Spencer Kayden voiced Mrs Pepper on Blue's Clues, taking over the role from Penelope Jewkes after the first season.
11 Facts About Spencer Kayden
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Spencer Kayden was born the only girl out of four siblings to a father who worked as a pop-up book publisher and a mother who worked as a psychotherapist.
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Spencer Kayden grew up in Orange County, California, and went on to study drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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Spencer Kayden joined the Chicago cast of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and moved to New York in 1993 to start the New York run of the show.
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Spencer Kayden received critical acclaim and notice for her performance in the musical Urinetown, where she played Little Sally, the pig-tailed girl who helps explain the plot.
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Spencer Kayden played in the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival production, and then was in the original Off-Broadway and Broadway casts in 2001 and returned in 2003.
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Spencer Kayden played the role of Mrs Pepper in the popular Nickelodeon kids series Blue's Clues since 1996.
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Spencer Kayden starred in the farce Don't Dress for Dinner at the Royal George Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, from November 2008 to January 2009.
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Spencer Kayden reprised her role as the cook in the Broadway production, which opened in March 2012 at the American Airlines Theatre.
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Spencer Kayden has been married to actor Mark Harelik since 2004, and they have one child together.
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Spencer Kayden has listed Irene Dunne, Peter Sellers and Frances McDormand as some of her acting idols.