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Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny
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Thomas James Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and comedian. Since 1999, he has voiced the titular character in SpongeBob SquarePants and its associated media. Kenny performed stand-up comedy for eight years before receiving his debut role Savage Steve Holland's How I Got into College in 1989. He began working with Nickelodeon in 1993 after being cast in Rocko's Modern Life; during his time on the show, he befriended the show's creative director, Stephen Hillenburg. Hillenburg approached Kenny in 1997, offering him the role of SpongeBob SquarePants in the show of the corresponding name. His other voice roles include the Ice King in Adventure Time and its spinoff Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, Spyro in the Spyro video game series, Heffer Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life, the Narrator and Mayor in The Powerpuff Girls, Dog in CatDog, Carl Chryniszzswics in Johnny Bravo, Starscream in Transformers: Animated, The Penguin in various animated media based on DC Comics, and Raimundo Pedrosa in Xiaolin Showdown. Kenny's live-action work includes the sketch comedy series The Edge and Mr. Show with Bob and David. Among other accolades, he has received two Daytime Emmy Awards and two Annie Awards for his voice work.

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