Mary Gibbs (actress)

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Mary Gibbs
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Gibbs at the Bakersfield Mouse-Con in 2022
Born
Mary Morgan Gibbs

(1996-10-05) October 5, 1996 (age 28)
OccupationVoice actress
Years active1998–2004, 2022–present
Known forVoice of Boo in Monsters, Inc.

Mary Morgan Gibbs (born October 5, 1996) is an American voice actress. She is best known for voicing the human toddler Boo in the Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc. .

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Life and career

Mary Gibbs was born in Pasadena, California, to Pixar director and story artist Rob Gibbs (1964–2020) and his wife Susan (née Hollands). [1] One of the production babies listed in the film credits of Toy Story 2 (1999) is Mary; Rob Gibbs was the story artist for that film.

As Gibbs was a toddler at the time she was recorded as the voice of Boo in Monsters, Inc. , her parents helped the crew simulate scenarios that would elicit the required audio reactions that would be her lines; recording was difficult nevertheless because she would run all over the Pixar office. [2] When Pixar's Inside Out (2015) was in production, the audio recordings of Gibbs' screams as Boo were reused for baby Riley. [2] As a teenager, Gibbs suffered from scoliosis before she had surgery in 2012 to fix it. [3]

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2022 Bakersfield Mouse-Con Heroes of Extinction panel

Gibbs returned to acting in 2022, voicing the character of Janessa Jensen in the audio-drama series Heroes of Extinction for Adventurous Ideas, LLC. In January 2022, Gibbs spoke on a panel at the Bakersfield Mouse-Con event about the project alongside other actors and producers of the series: Jason Braden, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Jerry Cornell, C. Andrew Nelson, and Joshua C. Shaffer. [4]

Gibbs has been documenting her life and time as Boo on her YouTube channel, Boo Grown Up.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Baby Kiara (voice)Video [5]
2001 Monsters, Inc. Boo (voice)
2002Monsters, Inc. DVD Read-AlongVideo short/archive recordings
2013 Monsters University Girl in cabin (voice)Archive recordings [6]
2015 Inside Out Baby Riley (voice)Archive recordings

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 Monsters, Inc. Boo (voice)Archive recordings
Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training
2002Mike's Monstrous Adventure
Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena
2019 Kingdom Hearts III

Attractions

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006 Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! Boo (voice)archive recordings [7]

Radio

YearTitleRoleNotes
2022–2023Heroes of ExtinctionJanessa Jensen (voice)7 episodes (audio drama) [8]
2022The Lowdown at the Down LowSelf1 episode [9]

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