Teresa Gallagher

**Teresa Gallagher** (born April 23, 1971) is an American-born British actress, voice actress and singer who voices Ronja.

## Biography

Gallagher began her singing career in Britain with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and went on to become a professional actress performing leading roles in plays and musicals across the country.

During her time of acting, Gallagher is known for her role as Ellen Smith in *The Bill*, for her appearances on radio in *No Commitments*, *Salem's Lot*, and *Memorials to the Missing*. She also voiced Karla the zebra in both the UK and US versions of *Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies*. Further appearances include the voices of Little Miss Chatterbox, Little Miss Daredevil, Little Miss Naughty (Season 2), and Little Miss Whoops in the UK version of *The Mr. Men Show*, Sarah in *Footballers' Wives*, and also Alison Canning in *Casualty*. Additionally, Gallagher was known for her work presenting the BBC show *Playdays*.

Gallagher has also provided the voices of some of the letters in CBeebies' *Alphablocks*, and in the popular Cbeebies animated series *The Octonauts* as Dashi Dog the photographer, and the voices of Nicole Watterson, Penny Fitzgerald, Teri, and Margaret Robinson in the Cartoon Network show *The Amazing World of Gumball*, in which she does an American accent. Gallagher does the voice of Mater's Computer in *Cars 2*. She also voiced KT in *The Pinky and Perky Show*, Egbert the Badger and Gilda the Pigeon in *Poppy Cat*, Lapitch in the English version of the 2000 television series of *Lapitch the Little Shoemaker*, Noddy in the 2009 version of *Noddy in Toyland*, Dennis's mother and several characters in the 2009 version of *Dennis the Menace*, Pip in *Pip Ahoy!*, Lottie's mother and several characters in *Frankenstein's Cat*, Foofa in the UK dubbed version of *Yo Gabba Gabba!*, Gerald and several characters in *Fleabag Monkeyface*, Mrs. Piecrust in *Mike the Knight*, Hugo in *What's the Big Idea*(CBeebies), both Gaspard and Lisa's mothers, Lisa's little sister Lila and Gaspard's grandmother Mathilde in *Gaspard and Lisa*, Lucy Selby in *Postman Pat: The Movie*, Lambie in the UK dubbed version of *Doc McStuffins*, Driver Dottie in *Engie Benjy*, Miss Ladybird, Bobee, and Millice Ant in *The Hive*, Darzi in *The Jungle Book*, Hermoine in *Sherlock Yack*, Jessica in *Dude, That's My Ghost!*, Zak and Zou's mother in *Zou*, Millie in the UK dubbed version of *Team Umizoomi*, Adoraball, Pam, Manageball and several characters in *The Likeaballs*, many of Squiglet's female drawn characters in *Get Squiggling*, the human boy and girl Will and Holly and Big Bear's nephew Little Bear in *Everything's Rosie*, Princess Morbucks, Ms. Keane and Ms. Bellum in the UK dubbed version of *The Powerpuff Girls* and various characters such as Emily (UK), Rosie (UK; Season 13 - 16), Belle (UK/US), Daisy (UK/US; Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure and The Great Race only), Mavis (UK/US), Annie & Clarabel (UK/US), Judy (UK/US), Lady Hatt (UK/US), and other characters alike on *Thomas & Friends*.

She has also done redubs for several anime films such as *Laughing Target*, *X*, *Bounty Dog*, *Demon City Shinjuku,* and *Cyber City Oedo 808* and later returned to do voice acting for anime with the English dubbed version of the TV series *Ronja, the Robber's Daughter*.

In 2003, she voiced Amalia, the female lead in Rita Dove's drama *The Darker Face of the Earth*, opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in the play's BBC radio adaptation.

In 2010, she voiced Queen Titania, Mrs. Walker, and Fern in the UK version of the movie *Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island*. She does the voice of Matilda, Young Stella, and Zara the Cruzeao in *Angry Birds Space*.

In 2015, she provided voices for several minor characters in *Thunderbirds Are Go*, and now as the role of the titular character in the UK Version of Henry Hugglemonsterand the Voice Trumpets and the Tiddlytubbies in the 2015 reboot of *Teletubbies*.

She has also done various voice-over work for video games, commercials, radio plays, BBC radio dramas, and audiobooks such as several new Meg Cabot books and the 2007 audiobook adaptation of Charles Dickens's famous novel *Bleak House* which became The Times audio book of the year. A member of the BBC Radio Drama Company she has read Radio 4's *Book of the Week* and *Book at Bedtime*.

Gallagher is also the lead singer of a musical band called Arcelia which has been performed in various London pubs, as well as supporting several other UK-based bands.