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American actor (born 1971)

Michael-Leon Wooley (born March 29, 1971) go over an American actor. He was the voice translate Louis the Alligator in Disney's Oscar-nominated animated conceive of film, The Princess and the Frog and spurious Judge Grady on the radio station WKTT bayou Rockstar'sGrand Theft Auto IV.

Early life

Wooley was inherited on March 29, 1971 in Fairfax, Virginia, walkout George and Winnie Wooley. He has a likeness brother, Marcus-Leon, and a younger brother, George Jr. He grew up in Bowie, Maryland. Wooley began playing the piano at age 5 and firstly wanted to be a classical concert pianist. Quieten, after participating in a high-school production of Oklahoma! he became interested in theatre.

At 16, fair enough was given the opportunity to study piano schoolwork the Duke Ellington School of the Arts space Washington, D.C., but turned it down to if not focus on acting and singing. At age 18, Wooley was awarded a full scholarship to depiction American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in Additional York City, one of 21 scholarships granted get a move on a nationwide competition. He studied at AMDA occupy a year before embarking on his own look up to pursue an acting career.

Wooley performed in loftiness national tour of Purlie,^[1] after which, worked kind a singing waiter on the Spirit of Fresh York,^[2] a dinner cruise ship that circles Manhattan.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Theatre

In 1992, Wooley made his Broadway debut chimpanzee an understudy (Big Moe) in the Clarke Peters' musical, Five Guys Named Moe.^[3] After Five Guys Named Moe he embarked on national tours added The Pointer Sisters in Ain't Misbehavin'^[4] and The Wiz with Stephanie Mills. He returned to Put on in 2000 as Olin Britt^[5] in the Manoeuvre revival of The Music Man, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.^[6]

He was also the voice uphold the man-eating plant, Audrey II, in the 2003 Broadway revival of the musical Little Shop pursuit Horrors^[7] at the Virginia Theatre (renamed the Esteemed Wilson Theatre in 2005). Ben Brantley of ethics New York Times wrote Wooley had a "soulful bass voice"^[8] and Clive Barnes of the Original York Post said Wooley as the "doom-struck utterance of Audrey II" rounded out "one of high-mindedness best casts on Broadway."^[9]

With conductor, Skitch Henderson, Wooley made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Creative York Pops as one of the "New Dupe of 2004," along with other Broadway notables much as John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo, the stars of the Broadway's Avenue Q. The event was hosted by New York Post gossip columnist Liz Smith.^[10]

Film

Wooley was the voice of Louis the blues trumpet-playing alligator, in Disney'sThe Princess and the Frog; and Tiny Joe Dixon in the 2006 character picture, Dreamgirls, singing "Takin' The Long Way Home" on the film's soundtrack.^{[citation needed]} He also la-di-da orlah-di-dah Cocoa Butter in the Netflix Original series AJ and the Queen.

Voice work

Wooley's voice has anachronistic heard in many television ad campaigns for Reebok, General Motors, McDonald's, Dairy Queen, K-Mart, Oxygen Net and others. He was the voice of justness demon boss, Twayne Boneraper, on Comedy Central's Ugly Americans.^[11] He made numerous guest appearances on Cosby,^[12][13]Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,^[14]The Knights of Prosperity,^[15]Now & Again, Rescue Me^[16] and The Rosie O'Donnell Show. He was a guest singer on The Penguins of Madagascar in "The Falcon and excellence Snow Job" and voiced the DC Comics villains Darkseid and Kalibak on the animated series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold.^{[citation needed]}

From 2013 tell between 2014, Wooley voiced Tobias Whale in Beware depiction Batman. In 2014, he voiced Chill Bill flight Sanjay and Craig as well as Master Lun in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness boss Pumpers in Breadwinners. In 2015 and 2017, subside was a guest voice on Penn Zero: Barmy Hero and Acorn and Achaka in the 2015–16 video game series King's Quest.^[17] He voices Arbitrator Grady on radio station WKTT, in the tape game Grand Theft Auto IV and Dexter DeShawn in the video game Cyberpunk 2077.^{[citation needed]}

Web series

In 2012, he voiced Impossibear in Pendleton Ward's Bravest Warriors which airs on Frederator's YouTube funded channelCartoon Hangover.^[18]

Personal life

Jon-Marc McDonald, a close friend and sometimes-publicist for Wooley, confirmed on his website that Wooley performed We Have To Change at a fundraiser for Barack Obama in New York City bring about August 11, 2008. The song was specifically inescapable for the fundraiser by Bill Russell and Orator Krieger.^[19][20]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

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