Maile Flanagan (born May 19, 1965) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known as the voice of Naruto Uzumaki in the English dub of the Naruto franchise. Other prominent roles include voicing Piggley Winks in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (for which she received two nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and won once), and portraying Terry Perry in Lab Rats. Flanagan's live-action film work include appearances in Phone Booth (2002), The Number 23 (2007), Evan Almighty (2007), 500 Days of Summer (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). She has also made guest appearances in several television series such as ER, Shameless, Bad Teacher, The Office and Grey's Anatomy. She appeared on the ABC sitcom Not Dead Yet in a recurring capacity. As of 2023, she is the voice of Matthew "Matt" Hornsby on the Adult Swim animated sitcom Royal Crackers. Flanagan has numerous theater credits including working with writer/director Justin Tanner in his plays Oklahomo!, Wife Swappers, Pot Mom, and Zombie Attack!

Early life

Flanagan was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father worked for the U.S. military intelligence. In 1969, her family was stationed in Bangkok, Thailand and when she was ten, they moved to Germany. She graduated from a Department of Defense (DOD) school Munich America High School (MAHS) in 1983. In 1987, Flanagan graduated from Boston College with a degree in political science concentrating in history and mathematics.

Career

After a brief stint in Washington, D.C., Flanagan moved to Minneapolis and worked in theater roles and did stand-up comedy. She was in the comedy troupe Every Mother's Nightmare with Wayne Wilderson, Tom McCarthy and Nancy Walls. In 1996, she moved to Los Angeles with the stage production of The Bad Seed, which won an LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Comedy Ensemble. Flanagan's first major voice role in animation was as the Piggley Winks in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks for which she was nominated for an Annie Award in 2005, the same year she was cast as the title character, Naruto Uzumaki in the English dub version of Naruto, she has since consistently voiced the kid, teen and adult incarnations of Naruto in all of its properties including numerous spin-offs and video game adaptations. She also earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for her performance in ''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' in 2006. In 2009, Flanagan provided the voice of Mother Aardvark in the third installment of Ice Age film series. Also in 2009, she appeared in Marc Webb's romantic comedy drama 500 Days of Summer and Justin Tanner's play Voice Lessons. The following year, she lent her voice to Orangu-Tammy in the animated film Kung-Fu Magoo. From 2012, Flanagan starred as Terry Perry, principal of the Mission Creek High School in the Disney XD live-action comedy series Lab Rats, she was in the show for four seasons until it ended in 2016. She reprised the role again in the 2016 spinoff of the series called Lab Rats: Elite Force. She also had a recurring role as Connie in the third and fourth season of the Showtime comedy-drama TV series Shameless (2013–14). In February 2023, Flanagan appeared as Tina in the ABC sitcom Not Dead Yet, based on Alexandra Potter's 2020 novel Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up. She also provided the voice of Matt Hornsby in Royal Crackers, which ran on Adult Swim in April of that same year.

Personal life

Flanagan is openly a lesbian. She married Lesa Hammett in 2008.

Filmography

Live-action roles

Television

Film

Voice roles

Television

Film

Video games

Awards and nominations