Sonja Ball

Sonja Ball (born October 20, 1956) is a Canadian voice actress.

Biography
Ball is well known for her work as the voice of Arthur's Mother Jane Read in the PBS children's TV series Arthur, Huckle Cat on The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Polly Esther in the English version of Samurai Pizza Cats, Nicole in the Madeline TV specials, and Marina and Hedwig in the English version of Adventures of the Little Mermaid. She also did the voice for 5 year old Wimzie, the boisterous and happy go lucky bird-dragon, in the children's TV series Wimzie's House.

Ball is also known for her lovely singing voice for several theme songs such as Ovide Video, The Adventures of the Little Koala, Woofy, The Little Flying Bears, Yakari, Wimzie's House  and The Legend of the North Wind as well as providing narration and vocalist for the National Film Board of Canada's 1998 short Ludovic: The Snow Gift.

Ball has done voices for many cartoons, video games, commercials, and anime.

Puppet Shows

 * Wimzie's House (1995-1996) - Wimzie

Animated Series

 * Ovide & the Gang (1987-1988) - Additional Voices
 * The Little Flying Bears (1990-1991) - Additional Voices
 * Around the World in 80 Dreams (1992-1993) - A.J., Additional Voices
 * Gulliver's Travels (1992-1993) - Fosla, Additional Voices
 * Princess Sissi (1997-1998) - Anita
 * Jim Button (1998-1999) - Mrs. Grindtooth
 * Mona the Vampire (1999-2003) - Mrs. Bryerson
 * Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (2001-2002) - Nai-Nai Miao, Ping-Wing, Pang
 * Creepschool (2004) - Elliott Kaufmann
 * Dragon Hunters (2004-2008) - Jeanneline

Anime

 * Bob in the Bottle (1969-1970) - Joey Carter
 * Pinocchio: The Series (1972) - Additional Voices
 * Jungle Tales (1974-1975) - Rhonda Rabbit, Koko Koala
 * Maya the Bee (1975-1976) - Sidney / Philip (Saban Dub)
 * Huckleberry Finn (1976) - Miss Jane Watson
 * The Littl' Bits (1980) - Browniebit, Blue
 * The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (1989-1990) - Sura
 * Peter Pan: The Animated Series (1989) - Additional Voices
 * Samurai Pizza Cats (1990-1991) - Polly Esther
 * Adventures of the Little Mermaid (1991) - Marina, Hedwig
 * Three Little Ghosts: Afraid of the Dark (1991-1992) - Bumper, Cutter

Music

 * Adventures of the Little Koala (Vocals; Koala Song)
 * Samurai Pizza Cats (Vocals; The Pointless Sisters; with Susan Glover)
 * Wimzie's House (Vocals; Wimzie's House)