Sarah Ann Kennedy

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Sarah Ann Kennedy
Occupations
  • Voice actress
  • writer
  • director
Years active1995–present
Notable work Peppa Pig
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom
Pond Life
Crapston Villas

Sarah Ann Kennedy is a British voice actress best known for providing the voices of Miss Rabbit and Mummy Rabbit in the children's animated series Peppa Pig , Nanny Plum in the children's animated series Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom and Dolly Pond in Pond Life . [1] She is also a writer and animation director and the creator of Crapston Villas , an animated soap opera for Channel 4. [2] [3] [4] She has also written for HIT Entertainment and Peppa Pig, and is currently a lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire. [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. "Sarah Ann's survival story". Coventry Evening Telegraph (England). 14 March 2000. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2009. Warwickshire programme maker Sarah Ann Kennedy will be putting the words into the mouth of TV cartoon heroine Dolly Pond this summer...
  2. Childs, Peter; Mike Storry (1999). Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN   978-0-415-14726-2.
  3. Joseph, Joe (1 November 1995). "Images carry on spitting - Spitting Image". The Times . Already off the drawing board in Britain is Crapston Villas, an animated soap opera produced for Channel 4. The ten-episode series, which made its debut last Friday, fills our living rooms with a household of flat-dwellers from hell, including Fatso, a cat who eats his own sick. Jane Horrocks and Alison Steadman do two of the voices. Sara Ann Kennedy's warped brain provided the plot. "Her script was so funny," [Roger] Law says. "It shocked me, and I'm not easy to shock. So I thought we had to do it."
  4. "Peppa Pig".
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  6. "Academic staff".
  7. Beaney, Abigail (29 April 2021). "Lancashire voice actor behind Miss Rabbit in Peppa Pig tells of delight at new episodes". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 8 October 2022.