E. G. Daily

Elizabeth Ann Guttman, also credited as E. G. Daily and sometimes credited as Elizabeth Daily, is an American actress, voice actress, and singer best known for voicing Tommy Pickles in Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!, Buttercup in Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls, and Rudy Tabootie in Nickelodeon's ChalkZone. She also voiced the titlular character from the live-action film Babe: Pig in the City, replacing Christine Cavanaugh. In 1994, she has voiced Bamm-Bamm Rubble in the live-action film version of The Flintstones.
Daily is also best-known for her roles in a variety of live action films such as Valley Girl, Dogfight, No Small Affair, Fandango, Streets of Fire, The Devil's Rejects, My Sister's Keeper, and most famously Pee-wee's Big Adventure. She voiced Julius on the animated series Julius Jr.
==Acting career==
===Voice acting===
Daily has voiced animated characters such as Tommy Pickles in Rugrats, a role that she will reprise for its revival on Paramount+, and Freefall / Roxy Spaulding in the film Gen¹³ and Private Isabel "Dizzy" Flores in Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. She provided the voice for the lead role in the live-action feature film Babe: Pig in the City, replacing Christine Cavanaugh. More recently from 2013-2015, she played the title character on the Nick Jr. TV show Julius Jr., and was recently "Hinoka" from "Fire Emblem Fates".
===Live-action roles===
Besides doing voice-overs, Daily has acted in film and on TV. She played Sandy Burns on the PBS series The Righteous Apples from 1980 to 1981. In 1985, she starred as Dottie in Pee-wee's Big Adventure as well as Loryn in Valley Girl and as a singer in the comedy Better Off Dead. She also appeared on such shows as Laverne & Shirley, CHiPs, Fame and Friends. She was also in the music video for Rod Stewart's song "Young Turks" as Patti, one of the runaway teens. She has been cast in several Rob Zombie films, most recently in 2015 as Sex-Head in Rob Zombie's 31, the woman on the side of Torsten Voges, who plays Death-Head.
==Music career==
Daily signed with A&M Records in 1985, working with Madonna's frequent collaborators John "Jellybean" Benitez and Stephen Bray. In 1986, that label released the R&B/Rock single "Say It, Say It". The song made it to No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the No. 1 spot on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. (Other versions of the song appeared as early as 1981). Her songs "Shake It Up" and "I'm Hot Tonight" were included in the soundtrack to the film Scarface. Those same songs were later included in the lineup of fictional radio station Flashback 95.6 FM in the Grand Theft Auto III video game. They were also included in the Scarface: The World Is Yours video game, based on the 1983 film. Her hit "Love in the Shadows" was featured in the films Thief of Hearts and Circuit.
Also in 1985, she provided backup vocals for The Human League frontman Philip Oakey's debut solo album, Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder. That same year, she appeared in the comedy film Better Off Dead, singing the songs "One Way Love (Better Off Dead)" and "A Little Luck" as a member of a band performing at a high school dance. Both songs were included on the soundtrack album credited to E. G. Daily. She performed a song on The Breakfast Club soundtrack called "Waiting".
In 1987, she released the song "Mind over Matter", which is featured in the film Summer School. Daily plays guitar, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion instruments. In her 1989 song, "Some People", from her Lace Around the Wound album, produced by Lotti Golden and Tommy Faragher, she plays guitar and harmonica. In 1999, she released her third studio album Tearing Down the Walls.
Daily released a song titled "Changing Faces" in 2003. The song was used on the end credits of Rugrats Go Wild. She also released a single titled "Beautiful" which she made available through iTunes on April 29, 2008. She also sang the song "Dawn's Theme", which was used at the end of the movie Streets. From 2003 to 2011, Daily did the voice-over of Jake Harper singing the Two and a Half Men song.
Her genres are country, dance, pop, and rock.
===The Voice===
In fall 2013, Daily sang as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality show The Voice. In the blind audition broadcast on September 24, 2013, she sang "Breathe" from Faith Hill. Two of the four judges on the show, Blake Shelton and CeeLo Green, turned around their chairs for her. She chose to be on Team Blake.
Daily proceeded to win her battle in the show's battle rounds singing the song "Something to Talk About". She lost in the Knockout Rounds, with a performance of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me".
