Tom Kenny
Tom Kenny
Thomas James "Tom" Kennyis an American actor and comedian. He is known for his long-running role as the title character in the SpongeBob SquarePants TV series and films. Kenny has voiced many other characters including Heffer Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life, the Ice King in Adventure Time, the Mayor in The Powerpuff Girls, Dog in CatDog, and Spyro from the Spyro the Dragon franchise. His live-action work includes comedies The Edge and Mr. Show...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth13 July 1962
CitySyracuse, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.
There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV.
Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.
Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.
I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.
You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.