You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 212.

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Hi there. My name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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Welcome to the first part of my interview with an actress who has performed in almost every type of acting there is, from theater to commercials to on-camera, to voice acting, to

performance capture. She also has a habit of booking important roles in different areas of

acting, the first time she ever auditions for jobs in those areas. I'm talking about a consummate

professional, Nancy Lanari.

While Nancy has an extensive resume in theater, commercials, and on-camera work,

you may be most familiar with her work as Aunt May in the Sony PlayStation series of Spider-Man

games from 2018 and 2023. She's also played Aunt May in the Disney X-D Spider-Man animated series,

but her voiceover roles go back much farther than that. One of her biggest roles early in her

voice acting career was Morticia in the Adams Family animated series by Hannah Barbera, which was

produced in the early 1990s. Nancy has worked on numerous

animated shows since then, such as Animaniacs, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Benton. In addition to the

Spider-Man games, she's played Medusa in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, the Lady of Blood in Legends

of Rune Terra, and the Dragon Ice Wind in Dungeons and Dragons

Dark Alliance, where I had the pleasure of playing Dris to Warden. However, the first time I became

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