E.G. Daily has the actor’s big 3 covered. She’s a very successful singer, a very successful on-camera actress, and a very successful voice artist.
From the early age of 15, E.G. has seen great success, going from one big project to another. She made her first television appearance in 1976 on an episode of Laverne and Shirley and from there hasn’t stopped her productivity. “If I’m not doing a movie, I’m doing a cartoon. If I’m not doing a cartoon, I’m doing an album. If I’m not doing an album, I’m doing a movie”, she says.
But her jump into voice acting didn’t come as voluntarily as her on-camera or singing work did. Having done a few radio voice overs and jingles in her past, E.G. was reluctant when her agent called her up one day telling her to audition for a “little boy voice” in a new cartoon series called Rugrats. E.G. recalls “I think I was having carpet installed” and said she wan’t interested. The agent persisted, saying it would only take ten minutes or so.
After finally agreeing to it, she hopped in her car and headed down to the appropriate studio. She read a page and the executives came back asking her to read another. After another they asked her to read a third. Page after page they had her read and then she left. Her agent called her soon after saying she got the job out of two huge groups that came in for mass auditions. This new role as Tommy pickles propelled her into her third very fruitful line of business.
A few years later she grabbed the role of another soon-to-be beloved character of a soon-to-be hit series when she was casted as Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls. Her voices now include an abundance of credits from Rudy in Chalkzone, Knothead in The New Woody Woodpecker Show, Louie Duck from QuackPack, Cap’n Sticky in Recess, a majority of the voices in the new Pound Puppies, and Steve from the new Curious George. And she actually filled in for Susie for several episodes of Rugrats.
She’s even played the titular characters of Babe and Baby Mumble from Babe and both Happy Feet movies.
Her role as Tommy not only led to an explosion in the voice acting world, 13 years of work on the show, and several theatrical releases, but also handed her the new role of teenager Tommy in All Grown Up!. E.G. says that Tommy is her favorite character she’s ever played.
She says she never had to take proper voice classes or train in the art. She attributes her long lasting acting and singing career to her natural ability to create defined and original voices. Coming up with her voices is a natural ability, she says. She looks at an image of the character and instantly she knows what that person or thing would sound like. She doesn’t go through a process or create a backstory. She goes with what she knows is right.
That’s quite a bit of talent built up from her other lines of work. So what did success for her look like in those fields?
Well she’s played characters in plenty of movies including Dotty, the neglected girlfriend, in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. She was in Valley Girl, No Small Affair, and Loverboy, acting alongside starts like Demi Moore, Patrick Dempsey, and Nicholas Cage.
She’s also been in TV shows like Laverne and Shirley, Chips, Fame, The Mentalist, and was a multi-returning contestant in 2013’s The Voice.
And as stated earlier, her musical career has always been a busy and bright path as well. Back in 1985 she signed a huge record deal with A&M records and went on to work with some of Madonna’s frequent collaborators. In 1986 she came out with the single “Say It, Say It” which hit No. 1 on the Dance/Club Music chart. She has composed and sang for around 30 soundtracks! She can be heard in Grand Theft Auto, Babe, Country Bears, Rugrats, and the theme for Two and a Half Men. She’s even written/sung for such famed movies as Scarface and The Breakfast Club! She attributes Tina Turner and Rod Stewart as some of her biggest musical inspirations.
E.G. is still strong in the VO and singing business today. Check out her website to get a more in depth look at her works and what she’s doing now: http://egdaily.com
And enjoy her Scarface song that was featured in Grand Theft Auto:
E.G. Daily. She’s got the whole business covered.
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