Jess Harnell

Jess Harnell
Harnell in 2008
Born	Jesse Harnell (1963-12-23) December 23, 1963 (age 53) Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	Voice actor, singer, musician
Years active	1987–present
Known for	Animaniacs Transformers Doc McStuffins Crash Bandicoot America's Funniest Home Videos Sofia the First

Jesse "Jess" Harnell (born December 23, 1963) is an American voice actor, singer and musician, who is known for voicing Wakko Warner in Animaniacs, Ironhide in the Transformers film series, Chilly in Doc McStuffins, Cedric the Sorcerer and Sir Gillium in Sofia the First and Crash Bandicoot in the video game franchise of the same name.

Harnell has been the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos since 1998.

Harnell was born on December 23, 1963 at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Teaneck, the son of Joe Harnell, a jazz composer, and Alice Harnell.

In 1989, Harnell provided the voices of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox for the Splash Mountain attraction at Disneyland Park, reviving the roles last played in 1946 by Johnny Lee and James Baskett, respectively, in the film Song of the South. Harnell also recorded some new character dialogue for the subsequent Walt Disney World version of the attraction. He was later called in to reprise these roles for the 2011 video game Kinect: Disneyland Adventures.