Mary Margaret Nina "Maggie" Roswell is an American actress, voice actress, writer, and producer. She is well-known for her voice work in the Fox network's animated television series The Simpsons, in which she has played recurring characters, such as Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Princess Kashmir, Shary Bobbins, Martha Quimby, Miss Hoover, and Luann Van Houten, as well as several minor characters.
For Disney, she voiced Superheroine in Darkwing Duck, the Girl and Sally in TaleSpin, Ashley and Anita the Hairdresser in Bonkers, and portrayed Donna the Red Team Leader in the 1980 comedy Midnight Madness.
She made her acting break-through in the 1980s with appearances in films, such as Midnight Madness (1980), Lost in America (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986), and guest appearances on television shows, such as Remington Steele, Masquerade, Happy Days, Comedy Break, Deliberate Stranger, L.A. Law, Murphy Brown, and Quantum Leap. She appeared frequently in the sketch comedy The Tim Conway Show from 1980 to 1981, and did voice acting for a few animated films and television shows. Roswell also performed in some theater plays, including one in 1988 directed by Julia Sweeney. In 1989, Roswell was hired for the first season of The Simpsons, until she became a regular cast member with the introduction of Maude Flanders in the second season.
Roswell was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on The Simpsons. She also received a 1997 Annie Award nomination in the category "Best Individual Achievement: Voice Acting by a Female Performer in a TV Production" for her role as Shary Bobbins in the episode "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious."
More about Maggie Roswell can be found on her website. Videos of her past work can be viewed on her YouTube channel.
