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Jodi Benson actually never really intended to get into movies, much less into animated movies.
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Jodi went to college at Millikin University, in Decatur, Illinois.
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Jodi Benson won the Drama-Logue Award for Best Actress. She had received also verios nominations like a Tony nomination for best actress and a Fennecus award nomination for her vocal performance in Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.
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Jodi has sang a couple of religious songs. An example of an album of songs she sings is Jodi Benson Sings Songs From The Beginner's Bible.
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Jodi does the voice of Princess Atta in the video game for A Bug's Life.
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Funny that at times, she would do voices of mermaids in many programs because of her major role as Ariel.
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Jodi also narrates some of the Baby Faith videos, and you can see what she looks like as she explains the purposes of the video there.
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She provided the voice for Weebo in Flubber.
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It's a little known fact that she provides Belle's voice for Disney from time to time.
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She provided the voice for Asenath, Joseph's Egyptian wife, in Joseph: King of Dreams.
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She provided the voice for Anita in 101 Dalmations 2: Patch's London Adventure.
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One of Jodi's only on screen movie appearance was as a hologram in the Robin Williams film Flubber.
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She provided two voices for a Christian video series for kids called Kids 10 Commandments.
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She was the host for a Christian video series for kids called Guidepost Junction.
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She once admitted to an interviewer that she was alot like her character, Ariel at the time The Little Mermaid was in production.
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She provided the voice for Jenna in Balto 3: Wings of Change.
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She admits that her favorite scene from The Little Mermaid is when Ariel is singing a reprise of "Part of Your World" while perched on a rock.
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She enjoys reading.
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She likes to hike.
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She likes to go snow skiing.
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Halfway through Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure, she seemed to lose her voice a little causing it to become raspy.
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She provided the voice for Lady in Disney's Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure.
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She provided the voice for Thumbelina in Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina.
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She has 2 children; a son (McKinley Benson) and a daughter (Delaney Benson).
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Without a doubt, her trademark has always been her singing voice.
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Her nickname is Aquagirl.