! and Kick Some Bot
2021–2023 Looney Tunes Cartoons Petunia Pig
2021–2024 The Ghost and Molly McGee Libby Stein-Torres

Film

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films
Year Title Role Notes Source
2005 Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon Kari Kamiya
2008 Wubbzy's Big Movie! Widget, Huggy, Old Lady Zamboni
2013 Curious George Swings Into Spring Allie, Balloonist
2013 Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest Allie
2021 The Loud House Movie Lisa Loud, 1600's Lisa [citation needed]
2022 Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! Prisoner Costume Teen, Superhero Boy, Musketeer 3
List of voice performances in feature films
Year Title Role Notes Source
2000 Digimon: The Movie Kari, Young Kari
2011 Puss in Boots Additional Voices

Video games

List of voice performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source
1998 Baldur's Gate Girl
1999 EverQuest Various characters
2000 Adiboo: Discover series Adiboo
2001 Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Assassin
2002 Digimon Rumble Arena Kari
2002 Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Jaina Proudmoore
2002 Nickelodeon Party Blast Jimmy Neutron
2003 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Jaina Proudmoore
2003 Tak and the Power of Juju Dinky Juju
2004 Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams Dinky Juju
2004 EverQuest II Various characters
2005 Tak: The Great Juju Challenge Dinky Juju
2005 Psychonauts Milka Phage
2006 Barnyard Zak Boy, various
2007 Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots Bustup Ballerina, Mr. Huggles, Springy Rabbit
2008 de Blob Comrade Black, Zip, Graydians
2009 FusionFall Juniper Lee
2010 White Knight Chronicles Various
2011 de Blob 2 Comrade Black, Papa Blanc, Inkies
2011 Once Upon a Monster Shelby
2016 World of Warcraft: Legion Korine
2017 Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue Chirithy
2019 Kingdom Hearts III Chirithy
2020 Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind Chirithy
2020 Legends of Runeterra Crackshot Corsair, Ava Achiever
2020 Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Chirithy
Learn Through Music Leo the Lion (singer)
Hooked on Phonics Pig Wig

Personal life

In 2006, Miller's mother was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a progressive brain disease, which forced her to close her talent agency; Miller has since helped spread awareness of the disease.


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