Robert Frederick Paulsen III was born on March 11,1956 and is an American voice actor and voice director, known for his roles in numerous animated television series and films.
58 Facts About Rob Paulsen
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Rob Paulsen received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and three Annie Awards for his role as Pinky in the Animaniacs franchise.
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Rob Paulsen was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 11,1956, the son of Bob and Lee Paulsen.
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Rob Paulsen was raised in Grand Blanc, Michigan, where he graduated from Grand Blanc High School in 1974.
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Rob Paulsen sang in choirs throughout his youth and adolescence and began performing in plays in school, but his childhood idol was ice hockey player Gordie Howe, and he considered the arts to be a secondary career choice due to his primary interest in becoming an NHL player.
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Rob Paulsen briefly attended the University of Michigan-Flint, but later dropped out and moved to Los Angeles in 1978 to pursue a career in show business, much to the disapproval of his father.
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Rob Paulsen worked his first job as a musician, before pursuing voice acting full time.
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Rob Paulsen played supporting roles in Body Double, Stewardess School, Warlock, and Mutant on the Bounty.
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Rob Paulsen appeared in television shows during this time as well, such as MacGyver and St Elsewhere.
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Rob Paulsen became more prevalent in the world of advertising as well.
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Rob Paulsen appeared as the voice of Mr Opportunity, spokesman of Honda commercials on TV and radio, the announcer for Buffalo Dick's Radio Ranch, and the spokesman for Lucky Stores, a West Coast grocery store chain, before it was acquired by Albertsons in 1998.
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Rob Paulsen provided the voice of Dog in the Taco Bell kids meal commercials from 1996 to mid-1997, with Eddie Deezen as the voice of Nacho the cat.
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Rob Paulsen continues to be one of the most sought-after commercial voice actors in the industry.
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Rob Paulsen can be currently heard as the voice of singing Mr Mini-Wheat in the Mini-Wheats commercials in Canada.
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From 1987 to 1995, Rob Paulsen voiced Raphael and various supporting characters in the original 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
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Rob Paulsen has said that Raphael's voice is very similar to his natural voice.
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Rob Paulsen returned to the franchise as Donatello for the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series on Nickelodeon, which ran for five seasons and 124 episodes from September 29,2012, until November 12,2017.
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Rob Paulsen serves as the voice director for the subsequent series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which premiered in July 2018.
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Rob Paulsen provided the voice of Pinky from both Animaniacs and its spin-off Pinky and the Brain, a show which won him several Annie Awards and a Daytime Emmy in 1999.
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Rob Paulsen continues to voice Yakko and Pinky in the 2020 Animaniacs revival on Hulu.
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Rob Paulsen was the voice of Rothchild in the early episodes of Samurai Jack.
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Rob Paulsen did the voices of Boober Fraggle, Sprocket, and Marjory the Trash Heap in the animated version of Fraggle Rock, as well as Gwizdo in the Dragon Hunters film.
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Rob Paulsen portrayed the voice of Chomper and Strut in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, Spike and Rinkus in The Land Before Time sequels and Spike in the TV series, but Spike was played anonymously in the original The Land Before Time.
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Rob Paulsen played Mo in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water.
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Rob Paulsen was best known to Transformers fans as the voices of the Autobots Air Raid, Chase, Haywire, Fastlane and Slingshot in The Transformers.
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Rob Paulsen has voiced characters in video games such as Doom 3.
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Rob Paulsen played Fluffy the Chinese-crested dog in 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue, an Irish pub landlord in the 1996 video game Toonstruck, and a floating talking skull named Morte in Planescape: Torment, as well as Anomen Delryn in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Gray Fox in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and both Super Smash Bros.
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Rob Paulsen provided the voice for Erik the Swift of The Lost Vikings in its second installment.
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Rob Paulsen portrayed Tobli and Lian Ronso in the English version of Square Enix's Final Fantasy X-2 and has played the lead character in Bubsy.
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Rob Paulsen voiced Jaq and The Grand Duke from the Cinderella world in Square Enix's and Disney's Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
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Rob Paulsen reprised his role as Yakko Warner, Dr Otto Scratchansniff, and Pinky in Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt.
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Rob Paulsen voiced the lead character, Lazarus Jones, in the PS2 game Ghosthunter.
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Rob Paulsen voiced Alfredo Fettuccini, Bob the Ghost Pirate, Lookout and Ghost Priest in The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
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Rob Paulsen voiced the Fox and the Mouse in the Green Eggs and Ham PC game.
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Rob Paulsen voiced Tlaloc in Tak and the Power of Juju.
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Rob Paulsen is the voice of talking alien dog Beak-Beak in Armikrog.
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Rob Paulsen appeared as Rev Runner of the new show Loonatics Unleashed and starred in Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island.
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Rob Paulsen was the voice of the character Squeeky on the TV show Danger Rangers.
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Rob Paulsen voiced "Ichabeezer", Bacon Bill, Motato, Beau Rockley, Captain Mike, Tom Celeriac, and other countless voices in VeggieTales in the House for Netflix.
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Rob Paulsen provides the voice for the Honda character Mr Opportunity.
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Rob Paulsen has a role as Ditto, one of the alien forms on Ben 10, as Rhomboid Vreedle of the Vreedle Brothers and Baz-El in Ben 10: Alien Force, two characters that he reprised, along with Magister Patelliday in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse.
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Rob Paulsen became the new voice of Prince Eric of Disney's The Little Mermaid franchise beginning with the film The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea since Christopher Daniel Barnes failed to reprise the role in 2000, though Barnes did return to voice the character in the Kingdom Hearts series when Paulsen was unavailable.
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Rob Paulsen is the voice of Peck the Rooster and other minor characters in the Nickelodeon computer-animated series Back at the Barnyard and various characters on the Disney Channel animated series The Replacements.
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Rob Paulsen is the voice of Bobble in the Tinker Bell films.
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Rob Paulsen played the titular character for an animated web series based on the video game Bravoman for Namco Bandai's ShiftyLook division.
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Rob Paulsen has been nominated for an Annie Award for his role of Pinky for 4 consecutive years, which he won in 1996,1997, and 1999.
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Rob Paulsen has been a regular industry guest and featured panelist at San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Rob Paulsen has appeared at animation industry-related events, such as the World Animation Celebration Online in 1998, among many others.
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Rob Paulsen has been a guest at several anime conventions, including JACON, Mikomicon, and Anime Overdose.
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Rob Paulsen has recently started doing "Rob Paulsen Live" seminars across the US to talk of his career, sign autographs, and talk with fans.
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In May 2011, working with social media and web producer Chris Pope, Paulsen rolled out a new website RobPaulsenLive.
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In June 2011, Rob Paulsen made announcements that he was taking his show on the road with his "Lots of laughs and autographs" tour.
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Rob Paulsen married his first wife, Carol Anne Schnarr on June 23,1979.
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Rob Paulsen married his second wife, photographer Parrish Todd, in 1983.
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Rob Paulsen has long supported various charities and raised donations for cancer research.
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Rob Paulsen has worked a lot for GOALmodels, a program for adolescents, and is a sponsor of Camp Will-A-Way, a camp for children with developmental disabilities.
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Rob Paulsen donates funds from autographs to the Wounded Warrior Project and Operation Smile.
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Rob Paulsen has since undergone treatment and his cancer went in remission.