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Sesame Street
Kindness is in the air.
On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
  • First aired on 11/10/1969 (TV Show)
  • Kids / Comedy
  • 55 Seasons
  • Cast
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Kevin Clash

Character's name: "Elmo/Hoots the Owl/Baby Natasha (voice)"
Birthday: 09/17/1960
Birthplace: Turners Station, Maryland, USA
Biography:
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Kevin Jeffrey Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an American voice actor and puppeteer whose characters include Elmo, Baby Sinclair, Clifford, Splinter and Hoots the Owl. He currently serves as Sesame Street Muppet Captain and co-executive producer. In the fall of 2006, Clash released an autobiography titled My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Clash, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Caroll Spinney

Character's name: "Big Bird"
Birthday: 12/26/1933
Date of Death: 12/08/2019
Birthplace: Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Biography:
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Caroll Edwin Spinney, sometimes credited as Carroll Spinney or Ed Spinney (December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019), was an American puppeteer most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the children's television show Sesame Street. Description above from the Wikipedia article Caroll Spinney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Frank Oz

Character's name: "Bert"
Birthday: 05/25/1944
Birthplace: Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK
Biography:
Frank Oz born Richard Frank Oznowicz; is a British-born American film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show and for directing films, including the 1986 Little Shop Of Horrors remake and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He is also the operator and voice of Yoda in the Star Wars series.

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Sonia Manzano

Character's name: "Maria Figueroa Rodriguez"
Birthday: 06/12/1950
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Biography:
Sonia Manzano is an actress and writer, known for Sesame Street (1969), Follow That Bird (1985) and Firepower (1979). She has been married to Richard Reagan since 1986. They have one child.

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Roscoe Orman

Character's name: "Gordon Robinson"
Birthday: 06/11/1944
Birthplace: Bronx - New York - USA
Biography:
While a student at New York's High School of Art and Design, Orman made his theatrical debut in the 1962 topical revue "If We Grow Up." He was an early member of the Free Southern Theater for two years in the mid-1960s and a founding member of Harlem, New York's New Lafayette Theatre, where he acted in and directed numerous plays. His many other stage appearances have included roles in "Julius Caesar" and "Coriolanus" at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, the Broadway production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences", and Matt Robison's one-man play "The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit" at the American Place Theatre. Orman is the recipient of an Audelco Theatre Award and a five-time nominee. He made his feature film debut in the title role of Universal Studios' 1974 drama, Willie Dynamite and has also appeared in such films as F/X, Striking Distance, New Jersey Drive, Follow That Bird, Twilight's Last Gleaming,The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, and "Jeremy Fink And The Meaning of Life". His television credits include work on such shows as All My Children, Kojak, Sanford and Son, Cosby, Sex and the City, The Wire, andLaw & Order. He most recently appeared on episode 5 of the Garry Trudeau/Amazon streaming production Alpha House. In June 2006, Orman's memoir Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of An Actor was released. In September 2007, his children's book Ricky and Mobo was released. On October 8, 2008, he became the Chief Storyteller of AudibleKids.com (a service of Audible.com), a website for parents, teachers, and children to connect with one another and download and listen to audiobooks oniPods, MP3 players, and computers. In his role as Chief Storyteller, Orman narrates audiobooks and communicates with children, parents and teachers online and at community, literacy and library events, lectures and conferences, and via other media to encourage the use of audiobooks to help build an interest in reading and develop literacy skills. He commented on being Chief Storyteller on October 8, 2008: “When Sesame Streetbegan, television was a new and even controversial medium. But we showed how that technology, if used correctly, could become a powerful learning tool...I see the same kind of opportunity emerging today as parents and educators increasingly view iPods with skepticism. With AudibleKids.com, I believe we can help turn these players into magnificent storytellers, tools for learning, and a way to promote a lifelong love of stories and language.” His new role was announced at a community event at The Educational Alliance Boys & Girls Club in New York City, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office commended Orman’s life work and willingness to embrace new technology to help encourage children to read books, by naming October 8, 2008 AudibleKids Day in New York City. Orman is a resident of New Jersey. He has four children, Rasheda, Solana, Miles, and Cheyenne. His son, Miles Orman, was on Sesame Street playing Gordon and Susan's adopted son Miles Robinson from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s.

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Martin P. Robinson

Character's name: "Telly Monster/Aloysius Snuffleupagus/Irvine/Slimey (voice)"
Birthday: 03/09/1954
Birthplace: Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Biography:
Martin P. Robinson (born March 9, 1954) is a puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company. He originally built, designed, and performed the puppets for Little Shop of Horrors. He is perhaps best known for his work on Sesame Street. He has performed the characters of Telly Monster, Slimey the Worm, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Tony The Turtle on the show for more than 20 years. He also performed the character Riff on Allegra's Window, and was an animatronic puppeteer for Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the puppeteer responsible for training the puppeteers on Sesame Tree. He was born on March 9, 1954 in Dearborn, Michigan. Graduated from Brookfield East High School, in Brookfield, Wisconsin, suburb of Milwaukee. He was married to Annie Evans on August 9, 2008 on the set of Sesame Street, in the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin P. Robinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Suki Lopez

Character's name: "Nina"
Birthday: 10/08/1990

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Violet Tinnirello

Character's name: "Charlie"
Birthday: 12/22/2024
Biography:
Violet Tinnirello is an American actor, singer, and dancer from New York's Hudson Valley. She began performing at the age of four and has appeared in many commercials. Violet was cast to play the first child cast member on Sesame Street in about 20 years. Violet began playing the role of Charlie in Season 50.

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Jennifer Barnhart

Character's name: "Zoe (voice)"
Birthday: 03/11/1972
Birthplace: Hamden, Connecticut, USA
Biography:
Jennifer Barnhart is an American actress and puppeteer, with a portfolio of television and theatre performances.

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Ryan Dillon

Character's name: "Elmo (voice)"
Birthday: 05/25/1988
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography:
Ryan Dillon (born May 25, 1988) is an American puppeteer who has played Elmo since 2013, replacing Kevin Clash. Dillon had previously worked as an ensemble muppeteer for the Jim Henson Company since 2005. He also played Cooper and Paul Ball, for the interactive series Sesame Street TV for Xbox Kinect, and appeared on all four seasons of the new CBeebies and co-production of Sesame Street, The Furchester Hotel, as Elmo.

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Alan Muraoka

Character's name: "Alan"
Birthday: 08/10/1962
Birthplace: Mission Hills, California, USA

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