Fátima Ptacek (born August 20th, 2000) is an American child actress and model. She is best known as the third voice of Dora in Nickelodeon animated television series Dora the Explorer, and a lead in the Academy Award-winning 2012 short film Curfew. Now she plays in the spin-off series Dora and Friends: Into the City!, which took place after the aforementioned series. She first started playing the role for Dora in 2012 in the episode "Swiper's Favorite Things" (in production order, in 2011 in the episode "Dora's Knighthood Adventure") after both Caitlin Sanchez and Kathleen Herles retired to portray the Dora character.
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Nick Jr. Word of the Day - Kwanzaa (2012)-2
One of her voice roles as Dora on a Nick Jr. promo in 2012.
Nick Jr. Holidays Word of the Day- Generous (2013 Version)-2
One of her voice roles as Dora on a Nick Jr. promo in 2013.
Nick Jr. Commercial Break (Promos, Bumpers, etc.) (Early 2014)
One of her voice roles as Dora on a Nick Jr. promo in 2014. (7m47s)
Ptacek with Regan Mizrahi and author Michael Buckley
Although she debuted as Dora's new voice in the episode "Swiper's Favorite Things" (or "Dora's Knighthood Adventure" in production order), her first time voicing the character was in the Flash game The Thankful Old Troll, which was released in November 2010. She also voiced her in various flash games and apps in 2010-2011, the Nickelodeon Dance game, and a few commercials in 2011.
Fatima's favorite Dora episodes are Dora In Wonderland, Dora's Royal Rescue, and Dora Saves Fairytale Land as they're the last 3 double-length episodes of the original Dora series.
Her favorite classic episode is the Season 1 episode The Chocolate Tree because of the Bate, Bate, Chocolate song, which she used to sing with her grandmother all the time when she watched the show.
She was even in a Sesame Street segment from Episode 4187 where she, some other kids, Elmo, Big Bird and The wife of former president Barrack Obama, known as Michelle Obama were planting tomatoes.
_Regan_Mizrahi,_Fatima_Ptacek,_and_Alexandria_Suarez_Photo_by_Jason_Merritt-Getty_Images_North_America_01.jpg "(L-R) Regan Mizrahi, Fatima Ptacek, and Alexandria Suarez Photo by Jason Merritt-Getty Images North America 01.jpg (88 KB)")
