1. Cree Summer Francks was born on July 7,1969 and is an American-Canadian actress and singer.
28 Facts About Cree Summer
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Cree Summer is best known for her extensive work in animation, voicing characters such as Elmyra Duff in Tiny Toon Adventures and related media, Susie Carmichael in Rugrats and Lizard in Spirit Rangers, for which she won a NAACP Image Awards and received two nominations at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards.
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Cree Summer's parents are Canadian actors Don Francks and Lili "Red Eagle" Francks.
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Cree Summer's brother, Rainbow Sun Francks, is an actor and a former MuchMusic VJ.
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Cree Summer's acting career began in 1983 when she was cast as Penny in the first season of the original version of Inspector Gadget.
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Cree Summer appeared in The Care Bears Movie and Ewoks.
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In 1988, Cree Summer was cast as the free-spirited Winifred "Freddie" Brooks in The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World.
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Cree Summer remained a regular cast member of the show from 1988 through its end in 1993.
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Cree Summer was cast in the short-lived television series Sweet Justice in 1994 until its cancellation in 1995.
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Cree Summer voiced over 101 animated characters between 1983 and 2006.
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Cree Summer voiced Princess 'Kida' Kidagakash for the franchise of Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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Cree Summer has regarded the character of Kida as one of her favorite roles and even considers the character among the official Disney Princess line.
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Cree Summer played a role in Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated as Lady Marmalad in the episode "The Haunting".
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In December 2016, Cree Summer reprised her role as Penny from Inspector Gadget in an episode of the web-series, Nostalgia Critic.
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Cree Summer later joined SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff The Patrick Star Show, where she voices Patrick Star's mother and Squidward Tentacles' grandmother.
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Cree Summer has a recurring guest role as librarian Rosalyn Inez on the ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary.
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Cree Summer performed voice over for the games Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Black, as well as Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
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Cree Summer voiced Auriel in Diablo III, and reprised the role for Heroes of the Storm.
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Cree Summer voiced Catalina Thorn, the leader of the Cell in Crackdown 2.
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Cree Summer did miscellaneous voices in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.
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Cree Summer reprised her voice of She-Hulk in Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet.
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Cree Summer voiced Kit Brinny in the introduction video for the MMORPG Wildstar.
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Cree Summer provides the voice of vampire Roller Brawl in the Skylanders series.
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Cree Summer has voiced Professor Penelope Young, a minor character original in Batman: Arkham Asylum.
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In 1999, Cree Summer released a solo album, Street Faerie, produced by and featuring Lenny Kravitz.
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Cree Summer co-performed lead vocals in the song "Cool Kitty" with Tara Strong, which accompanied a cartoon called Class of 3000, directed and written for Cartoon Network by Andre 3000.
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Cree Summer provided the voice of a recurring pomegranate singer in The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, who usually sang during montage sequences.
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Cree Summer was married to producer Angelo Pullen for nearly ten years; they announced the dissolution of their marriage in May 2022.