Harrisburg will welcome a voice actor who has portrayed prominent Disney characters and appeared in numerous horror films.
Paradoxically, Kat Cressida had no intention of becoming a voice actor for horror films. She will, however, be one of the main guests at the Horror On Main convention in Harrisburg, which takes place from June 27 to 29, because of her work in series like Resident Evil, The Thing, and Wolf Among Us.
Cressida had always intended to pursue more healthy job in entertainment, influenced by her father, who was employed at Walt Disney’s Imagineering department of amusement park research and development.
According to Cressida, I was and still am heavily engrossed in the voiceover world, which is reminiscent of Disney and Hanna Barbera.
Actually, when she was younger, her top job goal was to voice McDonald’s advertisements.
“That was like a benchmark, you know, bucket list thing,” she said, for some strange reason. That comforting, calming, delicious voice that drew you in and had you stop at McDonald’s on your way home? That just struck me as being incredibly awesome.
Her voice of Dee Dee on Dexter’s Laboratory is among her most well-known parts, demonstrating that she has undoubtedly achieved that wholesome, family-friendly success in voice acting.
However, she also discovered that matching other performers’ voices was one of her strengths.
She claimed that I somehow ended myself emulating and mimicking some truly remarkable people. Every vocalist would tell you that, at some point during our early years, we were observing or mimicking the cues of others. After that, we modify the recipe to include our own ingredients.
like a result, she has been cast in recurrent roles like Toy Story’s Jessie, stepping in for Joan Cusack when she is unable to do so. She has appeared in numerous franchise spinoffs as the adored cowgirl.
She went on to do additional horror-themed productions as a result of that talent.
Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise and Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor in the Terminator incarnations have both had Cressida conduct voice matching.
Voice matching can be used for ADR (automatic dialogue replacement), a post-production technique that involves re-recording movie lines, as well as franchise spin-offs like video games or TV shows.
Additionally, Cressida stated that voice matching with whatever she is is the antithesis of mimicry.
According to her, the purpose of impersonation is to make a strong statement so that, hopefully, everyone in the audience would recognize the person you’re presenting or parroting nearly instantly. The inverse is voice matching. When you’re doing it, you want to be invisible. You want to give the impression that nothing is being pointed out and that it’s simply the actor—the actual actor.
Cressida also provided the voice of Constance Hatchaway, the spectral bride in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion attraction, combining horror with family-friendly content.
But after receiving a terrifying prognosis, Cressida’s career was in jeopardy.
She saw multiple specialists after detecting strain in her jaw and mouth, and ultimately received a diagnosis of adermatofibrosarcoma protuberance in her jaw, a rare type of cancer.
At first, Cressida was informed that the diagnosis was terminal. Furthermore, the risks remained quite serious even after she found a surgeon eager to perform the procedure and received further positive findings.
“Severing the facial nerve was one of the major concerns during the surgery,” she stated. It’s ruined if it gets nicked. You won’t ever talk again.
Even after the successful procedure, Cressida claimed that she still had a huge, jaw-breaking hole in the side of her mouth.
To describe it in terms of horror? It reminded Cressida of something from The Walking Dead.
She was warned not to speak for a good month and a half while she was recovering, and she was not even allowed to look in the mirror.
She added, “I didn’t listen because I was myself and impatient to see if I still had a voice.” I ultimately ruptured the sutures and received a lecture on how important it was for me to have faith in the doctors.
She continued to spend months relearning the facial expressions and vocalizations that were essential to her job. She had some severe trauma to process as a result of the terrifying experience.
However, it also made her thankful for her recuperation and the chance to keep performing.
She has recently broadened her career to include public speaking after sharing her experiences in a TED Talk.
Additionally, she donates a portion of the money raised from each of her convention appearances to the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation and the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, among other charity organizations.
“I’m honored to do these fan events because I’ve been able to recover my voice and still use it for voiceover,” she stated. Most of the time, when I do things, I am sincerely appreciative that someone would show up or care. It’s been an honor for me to assist in bringing some of the incredible charities that truly aid people through terrible situations to reality, as well as to help collect money for them.
Visit their website here to learn more about the forthcoming Horror on Main event.
Stories by
Sean Adams
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