Yeardley Smith, who played Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons, got married to Dan Grice, who used to be a police detective, on Monday, July 11. On July 13, Smith’s rep said that the news was true.
Dan Grice used to be a detective for the Springfield Police Department. He met Smith for the first time when he agreed to help protect her while she was in town in 2014. Since The Simpsons started airing in 1989, Yeardley Smith has been the voice of Lisa Simpson.
The couple got married at their home in Los Angeles. More information about the wedding has yet to come out.
What brought Yeardley Smith and her husband together? Details explored
Dan Grice was a detective for the Springfield Police Department, as was already said.
Smith and Grice met for the first time in 2014, when Smith went to Springfield, Oregon for the reveal of a Simpsons-themed mural that the town had made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show. Yeardley didn’t want to go to the event at first because she had been stalked before and was worried about her safety.
When Yeardley asked the Springfield Police Department about safety, she was told that a detective in plain clothes would be with her the whole time. Dan turned out to be that detective. When Dan’s boss asked for volunteers for the event, Dan said yes so that the other detectives could spend time with their families and children. Since he was single, he didn’t have any plans like that.
Grice knew who Smith was because he’d seen her in other movies, but he didn’t know that she was the voice of Lisa Simpson. The next day, he went with Smith to the event, where they exchanged numbers before Smith went back to Los Angeles. They kept in touch by texting, and Grice met Smith when he was in Los Angeles. Smith then took the train to Oregon to see Grice.
The couple got engaged in 2018, and they had planned to get married in March 2021. However, the Covid-19 pandemic forced them to move the wedding date twice.
About Yeardley Smith in short
Yeardley Smith is known for being the voice of Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons, an animated show that has been on for a long time.
Smith moved to New York City in 1984 after she graduated. There, she was in a Broadway production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing. Smith’s first movie was the drama Heaven Help Us, which came out in 1985. Then came The Legend of Billie Jean and Maximum Overdrive.
The 58-year-old actor has also been in movies such as City Slickers, Just Write, and Toys. Waiting for Ophelia, an independent romantic comedy that made its debut at the Phoenix Film Festival in April 2009, was written and directed by her. She was also the film’s executive producer.
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