Though few might recognize her face, actress Yeardley Smith was known the world over as soon as she opened her mouth. As the voice of one of television’s most beloved characters, Lisa Simpson, on the groundbreaking comedy, “The Simpsons” (Fox, 1989- ), Smith became part of a pop-culture institution.The daughter of famed Washington Post obituaries editor, Joseph Yeardley Smith, Martha Maria Yeardley Smith was born July 3, 1964 in Paris, France. Immigrating to the U.S. two years later, she was raised in the nation’s capital, where her father worked. There, Smith grew up a shy, introverted child.
