Mary Gibbs (actress)
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mary Gibbs
| birth_name = Mary Gibbs
| image = Mary Gibbs actress Mouse-Con 2022.jpg
| caption = Gibbs at the Bakersfield Mouse-Con in 2022
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|10|5}}
| birth_place = Pasadena, California, U.S.
| occupation = Voice actress
| known_for = Voice of Boo in Monsters, Inc.
| years_active = 1998–2004, 2022–present
| relatives =
}}
Mary Gibbs (born October 5, 1996) is an American voice actress. She is best known for voicing the human child 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).{{cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/rob-gibbs-dead-longtime-director-story-artist-at-pixar-was-55-1292333/ | title=Rob Gibbs, Longtime Director and Story Artist at Pixar, Dies at 55 | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=April 28, 2020 }} 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.{{cite book|last=Shaffer|first=Joshua C|title=Discovering the Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide – Second Edition|date=July 17, 2017|publisher=Synergy Book Publishing|isbn=978-0-9991664-0-6|page=209}} When Pixar's Inside Out (2015) was in production, the audio recordings of Gibbs' screams as Boo were reused for baby Riley. As a teenager, Gibbs suffered from scoliosis before she had surgery in 2012 to fix it.{{cite web |last1=Peek |first1=Kaitlin |date=July 31, 2020 |title=The voice of Boo from Monsters Inc, Mary Gibbs, is all grown up |url=https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/the-voice-of-boo-from-monsters-inc-mary-gibbs-is-all-grown-up-c-1205450 |access-date=January 21, 2022 |work=The Voice of Boo}}
File:Bakersfield Mouse-Con Heroes of Extinction panel.jpg 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.{{cite web |url=https://mouse-con.com/bakohome.shtml |title=Bakersfield Mouse-Con |last1=Con |first1=Mouse|date=January 30, 2022 |work=Conventions |access-date=February 22, 2022}}
Gibbs has been documenting her life and time as Boo on her YouTube channel, Boo Grown Up.
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1998
|{{sortname|The|Lion King II: Simba's Pride}} |Baby Kiara (voice) |
| 2001
| rowspan="2" |Boo (voice) | |
| 2002
|Monsters, Inc. DVD Read-Along |Video short/archive recordings |
| 2013
|Girl in cabin (voice) |Archive recordings{{cite web |title=Boo's Rawr In Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EvZn6tQYbg|website=YouTube.com}} |
| 2015
|Baby Riley (voice) |Archive recordings |
= Video games =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2"| 2001
| rowspan="5" |Boo (voice) | rowspan="5" |Archive recordings |
| Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training |
| rowspan="2"| 2002
|Mike's Monstrous Adventure |
| Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena |
| 2019 |
=Attractions=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="1"| 2006
|Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! |Boo (voice) |
=Radio=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2022–2023
|Heroes of Extinction |Janessa Jensen (voice) |7 episodes (audio drama){{cite web |url=https://www.adventurousideas.com/cast-mary |title=Heroes of Extinction Cast |last1=Ideas |first1=Adventurous |date=March 21, 2023 |work=Cast |access-date=March 21, 2023}} |
| 2022
|The Lowdown at the Down Low |Self |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0316701}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/c/BooGrownUp Mary Gibbs's YouTube Channel]
- [https://www.adventurousideas.com/ Adventurous Ideas, LLC]
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Category:American child actresses
Category:Actresses from Pasadena, California