4 min read Yeardley Smith, best know as the voice of The Simpsons ' Lisa, has married her love Dan Grice and the story behind it is one that would make the. Smith, 74; Raised Standards for Post Obituaries", "Anna Hyatt Huntington Papers An inventory of her papers at Syracuse University", "Theater review; What Do I Want? "We've seen it in movies and you always wonder, wouldn't it be great if life was like that? I think shes incredibly sexy and when I saw her at the Hollywood Bowl, she was wearing this little red dress and its my absolute favorite. Im not a chauffeur; I was only there to make sure that she was safe, and I happened to carry some instruments that I have to keep my hands free for. Yeardley Smith, best know as the voice of The Simpsons' Lisa, has married her love Dan Grice and the story behind it is one that would make the likes of the late Nora Ephron fire up their laptop.. Smith explained to the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday that the pair met when he served as her personal bodyguard in 2014 as she visited Springfield, Ore. After that, over time, I had more flexibility than he did, so I commuted up to Oregon for about the next two and a quarter years, almost every other weekend. She's also a great actress. The couple said their vows on June 11 in their Los Angeles Home. They got engaged in 2018, and were supposed to tie the knot in 2021 - but it got pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Oh no. [2][10] After the audition, the role was given to another actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and took a recurring role in the television series Brothers. What was the next step in your relationship? Registered in Ireland No 457236. I was unaware of what the Human Rights Campaign did until I met Yeardley and learned how closely she worked with them to help overturn Prop 8. Lending vocal life to the animated role of "Lisa Simpson," the intelligent, caring, saxophone-droning, vegetarian member of the Simpson family, has been her bread-and-butter job for over a remarkable 30 years. Castleforbes Road, She had given Grice her phone number, under the illusion he would send a photo of his visit to Signapore. I told him to pull over once he got around the corner and I would get in the front seat. Sometimes it is.". I have nothing but gratitude for the amount of freedom The Simpsons has bought me in my life. Sometimes it is." I collected myself by the time I got to the bottom of the escalator. Simpsons Actress Yeardley Smith Is Married! - People He sort of chuckled and asked if I had a mother-in-laws house or something, meaning my little guest house. 'The joke is that I really will do anything for my show but I didnt really want to do it,' she told THR. Because of Dans line of work, he was able to compartmentalize quite brilliantly. She then surprised Grice by getting in the front seat of his unmarked police car rather than the back. Here is somebody who is gracious and is doing something incredibly generous. I wanted to chat with him, so I sat in the front seat. You just have to have faith. Dan was formerly a K9 handler and Violent Crimes detective at the same Small Town police department as his . All About Deborah Divine, Who Is Nick Sirianni's Wife? They were divorced in 1992, citing irreconcilable differences. Theyre quite beautiful. Yeardley Smith Host 215 episodes Dave Grice Host 216 episodes Paul Holes Host 31 episodes Dan Grice Host 215 episodes Gary Scott Editor 215 episodes Recent Episodes House on the Hill Trailer Season 12 is coming April 21! He texted back, I think youre really interesting, too. At that point, I thought we were done because how are we going to start a relationship being 850 miles away? To hear these stories in such granular detail with all the frustrations and how perfectly everything needs to line up in order to achieve justice was really striking. Grice originally recognized Smith from her appearances in the 1980s films The Legend of Billie Jean and Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive though he didn't realize she was the voice of Lisa Simpson. The Simpsons star Yeardley Smith tied the knot with former police detective Dan Grice on Monday, July 11. "I get a giggly feeling when I think about it because Dan didn't want to go to this event and I didn't want to go to this event, but something bigger than us was like, 'No, no, listen, you two are going to meet and it's going to work out. Smith later recalled "I always sounded too much like a girl, I read two lines as Bart and they said, 'Thanks for coming! That detective turned out to be Dan. In a lot of what we see on true-crime television, the police prevail and justice is served. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. He was not overly impressed by me, and I really admired his sense of self-assurance. Advertisement She doesnt want to hang out with two knuckle-dragging cops. But I wish that he had. [The divorce] pretty much brought me to my knees, and I thought I would never meet someone again. By the time she was two, she and her family had moved to Washington, D.C., where she was raised. [11], She married Daniel Erickson in 2002; the marriage lasted for six years and Smith filed for divorce on May 21, 2008, citing irreconcilable differences. If you are a person who, every time you leave your house, someone might kill you, where does that live inside of you? The thing I had going for me when I moved here was that I had her as a lead blocker for learning how to handle Hollywood. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. ', Here comes the bride: The couple officially became husband and wife on June 11, 2022, during an intimate wedding in their Los Angeles home, Smith and Grice's story is much like the 1992 Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner movie, The Bodyguard (pictured), which sees Houston's character fall for her bodyguard, True love: 'Weve seen it in movies and you always wonder, wouldnt it be great if life was like that? SMITH I was wearing shoes from my own shoe line. He said that he would love to come, and then I asked, Where are you staying? Then there was a long pause. We were going to get married in March 2021, and then it was July 2021. Soon afterward, the pair exchanged their phone numbers and began talking and they started visiting each other as their relationship blossomed. [9] As a child, Smith was often teased because of her unusual voice. [21] However, the dispute was soon resolved and she received $125,000 per episode until 2004, when the voice actors demanded that they be paid $360,000 per episode. The Simpsons even commemorated the nuptials with a tweet featuring Lisa Simpson and a photo from their wedding in the background. All About Adam Porter-Smith, 'Gossip Girl'Reboot Series Finale: Find Out How It Ended Including Andy Cohen's Surprisingly Pivotal Role, Paying Tribute to the Celebrities Who Have Died in 2023. Yeardley Smith, Voice of Lisa Simpson on 'The Simpsons,' Marries Dan A friend of Grice's in law enforcement brought him to meet Smith at the airport gate and he accompanied her to and from the event the next day, which Smith called "the best day.". In general, people who make their living doing voices on cartoons aren't always great for us.