Full Name
Tom Kenny
Job Title
Voice of SpongeBob SquarePants
Speaker Bio
Tom Kenny voices the lead role of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” an incurably optimistic sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea, in Nickelodeon’s iconic hit series SpongeBob SquarePants. The Emmy Award-winning voice actor is familiar to Nick viewers as the voice of “Dog” in CatDog, and “Heffer” on Rocko’s Modern Life. Kenny will return to O-Town as “Heffer” in the all-new original TV special based on the classic ‘90s hit, Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, coming soon to Nickelodeon. Kenny won the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and has been the recipient of two Annie Awards for his voice work on SpongeBob SquarePants and Adventure Time. Kenny’s additional television voice work includes “Lumpus the Moose” on Camp Lazlow and “Eduardo” on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. He has also been a regular cast member on the animated series Super Robot Monkey Team, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, Handy Manny, Futurama, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo and Powerpuff Girls. Additionally, he currently lends his vocal talents to television series’ Adventure Time, Wordgirl, Ultimate Spiderman, Hugglemonsters, and Brickelberry. In film Kenny’s voice can also be heard as various robots in Transformers-Revenge of the Fallen and as “Rabbit” in Winnie the Pooh. In addition to his prolific voice work, Kenny has appeared as a standup comic on such television shows as The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brian, Premiere Blend and Comic Strip Live. Kenny was a regular cast member of HBO’s critically acclaimed sketch program Mr. Show with Bob and David and appeared as the office loser “Persky” on Just Shoot Me. He has also guest-starred on The Drew Carey Show, Brotherly Love and Unhappily Ever After. Kenny made on-camera appearances as well as the evil “Binky the Clown” in the cult film Shakes the Clown, and starred alongside his wife in Smashing Pumpkins’ award-winning music video for “Tonight, Tonight.” An aficionado of old blues, jazz, country and rockabilly music, Kenny occasionally moonlights with his band, performing songs from his extremely obscure record collection. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jill Talley, son McKinley and daughter Nora.
Speaker Brand/Department
Nickelodeon
Internal/External
External
Tom Kenny