This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
Jo Wyatt is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Tweak in The Octonauts and Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Scary and Little Miss Sunshine in The Mr. Men Show, as well as Daisy Kribotnik in Love Soup, Natella in Bromwell High, and Mimi in Guess with Jess. She is also known for providing voices in many video games, such as Ciri in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, additional voices in Perfect Dark Zero and Dragon Quest VIII as well as narrating To Leo with Love.
Jo Wyatt | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 28, 1970 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse |
Walter Lewis (m. 2005) |
Early life
editWyatt was one of the original Minipops. Her father, Martin Wyatt, was the producer. She made a single, "Stupid Cupid", in 1982, and reached #1 in France. In 1984, she replaced Patsy Kensit as a new Luna in the second series of the UK science fiction show Luna.
At the age of 13, Wyatt helped to write the words to the theme song of the children's television series Wide Awake Club for the breakfast television network TV-am with a colleague of her father named Colin Frechter doing the music.
Whilst still a singer, Wyatt has also sung several songs on the vinyl record featuring the Care Bears The Care Bears to the Rescue in 1984 and the first nine songs of the long running children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in the early 1990s with Tom and Laura Penta, Louise Roberts and Victoria Ferrer when the series was having sing along songs of its own for the very first time (only seven of them were turned into music videos whilst an early version of Gone Fishing was sung the series' former composer Junior Campbell which can be seen on the US VHS Rusty to the Rescue & Other Stories). Several years later, Wyatt went onto sing several more Thomas songs during the classic era however different children were used for each series.
In 1988, as a teenager, Wyatt wrote and provided the vocals to the theme song to the BBC children's animated series Barney with Frechter also writing the words and composing the music and some members of the Minipops doing additional vocals. In 1989, Wyatt sung a version of Downtown in the compilation Canzoni da Amare-International
Voice acting
editWyatt is known for her voice role in Angelina Ballerina and as Lyra in all the His Dark Materials audio books. She has also read the role of Alice for the audio book of Alice in Wonderland.
She voiced Gracie, one of Angelina's friends, in Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. In Dragon Age II, she is the voice of the game's protagonist Hawke, if the player chooses to play as a female.
In The Octonauts, she voices the engineer, Tweak Bunny. She also voiced the character of Scratch in the US dub of Bob the Builder, during the final episodes of the show's classic era.
She also provided the voices of Jennifer in the video game Rule of Rose, the Female Imperial Agent in the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic,[1] Alicia in Ni no Kuni, Meyneth in Xenoblade Chronicles, and Ciri in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Vol-au-vent | Allison | |
| 1999 | Dream Street | The Wild Bunch | English version |
| 2002 | Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On | Alice Nimbletoes, Priscilla Pinkpaws, Sammy Watts, Henry | Voice, television film |
| 2004 | Captain Sabertooth | Veronica | Voice, English version |
| 2005 | Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess Dance | Alice Nimbletoes, Priscilla Pinkpaws, Sammy Watts, Henry | Voice, direct-to-video |
| Whatever Happened to the Minipops? | Herself | Documentary, Interviewee | |
| 2006 | A Christmas Carol | Mrs. Cratchit | Voice |
| Robin Hood: Quest for the King | Maid Marian | ||
| The Transporters | Sally | ||
| 2007 | Quest for a Heart | Princess, Frog | Voice, English version |
| 2010 | Spirit of the Forest | Pearl | |
| Bob the Builder: The Legend of the Golden Hammer | Voice | ||
| 2011 | Foster | Jane | |
| 2012 | Tales of the Night | Girl | Voice, English version |
| Not Born to be Gladiators | Lucilla | ||
| 2014 | Postman Pat: The Movie | Meera Bains | Voice[2] |
| 2019 | The Queen's Corgi | Wanda | Voice, American version[2] |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Minipops | Lead Singer & Dancer | |
| 1984 | Luna | Luna | 6 episodes |
| 1992 | The New Adventures of the Shoe People | All female characters | Voice |
| 1994 | The Bill | Nita James | Episode: "Fathers and Sons" |
| 1998–2005 | The Powerpuff Girls | Buttercup | Voice, UK promos |
| 2001–03 | Angelina Ballerina | Alice Nimbletoes, Priscilla Pinkpaws, Henry, Sammy Watts | Voice, 29 episodes |
| Oswald | Gingerbread Woman, Laverne, Cactus Polly | Voice, English version | |
| 2005 | Bromwell High | Natella, Various, Tasmin | Voice, 13 episodes |
| Extras | Woman In Bar | Episode: "Ben Stiller" | |
| Love Soup | Daisy Kribotnik | Episode: "The Reflecting Pool" | |
| 2005–08 | Planet Sketch | Starship Computer | Voice, season 2 |
| 2008 | Chop Socky Chooks | Umé | Voice, episode: "Game Over Chooks!" |
| Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies | Voice, episode: "Tales of the Galapagos/Happy Habitats" | ||
| The Mr. Men Show | Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Giggles, Little Miss Scary, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Sunshine | Voice, English version[2] | |
| 2009 | Dennis the Menace and Gnasher | Various | Voice, 2 episodes |
| Guess with Jess | Mimi | Voice | |
| 2009–10 | Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps | Gracie | Voice, US dub |
| 2009–13 | Olivia | Olivia | Voice, UK dub |
| 2010 | Bob the Builder | Scratch | Voice, episode: "Scratch's Hidden Treasure", US dub |
| 2010-23 | Octonauts | Tweak | Voice |
| 2012–16 | Peter Rabbit | Cottontail, Mrs. Rabbit, Flopsy, Mopsy | Voice, season 1; UK dub |
| 2014–present | Fireman Sam | Lizzie Sparkes, Hannah Sparkes | Voice, UK dub |
| 2020-21 | Mini Matinee | Croc | UK dub |
Video games
editReferences
edit- ^ BioWare (20 December 2011). Star Wars: The Old Republic. Electronic Arts, LucasArts. Scene: closing credits, 9:50 in, English Cast.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Jo Wyatt (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 4 September 2015. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of the title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Jo Wyatt - Voice123". Archived from the original on 24 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
External links
edit- Jo Wyatt at IMDb
- Jo Wyatt at Naxos Audiobooks