Known for her improvisation and distinctive "honeyed gravel voice," Kavner was cast in her first professional acting role as Brenda Morgenstern in Rhoda in 1974. She received the Primetime Emmy Award in 1978 and three more nominations for playing the character. Following Rhoda, Kavner was cast in The Tracey Ullman Show, which debuted in 1987. The Tracey Ullman Show included a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family. Voices were needed for the shorts, and the producers decided to ask Kavner to voice Marge. The shorts would eventually be spun off into The Simpsons.
That voice comes from Julie Kavner, who also plays Marge's mother and sisters as well, but it was almost a role that went to another actress with a ...
SeeingHayden perform the voice is honestly a little jarring if you haven’t seen it before; unlike co-stars Yeardley Smith and Julie Kavner, she really does not sound like the preternaturally unlucky tween with her real voice ... .