Happy Birthday Claire Corlett · 8:38pm Jul 9th, 2019
Today is Claire Corlett's birthday. She is the talented young woman who voices Sweetie Belle, and has recently voiced a couple of other characters from time to time (including some of the Wonderbolts).
Claire is also the daughter of Ian James Corlett, who voiced Silver Shill in "Leap of Faith" and who you may also know as the voice behind Cheetor in Transformers: Beast Wars and Transformers: Beast Machines as well as the first English voice of adult Son Goku.
Like Michelle Creber, Claire was a child when she was first recruited to voice Sweetie Belle (Madeline Peters was the exception, she was a teenager). And she has grown with the role.
Happy birthday, Claire. I hope that we'll get a Sweetie Belle focused episode sometime in the second half of Season 9, and hopefully it'll involve her parents. At the least, Sweetie Belle deserves a focus episode to go along with Apple Bloom having "Going to Seed" and Scootaloo having "The Last Crusade".