Jo Wyatt

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Jo Wyatt
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OccupationActress
Years active1981–present
Spouse
Walter Lewis
(m. 2005)

Jo Wyatt is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Tweak in The Octonauts and Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Scary and Little Miss Sunshine in The Mr. Men Show , as well as Daisy Kribotnik in Love Soup , Natella in Bromwell High , and Mimi in Guess with Jess . She is also known for providing voices in many video games, such as Ciri in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , additional voices in Perfect Dark Zero and Dragon Quest VIII as well as narrating To Leo with Love.

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Early life

Wyatt was one of the original Minipops. Her father, Martin Wyatt, was the producer. She made a single, "Stupid Cupid", in 1982, and reached #1 in France. In 1984, she replaced Patsy Kensit as a new Luna in the second series of the UK science fiction show Luna .

At the age of 13, Wyatt helped to write the words to the theme song of the children's television series Wide Awake Club for the breakfast television network TV-am with a colleague of her father named Colin Frechter doing the music.

Whilst still a singer, Wyatt has also sung several songs on the vinyl record featuring the Care Bears The Care Bears to the Rescue in 1984 and the first nine songs of the long running children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in the early 1990s with Tom and Laura Penta, Louise Roberts and Victoria Ferrer when the series was having sing along songs of its own for the very first time (only seven of them were turned into music videos whilst an early version of Gone Fishing was sung the series' former composer Junior Campbell which can be seen on the US VHS Rusty to the Rescue & Other Stories). Several years later, Wyatt went onto sing several more Thomas songs during the classic era however different children were used for each series.

In 1988, as a teenager, Wyatt wrote and provided the vocals to the theme song to the BBC children's animated series Barney with Frechter also writing the words and composing the music and some members of the Minipops doing additional vocals. In 1989, Wyatt sung a version of Downtown in the compilation Canzoni da Amare-International

Voice acting

Wyatt is known for her voice role in Angelina Ballerina and as Lyra in all the His Dark Materials audio books. She has also read the role of Alice for the audio book of Alice in Wonderland .

She voiced Gracie, one of Angelina's friends, in Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps . In Dragon Age II , she is the voice of the game's protagonist Hawke, if the player chooses to play as a female.

In The Octonauts , she voices the engineer, Tweak Bunny. She also voiced the character of Scratch in the US dub of Bob the Builder , during the final episodes of the show's classic era.

She also provided the voices of Jennifer in the video game Rule of Rose , the Female Imperial Agent in the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic , [1] Alicia in Ni no Kuni , Meyneth in Xenoblade Chronicles , and Ciri in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt .

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Vol-au-vent Allison
1999 Dream Street The Wild BunchEnglish version
2002Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go OnAlice Nimbletoes, Priscilla Pinkpaws, Sammy Watts, HenryVoice, television film
2004Captain SabertoothVeronicaVoice, English version
2005Angelina Ballerina: Angelina's Princess DanceAlice Nimbletoes, Priscilla Pinkpaws, Sammy Watts, HenryVoice, direct-to-video
Whatever Happened to the Minipops?HerselfDocumentary, Interviewee
2006 A Christmas Carol Mrs. CratchitVoice
Robin Hood: Quest for the King Maid Marian
The TransportersSally
2007 Quest for a Heart Princess, FrogVoice, English version
2010 Spirit of the Forest Pearl
Bob the Builder: The Legend of the Golden HammerVoice
2011 Foster Jane
2012 Tales of the Night GirlVoice, English version
Not Born to be GladiatorsLucilla
2014 Postman Pat: The Movie Meera BainsVoice [2]
2019 The Queen's Corgi WandaVoice, American version [2]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983 Minipops Lead Singer & Dancer
1984 Luna Luna6 episodes
1992 The New Adventures of the Shoe People All female charactersVoice
1994 The Bill Nita JamesEpisode: "Fathers and Sons"
1998–2005 The Powerpuff Girls ButtercupVoice, UK promos
2001–2003 Angelina Ballerina Alice Nimbletoes, Priscilla Pinkpaws, Henry, Sammy WattsVoice, 29 episodes
Oswald Gingerbread Woman, Laverne, Cactus PollyVoice, English version
2005 Bromwell High Natella, Various, TasminVoice, 13 episodes
Extras Woman In BarEpisode: "Ben Stiller"
Love Soup Daisy KribotnikEpisode: "The Reflecting Pool"
2005–2008 Planet Sketch Starship ComputerVoice, season 2
2008 Chop Socky Chooks UméVoice, episode: "Game Over Chooks!"
Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies Voice, episode: "Tales of the Galapagos/Happy Habitats"
The Mr. Men Show Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Giggles, Little Miss Scary, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss SunshineVoice, English version [2]
2009 Dennis the Menace and Gnasher VariousVoice, 2 episodes
Guess with Jess MimiVoice
2009–10 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps GracieVoice, US dub
2009–2013 Olivia OliviaVoice, UK dub
2010 Bob the Builder ScratchVoice, episode: "Scratch's Hidden Treasure", US dub
2010-2023 Octonauts TweakVoice
2012–2016 Peter Rabbit Cottontail, Mrs. Rabbit, Flopsy, MopsyVoice, season 1; UK dub
2014–present Fireman Sam Lizzie Sparkes, Hannah Sparkes Voice, UK dub
2020-2021Mini MatineeCrocUK dub

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotesSource
1997 The Feeble Files
2004 Fable
EyeToy: Play 2
2005 Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King Additional voicesEnglish version
Perfect Dark Zero Chandra [2]
2006 Rule of Rose Jennifer [2]
2007 Hellgate: London
2008 Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors FleuretteEnglish version [2]
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds Jasmine, Sophia, Rina [2]
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 Alice, Alizee, Ula [2]
Fable II
2009 Dragon Age: Origins Ostagar Nurse, Ostagar Priest, Elf Servant, Ostagar Soldier
2010 Fable III
2011 Dragon Age II Hawke (female) [2]
Xenoblade Chronicles Meyneth, Face NemesisEnglish version [2]
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Lilith
2011- Star Wars: The Old Republic Imperial Agent Female, Apprentice Malora, Phyne, Sentry Yashia, Additional Voices
2012 The Last Story Outsider, MeredithEnglish version [2]
Mass Effect 3 Dr. Brynn Cole, Additional Voices
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita Marianne Noisette [2]
ZombiU Sarah, Female Survivor #4
2013 DmC: Devil May Cry Additional voicesEnglish version
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Allie, Great Sage Alicia [2]
Soul Sacrifice
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy AuroraEnglish version
2014 Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Darklaw
Trials Fusion SynDi
Dragon Age: Inquisition Hawke (female)
Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series Lady, Wildling
2015-2016 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt CiriEnglish version [2]
2017 Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Galea [3]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Jo Wyatt (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 4 September 2015. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of the title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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