Nicole Jaffe

Who is Nicole Jaffe?

Nicole Jaffe David is a talent agent and former Canadian actress, best known as the original voice actress for Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1973. A life member of The Actors Studio, David - under her maiden name Nicole Jaffe - had previously appeared in The Trouble with Girls with Elvis Presley and in Disney's The Love Bug.

Jaffe starred in a 1969 stage production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Peppermint Patty, where she was seen by Hanna-Barbera recording director Gordon Hunt, who auditioned her for and eventually cast her as Velma on Scooby-Doo, Where are You! In 1970, after Stefanianna Christopherson, who voiced Daphne on Scooby-Doo, left the show, Jaffe recommended her roommate, Heather North as a replacement; North voiced Daphne in various Scooby productions for the next three decades. Velma was Jaffe's only voice role, which she reprised in the 1972-74 spin-off series, The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

Jaffe retired from acting after marrying Actors Studio classmate Brad David in 1973 and went into talent representation.