Nicole Dubuc is an American actress and writer, known for her work on the Transformers franchise, including ', ', ' and '.
Child actress
As a child actress, Dubuc had a recurring role as Bertha on the television series Our House and a guest appearance on the television seriesALF. She starred in the popular sitcom Major Dad, playing the character Robin Cooper MacGillis. She appeared in all 96 episodes during the show's run between 1989 and 1993. She worked as a child actress for 11 years, including background voices for the movies Prince of Tides and Searching for Bobby Fischer. She attended Yale University and graduated with a degree in English.
Adult career
After graduation, she got her first work as an apprentice staff writer on the hit series, Kim Possible. She continues to act as an adult and voiced Iris West-Allen in Young Justice. She followed that up with many other television and feature writing credits, including Jackie Chan Adventures, W.I.T.C.H., The Spectacular Spider-Man and Young Justice. She was the story editor and writer on the Disney series, My Friends Tigger & Pooh. She co-created ' with Brian Hohlfeld and Jeff Kline, served as story editor and writer, then became executive producer as of the show's fourth season. She was an executive producer and story editor on ', where she also wrote some of the songs and episodes. She is set to be the showrunner for The Rocketeer, a series she developed for Disney Junior. She is the first woman to write for The Flash in DC Comics, with the story "Details" appearing in 2013's The Flash Annual #2 of the publisher's relaunch, The New 52. She and Michael Vogel are co-writers of a new My Little Pony: Ponyville Mysteriesseries of books, under the pen name "Penumbra Quill". She served on the executive board of the Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839 for nine years.
Awards
Dubuc has earned eight Emmy nominations, in 2005, 2006 and 2007 for Outstanding Children's Animated Program for ToddWorld, in 2011 for "Outstanding Writing in Animation" for ', in 2014 for "Outstanding Writing in a Children's Series" for R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour, in 2015 for "Outstanding Writing in Children's Series" for Spooksville, in 2016 for "Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program" for ' and in 2020 for "Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Program" for The Rocketeer. She recently won the Writers Guild of America West's 2018 Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award for her lifetime achievement in animation. As a child actress, she won a Clio Award for the commercial, "Buffy's Bedtime".
