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Donna Kimball

Donna Kimball is an American puppeteer, known for her work with The Jim Henson Company after The Muppets were sold to The Walt Disney Company. Her most notable works include Puppet Up!, The Happytime Murders, [https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Fraggle_Rock:_Rock_On! Fraggle Rock: Rock On!], Pajanimals and other projects for The Jim Henson Company.

Early Life

Donna Kimball was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She developed a love for live shows and musicals at a young age while watching PBS shows such as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street. She would put on puppet shows with her brother for local children.

During High School, Donna Kimball knew she wanted to become an actor and pursued that career. She participated in speech tournaments for humorous interpretations where she would go on to place 6th in the nation. Kimball also participated in local theatre productions.

Early Career

After College, Donna Kimball traveled around malls and schools in Miami, Florida with fellow actor Paul Louis, performing puppet shows for children. Eventually, Lewis sold one of the shows to a production company where Donna Kimball would have her first puppet show called Jelly Bean Jungle in 1994.

Later, Donna Kimball moved to Los Angeles, California to continue her acting and puppeteering career.

Her first job under The Jim Henson Company was playing Teacher Susie in Sid the Science Kid. Sid the Science Kid was her first experience with the Henson Digital Performance Studio that allowed actors to puppet digital characters in real time.

Career

Donna Kimball began her career with minor roles in television shows such as Key West and musicals such as Moon Over Miami. Later, she would work in other movie productions as uncredited background characters and puppeteers. Some of these performances include Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, and Spider-Man 2 where Kimball puppeteered Doc Ock’s mechanical arms.

After the agreement between The Jim Henson Company and The Walt Disney Company, Donna Kimball began working on shows such as Puppet Up!, ''[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Fraggle_Rock:_Rock_On! Fraggle Rock: Rock On!], and Pajanimals''.

Donna Kimball was also involved in the production of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance where she voices Aughra.

Other notable works include: Franny in Word Party, Greg the Bunny, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Sid the Science Kid, Fraggle Rock, Earth to Ned, Mutt & Stuff, Community, and Neil’s Puppet Dreams where she voices, puppeteers, and plays background characters.

Personal Life

Donna Kimball currently resides in Los Angeles, California

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