Kavner has won several awards for voicing Marge, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.

Kavner has been described as " nearly reclusive "; part of her contract says that she will never have to promote The Simpsons on video.

Kavner has also appeared in live-action roles in seven films written by Woody Allen, and in the Adam Sandler comedy Click.

Kavner has what Hilary de Vries of The New York Times described as a " honeyed gravel voice ".

Nora Ephron, the writer of This Is My Life said Kavner, " has so little vanity that it is almost shocking.

" Kavner believes he is " a true film-maker, one that has something to say, continually experimenting on different themes within his own film-making ," adding that " anything ever does, I always want to do, [...] I don't even have to read it.

Marge's laugh during her bowling lesson was an ad-libbed, natural laugh by Julie Kavner, who was laughing at something Albert Brooks has just said.

Ginny Tillman, the ex-wife of a Beverly Hills proctologist ; Francesca McDowell, a 14-year-old New York City girl being raised by her father Dave ( portrayed by Castellaneta ) and his partner William ( McMurray ); Tina, a Brooklyn postal employee who is best friends with her co-worker Meg ( Kavner ); Sarah Downey, a quintessential yuppie married to attorney Greg ( Castellaneta ); Kay Clark, an English office worker and caregiver to her sick mother ( Kay also appeared frequently in Tracey Takes On ); Sandra Decker, an aged Hollywood movie actress ; Kiki Howard-Smith, an Australian professional golfer ; Summer Storm, a Los Angeles disc jockey ; and Angel Tish, a singer who appeared with her husband Marty ( Castellaneta ).

She is voiced by Julie Kavner and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night " on April 19, 1987.

Following Rhoda, Kavner had a guest appearance on Taxi and appeared in the 1985 comedy Bad Medicine as well as the 1987 film Surrender, both of which were box office failures.

When James Lipton appeared on The Simpsons Season 13 DVD Audio Commentary ( Episode " The Sweetest Apu "), he explained that Kavner was scheduled to go to Shelter Island on Long Island on an 11: 15pm ferry, so she had to leave.

Woody Allen first saw Kavner one night while he was watching Rhoda in the 1970s.

Kavner agreed, and credits Allen and the film with rejuvenating her career.

In a 1992 interview with The New York Times, Kavner said she was considering retiring, " except for doing three days a year for Allen ," but felt that if she did retire, she would receive a script she wanted " to do more than life itself ".

While the roles of Homer and Marge were given to Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner because they were already a part of the Tracey Ullman Show cast, the producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa.

Typically cast as a " woman who is supportive, sympathetic or self-effacingly funny ," Kavner grew to dislike playing such roles.

" Kavner grew to despise playing such roles, saying " If it smacks of Brenda Morgenstern, I won't take the job.

* Julie Kavner ( born 1950 ), an American actress best known as the voice of Marge Simpson

Sheldon is persuaded by his psychiatrist to see a psychic, Treva ( Julie Kavner ), to try to get his mother back to reality.

He tries to find a safe haven in the house of his first ex-fiancée, Alma ( Julie Kavner ), whom he left standing at the altar while he had a dalliance with her sister.

Marjorie " Marge " Simpson ( née Bouvier ), voiced by Julie Kavner, is the well-meaning and extremely patient wife of Homer and mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

* No Other Love ( film ), a 1979 television movie starring Richard Thomas and Julie Kavner

#" Lisa's Sax ": " Those Were The Days /' WB's Proud To Present ' Theme "-Dan Castellaneta / Julie Kavner / Nancy Cartwright

Following Rhoda, Kavner was cast in The Tracey Ullman Show, which debuted in 1987.

Kavner was then cast as a sidekick to Tracey Ullman in The Tracey Ullman Show, which debuted on Fox in 1987.

The series opens with the pilot episode featuring a slimmed-down Rhoda Morgenstern traveling to New York City from her home in Minneapolis for a two-week vacation staying with her twenty-one-year-old sister, Brenda ( Julie Kavner ).

