Mary Kay Bergman

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Mary Kay Bergman (June 5, 1961 – November 11, 1999), also known as Shannen Cassidy, was an American voice actor and voice-over instructor.

Bergman, the lead female voice actor on South Park from the show's 1997 debut to her death.

Bergman performed voice work on more than 400 television commercials and interpreted over 100 cartoon, film, and video game characters during her career.

She was born in Los Angeles and had a keen interest in fantasy and animation early in her life.

She appeared in plays during high school and then studied theater at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

She began working as a voice-over actress after struggling to find on-screen acting jobs.

She began voicing the Disney character Snow White in 1989.

She appeared in three Scooby Doo films in the 1990s.

Before her death in November 1999, Bergman was married to voice actor Dino Andrade.

Andrade founded the Mary Kay Bergman Memorial Fund just after her death.

Early life

Mary Kay Bergman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Jewish parents on June 5, 1961. She was the only daughter of singer David "Dave" Bergman and Patricia Paris "Pat" McGowan. She grew up around the corner from Adriana Caselotti's home, and Snow White's first voice was born.

In Reno and Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, her parents performed as a duo at lounges and clubs. After her mother became pregnant, they settled in Los Angeles. Bergman portrayed her mother's previous work inking and painting cels for Fleischer, but it piqued her mother's interest in animation, which was shared with Bergman years later when she watched a Saturday morning cartoon series with her. Jonny Quest, The Flintstones, and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, which she described as a "precursor to The Simpsons," one of Bergman's favorite series.

Bergman attended Le Conte Middle School and Hollywood High School, graduating in June 1978 with top academic honors. Carol Burnett, Bergman, one of her idols, attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and studied theatre arts from 1978 to 1981. Nancy Cartwright, a classmate and mentor of future The Simpsons' voice actress Nancy Cartwright, was a student and a mentor.

Personal life

On April 7, 1990, Bergman married voice actor Dino Andrade. They were married before Bergman's suicide in November 1999.

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Career

Bergman left UCLA after being cast in an equity-waiver performance outside of school. She started acting in high school productions and became an on-camera commercial, film, and television consultant, as well as working with acting coach Harry Mastrogeorge for several years. Bergman first performed in the television film Return Engagement, which starred Elizabeth Taylor, at age 16. Bergman began working in a tiny business that had started six months before leaving school. She had audition for an exercise program that was going to be on television and got the role. She was hired because of her "nice appearance," but she could also be a comedian, singer, or impressionist. However, the company closed less than a week after she started working. "Everything fell apart," Bergman said. I thought, 'I'm really not getting anywhere.' "I'd love to become this nutty dream of mine to get a real job." Bergman played Rachel in the UK version until her death in the 1990 Signing Time series.

Bergman's next assignment was as a receptionist for the Boy Scouts of America. She loved the work and was eager to work with the company's people. "You have a lovely speaking voice," Bergman said. "All the time I kept hearing, 'Gosh, you have a lovely speaking voice." "You should do something with it." She began working as a receptionist for an insurance company and then moved up the ranks to become an assistant underwriter, which she found extremely tedious. Bergman considered becoming a disc jockey, but he could not find out where to enroll classes or opt for a career in the Air Force to break the monotony.

Bergman's voice can be traced back to a time when she attended a housewarming party at one of her coworkers' homes. Someone brought a karaoke machine to the party, and Bergman started "going wild," using several different voices. One of the guests at the party was preparing with voice-over coach Kat Lehman and suggested that she take a lesson with him, which she did.

In order to do many different styles and voices, Bergman took several voice-over classes. Some animators are experts in animation, some in ADR/looping, and others in commercial and improvisation. Bergman investigated the art of matching celebrity voices. Accents came naturally to her, according to Bergman. She said she loved doing accents such as Chinese, Japanese, Australian, English, American, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

At the Kalmenson and Kalmenson Studios in Burbank, California, Bergman began teaching voice-overs for animation in 1994. She began voicing Dr. Blight on the film Captain Planet and the Planeteers, replacing Meg Ryan, and now she is preparing for voice matching and auditioning for others, including Jodie Foster, Gillian Anderson, Helen Hunt, Julia Roberts, Emma Thompson, and Alfre Woodard.

Bergman's first voice role in a radio commercial for a small home security business in 1986, and a few more radio spots in 1989, she was not earning enough to survive, so she worked part-time at Robinson's department store. During this period, she took over Snow White's on tape, replacing Adriana Caselotti. She told her boss she wanted the day off for the recording but her manager refused and she abandoned the paper.

Disney was delighted with her work, but she decided to do future jobs only when Caselotti was unavailable. She later learned that Disney had different proposals. Caselotti was brought back to record a scene that was missing its audio track when Disney was releasing a new version of Snow White. Instead, the studio workers listened to her recordings and decided to have Bergman film the scene instead. Caselotti was unaware that her voice had been replaced until the 1993 Academy Awards, when she first heard Bergman as the best animated short subject. Hundreds of people attended the inauguration, noting Jeffrey Katzenberg's revisions to his Snow White appearance. Katzenberg apologised, and Bergman did not admit to voicing Snow White while Caselotti was still alive.

Bergman was the first voice for the majority of the female characters in South Park and the film South Park's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999). Liane Cartman, Sheila Broflovski, Shelly Marsh, Shelly Marsh, Sharon McCormick, Carol McCormick, and Wendy Testaburger were among her characters. Shannen Cassidy was first introduced as Shannen Cassidy (taken from actor Shannen Doherty and David Cassidy) out of fear of potential conflicts with her continuing employment as Disney's official Snow White voice. "It was a conscious decision to go anonymous at first because no one of us knew the show would be a hit," she explained. "Well, it did strike, and Shannen Cassidy was getting mail like Santa Claus, so we moved out of it." South Park was praised by Bergman for dragging her out of a typecasting rut. She wrote, "I'm known for these sweet, adorable little characters" in a few Disney films, despite not appearing in any Disney films. "I've been doing them for as long as I can remember." My agents were attempting to send me on shows that are edgy, and they're laughing, 'Mary Kay, are you kidding?'

No way!'"

"Starvin' Marvin in Space" (the final episode in which her voice was used via archive footage) and "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" were dedicated in her honor after Bergman's death.

Bergman appeared in over 400 television advertisements, including the voice of Mrs. Butterworth in Mrs. Butterworth's syrup commercials. She appeared in many Disney films, including Beauty and the Beast, as Quasimodo's mother and Djali; Hercules; and the recently released Toy Story 2, in which she is credited under "additional voices." The Curse of Monkey Island was one of her appearances in video games.

Oh Yeah! She appeared on other shows, including Jay Jay the Jet Plane. Cartoons, The Fairly OddParents, and several female voices in The Tick animated film were included. In the final episode of Spider-Man, she also performed Gwen Stacy. In Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998), Scooby-Doo, Mary Kay Bergman first portrayed Scooby-Doo character Daphne Blake. Scooby-Doo (1998, Scooby-Doo). The Witch's Ghost (1999) and Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (1998), this last one being a posthumous debut and final film role dedicated to her. She appeared in Balto II: Wolf Quest (2002), released three years after her death, in which she sang a vixen and a wolverine.

Bergman appeared on "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" alongside Tress MacNeille.

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