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Fátima Ptacek (born August 20th, 2000) is an American child actress and model. She is best known as the current and 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" after Caitlin Sanchez was departured to portray the Dora character.

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    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 Royal Rescue" 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.
  • Interestingly, she was born 6 days after the premiere of Dora the Explorer.
  • 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.
  • In 2010 (The year she started voicing Dora), she and Regan Mizrahi starred in a couple of commercials for Haribo Gold Bears until 2013.
  • She is close friends with Alexandria Suarez, the voice of Backpack from Seasons 5-7.
  • She appeared in Sesame Street Episode 4187 in 2009. She was also credited as a child extra in a Talk, Listen, Connect DVD.

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