Debi Derryberry (née Greenberg; born September 27, 1960) is an American voice actress and musician who has provided voices for a number of animations and video games. From 2001 to 2006, she voiced the the titular protagonist of the Jimmy Neutron franchise.
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Derryberry was born Debi Greenberg on September 27, 1960, in Indio, California to a family of Hungarian-Jewish descent. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. After graduating from Indio High School in 1978, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles and majored in kinesiology there. In 1977, Derryberry was in an Off-Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird at Circle Theatre, where she played Scout. After college, she moved to Nashville to become a country singer.
Her first film role was as Skeeter in Hey Vern, It's Ernest! along with Jim Varney, which was filmed in 1987. She was also a body double for Scott Menville in Ernest Goes to Camp (1987). Menville's mother, Dorothy Menville, convinced Derryberry to try her hand at voice-overs. She sent her demo to several agents and casting directors, among them Ginny McSwain who advised Derryberry to move back from Nashville to California and then cast her as Jackie on Bobby's World.
