Melissa Altro
{{Short description|Canadian voice actress}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=July 2024}}
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{{BLP sources|date=June 2021}}
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| name = Melissa Altro
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| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| other_names = Missy Altro
| occupation = {{hlist|Voice actress|voiceover coach[http://www.voiceprostudio.ca Voice Pro Studio With Melissa Altro]. Accessed February 5, 2015.[http://www.voiceoveruniverse.com/profile/MelissaAltro Melissa Altro's Page] at [http://www.voiceoveruniverse.com Voiceover Universe]. Accessed February 5, 2015.}}
| years_active = 1994–present
| website = {{URL|http://melissaaltro.com}}
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Melissa Altro is a Canadian voice actress and voiceover coach from Montreal, Quebec.
Biography
Prior to having a career to voice acting, Altro guest-starred on a 1994 episode of the YTV/Nickelodeon horror anthology series Are You Afraid of the Dark?.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRcnDwAAQBAJ&q=afraid+of+the+dark+altro+melissa&pg=PA17|title = Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media|isbn = 9781476628745|last1 = Green|first1 = Paul|date = June 9, 2017| publisher=McFarland }} She also starred as Heather in the 1995 film Kids of the Round Table and as Barb in The Woods. Altro is perhaps best known as the voice actor of Muffy Crosswire in the hit television series Arthur, a role she began when she was 14 years old and has continued into adulthood — the only child voice actress on the show to do so.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169414/combined|title=Arthur (TV Series 1996– ) - IMDb|website=IMDb }} She has also voiced her Arthur character in the series Postcards from Buster, and the specials Arthur's Perfect Christmas and Arthur's Halloween. She also has voiced other characters in Arthur,{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023030/?mode=desktop&ref_=m_ft_dsk#filmography|title=Melissa Altro|website=IMDb }} Altro also provides the voice for Gretchen in the Teletoon/Disney XD animated series Camp Lakebottom.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2492366/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1|title=Camp Lakebottom (TV Series 2013– )|author=Showtime2345|date=February 19, 2014|work=IMDb|accessdate=February 8, 2015}} She has also provides the voice for Pippi Longstocking in the 1997 film and the series of the same name.
Altro is an alumna of St. George's School of Montreal and McGill University, where she majored in English, Drama and Theatre, both located in her hometown.
In 2019, Altro became the announcer of Subway across Canada.
Filmography
=Film=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1995
| Heather | |
| 1997
| Voice |
| 2006
| data-sort-value="Woods, The" | The Woods | Barb | As Missy Altro |
| 2009
| Zoé | Voice; uncredited (English dub) |
| 2012
| {{N/A}} | Talent coordinator |
| 2016
| Acting Up | {{N/A}} | Short film; special thanks |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1994
| Alex | Episode: "The Tale of the Room for Rent" |
| 1996–2022
| Arthur | Muffy Crosswire |
| 1997–1998
| Pippi Longstocking |
| 1999–2003
| Additional voices |
| 2000
| Arthur's Perfect Christmas | rowspan="2" | Muffy Crosswire |
| 2002
| Arthur: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll |
| rowspan="2" | 2006–2007
| Z-Squad | Grindel |
| Grossology
| Paige Logan | Voice; 11 episodes |
| 2007
| Stephanie | Episode: "The Unkindest Cut" |
| 2008
| Teddy Bear | Shelley | Television film |
| rowspan="2" | 2008–2009
| Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist | Sally Keaner | Voice; 3 episodes |
| World of Quest
| Way / Deceit | rowspan="2" | Voice |
| 2010–2011
| Saedee |
| 2011
| Ms. Perkins | Episode: "Recycle After Reading" |
| 2013–2017
| Gretchen | rowspan="3" | Voice |
| 2017
| Arthur and the Haunted Tree House | Muffy Crosswire |
| 2018
| Max Voltage | Rose |
| 2019
| Mommy Ooga | Voice |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0023030|name=Melissa Altro}}
- {{Twitter}}
- [https://www.facebook.com/Voiceprostudio Voice Pro Studio with Melissa Altro] on Facebook
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEaM2nHkW3U Melissa Altro's Tips for Voicing Cartoons] on YouTube
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Category:20th-century Canadian actresses
Category:21st-century Canadian actresses
Category:Actresses from Montreal
Category:Anglophone Quebec people
Category:Canadian child actresses
Category:Canadian people of Italian descent
Category:Canadian television actresses
Category:Canadian voice actresses
Category:McGill University alumni
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