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Andrea Romano Biography
Birth Name:Andrea Romano
Birth Place:Long Island, New York, United States
Profession Casting director, Actress, Sound department, Music department
Fast Facts
- Graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1977, where she studied Theater Arts, and began a graduate degree at Rutgers University
- Got started in the voice acting industry after a friend from college asked her to temp at his agency in Los Angeles, which soon turned into a full time job as an agent
- Worked at a dance and fashion shop and in phone sales while auditioning and performing in plays in Manhattan
- Quote: "I love working with voice over actors because they are not being judged by how they look, it doesn't matter if they are tall enough, blonde enough, young enough, pretty enough or thin enough․ Either they can do the voice or they can't do the voice․"
- Best known as casting director, voice director, and voice actor for TV series like "Batman," "Smurfs," and "Tiny Toon Adventures․"
- Though her primary focus has always been cartoons, she does occasionally work on video games with longer, more theatrical cut scenes, like "Starcraft 2" and "Diablo 3․"
- Her favorite cartoon was "Huckleberry Hound" because she liked the way the title character looked and talked at the camera, as if he was talking to her
- Was working in the voice-over department at Special Artists, a department she had created herself, when she was offered a job at Hanna-Barbera
Awards
- 1995Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Achievement in Animation: nominated
- 1996Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Achievement in Animation: winner
- 1996Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Achievement in Animation: nominated
- 1997Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: winner
- 1997Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: nominated
- 1997Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 1997Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: winner
- 1998Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: winner
- 1998Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: nominated
- 1998Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: nominated
- 1999Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: winner
- 1999Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 1999Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: nominated
- 1999Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 1999Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: nominated
- 2000Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 2000Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 2000Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: nominated
- 2000Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Children's Animated Program: winner
- 2001Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: winner
- 2002Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 2003Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 2004Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 2007Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: nominated
- 2009Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program: winner
- 2010Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program: nominated
- 2012Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program: nominated
- 2013Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program: nominated
- 2014Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special: nominated
- 2014Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program: nominated
- 2018Daytime Emmy-Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program: nominated