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Debi Derryberry

Debi Derryberry
Debi Derryberry at 2012 Comic Con cropped.jpg
Derryberry at 2012 Comic Con
Born Deborah Sue Greenberg
Indio, California, U.S.
Residence North Hollywood, California, U.S.
Other names Dee Dee Green
Occupation Voice actress, singer
Years active 1986–present
Spouse(s) Harvey Jordan
(m. 2001; div. 2012)
Children 1
Website www.debiderryberry.com

Deborah Sue Greenberg, known professionally as Debi Derryberry, is an American voice actress and singer. She has provided voices for a number of animated television series, anime, and video games. She is the voice of Jimmy Neutron in the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius film and television series. She has also voiced Wednesday in The Addams Family cartoon and Jackie in Bobby's World. In English language dubs of anime, she provided the voice of Ryo-Ohki in the Tenchi Muyo series. She received a Best Actress in a Comedy award at the American Anime Awards for her work as Zatch in Zatch Bell!.

Her first role was as Skeeter in Hey Vern, It's Ernest! along with Jim Varney.

Aside from her work as a voice actress, she swam with the killer whale Keiko for the 1993 film, Free Willy and was the stunt double for the young actor in the film. Derryberry has provided the voices of a series of characters, mostly those of young boys and tomboyish girls, with her warm, chipper tones. In addition to voicing her best known role, the title character of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Nickelodeon's television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Derryberry has also provided voice-over for Ice Age: The Meltdown, she is the voice of Wednesday Addams in the 1990s animated version of The Addams Family, Weenie and Catrina on Oswald, Taz's little brother Jake on Taz-Mania and Coco Bandicoot in the Crash Bandicoot video game series. She has also done some voice work for comedic English language adaptations of anime titles such as Zatch Bell! in which she plays the titular character, his evil twin Zeno, and Ryo-Ohki, Yugi, and various other characters from several versions of the anime series Tenchi Muyo!. Aside from voice acting, she also played as the voice of Playhouse Disney's mascot, Clay. She was the founder and lead singer for the indie country band Honey Pig, writing and producing most of the songs on their two CDs. Currently, she is focusing on a children's music career with her CDs "What a Way to Play" and "Very Derryberry", having won a number of industry awards. She is an advocate for animals and has hosted at her North Hollywood home a fundraiser for the benefit of orangutans as an endangered species, under the Orang Utan Republik charitable foundation.


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