Sheena Shirley Easton (née Orr) is a Scottish actress, voice actress, and singer-songwriter, with dual British-American nationality. She received publicity in an episode of the first British musical documentary and reality television program The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records. Her hits include "Morning Train" and "Modern Girl". She is also well-known for voicing Sasha la Fleur-Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, the television series, and the TV film finale An All Dogs Christmas Carol.
For Disney, she voiced Robyn Canmore, Banshee, Molly, and Finella in Gargoyles, Dr. Robin Doyle in The Legend of Tarzan, and one of Doofenshmirtz's ex-girlfriends in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face!".
Easton was born at Bellshill Maternity Hospital in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, the youngest of six children of Annie and steel mill laborer Alex Orr. She has two brothers, Robert and Alex, and three sisters, Marilyn, Anessa, and Morag. Her earliest known public performance as a singer was in 1964 at the age of five, when she sang "Early One Morning" for her uncle and aunt and various relatives, at the couple's 25th wedding anniversary celebration. Easton's father died in 1969, and her mother had to support the family. According to Easton's website, despite her mother's heavy workload, she was always available for her children:
| “ | Sheena always speaks very highly of her mum and the wonderful job she did in bringing up her and her siblings, including teaching them all to read at home before they were even enrolled in school. | ” |
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- Easton was initially set to voice Fiona Canmore in the cancelled Team Atlantis series.
- Easton was Greg Weisman's first choice to voice Princess Katharine in Gargoyles, before Kath Soucie ultimately landed the role.[citation needed]
