Homer's voice began as a loose impression of Walter Matthau, but Castellaneta could not "get enough power behind that voice" and could not sustain his Matthau impression for the nine- to ten-hour long recording sessions. Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Castellaneta and fellow cast member Julie Kavner to voice Homer and Marge Simpson respectively, rather than hire more actors.
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The Tracey Ullman Show included a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family. The Simpsons Ĭastellaneta is most famous for his roles on the longest-running American animated television show The Simpsons, most notably as Homer Simpson. She was impressed and Castellaneta was hired. His performance that night was about a blind man who tries to become a comedian and Ullman later recalled that although there were flashier performances that night, Castellaneta made her cry. Ullman decided to fly to Chicago to watch Castellaneta perform. He auditioned for a role in The Tracey Ullman Show and his first meeting underwhelmed Tracey Ullman and the other producers. During this period, he did voice-over work with his wife for various radio stations. He started to work at The Second City, an improvisational theatre in Chicago, in 1983 and continued to work there until 1987.
He began taking improvisation classes, where he met his future wife Deb Lacusta.
He decided that if his career went nowhere he would still have a chance to try something else. A classmate first thought Castellaneta would "fall on his face with improvisation" but soon "was churning out material faster than could make it work." Career Early career Ĭastellaneta began his acting career after his graduation from Northern Illinois University in 1979. It was the fact that we got a chance to do it and write our own material." He took a play-writing class and auditioned for an improvisational show. The show was just barely audible, but we didn't care. He recalled "We did parodies and sketches, we would double up on, so you learned to switch between voices. The show helped Castellaneta hone his skills as a voice-over actor. Castellaneta was a regular participant in The Ron Petke and His Dead Uncle Show, a radio show at NIU. He became a student teacher and would entertain his students with his impressions. Ĭastellaneta studied art education, with the goal of becoming an art teacher. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School and upon graduation, started attending Northern Illinois University (NIU) in the fall of 1975. He was a "devotee" of the works of many performers, including Alan Arkin and Barbara Harris and directors Mike Nichols and Elaine May. He would listen to his father's comedy records and do impressions of the artists. Ĭastellaneta became adept at impressions at a young age and his mother enrolled him in an acting class when he was 16 years old. He is of Italian descent, born to Elsie ( née Lagorio 1926–2008) and Louis Castellaneta (1915–2014), an amateur actor who worked for a printing company. Castellaneta released a comedy album I Am Not Homer, and wrote and starred in a one-person show titled Where Did Vincent van Gogh?.ĭaniel Louis Castellaneta was born on October 29, 1957, at Roseland Community Hospital on Chicago's south side and was raised in River Forest and Oak Park, Illinois. In 1999, he appeared in the Christmas special Olive, the Other Reindeer and won an Annie Award for his portrayal of the Postman. Castellaneta is also known for voicing Grandpa in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!, and has had voice roles in several other programs, including Futurama, Sibs and Darkwing Duck, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, The Batman, Back to the Future: The Animated Series, Aladdin, Earthworm Jim, and Taz-Mania. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series The Simpsons (as well as other characters on the show such as Abraham "Grampa" Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Sideshow Mel, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, and Hans Moleman). Daniel Louis Castellaneta ( / ˌ k æ s t ə l ə ˈ n ɛ t ə/ born October 29, 1957) is an American actor.
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