Lara Jill Miller – A True Survivor

From teen fame in Gimme A Break to law school and back to acting in animated features, this brainy star made up her own rules and broke a few, too, on her way to conquering Hollywood’s child-actor syndrome.

Spotlight On Talent by Fred Abel

Actress Lara Jill Miller is an accomplished film animation performer, with a unique combination of “get-ready-world-here-I-come” attitude and a perky, cartoon-perfect voice. Those qualities have made Lara one of the most sought-after voice-over actors in show business today.

Certainly, the energy is evident to anyone within earshot of one of her many animated TV series these days. As a busy voice-over specialist, she is packing a punch playing numerous characters, with credits that include Alejo in the 2004 show Astro Boy and Kari Kamiya on Fox Network’s hit series Digimon, as well as the feature film based on the series and too many other roles to fully list. In September 2003, she joined Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days, an animated series on PBS Kids Channel about the children’s book character Clifford’s “puppyhood,” aimed at kids ages 3 to 7. Her newest role, voicing the title character in The Life & Times Of Juniper Lee, was expected to air this fall on Cartoon Network.

Already into its second season of production, Juniper Lee and others like it may not offer the visibility that, during the late 1980s, made Lara Jill Miller a “must-see-TV” teen icon on the 1980s-era hit situation comedy Gimme A Break. But the animation career may have helped her escape the pitfalls of too many young actors who, after growing comfortable in high-visibility sit-com roles, suddenly find themselves unable to cope when their run of luck in Hollywood fades...

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