Lara Jill Miller

Lara Jill Miller
Born	(1967-04-20) April 20, 1967 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, voice actress
Years active	1980–present

Lara Jill Miller (born April 20, 1967) is an American actress and voice actress. She had a starring role as Samantha "Sam" Kanisky on the 1980s sitcom Gimme a Break! and as Kathy on The Amanda Show. As a voice actress, she had roles in English dubs of Japanese anime such as Kari in Digimon Adventure and Koko in Zatch Bell!. In cartoons, she voices the title characters in Clifford's Puppy Days, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and Henry Hugglemonster. She also voices Izzy in SciGirls, Widget in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and Allie in Curious George.

Biography

Miller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Allentown's William Allen High School. Her mother was 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, to 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 National Public Radio adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the voices of the titular characters on Cartoon Network's The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and the PBS Kids "prequel" to Clifford the Big Red Dog, Clifford's Puppy Days.

Miller's roles include the recurring roles of Pookie, Wiki, and Tini on Disney Channel's Higglytown Heroes, Heruka of Daigunder, and the Nick Jr series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as Widget, the show's problem-solving pink creature resembling a rabbit, both PBS series Curious George as Allie and SciGirls as Izzie, and regular guest-starring roles on several other animated series.

As of January 2015, she is doing voice work on two Disney Channel/Disney Junior television series, as the voice of Lambie in Doc McStuffins and the voice of the titular character in Henry Hugglemonster.

Radio and Podcast Appearances

Miller appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor podcast on March 4, 2016.

Filmography

Live action

List of acting performances in live-action television and film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1981-87	Gimme a Break!	Samantha "Sam" Kanisky
1999-2002	The Amanda Show	Kathy
2009	iCarly	Mrs. Kravitz	I Find Lewberts Lost Love
2000	Chicken Soup for the Soul (TV series)	The Teacher	TV series

Anime

List of voice performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2008	Strait Jacket	Kapelteta Fernandez
	Digimon Adventure series	Kari Kamiya
	Daigunder	Haruka
	Naruto	Matsuri
	Zatch Bell!	Koko
2004	Astro Boy	Alejo, Vivienne, C.J., Mimi, Nina	Sony Pictures / Kids WB
	Blood+	Min, Lulu, Javier
	S-CRY-ed	Scheris Adjani
	Please Twins	Karen Onodera
2000	Digimon: The Movie	Kari

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Note's	Notes	Source
2016	The Loud House	Lisa
2012-present	Doc McStuffins	Lambie
2013-present	Henry Hugglemonster	Henry Hugglemonster
2006-2010	Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!	Widget
2003-2004	Clifford's Puppy Days	Clifford
2005-2007	The Life and Times of Juniper Lee	Juniper Lee
2009-2015	Curious George	Allie
2010	SciGirls	Izzie
2011-2015	Winx Club	Chatta, Tune, Livy	Special 4, season 3-4 Nickelodeon version
2004-2008	Higglytown Heroes	Pookie, Wiki, Tini
2006	Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi	Julie
2004	All Grown Up	Olivia
2006-2007	My Mom Married a Yeti	April
2004	Megas XLR	Little Girl, Kelly
2000	Static Shock	Teen Girl #2

Film

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2005	Diaboromon Strikes Back	Kari Kamiya
2008	Wubbzy's Big Movie!	Widget, Huggy, Old Lady Zamboni
2013	Curious George Swings Into Spring	Allie, Balloonist
2013	Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest	Allie

List of voice performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2000	Digimon: The Movie	Kari, Young Kari

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2011	Once Upon a Monster	Shelby
2003	Tak and the Power of Juju	Dinky Juju
2004	Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams	Dinky Juju
2005	Tak: The Great Juju Challenge	Dinky Juju
2008	de Blob	Comrade Black, Zip, Graydians
2011	de Blob 2	Comrade Black, Papa Blanc, Inkies
2009	Fusion Fall	Juniper Lee
	Learn Through Music	Leo the Lion (singer)
	Adiboo: Discover series	Adiboo
1998	Baldur's Gate	Girl
1999	EverQuest	Various characters
2004	EverQuest II	Various characters
2005	Psychonauts	Milka Phange
	Hooked on Phonics	Pig Wig
2006	Barnyard	Zak Boy, various
2010	White Knight Chronicles	Various
2007	Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots	Bustup Ballerina, Mr. Huggles, Springy Rabbit
2002	Digimon Rumble Arena	Kari

External links

• Official website
• Lara Jill Miller at the Internet Movie Database
• Lara Jill Miller at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lara Jill Miller at Anime News Network's encyclopedia