Harley Bird

Harley Bird
Born Harley Riley
(2001-12-13) 13 December 2001
Rochdale, England
Nationality British
Occupation Actress
Years active 2007–present
Known for voice of Peppa
Notable work Peppa Pig

Harley Bird (born Harley Riley, 13 December 2001)[1][2] is an English actress and voice-over artist.[3] She is currently known as the third and current voice of Peppa Pig.

Early and personal life

Bird was born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester as Harley Riley.[4] Bird lives in Tring, Hertfordshire with her parents, Gill and Craig Riley. Bird is the second eldest of four children and has two sisters, Taylor and Olivia and a brother called Rosco.[5] She used to attend Tring Park School for the Performing Arts on their Tring Park Associates programme, before enrolling into the main school and she currently attends Pipers Corner School.[6][7]

Career

At age 5 she was signed to Alphabet Kidz Talent Agency. A month later she gained the role of Peppa in the children's animated series Peppa Pig. She replaces the previous actors Lily Snowden-Fine and Cecily Bloom. She voiced Peppa for seasons 3, 4, and 5 of the series. In her role, she has lent her voice to Peppa Pig in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley, as well as various other pieces of show merchandise. She is a keen kickboxer.[8]

Bird has made many TV appearances and radio broadcasts, including presenting a behind the scenes feature on CBBC's Newsround[9] and being interviewed in character as Peppa on BBC Radio One's Chris Moyles Show.[10] She became the youngest British Academy Film Award winner ever as she won the Performer award at the 2011 British Academy Children's Awards for her voice-artist work as Peppa Pig.[11][12] Harley is nominated for 'Most Promising Newcomer' at the British Independent Film Awards 2013.

Bird also starred as Daisy in Blueberry, a 2009 short film which won the Audience Award at the Cinequest Film Festival,[13] She also starred as Piper alongside Saoirse Ronan[14] in Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now, released in 2013.[15] Bird currently plays the lead role of Sammy in Disney Channel's webisode series, So Sammy.[16]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2009 Blueberry Daisy Short film
2009 – present Peppa Pig Peppa Voice
2013 How I Live Now Piper Film
2014 Doctor Who Ruby Episode: "In the Forest of the Night"
2017 So Sammy Sammy Disney mini series

References

  1. ↑ "12 today! I love my pressies....!x". Twitter. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Iuzzolino, Sarah; Lewis, Hannah; Matthews, Donovan; Vieni, Izzy (29 December 2017). "Harley Bird, voice of Peppa Pig, talks with Long Island kids". Newsday. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Alphabet Kidz talent agency". Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "Pipers Corner School Pupil wins Children's BAFTA". UK Boarding Schools. 16 February 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Thompson, Melissa (25 January 2015). "Meet TV's Peppa Pig... the 13-year-old girl from Rochdale". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Barns, Sarah (16 January 2015). "'I'm Peppa Pig' Meet Harley Bird, 13, the voice behind the world's most famous cartoon hog". Express. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Tring Park Associates". Tring Park School. 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  8. ↑ Peppa Pig star Harley Bird on 10 years oinking, 21 March 2017, retrieved 21 March 2017
  9. ↑ "Harley Bird: The Voice Behind Peppa Pig". Retrieved 8 August 2012. BBC Newsround, 9 February 2012
  10. ↑ "Chris Moyles Guests 2011". Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  11. ↑ "BAFTA Children's Awards Winners 2011". Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  12. ↑ Woods, Judith (22 December 2011). "Why middle-class England is potty about Peppa Pig". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  13. ↑ "Blueberry". Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  14. ↑ "Saoirse Ronan to star in How I Live Now". Studio Magazine. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  15. ↑ "Press release for "How I Live Now" film". Retrieved 8 August 2012. Meg Rosoff blog
  16. ↑ Taylor, Frances (14 February 2017). "Miranda Hart makes foray into children's TV with new Disney web series So Sammy". Radio Times. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  • Harley Bird on IMDb
  • "Screen Daily - Shooting Starts on Kevin MacDonald's "How I Live Now"". Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  • "The Sun - Meet the voice of Peppa Pig". Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  • "Manchester Evening News - The 10 Year Old Girl from Rochdale who is a global TV star as the voice of Peppa Pig". Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  • "BBC News - Voice of Peppa Pig, Harley Bird, wins a BAFTA". Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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