Tom Kenny

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1962 age 0

   Born

2. 2005 age 43

   CreditSky High

3. 2011 age 49

   CreditTransformers: Dark of the Moon

4. 2017 age 55

   CreditBattle of the Sexes

• KRKurt Russell1 title
• DSDeborah Lynn Scott1 title
• HWHugo Weaving1 title
• MHMark Harelik1 title
• SSSteven Spielberg1 title
• KSKeith Szarabajka1 title
• MZMary Zophres1 title
• MGMichael Giacchino1 title
• MMMatt Malloy1 title
• KJKen Jeong1 title

• Spouse

  • JTJill Talley

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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• It’s something very few actors really get to experience. When you’re a character actor or voiceover guy, it’s job to job. You’re like a migrant worker, almost. The longevity [of “SpongeBob”] is an unbelievable statistical anomaly. It’s like, I didn’t buy that many lottery tickets and I won the lottery. It’s a totally random, harmonic convergence of people you met and your agent getting you an audition. Actors have so little control over their own lives; it’s nice to have something you’re not in control of that’s actually positive. There was a point when “SpongeBob” was cancelled after the first few seasons and the first movie. We went to a wrap party that I thought was the season wrap party but was the series wrap party. Nobody knew. So I already feel like I dodged a bullet.

  Tom Kenny, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I've had groups of twentysomethings saying they still talk to each other in SpongeBob memes. It's really touching, you know? You get people who have had very difficult lives, and they say that SpongeBob got them through things, which is very touching. Someone told us that they were considering suicide, and SpongeBob made them laugh, and they cycled through that phase of their life. You get everything from that, to I had a great happy childhood and SpongeBob was part of it. You get all colours of the spectrum in terms of people coming up. Not just with SpongeBob either. It may be some cartoon that was a failure, or a videogame that took an hour to record in 1996. But they say it was the biggest thing in their life at one point. It's mind-blowing. You don't realize the footprint of what you're doing is leaving behind.

  Tom Kenny, CC BY-SA 4.0