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American actor and comedian Tom Kenny has received many awards and nominations for his work in film, television, and video games. He is known for voicing the title character in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. In addition, Kenny has voiced many other characters in the series, including Gary the Snail, the French Narrator, and his live action portrayal as Patchy the Pirate whom Patchy was featured in various other appearances from the episodes "Christmas Who?" (2000) to "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas" (2021). His other roles include Heffer Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life; Simon Petrikov / The Ice King in the Adventure Time franchise; the Narrator and Mayor in The Powerpuff Girls; Carl Chryniszzswics and Brother Ernie in Johnny Bravo; Dog and Cliff in CatDog; Hank and Jeremy in Talking Tom and Friends; Squanchy and Gene Gilligan in Rick and Morty; and Spyro from the Spyro the Dragon video game series. His live-action work includes the comedy variety shows The Edge and Mr. Show. He currently voices Augie Doggie, Top Cat, Hardy Har Har, Ding-A-Ling Wolf, Undercover Elephant and Ricochet Rabbit.

Kenny has won two Daytime Emmy Awards and two Annie Awards for his voice work as SpongeBob SquarePants and the Ice King. Kenny often collaborates with his wife Jill Talley, who plays Karen on the aforementioned series.

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