Nika Futterman

**Nika Futterman** (born October 25, 1969) is an American voice and television actress, singer and comedian, who is known for performing multiple voice-over characters, including Olga Pataki in *Hey Arnold!*, Pig in *Mike, Lu & Og*, various characters in *The Loud House*, and Tyrannosaurus Alan in 10 adverts for Volvic spring water. She is currently the voice of both Snickers and Rusty in the Disney version of *Bluey* as well as other characters.

## Biography

### Personal life

Futterman was born on October 25, 1969, in New York City. She is Jewish, and has one child.

### Career

The very first show Futterman ever worked on was *Rocko’s Modern Life*. She provided the voice for various characters, appearing in every episode along with Carlos Alazraqui, Dee Bradley Baker, Nancy Cartwright and Frank Welker. She would later make single episode appearances on *Chicago Hope* and *Murphy Brown*.

#### Voice acting

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 and its associated video games, *Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal* and *Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric*.

#### Singing career

Futterman performed the vocals "Give it to me, baby" in The Offspring hit single "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" 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.

## Trivia

* When Nika Futterman first voiced characters for Rocko’s Modern Life, she was 14 years old.
* According to her Twitter profile, Futterman is a passionate poker player.
* In any episode where one or more of Nancy Cartwright's characters appear but not Futterman's, the latter is still credited as a voice performer in the credits. The same thing happens when it's the complete opposite.
	+ However, there are some episodes where Futterman does some of Mackenzie's lines. In the opposite spectrum, Nancy Cartwright does some of Snickers' lines in Shadowlands and Seesaw.