Jeff Bennett - Career

Career

Bennett voices various characters in movies, TV shows, and video games. His best-known voice role is in Johnny Bravo as the main character of the same name.

From 2006 to the present, Jeff Bennett has voiced the role of The Man With the Yellow Hat in the PBS Kids TV series, Curious George. The series was awarded Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Children's Animated Program in 2008, 2010, and 2012. Bennett played the same role in Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!. In the TV series, Bennett also plays a farmer, Mr. Renkins, who is a neighbor to the country house where Curious George and The Man With the Yellow Hat often spend weekends.

As of 2011, he is voicing the Joker and other characters on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Dorkus on Planet Sheen, Keswick, Larry and Ollie on T.U.F.F. Puppy, Kowalski on The Penguins of Madagascar and Red Tornado on Young Justice.

In 2012, he was awarded the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in a Television Production for his role as Kowalski. He was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, but lost to June Foray.

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