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Patricia Anne "Pat" Musick (born January 26, 1956, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American voice actress with a career spanning more than four decades in animation, film, and television. She is best known for voicing Tony Toponi in the Don Bluth animated film An American Tail (1986)1 and Snappy Smurfling in The Smurfs. To Ghostbusters fans she is the voice of Janine Melnitz in Extreme Ghostbusters (1997).2
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Musick was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Jane (nee Maginnis) and Donn Musick, and grew up with one brother and one sister.2 She pursued a career in performance that led her to voice acting in the early 1980s.
Musick made her screen debut in the 1982 horror film The Loch Ness Horror2 before establishing herself as a prolific voice actress in animation. She became a recognizable presence in 1980s Saturday-morning television, voicing Snappy Smurfling across 92 episodes of The Smurfs between 1984 and 1989.2
Her breakthrough film role came in 1986 with An American Tail1, Don Bluth's animated feature about a young immigrant mouse, in which she voiced Tony Toponi. She based the character's voice on a friend from grade school.3 When sequel productions began in the early 1990s, Musick stepped back from voice work to raise her daughter, which limited her availability and resulted in Tony Toponi being reduced or recast in the intervening Fievel productions; she returned to reprise the role in the direct-to-video sequels released in the late 1990s.2
Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s Musick accumulated a broad television animation resume. She contributed voices to DuckTales, provided characters for several Scooby-Doo television movies, and voiced numerous roles on Where's Waldo? (1991-1992). She also appeared in front of the camera in a single episode of the Aaron Spelling teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1995.4
Her later animation credits include Rugrats (Harold Frumpkin, seven episodes from 1993 to 2002), Batman: The Animated Series, Darkwing Duck, Johnny Bravo, Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994), Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and Curious George. Feature animation credits include Thumbelina and A Troll in Central Park (both 1994). She continued into the 2010s with a role in Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014).4
Musick voiced Janine Melnitz in 33 episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters2, the 1997 animated continuation of the original Ghostbusters universe. In the series, Janine returns as the Ghostbusters' receptionist after she is reunited with Egon Spengler by enrolling in his Paranormal 101 class at Columbia University. Musick was one of the few returning cast members to bridge the original The Real Ghostbusters era to the new show, giving the series continuity with its predecessor.
Musick married Jeff Whitman, a personal manager and set construction coordinator, in 1983.2 Their daughter, Mae Whitman, was born in 19882 and became a well-known actress and singer, appearing in films including Parenthood, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Promising Young Woman, as well as the television series Parenthood and Good Girls. As of 2024 Musick and Jeff Whitman have one grandson.2
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