Melendy Britt

Melendy Britt (born Harriet Melendy;

Early years Britt was born Harriet Melendy in North Carolina and moved to Texas with her family in 1949. She gained early experience on children's television While she was a student at Lamar High School in Houston, she appeared regularly on the program Teen Time Party on KPRC-TV. In the summer of 1961 she was one of a dozen apprentices who learned various aspects of theatrical production at the Alley Theatre in Houston. She graduated from Lamar in 1961.

Career Britt's most notable animated work is for Filmation, voicing characters such as She-Ra, and the second animated Batgirl (Jane Webb was the first). She also provided the voice for Penny, would-be love interest and aide to Plastic Man on The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show, which was produced by Ruby-Spears. She was also the voice of Kanna in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

On television Britt was seen in Then Came Bronson and The Psychiatrist.

Britt's work on stage included performing in the farce-comedy Once Over Nightly at the On Broadway theater in San Francisco. and in the musical comedy Bottoms Up '68 at the Hotel Sahara-Tahoe. Her work in Carnival at the Playhouse in Houston led a critic to write, "Harriet Melendy, as The Incomparable Rosalie, a jealous beauty with a troublesome liaison, is another solid hit — a definite wow in the show's funniest song, 'Here's to a Son', let us say."

Personal life She married singer Jimmy Britt, and they had two children.

Filmography

Film

Television