YEARDLEY SMITH​ is an Emmy Award-winning actress, novelist, and playwright who has appeared on television, film and Broadway. She has been the voice of Lisa Simpson on Fox's hit television show ​The Simpsons​ since 1987. Yeardley also co-hosts and co-produces the award-winning hit true crime podcast “Small Town Dicks.”

Film appearances include ​Who Are You People, Gossamer Folds ​and ​All Square, ​which Yeardley also produced, and which received the​ ​2018 Spotlight Audience Award at SXSW, ​New Year's Eve, As Good As It Gets, S​tephen King’s​ Maximum Overdrive, City Slickers, ​and​ The Legend of Billie Jean.​ ​​Television appearances include ​The Mindy Project, The Big Bang Theory, Mom, Fresh Off the Boat, Hot In Cleveland, Mad Men,​ the sitcom classic ​Murphy Brown, ​five years as Greg’s crabby secretary ‘Marlene’ on ​Dharma and Greg, ​and three years as ‘Louise Fitzer’ on one of the Fox network’s earliest sitcoms, ​Herman's Head. ​She published her first novel, ​I Lorelei, through HarperCollins Children's Books in 2009. In 2004 she performed her one-woman show, MORE, ​off-Broadway.

Yeardley co-founded media company Paperclip Ltd with Ben Cornwell in 2014, with the goal of fostering distinctive ideas in entertainment at their earliest stages, across mediums.