Tom Kenny

Voice actor Tom Kenny was born in New York and worked as a standup comedian. After brief roles in the #92;comedy features How I Got Into College and Shakes the Clown, he started doing #92;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 #92;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, All Movie Guide

• Born:
  July 13, 1962 in East Syracuse, New York, USA
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Voice actor

Family

• Daughter: Nora Kenny. mother, Jill Talley
• Son: Mac Kenny. mother, Jill Talley

Significant Others

• Wife: Jill Talley. met while working on the Fox sketch show “The Edge”

Milestones

• 1982 Hosted the series, “An Evening at the Improv”
• 1989 Made film debut in “How I Got Into College,” starring Anthony Edwards and Lara-Flynn Boyle
• 1990 Hosted “Friday Night Videos” (NBC)
• 1992 Cast in the short-lived Fox sketch show “The Edge,” where he worked with Jill Talley, whom he subsequently married
• 1993 First voice acting job as Heffer Wolfe, a happy-go-lucky and not-too-bright steer in the Nickelodeon animated series, “Rocko s Modern Life”
• 1995 Provided the voices for the HBO sketch comedy program, “Mr. Show”; also credited as a writer
• 1999 Landed the lead role in the animated series, “SpongeBob SquarePants” (Nickelodeon) as the voice of the title character, the narrator, Patchy the Pirate, and a number of other characters
• 2003 Voiced Raimundo in the animated series, “Xiaolin Showdown” (Cartoon Network)
• 2004 Once again voiced the title character in the feature, “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie”
• 2004 Voiced Eduardo, an imaginary friend in the animated series, “Foster s Home for Imaginary Friends” (Cartoon Network)
• 2004 Voiced the Penguin in the animated series, “The Batman” (Kids WB)
• Began career performing stand-up comedy