Traci Paige Johnson is an American animator and voice actress best known for creating the Nick Jr. Channel television series, Blue's Clues (1996–2006), its spin-off, Blue's Room (2004–2007), and the reboot series Blue's Clues & You! (2019–present). She voices the title character for the original and reboot series.
Biography
While in high school, Johnson was a member of an award-winning student-produced comedy show, Beyond Our Control which ran on the local NBC affiliate, WNDU-TV, at that time owned and operated by the University of Notre Dame.[1]
Johnson was a freelance animator in the early 1990s when cable television network Nickelodeon wanted to create a new television show for preschoolers. She already had experience working in children's television.[3] In 1994, Johnson, along with producer Angela Santomero and director Todd Kessler, which Nickelodeon executive Brown Johnson called a "green creative team",[4] created the series Blue's Clues.[5] According to Johnson, she was cast as the voice of Blue, because out of the show's crew, she sounded the most like a dog.[4]
Personal life
She is married to Robert Mowen (another Beyond Our Control alum) and has three sons: Thomas, Oliver, and Emmet.[6]
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