Maria Darling is a British

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who has provided many character voices for children's television programmes in the

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and the

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Television and film

Dr Otter Dr Otter is a stop-motion animated series created & written by David Bonner and produced by Ealing Animation. It was shown on CBBC during 2001. There were 3 seasons in all. Plot Dr Melvyn P Otter is the GP for a small group of animals. He lives ...

- Some of the Rabbit Children, Mrs. Canny Body and additional voices *

Fifi and the Flowertots ''Fifi and the Flowertots'' is a British stop-motion children's television series created by Keith Chapman for Five (acquired rights only) and Nick Jr. (under the "Original Series" brand). It aired from 2 May 2005 to 16 July 2010. The series ...

- Violet, Pip, Poppy and Webby *

The Magic Key ''The Magic Key'' is a British educational animated television series based on the "Biff, Chip and Kipper" stories from the Oxford Reading Tree published by Oxford University Press, originally written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex ...

- Chip, additional voices *

Rubbadubbers ''Rubbadubbers'' is a 2003 British stop-motion children's television series produced by HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series aired from 15 January 2003 to 3 November 2005 on BBC2 in the UK. Created by Peter Curtis, it features seven ...

- Amelia, Sploshy and Winona *

Boj The is the central bank of Japan. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005). "Nihon Ginkō" in The bank is often called for short. It has its headquarters in Chūō, Tokyo. History Like most modern Japanese institutions, the Bank of Japan was fou ...

- Bibi *

Driver Dan's Story Train ''Driver Dan's Story Train'' (Arabic: كابتن كريم وقطار الحكايات, ''Captain Karim Qitar Al Hekayat'' (''Captain Karim and the Story Train'')) is a children's series created and designed by Rebecca Elgar and is a co-producti ...

- Selected female characters *

Roary the Racing Car ''Roary the Racing Car'' (stylised as ''ROARY: The Racing Car'') is a British-stop-motion children's television series created by David Jenkins and produced by Chapman Entertainment and Cosgrove Hall Films. It follows the adventures of Roary ...

- Roary, Marsha, Cici, Breeze and Mamma Mia *

Franny's Feet ''Franny's Feet'' is a children's animated television series created by Cathy Moss and Susin Nielsen. The show was produced by Decode Entertainment (now WildBrain) with the participation of Family Channel and in association with Channel Five ...

- Franny (UK dub) *

Bob the Builder ''Bob the Builder'' is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series follows the adventures of Bob, a building contractor, specialising in masonry, along with ...

- Dizzy, Roley, Trix (US version) *

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends'', sometimes shortened to ''Sunny Patch'', is a CGI-animated children's television series produced by Nelvana in association with AbsoluteDigital Pictures and Callaway Arts & Entertainment as a follow-up to ' ...

- Miss Spider, Dragon, Snowdrop, Pansy, Shimmer, Betty, Eunice (UK dub) *

The Backyardigans ''The Backyardigans'' is a computer-animated musical children's television series created by Janice Burgess. The series was written and recorded at Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It centers on five animal neighbors who imagine themselves on fantas ...

- Tyrone, Tasha (Series 1-2) (UK dub) * Pitt and Kantrop - Pitt *

Watership Down ''Watership Down'' is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Berkshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natura ...

- Pipkin, Hannah, Clover, Additional voices (Series 3 only) *

Boblins ''Boblins'' is an animated educational television show for preschool children produced by the British companInspireGLG Limited The show, which runs in 10-minute segments, is broadcast internationally, being shown in the United Kingdom on CITV, in ...

- Pinny, Gully and Onny *Odd Jobbers - Mia and Menic the goat *The

Mole Sisters ''Mole Sisters'' is an animated TV series released on February 28, 2003. It teaches preschoolers to respect the natural world around them. It is based on the book series written and illustrated by Roslyn Schwartz, and follows the adventures of tw ...

- All character voices in the programme *Zoo Troop - Anxious the Elephant and Polly *

The Koala Brothers ''The Koala Brothers'' is a British stop-motion animated children's television show that features the adventures of 2 koala brothers named Frank and Buster, as they seek to help their friends in a sleepy town in the Australian outback. Seventy-n ...

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s) -

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Wide-Eye ''Wide-Eye'' is an animated children's television series set in fictional Natterjack Forest. The series consists of a series of ten-minute episodes and is about a wise, old owl who lives in a tall tree with his young son, Little Hoot, and his ene ...

- Little Hoot, Hetty Hornet, The Natterjack Toads, Conchita and Batwing *

Muffin The Mule Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in a British 1946-1955 television programme for children. The puppet had been made in 1933 for Hogarth Puppets. The original TV programmes featuring the animal character himself were presented by Annette ...

