Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the middle child and most accomplished of the Simpson family. Voiced by Yeardley Smith, Lisa was born as a character in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening created and designed her while waiting to meet James L. Brooks. Groening had been invited to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic Life in Hell, but instead decided to create a new set of characters. He named the elder Simpson daughter after his younger sister Lisa Groening Bartlett. After appearing on The Tracey Ullman Show for three years, the Simpson family were moved to their own series on Fox, which debuted on December 17, 1989. Intelligent, kind and passionate about the planet and all living things, Lisa Simpson, at eight years old, is the second child of Homer and Marge, the younger sister of Bart, and the older sister of Maggie.
| First appearance | "Good Night" (1987) |
| Created by | Matt Groening |
| Voiced by | Yeardley Smith |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | 2nd grade student at Springfield Elementary School |
| Family | Parents: Homer and Marge, Siblings: Bart and Maggie |
| Relatives | Grandparents: Abe Simpson, Mona Simpson, Jacqueline Bouvier and Clancy Bouvier, Aunts: Patty and Selma Bouvier, (See also Simpson family) |
About Lisa Simpson
Most intelligent Simpson family member and middle child between the younger Maggie and older Bart, all of whom were born to parents Marge and Homer Simpson. She has a strong liberal political stance and is a vegetarian, environmentalist, feminist, Buddhist and baritone saxophone player. She and the rest of her family first appeared on television in "Good Night," the first of forty-eight Simpsons shorts to air on The Tracey Ullman Show.
Achievement of Lisa Simpson
Yeardley Smith voices the character. She originally auditioned for the role of Bart Simpson while Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, originally tried out for Lisa. The characters's stance on environmentalism has been well received and earned several episodes Genesis and Environmental Media Awards. Smith won an Emmy in 1992 for her voice work.
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Latest information about Lisa Simpson updated on July 28 2021.
