Heather North, the US actress who was the voice of Daphne in Scooby-Doo for many years, has died at the age of 71.<\/p>\n
According to reports, she died at her Los Angeles home on 30 November after a long illness.<\/p>\n
North was the second actress to voice the “danger-prone” Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! TV series, making her debut in 1970.<\/p>\n
The California native continued voicing the role in various iterations of the property until 2003.<\/p>\n
They included The New Scooby-Doo Movies of the early 1970s, the short-lived Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo series and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries that aired in 1984.<\/p>\n
North’s other roles included Kurt Russell’s girlfriend in Disney’s The Barefoot Executive and Sandy Horton in Days of Our Lives.<\/p>\n
It was that job that led to her meeting producer Wes Kenney, to whom she was married from 1971 up to his death in 2015.<\/p>\n
Stefanianna Christopherson was the first actress to lend her voice to Daphne, the role Sarah Michelle Gellar played in the 2002 live-action film.<\/p>\n
North’s death was initially confirmed by the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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