Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969), best known as Cree Summer, is an American born Canadian voice actress, actress and singer. Her career began in 1983 when she was cast as the voice of Penny in the cartoon Inspector Gadget. As of 2006 she did the voices of over 100 animated characters in TV shows, movies, and video games such as Foxxy Love in Drawn Together, Abigail Lincoln / Numbuh 5 in Codename: Kids Next Door, Iris Moss in the DreamWorksTrolls franchise, and Cleo in Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000 TV series). In 1991 she started a band called Subject to Change. The band broke up in 1993. In 1999 Summer released her first album, Street Faërie.
Early life
Summer was born to the white actor Don Francks and African American actress Lili Francks. She started school when she was 8 years old.
