Lara Jill Miller
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Lara Jill Miller (born April 20, 1967 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American television, stage and voice actress.
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[edit] Biography
Miller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she attended Allentown's William Allen High School. Her mother a homemaker and her father a pajama factory owner, 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 east, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from New York University, where she also played on the university's women's varsity tennis team and continued to perform on stages around the country. Four years later, she graduated from Fordham University School of Law, leaving graduation early to portray Peter Pan in a production at the Pennsylvania Youth Theater in Pennsylvania. She subsequently obtained her Bar association license to practice law in New Jersey, New York and her native Pennsylvania.
In 1999, Miller returned to Hollywood, California and resumed her on-camera acting career with recurring roles on the Nickelodeon series The Amanda Show and All That, as well as General Hospital. She also began working in animated series, lending her voice to characters such as Kari in Digimon (both the series and the feature film), Koko in Zatch Bell!, Alejo in Astro Boy, one of the Tachikoma mini-tanks in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Scheris Adjani in s-CRY-ed. Miller also provided the singing voice of Dorothy Gale in the NPR adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Currently (as of 2006), in addition to the recurring roles of Pookie, Wiki and Tini on Disney Channel's Higglytown Heroes, Hakura of Daigunder, and regular guest-starring roles on several other animated series, Miller portrays the title characters on Cartoon Network's The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, and Clifford's Puppy Days on PBS. She also stars in a new series for Nickelodeon's Nick Jr, titled Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! in the role of Widget, the show's problem solver. She also appears on Nick's Zoey 101 live-action series.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Anime Roles
- .hack//Legend of the Twilight- Random Girl, whom gave Hotaru the Grunty.(Episode 3:The Wings of Phoenix)
- Argento Soma - Second Lt. Sue Harris
- Astro Boy - Alejo, Additional Voices
- Blood+ - Min
- Daigunder - Heruka Hoshi
- Digimon Adventure/Digimon Adventure 02 - Kari Kamiya, Digimon Tamers - Nami Asaji
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikoma
- Please Twins! - Karen Onodera
- Rave Master - Haul
- S-CRY-ed - Scheris Adjani
- Zatch Bell! - Koko
[edit] Non-Anime Roles
- Clifford's Puppy Days - Puppy Clifford
- Higglytown Heroes - Pookie, Wiki, Tini
- Shorty McShorts' Shorts - April (of My Mom Married a Yeti)
- The Life and Times of Juniper Lee - Juniper "June" Lee, Additional Voices
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! - Widget
[edit] Live Action Roles
- Gimme a Break! - Samantha (series regular, 1981-1987)
- The Amanda Show - Cathy (recurring, 1999-2002)
- All That - Nurse (recurring)
- General Hospital - Kate Whitaker
- Zoey 101 - Featured
- Chicken Soup For The Soul - Teacher
[edit] Film Roles
- Diaboromon Strikes Back - Kari Kamiya
- Digimon: The Movie - Kari Kamiya/Young Kari
- Touch and Go - Courtney
[edit] Video Game Roles
- Digimon Rumble Arena - Kari Kamiya, Young Kari
- EverQuest II - Kerrie Clayton, Molly Daysun, Merchant Clodia Laeca, Shinska, Tavithi N'sari, Shanura Rukiya, Totuka Everhot, Chayla Gumbleflut, Adaline Oakshaper, Cari Cedarfell, Rala Eurocarry, Billy, Wandering Minstrel (Half Elf), Courtesan Fannia Falx, Luvile Binlee
- Phantom Brave - Castile
- Psychonauts - Milka Phange
- SkyGunner - Femme
- Tak and the Power of Juju - Dinky Juju
- Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams - Dinky Juju
- Tak 3: The Great Juju Challenge - Dinky Juju
[edit] External links
- The Official Lara Jill Miller website
- Lara Jill Miller at the Internet Movie Database.
- Lara Jill Miller at the Voice Chasers Database.
- Lara Jill Miller at TV.com
- Lara Jill Miller at the Internet Broadway Database
- Comicon.com interview about The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (Must log-in or register)
