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Nika Futterman | |
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![]() Futterman in an interview for VO Voice Weekly in April 2021 | |
Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | October 25, 1969
Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
Years active | 1995–present |
Spouse | Teddy Xentaras |
Children | 1 |
Website | nika-futterman |
Nika Futterman (born October 25, 1969) [1] is an American actress and singer. She is known for her voices in various animated series, including Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Adam Lyon in My Gym Partner's a Monkey . [2] She has voiced many characters for Nickelodeon, including Chum Chum in Fanboy & Chum Chum , Omnia in the Nickelodeon version of Winx Club , and Luna Loud in The Loud House .
Futterman was born in New York City. [3]
Among her first professional acting roles were single episode appearances on Chicago Hope and Murphy Brown .
Futterman has provided her voice in many cartoons, including recurring roles on animated adventure and superhero series such as G.I. Joe: Renegades , Batman: The Brave and the Bold , and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes .
Futterman is the voice of Asajj Ventress in the 2008 animated film The Clone Wars and its subsequent TV series as well as several related video games. She has provided the voice for Sy Snootles among other characters. She attended her first Star Wars Weekend on the last weekend of June 2012. She was on the show Behind the Force along with her cast members Ashley Eckstein and James Arnold Taylor with Supervising Director Dave Filoni. Futterman also voices Sticks the Jungle Badger in the Sonic Boom TV series [4] and its associated video games, Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric . [5]
Futterman also voiced Shaeeah Lawquane and Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Bad Batch . [6]
Futterman performed the vocals "Give it to me, baby" in The Offspring hit single "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" [7] and cameo backup vocals for a performance of Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" on an episode of Kids Incorporated . Some of Futterman's animated characters sing songs within the soundtrack of a show, as well. She sings the theme song of My Gym Partner's A Monkey in-character as Adam Lyon, Sandy of Bubble Guppies sang a song about coconut water several times in the episode she was featured in, Kip Ling of Histeria! usually only shows up in the songs on the show, the second title character of Fanboy & Chum Chum sings many times (Futterman is also often accompanied on lead vocals during the FB&CC songs by David Hornsby, who voices Fanboy), Stretch and Squeeze of Handy Manny sing two songs called "We Work Together" and "Hop Up, Jump In" alongside the other tools, and Luna Loud of The Loud House is a musician, and frequently sings. Futterman also performed the vocals as Catwoman for the song, "Birds of Prey" in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode, "The Mask of Matches Malone," along with Grey DeLisle and Tara Strong, who voiced Black Canary and Huntress respectively.
Theatrical animated films
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Events in 1969 in animation.
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