Maile Flanagan won an Emmy for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2003) in 2006. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She lived in Bangkok, Nurnberg and Munich, and then attended Boston College. After Boston College, she was in the improv comedy troupe Every Mother's Nightmare with Wayne Wilderson, Tom McCarthy, Andrea Beutner (Hutchman), Kevin Kappock, Peter Civetta and Nancy Walls (Carell) and others in Minneapolis. Did stand-up and improv in Minneapolis at the Comedy Gallery and Knuckleheads and also with Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop. She moved to to LA with the Theatre 911's production of Bad Seed, which won an LA Weekly award for Best Comedy Ensemble. She does television, commercials, animation and and film and was nominated for an Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Program at the 32nd Annual Annie Awards in 2005. She has numerous LA theater credits including working with writer/director Justin Tanner at Third Stage in Burbank in his shows "Wife Swappers", "Pot Mom", "Oklahomo!", "Zombie Attack!" and "The Strip".