==Personal life==
Daily was dating actor Jon-Erik Hexum from the TV show Cover Up at the time of his death in 1984. She moved in with friend and Valley Girl (1983) co-star Deborah Foreman for a short time afterward, because she did not want to be alone. She was rumoured to have dated actor and comedian Paul Reubens while filming Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and had a brief relationship with actor Brad Pitt.
Daily was married to Rick Salomon from 1995 to 2000. They have two children, Hunter (born in 1996) and Tyson (1998). Daily also owns a chihuahua and a rottweiler.
==Filmography==
===Film===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1978	Jukebox 	Audition Dancer 	Credited as Elizabeth Guttman
1981	Street Music 	Sadie Deleward 	
1982	One Dark Night 	Leslie Winslow 	
1982	The Escape Artist 	Sandra 	
1982	Wacko 	Bambi 	
1982	Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains	Motel Maid 	
1983	Funny Money 	Cass 	
1983	Valley Girl 	Loryn 	
1984	Streets of Fire 	'Baby Doll' 	
1984	No Small Affair 	Susan 	
1985	Fandango 	Judy 	
1985	Pee-wee's Big Adventure 	Dottie 	
1985	Better Off Dead 	Singer 	
1988	Bad Dreams 	Lana 	
1989	Loverboy 	Linda 	
1991	Dutch 	Hailey 	
1991	Dogfight 	Marcie 	
1992	Lorenzo's Oil 	Vocal effects for Lorenzo 	
1994	The Little Rascals 	Dubbing voice of 'Froggy' 	
1994	The Flintstones 	Dubbing voice of Bamm-Bamm 	Uncredited
1995	A Goofy Movie 	Additional Voices 	
1998	The Rugrats Movie 	Tommy Pickles 	
1998	Babe: Pig in the City 	Babe 	
1999	Gen¹³ 	'Freefall' 	Unreleased in US, but direct-to-video in Europe and Australia
2000	Bob's Video 	V.C. 	
2000	Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman 	Nathan 	Direct-to-video
2000	Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost 	Additional Voices 	Direct-to-video
2000	Rugrats in Paris: The Movie 	Tommy Pickles 	
2001	Recess: School's Out 	Cap'n Sticky 	
2001	The Trumpet of the Swan 	Ella 	
2002	The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'	 	Documentary
2002	The Powerpuff Girls Movie 	Buttercup 	
2002	The Country Bears 	Beary Barrington (singing voice) 	
2003	Rugrats Go Wild 	Tommy Pickles 	
2005	Potheads: The Movie 	Mrs. B Johnson 	
2005	The Devil's Rejects 	Candy 	
2006	Cutting Room 	Joanne Kramer 	
2006	Mustang Sally 	Sally 'Mustang Sally' 	
2006	Happy Feet 	Baby Mumble 	
2006	National Lampoon's Pledge This! 	Catherine Johnson 	
2007	White Air 	Alex's Mother 	
2007	The Bella & Amadaeus Movie 	Amadaeus Gammons 	
2008	Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber 	Junior 	
2009	My Sister's Keeper 	Nurse Susan 	
2010	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 	Catherine's Niece / Patches & Scrumptious (voice)	
2010	Gnomes and Trolls: The Forest Trial 	Junior 	
2011	Boy Toy 	Helen 	Videocredited as "E. G. Daily
2011	Happy Feet Two 	Erik (singing voice only)/Additional Voices 	
2012	Yellow 	Aunt Netty 	
2012	Wreck-It Ralph 	Additional Voices 	
2013	I Know That Voice 	Herself 	Documentary film on voice acting
2014	The Hero of Color City 	Ben 	
2015	Toy Soldier 	Young Logan 	
2016	31 	Sex-Head 	
2016	Pizza Mouse 	Alice Mouse 	
2016	Mothers and Daughters 	Momma Quinn 	
2017	The Emoji Movie 	Additional Voices 	
2020	Valley Girl 	Mrs. Bowen 	
===Short subjects===
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1985	The Orkly Kid 	Carrissa 	
2004	Stop That Cycle	Mom 	
2004	Wait 	 	
2007	Up-In-Down Town	Binko (voice) 	
2015	Father Mud 	Mary 	
2015	Toy Soldier 	Young Logan (voice)	
2020	Underlings 	Arthur 	
2020	 	 	
