Tom Kenny Biography
Voice actor Tom Kenny was born in New York and worked as a standup comedian. After brief roles in the comedy features How_I_Got_Into_College and Shakes the Clown, he started doing sketch comedy on the FOX series The_Edge. One of his first voice acting gigs was the cow on Rocko's_Modern_Life. In 1995, he starting writing and acting on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr._Show with Bob_Odenkirk and David_Cross. It was there that he met his future wife, fellow cast member Jill_Talley. After Mr._Show ended, Kenny turned to voice acting full-time with popular Cartoon Network series like Dexter's_Laboratory. On The_Powerpuff_Girls, he provided colorful narration as well as several character voices. Grown-up audiences heard him on Dilbert, Futurama, The_Animatrix, or Adam_Sandler's_Eight_Crazy_Nights. Though he has dozens of credits to his name, Kenny is probably most well known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants. First aired in 1999 on Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants is an animated series about a fry cook who lives at the bottom of the sea. Popular with both young and old audiences, the show became one of the most highly-rated cartoons on TV. Kenny was also the narrator and various other characters on the show, and reprised his role for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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