Early life
Elizabeth Ann Guttman was born on September 11, 1961, in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in the city that would become the center of her career. She attended Beverly Hills High School, an institution with a strong emphasis on the performing arts. She began her professional entertainment career in 1978, initially credited as Elizabeth Guttman, and appeared on the PBS series The Righteous Apples (1980-1981), playing the character Sandy Burns.1
Career
Music
Daily launched her music career in the early 1980s as a singer performing in the Los Angeles club scene, reportedly appearing in Rod Stewart's "Young Turks" music video early in her career.1 She signed with A&M Records in 1985, collaborating with producers John Benitez and Stephen Bray, both frequent collaborators of Madonna.3 Her debut album Wild Child appeared that year.4 In 1986 her single "Say It, Say It" reached No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.3 She also contributed backup vocals to the Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder collaborative album (1985)5 and appeared on The Breakfast Club film soundtrack.4
Her subsequent studio albums were Lace Around the Wound (1989), Tearing Down the Walls (1999), and Changing Faces (2008).1 In the fall of 2013, Daily competed on Season 5 of NBC's The Voice, performing Faith Hill's "Breathe" during her blind audition and earning chair turns from coaches Blake Shelton and CeeLo Green.6 She joined Team Blake, advanced through the battle rounds, and was eliminated during the knockout rounds.6
Live-action film and television
Daily built a substantial live-action filmography during the 1980s, beginning with Valley Girl (1983).2 She appeared in No Small Affair and Walter Hill's Streets of Fire (both 1984), and Fandango (1985). Her most prominent live-action credit of that era is Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985, directed by Tim Burton), in which she played Dottie, Pee-wee Herman's closest friend and romantic foil.2 She appeared in Dogfight (1991). Later film work includes Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005) and Nick Cassavetes' My Sister's Keeper (2009).2 Her television credits include guest appearances on Laverne and Shirley, CHiPs, Fame, and Friends.
Voice acting
Voice acting became the defining and most sustained strand of Daily's career. She originated the role of Tommy Pickles, the wide-eyed toddler protagonist of Nickelodeon's Rugrats, and performed it across 172 episodes of the original series (1991-2004), the spin-off All Grown Up! (2003-2008), and the revival series that ran from 2021 to 2024,1 making it a role she held continuously for more than three decades.
Her other major voice roles include Buttercup in Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls (78 episodes, 1998-2005),1 Rudy Tabootie in Nickelodeon's ChalkZone (40 episodes), Julius Junior in Julius Jr. (51 episodes, 2013-2015), and Mambo in Duckman. She also voiced Louie in Disney's Quack Pack and took over from Christine Cavanaugh as the voice of the pig Babe for Babe: Pig in the City (1998), the non-Henson sequel.1
Ghostbusters
Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Daily served as a guest voice actor on Extreme Ghostbusters, Columbia TriStar's 1997 animated continuation of the Ghostbusters franchise. She appeared in the episode "The Unseen," one of the series' episodes featuring a guest performer alongside the regular cast. Extreme Ghostbusters drew on many Los Angeles voice actors who, like Daily, had built their careers in animation and live action through the 1980s and 1990s.
Personal life
Daily dated actor Jon-Erik Hexum during the early 1980s. Hexum died on October 18, 1984, following an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound on the set of his television series Cover Up.7 Daily married poker player Rick Salomon in 1995; they had two daughters together and divorced in 2000.1 Daily identifies as Jewish.1
References
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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