Elizabeth Daily

Elizabeth Ann Guttman (born September 11, 1961), known professionally as E. G. Daily or Elizabeth Daily, is an American actress and singer. In animation, Daily is known for voicing Buttercup on The Powerpuff Girls, Tommy Pickles on Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up, Rudy Tabootie on ChalkZone, and Julius on Julius Jr. She also voiced the title character in the live-action film Babe: Pig in the City, Bamm-Bamm Rubble in the live-action film The Flintstones, and Froggy in The Little Rascals.

Daily is also known for her roles in a variety of live-action films such as Valley Girl, Dogfight, No Small Affair, Fandango, Streets of Fire, The Devil's Rejects, My Sister's Keeper, and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. As a singer, Daily has released four studio albums: Wild Child (1985), Lace Around the Wound (1989), Tearing Down the Walls (1999), and Changing Faces (2008).

Career Voice acting Daily has voiced animated characters such as Buttercup and Tommy Pickles in Rugrats, a role that she reprised for its revival on Paramount+, and Freefall / Roxy Spaulding in the film Gen13 and Private Isabel "Dizzy" Flores in Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. She provided the voice for the lead role in the live-action feature film Babe: Pig in the City, replacing Christine Cavanaugh. More recently from 2013 to 2015, she played the title character on the TV show Julius Jr., and was recently Hinoka from Fire Emblem Fates.

Live-action roles Besides doing voice-overs, Daily has acted in film and on TV. She played Sandy Burns on the PBS series The Righteous Apples from 1980 to 1981. In the mid-1980s, she starred as Dottie in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, as Loryn in Valley Girl, and as a singer in the comedy Better Off Dead. She also appeared on such television shows as Laverne & Shirley, CHiPs, Fame and Friends. She was also in the music video for Rod Stewart's song "Young Turks" as Patti, one of the runaway teens. She has been cast in several Rob Zombie films, most recently in 2015 as Sex-Head in Rob Zombie's 31, the woman on the side of Torsten Voges, who plays Death-Head.

Music Daily signed with A&M Records in 1985, working with Madonna's frequent collaborators John "Jellybean" Benitez and Stephen Bray. In 1986, that label released the R&B/Rock single "Say It, Say It". The song made it to No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the No. 1 spot on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. (Other versions of the song appeared as early as 1981). Her songs "Shake It Up" and "I'm Hot Tonight" were included in the soundtrack to the film Scarface. Those same songs were later included in the lineup of fictional radio station Flashback 95.6 FM in the Grand Theft Auto III video game. They were also included in the Scarface: The World Is Yours video game, based on the 1983 film. Her hit "Love in the Shadows" was featured in the films Thief of Hearts and Circuit.

Also in 1985, she provided backup vocals for The Human League frontman Philip Oakey's debut solo album, Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder. That same year, she appeared in the comedy film Better Off Dead, singing the songs "One Way Love (Better Off Dead)" and "A Little Luck" as a member of a band performing at a high school dance. Both songs were included on the soundtrack album credited to E. G. Daily. She performed a song on The Breakfast Club soundtrack called "Waiting".

In 1987, she released the song "Mind over Matter", which is featured in the film Summer School. Daily plays guitar, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion instruments. In her 1989 song, "Some People", from her Lace Around the Wound album, produced by Lotti Golden and Tommy Faragher, she plays guitar and harmonica. In 1999, she released her third studio album Tearing Down the Walls.

Daily released a song titled "Changing Faces" in 2003. The song was used on the end credits of Rugrats Go Wild. She also released a single titled "Beautiful" which she made available through iTunes on April 29, 2008. She also sang the song "Dawn's Theme", which was used at the beginning and end of the movie Streets. From 2003 to 2011, Daily did the voice-over of Jake Harper singing the Two and a Half Men song.

Her genres are country, dance, pop, and rock.

In fall 2013, Daily sang as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality show The Voice. In the blind audition broadcast on September 24, 2013, she sang "Breathe" from Faith Hill. Two of the four judges on the show, Blake Shelton and CeeLo Green, turned around their chairs for her. She chose to be on Team Blake. Daily proceeded to win her battle in the show's battle rounds singing the song "Something to Talk About". She lost in the Knockout Rounds, with a performance of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me".

Personal life Daily dated actor Jon-Erik Hexum and was his girlfriend at the time of his accidental death in 1984. She subsequently spent a short time living with her Valley Girl co-star Deborah Foreman for emotional support. Daily married poker player Rick Salomon in 1995. They had two daughters before divorcing in 2000.

She is Jewish.

Filmography Film Year Title RoleNotes 1978 Jukebox Audition Dancer Credited as Elizabeth Guttman 1981 Street Music Sadie Deleward 1982 One Dark Night Leslie Winslow The Escape Artist Sandra Wacko Bambi Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains Motel Maid 1983 Funny Money Cass Valley Girl Loryn 1984 Streets of Fire "Baby Doll" No Small Affair Susan 1985 Fandango Judy Pee-wee's Big Adventure Dottie Better Off Dead Singer 1988 Bad Dreams Lana 1989 Loverboy Linda 1991 Dutch Halley Dogfight Marcie 1992 Lorenzo's Oil Vocal effects for Lorenzo 1994 The Little Rascals Dubbing voice of Froggy The Flintstones Dubbing voice of Bamm-Bamm Uncredited 1995 A Goofy Movie Additional Voices 1998 The Rugrats Movie Tommy Pickles 2014 The Hero of Color City Ben / Mom / Tutti Frutti / Neon Lime

Short films Year Title RoleNotes 1985 The Orkly Kid Carrissa 2004 Stop That Cycle Mom Wait 2007 Up-In-Down Town Binko (voice) 2015 Father Mud Mary Toy Soldier Young Logan (voice) 2020 Underlings Arthur

Television and animation Year Title RoleNotes 1979 Laverne & Shirley Rita Season 5, Episode 8 1980–1981 The Righteous Apples Sandy Burns 11 episodes 1982 CHiPs Caroll Sweeney Season 5, Episode 17 1986 Saturday Night Live Herself Musical guest (episode 212, May 17, 1986) 1987 Popples Potato Chip Live-action pilot 1989 Camp Candy Rick / Alex / Binky Season 3 1991–2004 Rugrats Tommy Pickles / Susie Carmichael / Baby Stu Pickles / Various Voices 172 episodes 2022 To Tell the Truth Contestant 2025 Jellystone! Buttercup (voice) Episode: "Crisis on Infinite Mirths"

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