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Mae Margaret Whitman is an American actress, voice actress, and singer. One of her earliest roles was playing Patricia Whitmore in the 1996 sci-fi film Independence Day, and is also well-known for voicing Little Suzy in Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo, Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender, April O'Neil in Nickelodeon's 2012 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Cynder in The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night video game. She also had several television roles, such as Ann Veal in the Fox sitcom Arrested Development and Amber Holt in the NBC drama series Parenthood. Additionally, she portrayed Roxy Richter in the 2010 romantic comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Mary Elizabeth in the 2012 coming-of-age drama film The Perks of Being A Wallflower, and Bianca Piper in the 2015 teen comedy film The DUFF.

For Disney, she has taken on several roles, most notably voicing Tinker Bell in the CGI film series of the same name. She also voiced Shanti in the 2003 sequel film The Jungle Book 2 and Amity Blight in The Owl House. She played Lindsay in the Hulu series Up Here.

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  • Whitman was initially cast as Squirrel Girl in the cancelled New Warriors series, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.[citation needed]
  • Whitman came out as pansexual a year after the premiere of The Owl House.
  • The majority of characters Whitman voices, particularly Leslie Dunkling, Rose, Shanti, and Amity Blight, all have similarities with one another.
    • All four are the love interests to the main character.
    • All four have had some minor (Leslie and Shanti) or major conflict (Amity and Rose) with the lead.
    • All four are depicted as being soft-spoken, but hide a feisty spirit within them, though Amity did initially start off as being rude and entitled.
    • All four have a reluctance they need to overcome. For Leslie, it's dancing with a boy in "What's Sweat Got to Do with It?"; for Shanti, it's adventuring into the jungle to rescue Mowgli; for Rose, it's accepting that not all monsters are evil; and for Amity, it's overcoming her mother's influence and accepting Luz as a friend and later girlfriend.
      • Her portrayal of Tinker Bell also has some of these similarities. Her love interest is arguably Terence, with whom she has conflict with in Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, and has many similar personality traits as well as several reluctances she faces. The only difference is that she is the lead character of her franchise, as opposed to being a supporting character like the others.

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