Melendy Britt (born October 31, 1943) is an American actress who has been active in television and

voice acting Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talen ...

since the 1970s.

Career

Britt's most notable animated work is for

Filmation Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 until 1989. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1962. Filmation's founders and ...

, voicing characters such as She-Ra, and the second animated

Batgirl Batgirl is the name of several superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, depicted as female counterparts and allies to the superhero Batman. Although the character Betty Kane was introduced into publication in ...

( Jane Webb was the first). She also provided the voice for Penny, would-be love interest and aide to Plastic Man on '' The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show'', which was produced by Ruby-Spears. She was also the voice of Gran Gran in '' Avatar: The Last Airbender''. Her film credits include roles in ''

Gray Lady Down ''Gray Lady Down'' is a 1978 American submarine disaster film directed by David Greene and starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and Rosemary Forsyth, and includes the feature film debut of Christop ...

'' (1978) and ''

Being There ''Being There'' is a 1979 American satire film directed by Hal Ashby. Based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński, it was adapted for the screen by Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones. The film stars Peter Sellers an ...

'' (1979). On television she appeared in three different roles in three episodes of ''

The Rockford Files ''The Rockford Files'' is an American detective drama television series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network from September 13, 1974 to January 10, 1980, and remains in syndication. Garner portrays Los Angeles private investiga ...

'', and on ''

Cheers ''Cheers'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association w ...

'' she played Kelly Gaines' mother, Roxanne Gaines, in the episode "Woody or Won't He".

Personal life

Britt grew up in

Houston, Texas Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 i ...

. She has two daughters.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Official site
* * 1943 births Living people American film actresses American television actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses Actresses from Houston Filmation people Actresses from Charlotte, North Carolina 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses {{US-voice-actor-1940s-stub