Nicole Jaffe

Nicole Jaffe
Born	1946 (age 64–65) United States
Other names	Nicole David, Nicole Jaffe-David
Occupation	Actor, Voice Actor
Years active	1968–1974, 2003
Spouse	Brad David (1973–present)

Nicole Jaffe (born 1946) is an American actress and voice actress, best known as the original voice of Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1974. Before Scooby-Doo began production, Jaffe had appeared in The Trouble with Girls with Elvis Presley (and future Scooby-Doo co-star Frank Welker) and in Disney's The Love Bug.

Velma was Jaffe's only voice role. Like her character, Jaffe was myopic and needed glasses or contacts to see. At the first voice recording rehearsal for Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, Jaffe accidentally dropped her glasses and cried out something to the effect of "my glasses! I can't see without them," which became a trademark gag and catch phrase for Velma.^{[citation needed]}Heather North, who became the second Daphne Blake, was Jaffe's roommate.

Jaffe retired from acting after getting married to Brad David in 1973 and getting a job as an agent for the William Morris Agency. She briefly returned to the series 30 years later for the 2003 direct-to-video movies Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico.

Preceded by None

Velma Dinkley Voice 1969-1974

Succeeded by Pat Stevens

External links

• Nicole Jaffe at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Jaffe, Nicole
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Short description	American actor
Date of birth	1946
Place of birth	United States
Date of death
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