Janet Waldo

Janet Waldo
Background information
Born	Janet Marie Waldo February 4, 1919 Yakima, Washington, United States
Died	June 12, 2016 (aged 97) Encino, California, United States
Cause of death	Brain tumor
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress, voice actress
Years active	1938-2012
Spouse	Robert Edwin Lee (1948-1994; his death)
Children	Lucy and Jonathan

Janet Marie Waldo was an American actress, prolific in voice over roles with a career encompassing radio, television, animation, and live-action films, best known for voicing Judy Jetson in The Jetsons, Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races, Nancy in Shazzan, and Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats.

Early life

Waldo was born in Yakima, Wash­ing­ton on Feb­ru­ary 4, 1919 (ac­cord­ing to her fam­ily gravestone) al­though most sources, in­clud­ing the 1930 and 1940 cen­sus records, in­di­cate 1920.

Her mother, Jane Althea Blod­gett, was a singer trained at the Boston Con­ser­va­tory of Music, and her fa­ther, Ben­jamin Franklin Waldo, was, ac­cord­ing to Waldo fam­ily lore, a dis­tant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emer­son. She had three older sib­lings, one of whom, Elis­a­beth Waldo, is an au­thor­ity on pre-Columbian music and an award-win­ning com­poser-vi­o­lin­ist who ap­peared in the film Song of Mex­ico (1945).

Janet Waldo at­tended the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, where her per­for­mance in a stu­dent the­atri­cal gar­nered her an award and brought her to the at­ten­tion of Bing Crosby. A Para­mount Pic­tures tal­ent scout, who was with Crosby at the time, signed Waldo for a screen test, which led to a con­tract with the studio.

Roles

Judy Jetson
(The Jetsons)

Penelope Pitstop
(Wacky Races)

Josie McCoy
(Josie and the Pussycats)

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