Voice acting Daily has voiced animated characters such as
Buttercup and
Tommy Pickles in
Rugrats, a role that she reprised for its revival on
Paramount+, and Freefall / Roxy Spaulding in the film
Gen13 and Private Isabel "Dizzy" Flores in
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. She provided the voice for the lead role in the live-action feature film
Babe: Pig in the City, replacing
Christine Cavanaugh. More recently from 2013 to 2015, she played the title character on the TV show
Julius Jr., and was recently Hinoka from
Fire Emblem Fates.
Live-action roles Besides doing
voice-overs, Daily has acted in film and on TV. She played Sandy Burns on the
PBS series
The Righteous Apples from 1980 to 1981. In the mid-1980s, she starred as Dottie in ''
Pee-wee's Big Adventure, as Loryn in Valley Girl,
and as a singer in the comedy Better Off Dead. She also appeared on such television shows as Laverne & Shirley, CHiPs, Fame and Friends''. She was also in the music video for
Rod Stewart's song "
Young Turks" as Patti, one of the runaway teens. She has been cast in several Rob Zombie films, most recently in 2015 as Sex-Head in
Rob Zombie's
31, the woman on the side of
Torsten Voges, who plays Death-Head.
Music Daily signed with
A&M Records in 1985, working with
Madonna's frequent collaborators
John "Jellybean" Benitez and
Stephen Bray. In 1986, that label released the
R&B/Rock single "
Say It, Say It". The song made it to No. 70 on the
Billboard Hot 100, and the No. 1 spot on the
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. (Other versions of the song appeared as early as 1981). Her songs "Shake It Up" and "I'm Hot Tonight" were included in the
soundtrack to the film Scarface. Those same songs were later included in the lineup of fictional radio station
Flashback 95.6 FM in the
Grand Theft Auto III video game. They were also included in the
Scarface: The World Is Yours video game, based on the 1983 film. Her hit "
Love in the Shadows" was featured in the films
Thief of Hearts and
Circuit. Also in 1985, she provided backup vocals for
The Human League frontman
Philip Oakey's debut solo album,
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder. That same year, she appeared in the comedy film
Better Off Dead, singing the songs "One Way Love (Better Off Dead)" and "A Little Luck" as a member of a band performing at a high school dance. Both songs were included on the soundtrack album credited to E. G. Daily. She performed a song on
The Breakfast Club soundtrack called "Waiting". In 1987, she released the song "
Mind over Matter", which is featured in the film
Summer School. Daily plays
guitar,
harmonica,
keyboards, and
percussion instruments. In her 1989 song, "
Some People", from her
Lace Around the Wound album, produced by
Lotti Golden and
Tommy Faragher, she plays guitar and harmonica. In 1999, she released her third studio album
Tearing Down the Walls. Daily released a song titled "Changing Faces" in 2003. The song was used on the end credits of
Rugrats Go Wild. She also released a single titled "Beautiful" which she made available through
iTunes on April 29, 2008. She also sang the song "Dawn's Theme", which was used at the beginning and end of the movie
Streets. From 2003 to 2011, Daily did the voice-over of
Jake Harper singing the
Two and a Half Men song. Her genres are
country,
dance,
pop, and
rock. In fall 2013, Daily sang as a contestant on the
fifth season of the NBC reality show
The Voice. In the blind audition broadcast on September 24, 2013, she sang "
Breathe" from
Faith Hill. Two of the four judges on the show,
Blake Shelton and
CeeLo Green, turned around their chairs for her. She chose to be on Team Blake. Daily proceeded to win her battle in the show's battle rounds singing the song "
Something to Talk About". She lost in the Knockout Rounds, with a performance of
Bonnie Raitt's "
I Can't Make You Love Me". ==Personal life==