Jenny Slate Voice Acting

Jenny slate voice acting. Was born mar 25 1982 milton massachusetts usa. A couple of months ago as much of the animation industry reckoned with its regular tendency to cast non black actors to voice black characters jenny slate who previously voiced the black. Born and raised in milton massachusetts slate was educated at milton academy and studied literature at columbia university where she became involved in the improv and comedy scene following early acting and stand up roles on television slate gained recognition for her live variety shows in new york city. Two months after jenny slate announced she would no longer voice the character of missy on big mouth the netflix animated puberty comedy has found her replacement.

Series co creator nick kroll said the role will be recast with. Netflix s animated puberty series big mouth will replace jenny slate with ayo edebiri as the voice actor behind missy. Slate will voice missy a black character for most of season 4 before handing the reigns to edebiri in the season s penultimate episode. Jenny sarah slate born march 25 1982 is an american actress comedian and author.

Netflix s adult animated comedy co created by nick kroll andrew goldberg mark levin and jennifer flackett is a wacky and foul mouthed look at what it s like to go through puberty for a number of teenagers in the suburbs of new york city. Known for voicing dawn bellwether gidget and pony head. Big mouth star jenny slate was the first white actor to publicly announce she would no longer voice a mixed race character followed shortly by kristen bell of central park mike henry. Jenny slate kristen bell admit black voice actors matter but that doesn t solve the problem opinion.

View 22 images and 4 sounds of jenny slate s characters from her voice acting career. The move was made after slate left the show hoping that the role of the.