Mae Whitman

Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American television and voice actress. She is known for playing the titular role of Grace in State of Grace and for her featured appearance on the TV show Arrested Development, where she played the role of Ann Veal, George Michael Bluth's girlfriend. Her best known voice work is as the voice of Katara in the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender and American Dragon: Jake Long as Rose/Huntsgirl.

At the age of four, Whitman made her film debut, acting alongside Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman. She played Ryan's daughter in the movie. She has had a role in Independence Day as the President's daughter, George Clooney's daughter in One Fine Day and in Hope Floats, with Sandra Bullock. She guest starred in the episode "The One Where Rachel Quits" of the sitcom Friends in 1996. During this time, Whitman attended Ribét Academy, a private preparatory school, in Los Angeles. She also appeared as the daughter of the president in the movie Independence Day. In 2010, she appeared in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, also starring Michael Cera.

She has done extensive work with Seth MacFarlane, voicing characters of varied importance on Family Guy and The Cleveland Show.

Whitman is perhaps best-known as the voice of Katara of the Watertribe in the animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender, and previously Rose on American Dragon: Jake Long. The characters have also had adversarial-turned-friendly relations with a character on their respective shows voiced by Dante Basco, those characters being Zuko and Jake Long, respectively. Basco voiced the villain on Avatar, while Whitman voiced the villain on American Dragon.