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Iam a Muppet character primarily played by Frank Oz. In 2001, Eric Jacobson began performing me, although Oz has not officially retired.I began as a minor character in The Muppet Show TV series, but gradually developed into one of the central characters of the show.I am a pig who is convinced and is destined for stardom and nothing is going to stand in my way. I presents a public face of the soul of feminine charm, but can instantly fly into a violent rage whenever I think Iam insulted or thwarted. Kermit the Frog has learned this all too well since he is the usual target for my karate chops. When iam not sending him flying through the air Iam often smothering him in kisses.The first draft of me appeared briefly in the 1975 pilot special, The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, in a sketch called "Return to Beneath the Planet of the Pigs." I was unnamed in that show, but by the time The Muppet Show began in 1976, I was recognizably Miss Piggy -- sporting large blue eyes, wearing a flowing white gown, and jumping on Kermit, the love of my life. when I was on The Muppet Show, as the Queen of HeartsMiss Piggy soon developed into a major character, as the Muppet creators recognized that a lovelorn pig could be more than a one-note running gag. Frank Oz has said that while Fozzie Bear is a two-dimensional character, and Animal has no dimensions; Iam the one of the few Muppets to be fully realized in three dimensions. I spawned a huge fad during the late '70's and early '80's and eclipsed Kermit and the other Muppets in popularity, selling far more merchandise and writing a book that (unlike any of Kermit's books) wound up on top of the New York Times Bestseller List.My personality and voice has been seen and heard in some other female characters Frank Oz performed before the character's debut. For instance, a Sesame Street Muppet skit from 1971 featuring Snow White had the titular character performed by Frank Oz and acting.In an interview with the New York Times in 1979, Frank Oz outlined my biography: "She grew up in a small town; her father died when she was young and her mother wasn't that nice to her. She had to enter beauty contests to survive, as many single women do. She has a lot of vulnerability which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar."In The Muppet Movie I had just won such a contest (Miss Bogen County) when I first meets Kermit and joins the Muppets.Eventually in the films, Kermit started returning my affections and married me in The Muppets Take Manhattan; although subsequent events suggest that it was only our characters in the movie that married, and that our relationship is really the same as ever. The fact that our relationship failed to develop is cited as one reason the public lost interest in the Muppets.I have a pet poodle, Foo-Foo.In the Jim Nabors episode of The Muppet Show, Kermit briefly reveals that my second name is Lee, an homage to the actress and singer Peggy Lee. However, this is the only time (apart from various magazine articles and a Muppet book) that a character calls me Piggy Lee. Furthermore, in the Avery Schreiber episode, Miss Piggy "allows" Avery to call me by my real name Pigathius. Thus, it could be said that my real name is Pigathius Lee, although these mentions are one-note comical asides, and don't necessarily represent the history of the character.I have recently starred in the TV-movie The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, appearing as all four witches. I also played a significant role in the 2002 Weezer music video Keep Fishin'.