===Television===
Year(s) 	Title 	Role(s) 	Notes
1979 	Laverne & Shirley 	Rita 	Season 5, Episode 8
1980-1981	The Righteous Apples 	Sandy Burns 	11 episodes
1982 	CHiPs 	Caroll Sweeney 	Season 5, Episode 17
1986 	Saturday Night Live 	Herself (as E. G. Daily) 	Musical guest (episode 212, May 17, 1986)
1987 	Popples 	Potato Chip 	Live-action pilot
1989 	Camp Candy 	Rick / Alex/ Binky 	Season 3
1991–2004	Rugrats 	Tommy Pickles / Baby Stu Pickles / Various Voices	172 episodes
1992 	Darkwing Duck 	Lightwave / Heatwave / Radiowave (voice) 	Episode: The Frequency Fiends
1992–97 	Eek! The Cat 	Wendy Elizabeth (voice) 	30 episodes
1993 	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Quarx (voice) 	Episode: "The Star Child"
1994–97 	Duckman 	Mambo (voice) 	15 episodes
1995 	Bump in the Night 	Germ Girls (voice) 	1 episode
1995–96 	What-a-Mess 	Voice 	3 episodes
1995–97 	The What-A-Cartoon! Show 	Buttercup (voice) 	2 episodes
1996 	Timon & Pumbaa 	Girl (voice) 	Episode: "Shopping Mauled/Library Brouhaha"
1996 	Cave Kids 	Bamm-Bamm Rubble (singing voice) 	8 episodes
1996 	Jungle Cubs 	Bagheera (voice) 	13 episodes
1996–97 	Quack Pack 	Louie (voice) 	39 episodes
1996–98 	The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Nicole / Cinderella / various voices 	Season 1 Episode 9: "Rebel Without a Date / Don't Bank on It"Season 3 Episode 6: "Rats! / Stinkie Time Theater / Great Ghouly Governess"
1997 	Friends 	Leslie (as E. G. Daily) 	Episode: "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner"
1997 	Bella & Amadaeus 	Young Amadaeus 	Episode: Bella & Amadaeus in: Preschool Day
1997 	Spicy City 	Nisa / Darleen (voice) 	Episode: "Love is a Download"
1997–98 	The Crayon Box 	Piggy Banks (voice) 	Voice
1997–2001	Recess 	Various Voices 	4 episodes
1998 	The New Batman Adventures 	Thrift Store Manager (voice) 	Episode: "Beware the Creeper"
1998–2005	The Powerpuff Girls 	Buttercup 	81 episodes
1999–2000	Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles 	Private Isabelle 'Dizzy' Flores (voice) 	40 episodes
1999–2002	The New Woody Woodpecker Show 	Knothead (voice) 	15 episodes
2000–02 	Baby Blues 	Zoe / Birthday Lady (singing voice) 	
2000–03 	Clifford the Big Red Dog 	Cousin Laura (voice) 	1 episode
2001–07 	What's with Andy? 	Additional Voices 	5 episodes
2002–08 	ChalkZone 	Rudy Tabootie (voice) / Various Voices 	40 episodes
2003–08 	All Grown Up! 	Tommy Pickles (voice) / Various Voices 	52 episodes
2003–10 	Two and a Half Men 	Jake Harper (voice – opening theme song) 	
2004 	Game Over 	Billy Smashenburn / Zenna 	6 episodes
2005 	Danger Rangers 	Bobby / Kid / Sparky 	
2005 	The Adventures of Amadaeus 	Amadaeus 	15 seasons
2006–15 	Curious George 	Steve / Various Voices 	44 episodes
2007 	The Land Before Time 	Rhett / Shorty (voice) 	Episodes: "The Brave Longneck Scheme" (as Rhett), "The Big Longneck Test" (as Shorty)
2007 	Random! Cartoons 	Victor / One-Eyed Bird / Co-Worker No. 1 (voice) 	Episode: "Victor"
2007–08 	Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 	Mr. Hoppy (voice) 	2 episodes
2008 	Rahan 	The Shadow Queen 	26 episodes
2010–12 	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes 	Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird/Veranke 	5 episodes
2010–13 	Pound Puppies 	Dolly / Mom (2) / Tipper / Scout / Various Voices	22 episodes
2013 	The Voice 	Herself / Contestant 	
2013–15 	Julius Jr. 	Julius Junior (voice) 	51 episodes
2014 	TripTank 	Anthony / Sean / Kids 2-6 (voice) 	3 episodes
2014-16 	Uncle Grandpa 	Additional Voices 	2 episodes
