Yeardley Smith

Personal context

Summary

Yeardley Smith is an actor and producer best known as the voice of Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons, with screen credits including City Slickers and As Good As It Gets. Her work spans comedy, animation, and drama; as Lisa, she has voiced a character often associated with environmental and social concerns. Smith has been a prominent LGBTQ-rights advocate: she helped fund opposition to California’s Proposition 8 and the Human Rights Campaign’s 2018 voter effort, and has publicly called for marching, rallying, and voting in support of LGBTQ rights. The Human Rights Campaign honored her with its National Leadership Award in 2019.