Jess Harnell

Jess Q. Harnell (born December 23, 1963) is an American voice actor and singer, best known for voicing Wakko Warner in Animaniacs and Crash Bandicoot in the video game franchise of the same name.

Biography
Harnell was born on December 23, 1963 at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Teaneck, the son of Joe Harnell (a jazz composer) and his wife Alice.

Harnell's first major role was providing the voices of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox for the Splash Mountain attraction at Disneyland Park, reviving the roles last played in 1946 by Johnny Lee and James Baskett, respectively, in the film Song of the South. Harnell also recorded some new character dialogue for the subsequent Walt Disney World version of the attraction.

Since then, Harnell has become one of the most prolific voice actors of the last two decades, providing voices for many companies. He is best known for portraying Wakko Warner and Walter Wolf on Animaniacs, Cedric in Sofia the First, Spyro the Dragon on Spyro: A Hero's Tail, the current voice of Crash Bandicoot, Sewer Urchin on The Tick, Wooton Bassett on the radio series Adventures in Odyssey, and Ironhide in the Transformers films.

Outside of cartoons, Harnell is the lead singer of a rock band called Rock Sugar, which takes heavy metal tunes and mashes them up with 80' s pop song lyrics. He has also been the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos since 1998 (succeeding the late Ernie Anderson and Gary Owens in the role).

Anime

 * Vampire Princess Miyu (1997-1998) - Takashi Kashihara/Shinma Kyo-Koh (ep. 8), Additional Voices

Anime Films

 * Pom Poko (1994) - Inugami Gyobu
 * Tales from Earthsea (2006) - Hazia Dealer
 * Ponyo (2008) - Additional Voices