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Some of the hardest working people in show business are often the ones that you hear, but don’t see that often. Among them is Kate Micucci, who has had a lengthy voice acting career, while also adding music and comedy to her acting abilities. Micucci is someone that you’d recognize right away, even if you don’t know her name by heart. To this point, Micucci already has more than 110 credits in Hollywood along live action and animated productions.

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Micucci comes from Pennsylvania, but was born originally in Jersey City, New Jersey on March 31, 1980. Micucci stayed in Nazareth, Pennsylvania for much of her childhood where she was trained in music for the most part. Micucci continued her music education in university at Keystone College, earning her first degree before finishing off in Los Angeles where she’d start to make waves.

“My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theater,” she said. “It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it’s a rough city, and it’s hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there’s tons of rejection. Being from Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.”

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Micucci’s acting career got kicked off in 2006 when she had multiple television appearances with shows like “How I Met Your Mother”, “Four Kings” and “Malcolm in the Middle”. For the rest of the 2000s, Micucci was involved in several guest roles on television including “Cory in the House”, “Rules of Engagement” and “Scrubs”. During this time, she also had roles in movies such as “Bart Got a Room”, “Husband for Hire” and “The Last Hurrah”.

The early 2000s for Micucci included films like “Search Party” and “Electric Slide”. It also marked the beginning of her voice acting career in movies like “Rio 2” and “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water”. Since then, Micucci had had many voice roles including “The Lego Batman Movie” and several instances of the “Scooby-Doo” universe where she plays Velma.

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The first regular roles on TV for Micucci came in the early 2000s when she joined the cast of both “‘Til Death” and “Raising Hope” in 2010. There was also plenty of work for Micucci doing voice acting on TV, too. “DuckTales”, “Nature Cat” and more “Scooby-Doo” shows. Her guest appearances in live action continued with cameo roles.

During this time, Micucci teamed up with Riki Lindhome to form the comedy singing duo Garfunkel and Oates, named after the lesser-known people in the duos with Paul Simon and Darryl Hall. The two started singing in 2007 and were recording tracks a couple of years later. Their act was seen on stage quite frequently and had a pilot for an HBO series before landing a one-season series on the IFC Network.

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Micucci thought that not a lot of people would get the humor that she and Lindhome shared, though. “I thought Garfunkel and Oates would be too confusing,” she said. “But it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunekl and Oates...I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It’s hysterical that I sing.”

Then, in 2015, Micucci joined her Garfunkel and Oates partner Riki Lindhome on the Comedy Central series “Another Period”. She was also in the film “The Last Laugh” and is part of the cast of the “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot”. For the most part, though, Micucci is landing plenty of work doing voice acting, which can be quite frequent if you’re high in demand. “Doing voices in animated movies (had) been one of my dreams,” she said. “You get to go and act, and you don’t have to put on makeup.”

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Micucci admits that there are times when money seems to be running short, but it doesn’t last for long. “There have been moments where I’m like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to survive and pay next month’s rent.’ And the next month I’m filming a movie in New York City.” Thus is the life of an actor and comedian.

Micucci can’t believe she’s come such a long way after coming from a smaller area in Pennsylvania. “I feel so lucky,” she said. “I was always drawing and making movies in my backyard with my brother. I still get to do that and I feel so fortunate.”

“My mom always told me, ‘Focus on the thing you’re doing when you’re doing it.’ Thank goodness it’s stuff I loved to do,” she continued. “It’s so much hard work on the line, to put yourself out there. There’s so much rejection. It’s not easy in any way. There’s so much lack of sleep...You really have to love doing the thing you’re doing.”

Micucci’s personality helped her to have the type of tenacity needed to make it in entertainment and take on a lot of work. “I’ve always been the kind of person who needed to share the thing I made immediately,” she said. “Whether it was me just running across the hall to my neighbors in the apartment and saying, ‘Hey, you want to hear this song?’ .. I don’t know what that says about me, but I’ve always just wanted to share the things I make. And that’s the cool thing about the internet is that now anybody can do that. And that’s the thing - not to be scared.”