1. Michael-Leon Wooley was born on March 29,1971 and is an American actor.
16 Facts About Michael-Leon Wooley
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Michael-Leon Wooley was the voice of Louis the Alligator in Disney's Oscar-nominated animated feature film, The Princess and the Frog and played Judge Grady on the radio station WKTT in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Michael-Leon Wooley has a twin brother, Marcus-Leon, and a younger brother, George Jr.
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Michael-Leon Wooley began playing the piano at age 5 and initially wanted to be a classical concert pianist.
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At age 18, Michael-Leon Wooley was awarded a full scholarship to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, one of 21 scholarships granted in a nationwide competition.
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Michael-Leon Wooley studied at AMDA for a year before embarking on his own to pursue an acting career.
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Michael-Leon Wooley performed in the national tour of Purlie, after which, worked as a singing waiter on the Spirit of New York, a dinner cruise ship that circles Manhattan.
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In 1992, Michael-Leon Wooley made his Broadway debut as an understudy in the Clarke Peters' musical, Five Guys Named Moe.
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Michael-Leon Wooley returned to Broadway in 2000 as Olin Britt in the Broadway revival of The Music Man, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.
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Michael-Leon Wooley was the voice of the man-eating plant, Audrey II, in the 2003 Broadway revival of the musical Little Shop of Horrors at the Virginia Theatre.
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Michael-Leon Wooley was the voice of Louis the jazz trumpet-playing alligator, in Disney's The Princess and the Frog; and Tiny Joe Dixon in the 2006 motion picture, Dreamgirls, singing "Takin' The Long Way Home" on the film's soundtrack.
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Michael-Leon Wooley played Cocoa Butter in the Netflix Original series AJ and the Queen.
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Michael-Leon Wooley's voice has been heard in many television ad campaigns for Reebok, General Motors, McDonald's, Dairy Queen, K-Mart, Oxygen Network and others.
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Michael-Leon Wooley was a guest singer on The Penguins of Madagascar in "The Falcon and the Snow Job" and voiced the DC Comics villains Darkseid and Kalibak on the animated series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
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From 2013 to 2014, Michael-Leon Wooley voiced Tobias Whale in Beware the Batman.
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Jon-Marc McDonald, a close friend and sometimes-publicist for Michael-Leon Wooley, confirmed on his website that Michael-Leon Wooley performed We Have To Change at a fundraiser for Barack Obama in New York City on August 11,2008.