Everything about Mary Kay Bergman totally explained
Mary Kay Bergman (
June 5 1961 –
November 11 1999) was an
American voice actress with numerous roles and bit parts in
television,
movies,
direct-to-video animation, and
advertising. She was best known for voicing many characters in
South Park.
Biography
Personal life
Bergman was born in
Los Angeles, California. Her parents were
Jewish, but Bergman was non-practicing and converted to
Catholicism after exploring several
Christian denominations; she later referred to herself as a "Catholic Jew".
Career
Bergman was known for voicing most of the female characters in the
animated series South Park and in the
1999 feature film . Her characters included
Liane Cartman, mother of
Eric Cartman;
Sheila Broflovski, mother of
Kyle Broflovski;
Sharon Marsh, mother of
Stan Marsh;
Mrs. McCormick, mother of
Kenny McCormick; and
Wendy Testaburger. Originally, Bergman was credited on
South Park as
Shannen Cassidy because she was also serving as
Disney's official
Snow White voice. The
South Park episode "
Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" was dedicated to her, as was the episode "
Starvin' Marvin in Space", the first episode to air after her death.
Another large role was her voice work in
Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Dr. Blight for five seasons with the show.
Bergman's other voice credits included over 400 television commercials, including the voice of Mrs. Butterworth in
Mrs. Butterworth's syrup commercials, as well as various Disney
films (
Beauty and the Beast,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
Hercules,
Toy Story 2), and as the voice of
Jay Jay the Jet Plane,
Daphne Blake in more recent
Scooby-Doo animated movies,
Timmy Turner in
Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes of
The Fairly OddParents (When the pilot episodes were aired as actual episodes in 2001, Mary Kay's voice was overdubbed by
Tara Strong), and several female voices in
The Tick animated series. She also sang in the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Pretty Fly For A Rabbi", alongside Tress Macneille.
According to
IMDb, her final film role was .
Death
Bergman, who suffered from an
anxiety disorder, committed
suicide by shooting herself in
West Los Angeles, California, on
November 11,
1999. Her husband,
Dino Andrade, established the Mary Kay Bergman Memorial Fund, which contributes to the operation of the
Suicide Prevention Center
at the
Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center. After Bergman's death, the voice actress
Eliza Schneider took over all of her voice roles on
South Park.
Footnotes
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