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Voice of Bart Simpson
Nancy Cartwright first began auditioning in 1987 for a role in a series of animated shorts. When she arrived she was auditioning for a dysfunctional family that was going to be aired on the Tracy Ullman Show and the character was Lisa Simpson. She later was more intrigued with Bart Simpson and the director allowed her to audition thus giving her the role on the spot. She ended up receiving a Primetime Emmy Award and Outstanding Voice-over Performance later in 1992. -
Fox threatens to replace
Before 1998 rolled around Nancy was making 30,000 per episode of the Simpsons and also won an Annie Award in 1995 for Best Voice Acting in the field of animation. Fox news later decided to have a pay dispute threatening to replace six of the main voice actors. After that got resolved it bumped up her pay to 125,000 per episode until 2004. Fox still wasn't pleases and told them if they didn't cut pays they were canceling the show. Nancy and others accepted a 25% pay cut. -
Voice of Chuckie Finster
When Christine Cavanaugh retired from the voice of Chuckie Finster from the Rugrats Nancy took over that roll in 2001. She took over for Cavanaugh in Season 7. Chuckie is one of the two voices she's done that are her most difficult because "he's an asthmatic with five personalities rolled into one - plus I have to do the voice the way Cavanaugh did it for 10 years". -
My Life as a 10 Year Old Boy
Later in life Nancy put together a one-woman play that she preformed at various venues which was an autobiography. At first it got a lot of criticism for the lack of inside stories on the Simpsons but later became known as interesting and entertaining nut not so much a must see. She wrote it while she was still voicing in the Simpsons too. 38,000 copies of this autobiography were sold in the United Kingdom. In the first week of 2000 in Ohio it was the top selling non-fiction book.