Patricia Anne Musick is an American
voice actress
Voice acting is the art of Acting, performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice. Performers are often called voice actors/actresses in addition to other names. Examples of voice work include animation, animated, ...
who has provided numerous voices in many television shows, films, and video games.
Career
Musick’s first role was in the 1981 film ''
The Loch Ness Horror''. Her roles in animation include Snappy Smurfling in ''
The Smurfs
''The Smurfs'' (; ) is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. ''The Smurfs'' was created and introduced as a series of comic characters by ...
'' and Harold Frumpkin in ''
Rugrats
''Rugrats'' is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil, and their day-to-d ...
''.
Musick additionally voiced Tony Toponi in the ''
An American Tail
''An American Tail'' is a 1986 American animated musical adventure comedy-drama film directed by Don Bluth and written by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss from a story by David Kirschner, Freudberg and Geiss. The film stars the voices of Phi ...
'' franchise, basing his voice on a friend she knew from grade school. In the early 1990s, Musick was unable to reprise the role, taking time to raise her daughter,
Mae Whitman
Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American actor. She began her career as a child actor, starring in the films '' When a Man Loves a Woman'' (1994), '' One Fine Day'' (1996), ''Independence Day'' (1996), and '' Hope Floats'' (1998), ...
, who was born in 1988,
causing the use of her character to be limited in
the first sequel and completely unused in ''
Fievel's American Tails'' until the direct-to-video sequels in the late 1990s.
Personal life
Musick married personal manager and set construction coordinator Jeff Whitman in 1983.
They have one daughter, actress and singer
Mae Whitman
Mae Margaret Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American actor. She began her career as a child actor, starring in the films '' When a Man Loves a Woman'' (1994), '' One Fine Day'' (1996), ''Independence Day'' (1996), and '' Hope Floats'' (1998), ...
.
Through their daughter, Musick and her husband have one grandson (b. August 28, 2024).
Filmography
Television
Film
Video games
References
External links
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Living people
American voice actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
American video game actresses
Actresses from St. Louis
Actresses from Los Angeles
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)