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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Nika Futterman

Nika Futterman (born October 25, 1969) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her voices in various animated series, including Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Adam Lyon in My Gym Partner's a Monkey. She has voiced many characters for Nickelodeon, including Chum Chum in Fanboy & Chum Chum, Omnia in the Nickelodeon version of Winx Club, and Luna Loud in The Loud House.

Personal life

Futterman was born in New York City.

Career

Among her first professional acting roles were single episode appearances on Chicago Hope and Murphy Brown.

Voice acting

Futterman has provided her voice in many cartoons, including recurring roles on animated adventure and superhero series such as G.I. Joe: Renegades, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Futterman is the voice of Asajj Ventress in the 2008 animated film The Clone Wars and its subsequent TV series as well as several related video games. She has provided the voice for Sy Snootles among other characters. She attended her first Star Wars Weekend on the last weekend of June 2012. She was on the show Behind the Force along with her cast members Ashley Eckstein and James Arnold Taylor with Supervising Director Dave Filoni. Futterman also voices Sticks the Jungle Badger in the Sonic Boom TV series and its associated video games, Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

Futterman also voiced Shaeeah Lawquane and Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Bad Batch.

Singing career

Futterman performed the vocals "Give it to me, baby" in The Offspring hit single "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" and cameo backup vocals for a performance of Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" on an episode of Kids Incorporated. Some of Futterman's animated characters sing songs within the soundtrack of a show, as well. She sings the theme song of My Gym Partner's A Monkey in-character as Adam Lyon, Sandy of Bubble Guppies sang a song about coconut water several times in the episode she was featured in, Kip Ling of Histeria! usually only shows up in the songs on the show, the second title character of Fanboy & Chum Chum sings many times (Futterman is also often accompanied on lead vocals during the FB&CC songs by David Hornsby, who voices Fanboy), Stretch and Squeeze of Handy Manny sing two songs called "We Work Together" and "Hop Up, Jump In" alongside the other tools, and Luna Loud of The Loud House is a musician, and frequently sings. Futterman also performed the vocals as Catwoman for the song, "Birds of Prey" in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode, "The Mask of Matches Malone," along with Grey DeLisle and Tara Strong, who voiced Black Canary and Huntress respectively.

Filmography

Animated television

Animated films

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films
Year Title Role Notes
1998 The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly Fry Kid #3
2003 Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure Baby Rats
2005 The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses Rocky
2006 The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers Petrie's Brothers and Sisters, Tricia
2008 Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight Takhisis, Slave #3
Dead Space: Downfall Alissa Vincent
2011 LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace Jempa, Asajj Ventress
2013 Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon Jennifer Severin
2016 DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High Hawkgirl
DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year
Only Yesterday Granny
2017 DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games Hawkgirl
Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie Olga Pataki
2018 Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold Catwoman
DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis Hawkgirl
2021 The Loud House Movie Luna Loud
Mickey's Tale of Two Witches Cuckoo-Loca, Spooky-Loca
Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas Cuckoo-Loca
2022 Marmaduke Juan Pedro
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie News Anchor Tanya, Incidental Girl, Café Woman #1, and Café Woman #2
2024 No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie Luna Loud

Theatrical animated films

Live-action television

Video games