1. Margaret Kerry is an American screen actress, dancer, voice artist, camera double, radio producer, director and host and media personality, best known for her work as a model for Walt Disney Pictures, where she served as the inspiration and pantomimed the Peter Pan character of Tinker Bell.
Margaret Kerry worked under her real name as a dancer and actor in three of the Our Gang comedy shorts.
Margaret Kerry attracted the attention of Eddie Cantor, who cast her in the role of his teenage daughter in the film If You Knew Susie.
Margaret Kerry appeared in two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, and in 1950 as 'Jane Carter' in The Squire episode of The Lone Ranger.
Margaret Kerry provided numerous voices and live-action lead-ins for The New Three Stooges and Space Angel animated series for Cambria Productions.
Margaret Kerry answered an audition call during the planning stages of the animated feature film Peter Pan.
Margaret Kerry won the part and spent six months at the Disney Studios on a mostly empty sound stage pantomiming the part.
Margaret Kerry provided the voice and reference movements of the red-haired mermaid in the Neverland lagoon scene.
Margaret Kerry was a producer, writer and host of What's Up Weekly - Ministry Loves Company on KKLA-FM, Los Angeles, from 1992 and 2004, a Christian radio station.
Margaret Kerry is a certified seminar leader by the American Seminar Leaders Association and co-author and facilitator of the FUNdamentals of Speaking Seminars.
Margaret Kerry continues to meet fans and attends many conventions, events and seminars throughout the country.
In 2019, Margaret Kerry self-published a booklet They All Look Alike To Me with short stories detailing her having prosopagnosia, known as "face blindness".
Margaret Kerry reconnected after 70 years with former boyfriend, WWII veteran Robert Boeke, age 94.
Margaret Kerry suffers from prosopagnosia and has spoken and written about coping with it.
In 2012 Margaret Kerry was the recipient of the Disneyana Fan Club President's award.
In 2019, On the occasion of her 90th birthday, Margaret Kerry was honored with certificates by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on behalf of the City of Los Angeles; the Los Angeles City Council; and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors via 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger.
On February 16,2020, Margaret Kerry was presented with the Ward Kimball award by the board of Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn.
In 2023, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, Margaret Kerry's original Tinker Bell ballet slippers were put on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, commemorating her portrayal of the fairy character.