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Biography

June gives rebirth to the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, the endearing cartoon hero created by Jay Ward. The legendary vocal talent originated the "honest, trustworthy, kind, gentle and good" voice of Rocky in 326 episodes of the network animated series upon its debut in 1959.
Widely regarded as one of the all-time great voice artists in the field of animation, Foray subscribes to the adage that "it's better to be heard and not seen." Her versatile vocals have launched a thousand characters for such legendary animators as Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Walter Lantz, Bob McKimson and Ward. Hank Grant of the Hollywood Reporter called her "the first lady of off-camera voice actors."
In addition to bringing Rocky (and the squirrel's feminine nemesis, Natasha Fatale) to life, Foray's cast-of-character creations, encyclopedic in length, also includes Dudley Do-Right's girlfriend, Nell, Ursula in George Of The Jungle (1997) , Jokey Smurf of The Smurfs, Grammi Gummi in Gummi Bear Adventures, Magica De Spell and Ma Beagle in Duck Tales, the Fairy Queen in Don Bluth's Thumbelina (0) , Lena Hyena in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Rabbit?, Grandma Howard in Teen Wolf, Mrs. Wilson in the new Dennis the Menace, Cindy Lou Who in How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) , Mavis the Witch in the 1999 Disney short Goofy's Campfire Tales, several voices for the premiere episode of The Simpsons and, more recently, Grandmother Fa, the spunky kindred spirit, in Mulan (1998) . For the latter, she received a Grammy nomination for her work on the Read Through story recording for the film.