... Because we are in this thing where we do shows two weeks ahead of time, when it happened it was really tough because we had three shows to do ... and we knew we weren't going to find anyone at the time, so we just wrote three episodes with no female characters in them. This included her only live-action role, a few voice roles, still photography, and work as executive producer for the film. With a total of eleven, Mary Kay holds the distinction of voicing the most characters in the original Leisure Suit Larry game series. Mary Kay Bergman (June 5, 1961 – November 11, 1999) was a well known American voice artist, who was the lead female voice actress on South Park from the show's 1997 debut until her death. [24] Andrade later regretted that Bergman had told nobody about her distress. It was like there was some other hand in it, because you sounded exactly like Mary Kay." (1961-1999)." Bergman worked on over 400 television commercials, including the voice of Mrs. Butterworth in Mrs. Butterworth's syrup commercials. Bergman was the lead female voice actress on South Park from the show's 1997 debut until her death. Bergman credited South Park for pulling her out of a typecasting rut. [4][5][6][7], Her parents performed as a singing duo at lounges and clubs in Reno and Las Vegas and in Los Angeles. In the 1990 Signing Time series, Bergman originally played Rachel in the UK version until her death. [11], After getting cast in an equity-waiver play outside of school, Bergman decided to leave UCLA. [15], In 1994,[17] Bergman started teaching the technique of doing voice-overs for animation at the Kalmenson and Kalmenson Studios in Burbank, California. [19] When Disney was releasing a restored version of Snow White, Caselotti was brought back in to record a scene that was missing its audio track. Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! She was 38. Katzenberg apologized, and Bergman did not publicly admit to voicing Snow White while Caselotti was still alive. View the profiles of people named Mary Kay Bergman. She was an American voice actress and voice-over teacher. Mary Kay Bergman (June 5, 1961 – November 11, 1999), credited on the first three seasons of South Park as the voice actress for characters such as Sharon Marsh, and Wendy Testaburger. (Laughs) You're thinking, "This girl's a mess!" [26] As time progressed, Bergman's fears seemed to lessen as her mother was doing better. Here's our roundup of the best new series of the year so far, and where to watch them. Later, I decided that the "squeaky voice" thing really wasn't what I was looking for, so I called in my old friend Tress to do her Fran Drescher impersonation instead. They wanted me to speak at her memorial, and her husband really wanted me to speak, but I just couldn't talk. Her other film role was in Balto II: Wolf Quest (2002), released three years after her death, in which she voiced a vixen and a wolverine. Shortly after her death, Andrade established the Mary Kay Bergman Memorial Fund. And he said, "Grey, you have to do it, because Mary Kay would've wanted you to do it. '"[13] She worked as a receptionist for an insurance company and from there she moved up the ranks to become an assistant underwriter, which she found extremely boring. It might as well be someone who loved her." [30], Bergman's interview on Nightcap, a show by Chapman University, was recorded on November 5, 1999, but was aired posthumously. [8] Characterizing her mother's previous work inking and painting cels for Fleischer, Bergman said it was a mechanical task, but it piqued her mother's interest in animation that was shared with Bergman years later by watching Saturday morning cartoon series with her. 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