Julie Kavner

Also known as Julie Deborah Kavner

American actress

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Julie Kavner is an American actress, voice actor, and television and film actor. Born on September 7, 1950, in Los Angeles, California, she is a citizen of the United States. Kavner attended Beverly Hills High School and San Diego State University. Her professional career began in 1971.

She is recognized for her role as Marge Simpson in the animated series *The Simpsons*. Kavner has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She speaks English as her native language.

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Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA

Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an American film and television actress, comedian and voice artist. Noted for her role as Marge Simpson on The Simpsons, she also voices other characters for the show.

Known for

The Simpsons Movie 2 — Marge Simpson (voice)2027
Ella McCay — Estelle2025
a walk with homer j. — Marge Simpson2025
Fortnite x The Simpsons — Marge Simpson (voice)2025
May the 12th Be with You — Marge Simpson (voice)2024
The Simpsons Funday Football — Marge Simpson (voice)2024
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful — Marge Simpson (voice)2024
The Simpsons Meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad" — Marge Simpson (voice)2022
The Simpsons | Balenciaga — Marge2021
Dear Class of 2020 — Marge Simpson2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Origin: United States
Active from: 1950

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 424
Total plays: 1,048

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,040x
CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,095x
Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,125x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega
· 2011 · cited 14,497x

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Quotes

“I’m very, very private; I don’t enjoy talking about myself to strangers...Particularly strangers with tapes going.”
“I feel that you reach a certain age and then things start to jell. My sense of self is stronger. I'm getting bolder in my old age. After I hit forty, you couldn't mess around with me so much anymore.”
“I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you.”
“[W]hat I do is not mimicry or an impersonation, but more of an assimilation”
“As an actor you can't approach the character with that kind of awareness or it plays as 'I hate myself.' Dottie thought she had a right to her life and that was tricky to play.”
“[W]hen I was a kid and I would get upset when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always hear: 'We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you.' But I would say, 'I'm not laughing.'”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Deborah
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Los Angeles
Occupation: voice actor
Educated at: Beverly Hills High School
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Notable work: The Simpsons
Image: Julie Kavner 1974.JPG

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Commons category: Julie Kavner
date of birth: 1950-09-07
start of work period: 1971-00-00
writing language: English language
notable role: Marge Simpson

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Encyclopedic overview

Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an American actress. Before becoming well known for her voice role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom Rhoda, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also voices other characters for The Simpsons, including Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier, and half-step-great-aunt Eunice Bouvier.

Known for her improvisation and distinctive "honeyed gravel voice", Kavner was cast in her first professional acting role as Brenda Morgenstern in Rhoda in 1974. Starting in 1987, Kavner appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show. The Tracey Ullman Show included a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family. Voices were needed for the shorts, and the producers asked Kavner to voice Marge. The shorts were spun off into The Simpsons.

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