Carlos Alazraqui

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Carlos Jaime Alazraqui [alazraki] (born July 20, 1962) is a Argentine American actor, comedian, impressionist and voice actor.

Carlos Alazraqui

Carlos Alazraqui in June 2005
Born Carlos Jaime Alazraqui
July 20, 1962 (1962-07-20) (age 45)
Yonkers, NY U.S.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Alazraqui was born in Yonkers, New York, to Argentine parents and moved to Concord, California, at an early age. He later returned to Sacramento to attend Cal State Sacramento where he began competing in open mic contests. After winning in his fourth year of competing at the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, he took his prize money and moved to Los Angeles.[1]

[edit] Career

[edit] Voice work

Alazraqui has since performed several voices for Nickelodeon cartoons, including Juandissimo Magnifico and Denzel Q. Crocker on The Fairly OddParents and Rocko the wallaby on Rocko's Modern Life. He has also voiced the titular protagonist of the first game in the Spyro the Dragon series, the Taco Bell chihuahua,[2] Rikochet in the first two seasons of Mucha Lucha and Mr. Weed (the head of the "Happy Go Lucky" toy factory) on Family Guy. It is mentioned in the DVD commentary track that Mr. Alazraqui was reluctant to leave the Family Guy series. In particular, Seth McFarlane suggests that the untimely death of Alazraqui's character, Mr. Weed, took the actor by surprise.

In 2005, he added the voices for two Cartoon Network series - The Life and Times of Juniper Lee where he played Monroe, a guardian dog with a Scottish accent and two characters in Camp Lazlo: Lazlo and Clam. In 2006 added Salty Mike from Squirrel Boy and Walden in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! on Nick Jr. to his credits. He played Wisk in Glen Hill's 2000 film version of L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. He also provided the voice of Nestor in Happy Feet.

Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, a storyboard writer for Rocko's Modern Life, described Alazraqui's normal voice as bearing "no accent at all." Marsh describes Alazraqui's "Scottish accent" as "one of the best" and that he performs his other accents as "all very well." According to Marsh Alazraqui uses various accents in his stand-up comedy routines. [3]

Carlos also does work for the Disney Channel on the Playhouse Disney show Handy Manny. He provides the voice for Felipe, the bilingual Phillips-head screwdriver, and for Abuelito, Manny's grandfather.

Carlos was also the original "voice guy" on the Stephanie Miller Show. His replacement was voice actor Jim Ward, who had previously substituted for him. In January of 2008, Carlos returned to fill in for Jim Ward briefly while he recovered from surgery.

[edit] Acting

Alazraqui plays Deputy James Oswaldo Garcia on Comedy Central's Reno 911!. He has also been featured on Comedy Central Presents.

[edit] Miscellaneous

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Alazraqui is also an accomplished tennis player with a United States Tennis Association grade of 4.0, and has made over 700 jumps as a skydiver.

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[edit] Live-action roles

[edit] Movie roles

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Carlos Alazraqui
  2. ^ David, Long, Taco Bell Dog Story, <http://www.everwonder.com/david/tacobell/story.html> 
  3. ^ "Dan Abrams' interview with Jeff "Swampy" Marsh," The Rocko's Modern Life FAQ

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