Mary Gibbs (actress) explained

Mary Gibbs
Birth Name:Mary Morgan Gibbs
Birth Date:5 October 1996
Birth Place:Pasadena, California, U.S.
Occupation:Voice actress
Known For:Voice of Boo in Monsters, Inc.
Years Active:1998–2004, 2022–present

Mary Morgan Gibbs (born October 5, 1996) is an American voice actress. She is best known for voicing the human toddler Boo in the Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc..

Life and career

Mary Gibbs was born in Pasadena, California, to Pixar director and story artist Rob Gibbs (1964–2020) and his wife Susan (née Hollands).[1] One of the production babies listed in the film credits of Toy Story 2 (1999) is Mary; Rob Gibbs was the story artist for that film.

As Gibbs was a toddler at the time she was recorded as the voice of Boo in Monsters, Inc., her parents helped the crew simulate scenarios that would elicit the required audio reactions that would be her lines; recording was difficult nevertheless because she would run all over the Pixar office.[2] When Pixar's Inside Out (2015) was in production, the audio recordings of Gibbs's screams as Boo were reused for baby Riley. As a teenager, Gibbs suffered from scoliosis before she had surgery in 2012 to fix it.[3] Gibbs returned to acting in 2022, voicing the character of Janessa Jensen in the audio-drama series Heroes of Extinction for Adventurous Ideas, LLC. In January 2022, Gibbs spoke on a panel at the Bakersfield Mouse-Con event about the project alongside other actors and producers of the series: Jason Braden, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Jerry Cornell, C. Andrew Nelson, and Joshua C. Shaffer.[4]

Gibbs has been documenting her life and time as Boo on her YouTube channel, Boo Grown Up.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998Baby Kiara (voice)Video[5]
2001Monsters, Inc.Boo (voice)
2002Monsters, Inc. DVD Read-AlongVideo short/archive recordings
2013Monsters UniversityGirl in cabin (voice)Archive recordings[6]
2015Inside OutBaby Riley (voice)Archive recordings
2023The Dark Ride Series: Monsters, Inc. Mike and Sulley to the RescueSelfDocumentary for Theme Parkology

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001Monsters, Inc.Boo (voice)Archive recordings
Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training
2002Mike's Monstrous Adventure
Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena
2019Kingdom Hearts III

Radio

YearTitleRoleNotes
2022–2023Heroes of ExtinctionJanessa Jensen (voice)7 episodes (audio drama)[8]
2022The Lowdown at the Down LowSelf1 episode [9]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rob Gibbs, Longtime Director and Story Artist at Pixar, Dies at 55 . . April 28, 2020 .
  2. Book: Shaffer, Joshua C. Discovering the Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide – Second Edition. July 17, 2017. Synergy Book Publishing. 978-0-9991664-0-6. 209.
  3. Web site: Peek . Kaitlin . July 31, 2020 . The voice of Boo from Monsters Inc, Mary Gibbs, is all grown up . January 21, 2022 . The Voice of Boo.
  4. Web site: Bakersfield Mouse-Con . Con . Mouse. January 30, 2022 . Conventions . February 22, 2022.
  5. Web site: Behind The Voice Actors . behindthevoiceactors.com.
  6. Web site: Boo's Rawr In Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University. YouTube.com.
  7. Web site: Monsters, Inc.: Mike and Sulley to the Rescue. Mouse Planet . Mouse Planet . October 13, 2023.
  8. Web site: Heroes of Extinction Cast . Ideas . Adventurous . March 21, 2023 . Cast . March 21, 2023.
  9. Web site: The Lowdown at the Down Low . December 31, 2022.