Tracy Grandstaff

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Tracy Grandstaff
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Occupation(s)Voice actress, writer, consultant, production assistant, singer
Years active1992–2010, 2022 [1]

Tracy Grandstaff is an American voice actress, writer and production assistant best known for her work portraying Daria Morgendorffer from the MTV animated series Daria . This role was spun off from another MTV series, Beavis and Butt-head , for which Grandstaff provided the voices of Daria and other minor characters. [2]

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Career

She has written for various series on MTV, including The Tom Green Show and the annual Video Music Awards, and for other Viacom-owned networks, including Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. In April 2011 Grandstaff conducted an interview with the website Can I Get A Man With That [3] to promote the DVD release of the complete series of Daria. On her view of the character eight years since the finale, Grandstaff said, "She is, was, and always will be the Misery Chick who loathes attention more than she loathes herself. Eight years later, there are new things that would totally annoy her—primarily words like totally and bestie. ...I don't see her as a sad character. I see her as tolerant of her unavoidable reality—eager to put the whole miserable experience behind her, so she could get out into the world and surround herself with people she actually admired and respected, or not."

She reprised her role of Daria Morgendorffer for a GPS in 2010. [1]

Filmography

Films

YearFilmRoleNotes
2000 Is It Fall Yet? Daria MorgendorfferTelevision film
2002 Is It College Yet? Daria MorgendorfferTelevision film

Television

YearShowRoleNotes
1993–1997 Beavis and Butt-head Daria Morgendorffer, additional voices21 episodes
1997–2001 Daria Daria Morgendorffer65 episodes

Video Games

YearGameRoleNotes
1995 Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity Daria Morgendorffer, others
1999 Daria's Sick, Sad Life Planner Daria Morgendorffer
2000 Daria's Inferno Daria Morgendorffer

Crew Work

YearShowServed AsNotes
1992 Real World Production assistant
1993 Beavis and Butt-head Writer of episode "True Crime"
1993Free Your MindWriter
1996–1999 MTV Video Music Awards Consultant (1996–99) and writer (1999)
1998Comedy Central's Hi Fi PartyWriter
1999–2003 The Tom Green Show Wrote 6 episodes
2001–2002 Taina Writer of episodes "Desperately Seeking Agent", "Bad Review", "Sabotag" & "Blue Mascara"
2005MTV Presents: Xbox, the Next Generation RevealedWriter

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