Her first acting role was as Skeeter in Hey Vern, It's Ernest! along with Jim Varney, which was filmed in 1987. She was also a body double for Scott Menville in Ernest Goes to Camp (1987). Scott's mother, Dorothy Menville, convinced Debi to try her hand at voice-overs. She sent her demo to several agents and casting directors, among them Ginny McSwain who advised Debi to move back from Nashville to California and then cast her as Jackie on Bobby's World.
Derryberry was the voice of Clay in the Playhouse Disney segments presented in the early 2000s. In English language dubs of anime series, she provided the voice of Ryo-Ohki in Tenchi Muyo!. She received a Best Actress in a Comedy award at the American Anime Awards for her work as Zatch in Zatch Bell! and for Chica's Magic Rainbow in FNAF World Update 2.[8][9][10]
Aside from her work as a voice actress, Derryberry worked on the 1993 film Free Willy as the stunt double for Jesse's actor Jason James Richter in some shots that showed Keiko who played Willy. She has provided the voices of a series of characters, mostly those of young boys and tomboyish girls. In addition, Derryberry has also provided voice-over for Ice Age: The Meltdown, as the voice of Wednesday Addams in the 1990s animated version of The Addams Family, Weenie and Catrina on Oswald, Taz's little brother Jake on Taz-Mania, Coco Bandicoot in the Crash Bandicoot video game series, and Clay in some Playhouse Disney segments.
She has also done voice work for comedic English-language adaptations of anime titles such as Zatch Bell! in which she plays the titular character as well as his evil twin Zeno, and Ryo-Ohki, Yugi, and various other characters from several versions of the anime series Tenchi Muyo!.
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334"Debi Derryberry (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. January 27, 2010. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