(2005 version) - Nearly all of the female characters (except for Louise the Lamb) *

PB Bear and Friends ''PB Bear and Friends'' is a series of children's books by Lee Davis that has also been made into a British children's television series. Much like the ''Paddington Bear'' series, the characters are stuffed puppets that are animated with the sto ...

- Milly the

Monkey Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...

Guess with Jess ''Guess with Jess'' is a British-Canadian interactive animated children's television series featuring Jess the Cat from the television series ''Postman Pat''. The show follows Jess' adventures with his friends on Greendale Farm in London, England, ...

- Billie *

Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva is a 2009 Japanese animated mystery film directed by Masakazu Hashimoto, written by Aya Matsui from a story by Akihiro Hino and produced by P.A. Works and OLM. The film is based on the ''Professor Layton'' video game series by Level-5, taking ...

Luke Triton ''Professor Layton'' is a puzzle adventure video game series and transmedia franchise developed by Level-5. The property consists primarily of seven main video games, a mobile spin-off, an animated theatrical film, and an anime television seri ...

, Annie Dretche *

Chuggington ''Chuggington'' (also known as ''Chuggington: Tales from the Rails'' since series six) is a British computer-animated children's television series aimed at toddlers, produced by Ludorum PLC (Series 1–5) and Herschend Entertainment Studios (s ...

- Vee, Lori (Series 1-5) *

Jelly Jamm ''Jelly Jamm'' is a 3D animated children's television series created by Carlos L. del Rey, Víctor M. López and David Cantolla. The series is a production of Vodka Capital and 737 SHAKER, two Spanish producers based in Madrid and Segovia, res ...

- Goomo *

Cartoonito Cartoonito is a brand name used by Warner Bros. Discovery for a collection of television networks and Block programming, programming blocks that target preschool-age children. The name combines the "cartoon" with the Spanish language, Spanish suf ...

- Cuba, Lolly, Ringo (until 2018) * Bimble's Bucket - Narrator, additional voices (1997-1998) * Bitz and Bob - voices of Purl and Pop *

Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! ''Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!'' is an animated children's television series, produced by Collingwood O'Hare Productions Limited for HIT Entertainment and currently distributed by Foothill Entertainment, which aired from 2 June 2003 till 29 August ...

- Additional voices * Gordon the Garden Gnome - Rosie *

Tad, The Lost Explorer ''Tad, the Lost Explorer'' (Spanish: ''Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones'') is a 2012 Spanish 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Enrique Gato. The film is a spinoff of Gato's 2004 short film, ''Tadeo Jones'' and its sequel '' Tade ...

- Young Tad Stones *Rudi and Trudi - Additional voices *The King's Beard - Sophie *

Little Robots ''Little Robots'' is a British stop-motion animated children's television series, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV & Film and broadcast on CBeebies (the BBC's children's channel). The series was based on the eponymous book by Mi ...

- Rusty and Noisy (US dub)

Video games

Ape Escape 3 is a platform video game published and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The game has been rated for release on PlayStation 4 but no announcement of its release has been made. Plot Specter, th ...

- Aki, Sayaka (UK version) * Everybody's Golf: World Tour - Bonnie * Everybody's Golf Portable 2 - Gloria, Mia Cara, Frau Ada * Everybody's Tennis Portable - Gloria, Natasha * Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King * Kingdom o' Magic * Medieval II: Total War * PC Play & Learn - All voices *

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ''PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale'' is a 2012 crossover fighting video game developed by SuperBot Entertainment, in conjunction with Bluepoint Games, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It features various characters drawn from dif ...

- Charu * Professor Layton Series -

(UK dub) *

Overlord 2 ''Overlord II'' is a 2009 action role-playing game and sequel to the 2007 video game ''Overlord (2007 video game), Overlord''. It was developed by Triumph Studios and published by Codemasters for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStati ...

Inazuma Eleven is an association football-themed media franchise created by Level-5 (company), Level-5. The franchise began with the release of ''Inazuma Eleven (video game), Inazuma Eleven'' in 2008, with the game series selling over 8 million copies worldwide b ...

- Mark Evans *

Inazuma Eleven 2 is a role-playing and sports video game for the Nintendo DS developed and published by Level-5. It was released on October 1, 2009 in Japan, and was released on March 16, 2012 in Europe. It remains unreleased in North America. There are 2 versio ...

- Mark Evans * Inazuma Eleven Strikers - Mark Evans *

The Secret World ''The Secret World'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game set in a modern-day real world under attack from occult forces. Ragnar Tørnquist led development of the initial game for Funcom. ''The Secret World'' uses a subsc ...

Lilith Lilith ( ; he, Wiktionary:לילית, לִילִית, Līlīṯ) is a female figure in Mesopotamian Mythology, Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, Judaic mythology, alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. ...

Other

In 2002, she guest starred in the ''

Bernice Summerfield Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length ''Doctor Who ...

'' audio drama '' The Green-Eyed Monsters''.

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