The Big Bang Theory's Melissa Rauch is the new voice star for Harley Quinn.

Melissa Rauch, who plays Bernadette on The Big Bang Theory, is the new Harley Quinn voice star. <br />Credit: CBS

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Empire Online revealed that Rauch, who plays Bernadette on the CBS series, will debut as the DC supervillain in the animated movie Batman and Harley Quinn . The film will see the duo actually teaming up, along with Nightwing, to take on Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue."I love that Harley is a badass and, beyond that, that she uses her humor as another weapon in her arsenal," Rauch told Empire. "She knows just how to diffuse a situation with her humor, and how to incite a situation with her sarcasm. It's a dream role."Longtime Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy will join Rauch as part of the film's cast, while Loren Lester will return for the role of Nightwing. Criminal Minds actress Paget Brewster will voice Poison Ivy.Batman and Harley Quinn is coming out in the middle of this year (summer in North America) on Blu-ray, DVD and digitally.

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