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April Winchell
April Terri Winchell (born January 4, 1960) is an American voice actress and radio host. Since 1996, she has been the voice of Clarabelle Cow.
Born on January 4, 1960, in Whitestone, New York, but raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area (primarily Woodland Hills), Winchell is the daughter of inventor, ventriloquist and comedian Paul Winchell and his second wife, actress-writer Nina—née Ventimiglia—Russell. In her weblog writings and appearances on radio, Winchell describes her childhood with many references to the great talent of her father as well as the many disturbing incidents owing to his mental health issues.
Winchell attended Sequoia Junior High School, North Central Michigan College. and Orange Coast College, where, in August 1977, her "vivacious acting and full-throated singing" as the female lead in OCC's summer theater production of the Michael Stewart-Jerry Herman musical, Mack and Mabel, found an enthusiastic audience in Los Angeles Times critic Richard Buffum.
Winchell's projects include the role of Sylvia in Wander Over Yonder, a Disney Channel animated series featuring Jack McBrayer in the title role. Created by The Powerpuff Girls producers Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust, the show chronicles the adventures of Wander and his trusty (and cynical) steed Sylvia, as they travel the universe. The series premiered on the Disney Channel in September 2013.
As a voice actress, she has been heard in hundreds of animated television series, such as Goof Troop (as Peg Pete), Recess (as Mrs. Muriel Finster), House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (as Clarabelle Cow), Bonkers (as Lucky's wife, Dyl Piquel), Pepper Ann (as title character's mom, Lydia Pearson), and Kids from Room 402 (as Miss Gracie Graves the school teacher, along with several other characters that appear on the show), The Legend of Tarzan (taking over for Rosie O'Donnell as Terk in the original film), 101 Dalmatians: The Series (as Cruella De Vil), and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (as Molly Mange).
She has also voiced characters in numerous films, including Antz, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monsters University and Rob Zombie's The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. Winchell portrayed the "Glendale Federal Bank" lady – a cranky, cynical customer alleviated by the service at her new bank – in a series of radio commercials, which Winchell wrote and directed herself. The commercials caught the attention of Roseanne Barr, who hired her as a writer on Barr's eponymous sitcom.
Besides her many contributions to radio advertising as a director, writer, and performer, Winchell also hosted a radio talk show program on KFI, a Los Angeles radio station. This weekend program aired for three years, and enjoyed the fastest growth audience in the history of the station. Subsequent to the end of this program in November 2002, she appeared semi-regularly on the Ask Mr. KABC program, on KABC, an AM station also in Los Angeles – until the show ended in February 2007.
In 2005, Winchell signed a deal with U.S. pay-TV service HBO to develop and host a show on Sirius Satellite Radio. However, on her official website on May 3, 2006, she announced that negotiations had stalled out between HBO and Sirius, leaving her program in limbo.
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April Winchell
April Terri Winchell (born January 4, 1960) is an American voice actress and radio host. Since 1996, she has been the voice of Clarabelle Cow.
Born on January 4, 1960, in Whitestone, New York, but raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area (primarily Woodland Hills), Winchell is the daughter of inventor, ventriloquist and comedian Paul Winchell and his second wife, actress-writer Nina—née Ventimiglia—Russell. In her weblog writings and appearances on radio, Winchell describes her childhood with many references to the great talent of her father as well as the many disturbing incidents owing to his mental health issues.
Winchell attended Sequoia Junior High School, North Central Michigan College. and Orange Coast College, where, in August 1977, her "vivacious acting and full-throated singing" as the female lead in OCC's summer theater production of the Michael Stewart-Jerry Herman musical, Mack and Mabel, found an enthusiastic audience in Los Angeles Times critic Richard Buffum.
Winchell's projects include the role of Sylvia in Wander Over Yonder, a Disney Channel animated series featuring Jack McBrayer in the title role. Created by The Powerpuff Girls producers Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust, the show chronicles the adventures of Wander and his trusty (and cynical) steed Sylvia, as they travel the universe. The series premiered on the Disney Channel in September 2013.
As a voice actress, she has been heard in hundreds of animated television series, such as Goof Troop (as Peg Pete), Recess (as Mrs. Muriel Finster), House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (as Clarabelle Cow), Bonkers (as Lucky's wife, Dyl Piquel), Pepper Ann (as title character's mom, Lydia Pearson), and Kids from Room 402 (as Miss Gracie Graves the school teacher, along with several other characters that appear on the show), The Legend of Tarzan (taking over for Rosie O'Donnell as Terk in the original film), 101 Dalmatians: The Series (as Cruella De Vil), and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (as Molly Mange).
She has also voiced characters in numerous films, including Antz, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monsters University and Rob Zombie's The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. Winchell portrayed the "Glendale Federal Bank" lady – a cranky, cynical customer alleviated by the service at her new bank – in a series of radio commercials, which Winchell wrote and directed herself. The commercials caught the attention of Roseanne Barr, who hired her as a writer on Barr's eponymous sitcom.
Besides her many contributions to radio advertising as a director, writer, and performer, Winchell also hosted a radio talk show program on KFI, a Los Angeles radio station. This weekend program aired for three years, and enjoyed the fastest growth audience in the history of the station. Subsequent to the end of this program in November 2002, she appeared semi-regularly on the Ask Mr. KABC program, on KABC, an AM station also in Los Angeles – until the show ended in February 2007.
In 2005, Winchell signed a deal with U.S. pay-TV service HBO to develop and host a show on Sirius Satellite Radio. However, on her official website on May 3, 2006, she announced that negotiations had stalled out between HBO and Sirius, leaving her program in limbo.