- Born
- Height1.80 m
- Jess Harnell is an American actor and singer from New Jersey. He provided the voices of Wakko Warner from Animaniacs, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon from Spyro: A Hero's Tail, Scary Terry from Rick & Morty, Ki-Adi Mundi and Darth Maul from Star Wars video games, Captain Hero from Drawn Together, Ironhide from Transformers, Dr. Finkelstein from The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge and Kingdom Hearts, the Plumber from Ratchet & Clank and the announcer of America's Funniest Home Videos. In addition he voiced in the 1994 Sierra Online game Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness as Franz and also voiced in 2004 video game sequel The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge as Dr. Finkelstein.- IMDb mini biography by: Christian Frates
- SpouseCara Harnell (November 19, 2019 - present)
- ParentsMargaret Crockett
- Voice of Wakko in Animaniacs (1993).
- Long hair and "rock star" appearance
- Rich baritone voice
- He states in "Animaniacs Live" in the special features of Volume 1 of the DVDs that for Wakko Warner he did a John Lennon voice, then when he saw the picture of Wakko and how small he was, he changed the voice by making it more high pitched, like a small John Lennon.
- Harnell uses his impressionist skills as lead singer of the critically acclaimed worlds first pop/metal mash up band, "Rock Sugar". The band has had worldwide success playing for audiences as large as 100,000 at a time and opening for such legendary bands as AC/DC and Aerosmith.
- Was the only voice actor to portray two characters in Transformers (2007). He was also the only voice actor to portray both an Autobot and a Decepticon in the film. He provided the voices for both Ironhide and Barricade.
- Based the voice of Wakko Warner (from Animaniacs (1993)) on Beatle John Lennon.
- [on creating the voice of Wakko for Animaniacs (1993)] I at first did a John Lennon impression and then they showed me a picture and I saw that Wakko was kind of a little guy so I just made my voice a little smaller.
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