Renae Jacobs
Renae Jacobs (born February 1, 1957) is an American voice actress who is perhaps best known for voicing fictional journalist and reporter April O'Neil in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series.
Early life
Renae Jacobs was born February 1, 1957 in Lansing, Michigan, moving to Los Angeles in the early 1980s to pursue a career as a voice actress.
Ninja Turtles
While working in Los Angeles in 1986, she received a call to audition for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She was directed through the audition by Stu Rosen. The first day Rosen made it clear he didn't approve of her for the role, and had waited to show her audition after exhausting all the others.
She has said that developed her initial personification of O'Neil after reading the description in the casting material, not the comics themselves:
It was also the first role she was awarded that wasn't a "crazy little made up fantasy character".
In June 2014, it was announced that Jacobs would guest-star on season three of Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She played April's mother and an alien in the episode, Buried Secrets.
