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Teressa Claire "Tress" MacNeille (née Payne) is an American voice actress and singer, whose best-known Disney roles include voicing Daisy Duck, Chip, Gadget Hackwrench, Anastasia Tremaine, Merryweather, Lady Bane, as well as various other characters in other animated Disney films and television series.
History
Born in Los Angeles, California, MacNeille loved cartoons as a child and wanted to be a voice actress at the age of eight, but instead chose a "practical" career, feeling she would never be able to realize her ambition. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended broadcasting school. She worked in a variety of jobs and had numerous minor voice-over roles before becoming a regular on animated television. She was also a member of the improvisational comedy group called "The Groundlings" for ten years.