Samantha Newark
| Samantha Newark | |
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Newark in 2014
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June 27, 1967 London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Website | samanthanewark |
Samantha Newark (born 27 June 1967) is an English-born American singer-songwriter and voice actress. She is best known for her voice-over work as the speaking voice of Jem and Jerrica in the animated cartoon series Jem. As a teenager, Newark became a voice-over talent in mainstream television. Her work on "Jem" and voice-over roles on the original The Transformers cartoon as the voices of "Ariel", the original identity of the female Autobot Elita One, high school girl "Elise Presser", and the voice of the Zamojin Empress produced a serious cult following that persists to this day. She lent her voice to many radio and TV projects while writing and performing her original music as a solo recording artist in Los Angeles CA, Nashville TN and Dallas, Texas. In 2015 Newark appeared in the live action feature film adaptation on Jem and the Holograms directed by Jon Chu.
Samantha Newark was born in Wimbledon, London. Although she was born in England, her family then moved to Africa and later to the US. She attended several different schools and began her music career in Africa after seeing Lena Zavaroni perform. She continued working as an actress and singer and came to prominence when she landed the role of Jem in 1985.
Newark is best known for her voice-over work on the animated 1980s cartoon series Jem as the speaking voice of Jerrica/Jem (Britta Phillips was the singing voice). "Jem" remains her most well known role and Newark receives invitations to meet the Jem fans at Pop Culture conventions all over the world. Newark made a cameo appearance in the Jem and the Holograms live action film adaptation.
Newark was nominated for a "Young Artist award" twice for "Exceptional young actress in animation, series, specials, or film features" also nominated for her performance in "Best animated series". Other voice-over credits include guest-starring on the original Transformers cartoon as "Ariel" in the classic Transformers episode "War Dawn" and in other episodes playing the roles of "Elise Presser" and the "Zamojin Empress". Newark was also cast as the voice of a young Peter Pan's mother in Steven Spielberg feature film "Hook" as well as doing countless on camera and voice-over TV and radio commercials. She also played the role of Debbie in the horror film Summer Camp Nightmare. In 2012 she was invited to contribute two characters to the Festival favorite animated short "Pound Dogs", created by Mike Salva. This project won the MTV "Voice and Vision animation award for writing and animation and garnered two development deals with MTV.
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