Harley Bird was the third as well as the longest running voice of Peppa Pig, taking on the role in 2007 and leaving in 2020.
13 Facts About Harley Bird
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Harley Bird attended Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire on their Tring Park Associates programme before enrolling into the main school.
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Harley Bird went on to graduate from the Manchester School of Theatre in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.
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Harley Bird replaced the previous actors, Lily Snowden-Fine and Cecily Bloom.
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Harley Bird first voiced Peppa on the 2007 "Peppa's Christmas" special and continued to voice the character for seasons 3,4,5 and the first half of the 6th.
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Harley Bird voiced Peppa Pig on "The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" and various other pieces of show merchandise.
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Harley Bird became the youngest British Academy Film Award winner when she won the Performer award at the 2011 BAFTA for her voice-artist work as Peppa Pig.
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Harley Bird announced that she was leaving the role of Peppa Pig on 31 January 2020, after 13 years and 185 episodes in the role.
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Harley Bird was succeeded in the role by Amelie Bea Smith.
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Harley Bird starred as Daisy in Blueberry, a 2009 short film which won the Audience Award at the Cinequest Film Festival, She starred as Piper alongside Saoirse Ronan in Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now, released in 2013.
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Harley Bird starred in Goodbye, a radio drama by Morwenna Banks, her Peppa Pig co-star, that aired on BBC Radio 4 alongside Olivia Colman, Natascha McElhone, Darren Boyd, Alison Steadman, and John Simm.
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In 2017, Harley Bird played the lead role of Sammy in Disney Channel's webisode series, So Sammy.
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In 2024, Harley Bird starred in the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black as Winehouse's best friend Juliette Ashby.