Nicole Jaffe

Birth Name:

Nicole Jaffe

Birth Place:

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession

Actress, Art department

Has volunteered with Keep a Child Alive, a charity devoted to bringing medicine to children with AIDS
Sold many of the "Scooby-Doo" animation cells she owned for charity
After director Gordon Hunt saw her playing Peppermint Patty in a stage production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," he invited her to audition for a part on "Scooby-Doo․"
Quote: "[On "Scooby-Doo"] "I didn't have any sense of what the show was․ I'm happy that children love it so much․""
Eventually decided that though she didn't particularly like acting, she was interested in helping other performers and became a successful agent, serving clients such as Elijah Wood, Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston and John Travolta
Though she is best known as the original voice of Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's "Scooby-Doo" cartoon series, when she accepted the role, she just saw it as a way to pay her rent before moving on to bigger things
During her time on "Scooby-Doo," she was taking acting classes with Lee Strasberg
Enjoys watching movies, reading and walking in her free time
First began to appreciate "Scooby-Doo" when singer Lauryn Hill told her how great she thought the show was years after Jaffe appeared on it
One of her favorite parts of working on "Scooby-Doo" at the time was that the show gave the voice actors free food, including expensive cookies that she couldn't afford herself at that time in her life

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