Dan Castellaneta

The voice of cartoon icon Homer Simpson, actor/singer Dan Castellaneta was born in Oak Park, IL in 1958; after studying art at Northern Illinois University, he turned his attention to acting, appearing in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew before joining Chicago's famed Second City comedy improv troupe in 1983. Four years later, he joined the cast of the FOX television sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show; when cartoonist Matt Groening created his animated dysfunctional family the Simpsons to appear in brief "bumper" segments around the...