![]() ![]() In front of a camera, Kenny might be confined to playing a “dorky dad - or grandad, these days,” but through the magic of animation … Whereas someone like Brendan Fraser might have to don prosthetics to fully bring to life a character as he did in “The Whale,” voice actors do so in tandem with visual artists. Willy Sanjuan Willy Sanjuan/Invision/APĪnimation is a unique storytelling medium in that it affords actors the ability to step outside of their physical form to perform. Kenny has been the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants for 24 years. ![]() Tom Kenny arrives at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards March 4, 2023, at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. In addition to del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” in the last couple of years he’s voiced characters in two other animated takes on the classic story. His IMDB page is ridiculous: the show “Agent Elvis,” which premiered earlier this month on Netflix, is the most recent of almost 600 unique shows across which he’s voiced more than 1,000 characters. While Kenny, who will meet with fans for photo-ops on Friday and Saturday at LexCon, makes a steady living in Bikini Bottom - in addition to recording, he’s been the voice director on “SpongeBob” and its spin-offs since 2015 - he’s built a diverse portfolio of voice and on-screen credits. Kenny didn’t even have to audition for the role that’d make him a superstar in the voice-acting world Hillenburg wanted SpongeBob to sound similar to a throwaway voice Kenny recorded for “Rocko’s.” ![]() There he befriended the late Stephen Hillenburg, a director and story editor on the show who would go on to create “SpongeBob SquarePants” based on some of his previous concepts. A Syracuse, N.Y., native who after high school graduation chose stand-up comedy over going to college, Kenny’s career in animation started on another Nick show, “Rocko’s Modern Life,” in 1993. ![]()
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