Cree Summer
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Cree Summer (b. 7 July, 1969) is a Canadian-American actress and singer. In the DCAU she is best known as the voice of Maxine Gibson, Terry McGinnis' confidante on Batman Beyond.
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[edit] DCAU Roles
Superman: The Animated Series
The New Batman Adventures
- "Cold Comfort" - Ice Maiden #2
Batman Beyond
- "Splicers" - Maxine "Max" Gibson, Tigress
- "Hidden Agenda" - Max, Tayko (uncredited)
- "Bloodsport" Max
- "Hooked Up" - Max
- "Rats" - Max
- "Mind Games" - Max
- "Revenant" - Max
- "Babel" - Max
- "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot" - Max
- "Final Cut" - Max
- "The Last Resort" - Max
- "Armory" - Max
- "The Eggbaby" - Max
- "Zeta" - Max
- "Plague" - Max
- "April Moon" - Max
- "Sentries of the Last Cosmos" - Max
- "Where's Terry?" - Max
- "Inqueling" - Max
- "Big Time" - Max
- "Out of the Past" - Max, Girl in street (uncredited)
- "Speak No Evil" - Max
- "Betrayal" - Max, Gang girl (uncredited)
- "Curse of the Kobra" - Max, Dottie (uncredited)
- "Unmasked" - Max
The Zeta Project
Static Shock
- "Wet and Wild" - Candide, Tina Todd (uncredited), Announcer (uncredited)
Justice League Unlimited
- "Fearful Symmetry" - Radio singer
[edit] Background Information
Summer was born Cree Summer Francks in Los Angeles, California, but raised on a Native American reservation in Saskatchewan, Canada (her mother, actress Lili Red Eagle Francks, is a member of the Cree Nation).
Summer's acting career began with voice work in 1983, as Penny Gadget, the niece of (and brains behind) Inspector Gadget - opposite Frank Welker, who voiced both Dr. Claw and Penny's faithful dog, Brain.
Her most prominent live-action role is that of Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the sitcom A Different World (a spinoff of The Cosby Show). Since 1995, Summer has focused primarily on voice acting. Some of her best known characters include Elmyra Duff on Tiny Toon Adventures and Susie Carmichael on Rugrats.
Summer is also a childhood friend, and frequent co-star, of fellow Canadian voice actress Tara Strong.
[edit] Trivia
A minisode of Tiny Toon Adventures, (which both Bruce Timm and Paul Dini worked on before developing Batman: The Animated Series), spoofed Batman by featuring Plucky Duck as "Batduck." Elmyra Duff, voiced by Summer, played Batduck's Alfred-like maid.
