Who voices Baby Shark?

Kimiko Glenn, a Phoenix-born actress who is well-known in the Valley's theater community, is the voice of Baby Shark. Before the versatile 31-year-old actress appeared in feature films, Netflix dramas and animated movies that became box office hits, she performed with Valley Youth Theatre.

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Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized which episodes of "Baby Shark’s Big Show!" begin March 26. Billions of people around the world have heard the hit children’s song “Baby Shark.” Since the earworm went viral in 2017 — it's the most-viewed YouTube video of all time with over 8 billion views — Nickelodeon has turned the character into the "Baby Shark's Big Show!" cartoon for preschoolers that premiered last year. Kimiko Glenn, a Phoenix-born actress who is well-known in the Valley’s theater community, is the voice of Baby Shark. Before the versatile 31-year-old actress appeared in feature films, Netflix dramas and animated movies that became box office hits, she performed with Valley Youth Theatre. Her first role was in its production of “Snow White” when she was in the fifth grade during the 1999-2000 season. The role of Baby Shark helps her connect to her inner child, Glenn said in an interview with The Arizona Republic. “I seriously feel like I'm constantly in contact with my inner child and the Kimiko that was in ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and (who) expressed herself in such a big, earnest, childlike way,” she said.

“It's so much fun.”

Nearly five years since "Baby Shark" was posted on YouTube, it has garnered more than 8 billion views. That’s more than some of the most-played pop songs on the platform, which include Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" (2017) and Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" (2015). Glenn returns to TV as Baby Shark when the spring premiere of the show airs March 26.

Studying theater in Phoenix ‘taught me everything I know’

As Glenn tells it, her involvement with “Snow White” was her father’s answer to her “raucous and wild” tendencies in childhood. “My dad was like, ‘I think we should harness this for good and … make this useful somehow,’” she said. “I feel like, among my family, I was a bit of an anomaly. They're all very heavily logical, book smart, wonderful people. And I was always really raucous and wild and had so much energy and was constantly imitating people.”

She learned how to sing, she said, by imitating Celine Dion.

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So she redirected her energy into performing on stage. Through Valley Youth Theatre, she starred in productions such as "The Secret Garden,” “Into the Woods,” “Cats” and "Bye Bye Birdie." “I just finally had an outlet to really let it free,” Glenn said. “Valley Youth Theatre is the theater I grew up with. That was the theater that sort of taught me everything I know.”

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Since her youth theater productions, Glenn has become known to audiences as Brook Soso on Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black,” Peni Parker in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and Stefani Stilton on “BoJack Horseman.” After living in New York City for a decade, during which she landed a role on Broadway as Dawn in “Waitress,” Glenn moved to Los Angeles, where she currently lives. Her immediate family still lives in Arizona, Glenn said, and continued to attend Valley Youth Theatre shows well into her professional career. “They're just supportive of the place that kind of raised me in a way — or a certain part of me,” she said. She has continued to support the organization by participating alongside fellow alumni, including Emma Stone, Chelsea Kane and Nick Cartell, in annual fundraisers.

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Her sister, Amanda, is “kind of a superstar” and continues to do theater in the Valley, Glenn said.

“She's an incredible singer, and she's amazing on stage,” she said.

How to watch ‘Baby Shark’s Big Show!’

The spring premieres of “Baby Shark’s Big Show!" begin airing at 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, on Nickelodeon. Reach the reporter at kimi.robinson@gannett.com or at 602-444-4968. Follow her on Twitter @kimirobin and Instagram @ReporterKiMi.

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