#" The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson ": " No Regards / You're Checkin ' In "-The Alf Clausen Orchestra / Julie Kavner / Nancy Cartwright / Yeardley Smith

Julie Deborah Kavner ( born September 7, 1950 ) is an American film and television actress, comedian and voice artist.

Kavner became most famous for her role as Marge Simpson on the animated television show The Simpsons, a show that continues to the present.

The release includes new audio commentary featuring Brooks and Marks, James L. Brooks — A Singular Voice, a new documentary on Brooks ’ s career in television and film, featuring actresses Marilu Henner and Julie Kavner, among other collaborators, an alternative ending and deleted scenes, with commentary by Brook, new video interviews with veteran CBS news producer Susan Zirinsky, one of the models for actress Holly Hunter ’ s character and an associate producer on the film, and a featurette containing on-set footage and interviews with Brooks, Hunter, and actor Albert Brooks.

" Some scenes in the movie, such as Marge's emotional video message to Homer, were recorded over one hundred times, leaving Kavner exhausted.

Julie Kavner, who at the time of this movie was playing Rhoda Morgenstern's kid sister Brenda on the TV show Rhoda and would later find fame on The Simpsons, plays Katherine's college roommate.

#" Happy Just The Way We Are "-Dan Castellaneta / Julie Kavner / Nancy Cartwright / Yeardley Smith / Harry Shearer

#" The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase ": " The Simpsons Family Smile-Time Variety Hour Opening Theme ..."-Dan Castellaneta / Julie Kavner / Nancy Cartwright / Harry Shearer / Pamela Hayden / Tim Conway

* Cast of The Simpsons: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer

Before the recording session took part, the main voice actors of the show ( Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, and Hank Azaria ) sat down with executive producer David Mirkin and a crew of writers at a table reading to determine what shape the script was in.

Regular cast members Harry Shearer and Julie Kavner disliked the episode because of its focus on the guest stars and its surreal tone.

Cast members of The Simpsons, including Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, and Phil Hartman, provided their voices for the dialog in the game.

He has frequently refused to move from white lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he considers unjust, while in other cases he has appealed to federal laws.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

Such activity may or may not have irritated the Kremlin, but it has frequently condemned America to an unnatural defensiveness that has undermined our effort to give leadership to the free world.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

Average manufacturer frequently has helped build private brand business, delivering largely the same qualities and styles in private brand merchandise as in branded.

`` All too frequently '', points out James O'Gara, managing editor of Commonweal, `` Catholics run roughshod over Protestant sensibilities in this matter, by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and, particularly, by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth control has changed in recent decades ''.

Such an animal has frequently been the downfall of the rustler.

Such vital information, he said, has to be made available to the public frequently and at regular intervals for residents to know.

Indeed, it is in the field of transportation that Congress has most frequently granted employers exemption from the anti-trust laws ; ;

Traffic frequently has failed to measure up to engineers' rosy estimates.

One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is too little suggestion of organic relationship and development.

An American in Paris has been frequently recorded over the years.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named " New Britain " to which it is most frequently sung today.

MtDNA Haplogroup D is found frequently throughout East Asia and Central Asia, and is also common in some populations of North Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Americas ; in addition, it has been found with low frequency in some populations of Europe and Southwest Asia.

MtDNA Haplogroup G has been found most frequently among indigenous populations of easternmost Siberia, but it is also common among some populations of East Asia, Central Asia, the Altai-Sayan region of southern Siberia, and the sub-Himalayan region.

Ayckbourn has frequently said he sees aspects of himself in all his characters.

This form of guilty plea has been frequently used in local and state courts in the United States, though it consists of a small percentage of all plea bargains in the U. S. The form of plea is not allowed in courts of the United States military.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

Widely accepted among Western Christians, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church and most liturgical Protestant denominations, the Athanasian Creed has been used in public worship less and less frequently.

The National Toxicology Program has classified TCDD as " known to be a human carcinogen ", frequently associated with soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia ( CLL ).

This principle has frequently been called the " Sapir – Whorf hypothesis ", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity.