17 Facts About Stevie Vallance

Montreal-born, Toronto-raised Stephanie Louise Stevie Vallance began work as a professional actress at age eleven.

Stevie Vallance played Ernest's love interest, Erma Terradiddle in the Jim Varney feature film Slam Dunk Ernest.

Stevie Vallance followed that up with a very different sort of role as a pink kangaroo named Whazzat Kangaroo on the Hallmark series Zoobilee Zoo, filmed entirely in California's San Fernando Valley.

Stevie Vallance voiced numerous characters in Don Bluth's animated features, such as Thumbelina and The Pebble and the Penguin.

Stevie Vallance dubbed voices on several British cartoons, including Penny Crayon, Becky and Barnaby Bear and Nellie the Elephant.

Stevie Vallance has voice-directed more than 500 episodes of children's TV, working with children, actors, sports stars and celebrities.

Stevie Vallance was a recipient of a Daytime Emmy Award in 2002 for casting and voice-directing her first series, the dialogue and music-vocals on 70 episodes of the children's animated series Madeline for The Disney Channel, wherein she voiced Miss Clavel and Genevieve.

Stevie Vallance then cast and voice-directed the Teletoon Detour pilot Celebutard Nation, which premiered at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival.

From 2011 to 2013, Stevie Vallance headed back to Los Angeles to cast and voice-direct two animated series for executive producer Bill Schultz: Guess How Much I Love You for Disney Junior, based on the children's book of the same name by Sam McBratney; and Seasons 1 and 2 of Wild Grinders for Nicktoons, starring skateboard guru Rob Dyrdek.

Since then Stevie Vallance has taught children and adults how to do cartoon voice-overs in Chicago, New York City, Ottawa, Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, Toronto, Phoenix and Los Angeles.

In 2009 and 2010, Stevie Vallance taught 400 Animators at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

Stevie Vallance toured western Canada with this production for six years, performing at numerous venues including two runs at the Granville Arts Club in Vancouver and the Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary.

Stevie Vallance opened for the Calgary Stampede as "Patsy", in 1999.

In 2004, Stevie Vallance debuted as a 'Jazz vocalist' in her hometown, Toronto, where she was accompanied by pianist Don Thompson, bassist Neil Swainson, and drummer Ted Warren.

Stevie Vallance performed for the first time in her birth town Montreal, at The Upstairs, with jazz pianist Steve Amirault, bassist Zack Lober, and drummer Jim Doxas.

In 2009, Stevie Vallance performed in the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival for the second year in a row and was the featured vocalist alongside Ernie Duff and the Stardust Big Band, in and around Saugeen Shores, ON.

Stevie Vallance sang with the Charlie Bell Trio in the Thornbury and Kincardine Jazz Festivals.