Mary Kay Bergman, sometimes credited as Shannen Cassidy, (June 5, 1961 – November 11, 1999) was an American voice actress and animation voice over teacher.
Having been involved in the voice acting industry since 1986, Bergman most well known voice roles would include South Park from the 1997 debut until her death, and in the Fairly OddParents, and was the official voice of Disney's Snow White from 1989-1999. She also did voicework for over 400 television commercials.
Bergman was the wife of actor, director, producer and screenwriter Dino Andrade, who established the Mary Kay Bergman Memorial Fund after Bergman committed suicide in her western Los Angeles home in 1999. She is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.
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“The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“Parenting is the one area of my life where I can feel incompetent, out of control and like a total failure all of the time.”
—Attorney Father. As quoted in Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, ch. 4 (1994)
“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It’s a Hebrew proverb.”
—Leo V. Gordon, U.S. screenwriter, and Arthur Hiller. Major Bergman (George Peppard)