Teresa Gallagher

Teresa Gallagher
Born	United States
Residence	London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actress, voice actress, singer
Years active	1988–present

Teresa Gallagher is an American-born British voice actress, actress and singer.

Career

Gallagher began her singing career in Britain with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and went onto become a professional actress performing leading roles in plays and musicals across the country.

During her time of acting, Gallagher is known for her role as Ellen Smith in The Bill, for her appearances on radio in No Commitments, Salem's Lot, and Memorials to the Missing. She also voiced Karla the zebra in both the UK and US versions of Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies. Further appearances include: the voices of Little Miss Chatterbox, Little Miss Daredevil, Little Miss Naughty (Season 2), and Little Miss Whoops in the UK version of The Mr. Men Show, Sarah in Footballers' Wives, and also Alison Canning in Casualty. Additionally, Gallagher was known for her work presenting the BBC show Playdays.

Gallagher has also provided the voices of some of the letters in CBeebies' Alphablocks, and in the popular Cbeebies animated series The Octonauts as Dashi Dog the photographer, and the voices of Nicole Watterson, Penny Fitzgerald, Teri, and Margaret Robinson in the Cartoon Network show The Amazing World of Gumball, in which she does an American accent. Gallagher does the voice of Mater's Computer in Cars 2. She also voiced KT in the 2008 version of Pinky and Perky, Egbert and Gilda the Pigeon in Poppy Cat, Lapitch in the English version of the 2000 television series of Lapitch the Little Shoemaker, Noddy in the 2009 version of Noddy in Toyland, Dennis's mother and several characters in the 2009 version of Dennis the Menace, Pip in Pip Ahoy!, Lottie's mother and several characters in Frankenstein's Cat, Foofa in the UK dubbed version of Yo Gabba Gabba!, Gerald and several characters in Fleabag Monkeyface, Mrs Piecrust in Mike the Knight, Hugo in What's the Big Idea (CBeebies), both Gaspard and Lisa's mothers, Lisa's little sister Lila and Gaspard's grandmother Mathilde in Gaspard and Lisa, Lucy Selby in Postman Pat: The Movie, Driver Dottie in Engie Benjy, Miss Ladybird, Bobee and Millice Ant in The Hive, Darzi in The Jungle Book, Hermoine in Sherlock Yack, Jessica in Dude, That's My Ghost!, Zak and Zou's mother in Zou and several characters such as Emily (UK), Rosie (UK), Belle (UK/US), Daisy (UK/US), Mavis (UK/US), Annie & Clarabel (UK/US), Judy (UK/US), Lady Hatt (UK/US) and other characters alike on Thomas & Friends.

She has also done redubs for several anime films such as Laughing Target, X, Bounty Dog, Demon City Shinjuku and Cyber City Oedo 808.

In 2010, she voiced Queen Titania, Mrs. Walker, and Fern in the UK version of the movie Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island. She does the voice of Matilda, Young Stella and Zara the Cruzeao in Angry Birds Space.

In 2015, she provided voices for several minor characters in Thunderbirds Are Go, and now as the role of the titular character in the UK Version of Henry Hugglemonster and the Voice Trumpets and the Tiddlytubbies in the 2015 reboot of Teletubbies.

She has also done various voice over work for video games, commercials, radio plays, BBC radio dramas and audio books such as several new Meg Cabot books and the 2007 audio book adaptation of Charles Dickens's famous novel Bleak House which became The Times audio book of the year. Gallagher has also been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company and can be well known as a recognizable voice for listeners of Radio 4's Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime.

Gallagher is also the lead singer of a musical band called Arcelia which has been performed in various London pubs, as well as supporting several other UK-based bands.

Radio

Date	Title	Role	Director	Station
18 October 1993	The Lake		Ned Chaillet	BBC Radio 4
11 March 1994	Waiting For Lefty		Ned Chaillet	BBC Radio 3
1995	Salem's Lot (radio drama)	Susan Norton	Adrian Bean	BBC Radio 4
24 January 2001	The Polish Soldier	Marti	Ned Chaillet	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
27 February 2004	Different Planes	Annie Wyman	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
14 July 2004	Are You Sure?	Deborah	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2 April 2007 – 6 April 2007	Captain Starlight's Apprentice[1]	Jess	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
22 June 2010	Two Pipe Problem 2010: Right Old Charlie[2]	Karen	Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
23 June 2010	Two Pipe Problem 2010: The Memory Man Forgets[3]	Karen / Shelley	Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
31 October 2011 – 6 November 2011	The Heat of the Day[4]	Louie / Anne / Mary / Waitress	Marilyn Imrie	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
20 February 2014 – 21 February 2014	The Exorcist	Chris MacNeil	Gaynor Macfarlane	BBC Radio 4

Television

Year(s)	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes
2009–present	Thomas & Friends	Emily (UK), Rosie (UK), Belle (UK/US), Daisy (UK/US), Mavis (UK/US), Judy (UK/US), Annie & Clarabel (UK/US), Lady Hatt (UK/US), Bridget Hatt (UK/US), Stephen Hatt (UK/US) and a few others	Greg Tiernan/Rob Silvestri/David Baas/David Stoten/Don Spencer/Dianna Basso	Took-over the roles of Mavis (in the US) and both Stephen & Bridget (in the UK and the US) from Co-Stars Jules de Jongh and Matt Wilkinson
2010–present	Alphablocks	Various
2011–present	The Amazing World of Gumball	Penny Fitzgerald, Nicole Watterson, Teri, Jackie Wilson, Margaret Robinson and other various female characters
2015–present	Thunderbirds Are Go	EOS and various other female characters	David Scott, Theo Baynton
2015–present	Teletubbies	Voice Trumpets, Tiddlytubbies

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2006	Rule of Rose	Wendy, Joshua
2007	The Witcher	Abigail, Alvin

References

1. BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Captain Starlight's Apprentice
2. BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problem 2010: Right Old Charlie
3. BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problem 2010: The Memory Man Forgets
4. BBC – Classic Serial – The Heat of the Day

External links

• Teresa Gallagher at the Internet Movie Database
• Teresa Gallagher – Radio
• Teresa Gallagher on Twitter