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So many people want to become actors! The fame! The fortune! The chance to get paid for playing make-believe!
So many people want to become actors! The fame! The fortune! The chance to get paid for playing make-believe!n
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nOf course, acting is one of the performance arts, and therefore actors are artists as well as performers. But what-oh-what is a “voice artist”?
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nIs a voice artist an actor?
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nYes!
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Animated shorts, animated series, and animated feature-length movies are all popular, and to some extent have become more and more popular. (To some extent animation used to be seen as a for-kids kind of thing, but now it’s a for-everybody kind of thing!)
Animated shorts, animated series, and animated feature-length movies are all popular, and to some extent have become more and more popular. (To some extent animation used to be seen as a for-kids kind of thing, but now it’s a for-everybody kind of thing!)
And animated characters need somebody to give voice to their roles. A lot of times, those voices are provided by people who are already super famous – like Dory-the-fish being actor, comedian and daytime TV icon Ellen DeGeneres. Sometime those voices are provided by not-so-famous actors – like today’s birthday.
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Kaitlyn Dias was born on this date in 1999 – so she is still very young. She started acting and singing at age 5 – but just in church and school productions. She got at agent at age 11 and started working in commercials, short films, and a big Disney-Pixar movie.
Kaitlyn Dias was born on this date in 1999 – so she is still very young. She started acting and singing at age 5 – but just in church and school productions. She got at agent at age 11 and started working in commercials, short films, and a big Disney-Pixar movie. n
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The Disney-Pixar movie, Inside Out, takes place in the mind of a young girl named Riley. The movie starred some big talents acting as the various emotions of that girl – Anger was played by Lewis Black, for example, and Disgust was played by Mindy Kaling.
nWell, they got a young girl to play the part of the young girl! In other words, Kaitlyn Dias played Riley.
The Disney-Pixar movie, Inside Out, takes place in the mind of a young girl named Riley. The movie starred some big talents acting as the various emotions of that girl – Anger was played by Lewis Black, for example, and Disgust was played by Mindy Kaling. nWell, they got a young girl to play the part of the young girl! In other words, Kaitlyn Dias played Riley.
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nInside Out was released in 2015, when Dias was just 16 or so. I read that she was cast as 11-year-old Riley when she was just 11 herself. That’s pretty awesome!
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nLike many other voice artists, Dias is an actor in all ways (not JUST as a voice). But some voice artists don’t appear on camera; they love doing voiceovers as narrators or in
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| Jennifer Garner and Amy Adams have launched “Save with Stories” – a free resource of celebrities reading aloud books for kids who have to Stay Home! |
nanimation, in movies and TV and computer games and apps and read-aloud venues. I personally would hate to be an on-camera actor, but I would love to do read-aloud work for pay (I already do a lot of read-aloud-ing within my family!).
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nAlso on this date:
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Choreographer Martha Graham’s birthday
Choreographer Martha Graham’s birthday
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Birthday of the first known “Siamese twins”
Birthday of the first known “Siamese twins”
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nSongwriter Irving Berlin’s birthday
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nAnniversary of the first printed book (maybe)
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nMinnesota’s Statehood Day
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nAssassination attempt on Czar-in-training Nicholas II
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nPlan ahead:
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Check out my Pinterest boards for:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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