Birva Pandya (born July 2, 2007)[3] is a Canadian actress. She has been a series regular starting in The Magic School Bus Rides Again.
For The Magic School Bus franchise, she is the current voice of Jyoti.
Roles[]
Main cast[]
Jyoti Kaur (since 2017)
Producer segment callers[]
- Making Magic (as Jyoti)
Trivia[]
- Similar to the original series voices, Pandya has a lot in common with and bears resemblance to her character (phenomenon referred to as “Ink-Suit Actor” on TV Tropes):
- They both have brown eyes.
- They both have dark brown hair.
- They are both of Indian descent.
- Jyoti is assumed to be 10 years old (as of "DA and the Deep Blue Sea" when the students' age group was mentioned), and Pandya was 10 years old at the time Rides Again released and the episode aired.
- Pandya and Roman Lutterotti (Arnold since Season 3: Joanna Cole Specials) share 2007 as their birth year.
- In the producer segment for "Making Magic", she called Professor Frizzle in character as Jyoti, asking her when she will come back to visit her sister's class at the end of the segment.