Barbara Goodson is an American voice actress who has done voice-over work in cartoons and shows. Her best-known role was providing the English dub voice of the main villain Empress Rita Repulsa in the Power Rangers franchise, starting with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and including Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and Power Rangers in Space. Other Power Rangers characters she has played include Prince Sprocket and Orbus in Power Rangers Zeo, and Mandilok in Power Rangers Wild Force. She also voiced Red Fraggle and Wingnut in Jim Henson's cartoon Fraggle Rock, Ladyborg in Beetleborgs Metallix, and Mother Talzin on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, receiving for the latter a Best Actress award from the website Behind The Voice Actors. She also voiced in HBO's Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Tom and FLCL as Naota. For her work in the series CloudBread, in which she is a cast member as Wooley, Ruiz, Grandma, and Teacher Ellie, she was nominated for Best Children's Programming in 2011 for an Annie Award. She was also awarded an Earphones Award for narrating Blair Clemons in the Time/Warner book On a Night Like This. She is set to reprise her role as Rita Repulsa in a 30th anniversary Power Rangers special. Personal life Goodson was born in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband Bruce Gustafson. Filmography Animation Avatar: The Last Airbender – Song's mother Bernadette: Princess of Lourdes – Various characters Buttons & Rusty – Buttons Bear Chucklewood Critters – Buttons, Christy, Frisky Fraggle Rock – Red Fraggle, Wingnut Doozer G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero – Various characters Goldengirl – Onyx, Moth Lady High Guardian Spice – Parnelle Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol – Jin Jin The Kids from Room 402 – Various characters Kissyfur – Various characters The Legend of Korra – Shaman LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales – Mother Talzin Lucky Luke – Three Hillbilly Women Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir – Marianne Lenoir/Backwarder Mr. Pickles – Steve the Gimp OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes – Small Calf Demon, Monster Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist – Princess Annushka The Ren and Stimpy Show – High Fashion Log Girl The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs – Various characters Spider-Man: The Animated Series – Dr. Ashley Kafka Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Mother Talzin