Happy Birthday Marge Simpson (Sort Of)

As we count down the remaining Frog Days of Summer, we will all probably start watching more TV. If you watch "The Simpsons", you  may be interested to know that the voice of Marge Simpson, actress Julie Kavner is celebrating her 61st birthday today.

If you watched sitcoms during the 1970s, you've seen Julie Kavner. According to Wikipedia:

Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an American film and television actress, comedian and voice artist. Noted for her role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, she also voices other characters for the show, including Patty and Selma Bouvier.

Kavner was cast in her first professional acting role as Brenda Morgenstern in Rhoda in 1974. She received a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award in 1978 and several more award nominations for playing the character. Following Rhoda, Kavner was cast in The Tracey Ullman Show, which debuted in 1987. The Tracey Ullman Show included a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family. Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner to voice Marge. The shorts would eventually be spun off into The Simpsons.