Sherry Alberoni | |
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Sherry Alberoni as a Mousketeer on
The Mickey Mouse Club, circa 1956 |
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Born |
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
December 4, 1946
Occupation | Actress/Voice artist |
Years active | 1956–1984 |
Spouse(s) | Dr. Richard Van Meter (1971–present) |
Sherry (or Sherri) Alberoni (born December 4, 1946) is an American actress and voice artist. Alberoni got her start as a Mouseketeer on the weekday ABC television program The Mickey Mouse Club. As an adult, she became a voice artist for Hanna-Barbera Productions. Besides providing voices for numerous incidental characters in series such as Jeannie, Alberoni is best known as the voice of nasty rich-girl Alexandra Cabot from Josie and the Pussycats , "superhero-in-training" Wendy from the first season of Super Friends, the heroic robot, Bo in Mighty Orbots and Glumdalclitch in The Three Worlds of Gulliver. In 1971, she starred alongside Patty Andrews in the Sherman Brothers stage musical, Victory Canteen.
Sharyn Eileen Alberoni was born December 4, 1946, in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of three children. After her family moved to California, Alberoni started modeling at age two, and shortly after, took up dancing lessons, joining her older brother Roy. Both children also learned to play musical instruments; trumpet for Sherry, and drums for Roy. Alberoni's biggest hobby was collecting dolls, and by her teenage years she would have several hundred.
Early on Alberoni displayed a generosity of spirit that would stay with her throughout her life. She volunteered for charity work, and became so successful at it that she was proclaimed a "Red Feather" girl by the Community Chest. This enabled her to attend opening day at Disneyland in 1955, where she first met Walt Disney.