{"id":7195,"date":"2019-07-28T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T06:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2019-07-28T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T06:15:54","slug":"russi-taylor-minnie-mouse-voice-actress-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7195","title":{"rendered":"Russi Taylor: Minnie Mouse voice actress dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Russi Taylor, the voice of Disney&#8217;s Minnie Mouse for more than 30 years, has died aged 75.<\/p>\n<p>The actress died in Glendale, California on Friday, the Walt Disney Company said.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1986, Taylor provided voice-overs for animated TV series, films and theme parks featuring Mickey Mouse&#8217;s high-pitched and giggly partner Minnie.<\/p>\n<p>She also played characters in The Simpsons, including Bart&#8217;s dorky classmate Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Mirroring the character she played, Taylor married Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey until his death in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 4 May 1944, was picked from 200 candidates to play Minnie at an audition in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For more than 30 years, Minnie and Russi worked together to entertain millions around the world &#8211; a partnership that made Minnie a global icon and Russi a Disney Legend beloved by fans everywhere,&#8221; Bob Iger, Disney&#8217;s chairman and chief executive, paid tribute to Taylor in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russi Taylor, the voice of Disney&#8217;s Minnie Mouse for more than 30 years, has died aged 75. The actress died in Glendale, California on Friday, the Walt Disney Company said. Since 1986, Taylor provided voice-overs for animated TV series, films and theme parks featuring Mickey Mouse&#8217;s high-pitched and giggly partner Minnie. She also played characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1357,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7197,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}