2016 	Avengers: Ultron Revolution 	Moonstone / Meteorite (voice) 	3 episodes
2016 	The Middle 	Daphne 	Episode: "The Wisdom Teeth"
2017 	Adam Ruins Everything 	Student (voice) 	Episode: "Adam Ruins What We Learned in School"
2019 	Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Prairie Dog / Honey Badger (voice) 	Episode: "Pizza Pit"
2021 	Long Gone Gulch 	Rawhide (voice) 	
===Video games===
Year	Video game 	Role 	Notes
1995	Stonekeep 	Sweetie Surly 	
1997	Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick	Mambo 	
1998	Rugrats Adventure Game 	Tommy Pickles / Parade Lady 	
1998	Rugrats: Search for Reptar 	Tommy Pickles 	
2000	Rugrats in Paris: the Movie 	Tommy Pickles 	
2001	Nicktoons Racing 	Tommy Pickles 	
2001	The Powerpuff Girls: Mojo Jojo's Pet Project 	Buttercup 	
2001	The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-traction 	Buttercup 	
2002	Rugrats: Royal Ransom 	Tommy Pickles 	
2002	Nickelodeon Party Blast 	Tommy Pickles 	
2002	The Powerpuff Girls: Relish Rampage 	Buttercup 	
2003	Rugrats Go Wild! 	Tommy Pickles 	
2004	The Incredibles 	Helen Parr / Elastigirl 	
2006	Baten Kaitos Origins 	Wacho 	
2006	Downhill Jam 	Fei Liu 	
2006	Happy Feet 	Toddler Mumble / Toddler Gloria 	
2008	Speed Racer: The Videogame 	Rosey Blaze 	
2009	Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall 	Buttercup 	
2009	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 	Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman 	
2012	Skylanders: Giants 	Sprocket 	
2013	Skylanders: Swap Force 	Sprocket 	
2014	Skylanders: Trap Team 	Sprocket 	
2015	Skylanders: SuperChargers 	Sprocket 	
2016	Fire Emblem Fates 	Hinoka / Peri 	
2016	Doom 	UAC Facility voice, additional voices	credited as "E. G. Daily"
==Discography==
===Albums===
Title 	Album details
Wild Child 	
* Released: 1985
* Label: A&M
* Formats: CD, LP, cassette
Lace Around the Wound 	
* Released: May 25, 1989
* Label: A&M
* Formats: CD, LP, cassette
Tearing Down the Walls	
* Released: April 13, 1999
* Label: EGDP
* Formats: CD
Changing Faces 	
* Released: 2008
* Label: EGDP
* Formats: CD
===Singles===
Year	Single 	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	Peak chart positions	 	Album
Year	Single 	US 	US Club 	US Dance 	US R&B 	CAN 	FR 	IT 	NL 	NZ 	UK	Album
1986	"Say It, Say It" 	70 	1 	4 	71 	46 	– 	22 	13 	14 	— 	Wild Child
1986	"Love in the Shadows" 	– 	6 	14 	– 	– 	– 	– 	37 	— 	— 	Wild Child
1987	"Mind over Matter" 	– 	7 	17 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	96	Summer School soundtrack
1989	"Some People" 	– 	33 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Lace Around the Wound
1990	"This Time" 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	5 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Lace Around the Wound
1999	"Don't Even Care" 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Tearing Down the Walls
1999	"Breath of Heaven" 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Tearing Down the Walls
2003	"Changing Faces" 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Changing Faces
2008	"Beautiful" 	– 	19 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Changing Faces
2010	"Somebody's Loving You"	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Non-album single
2018	"So Pretty" 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	– 	— 	— 	Non-album single
==See also==
* List of number-one dance hits (United States)
* List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
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