Steve Whitmire

Birthday: 24 September 1958, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Birth Name: Steven Lawrence Whitmire

Height: 193 cm

Steve Whitmire was born on September 24, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA as Steven Lawrence Whitmire. He is an actor, known for The Muppets (2011), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) and The Dark Crystal ...Show More

People always ask us about being the voices of the Muppets, and I know what they mean, but supplying Show more People always ask us about being the voices of the Muppets, and I know what they mean, but supplying the voice is just one small element of what it is we do. In essence, we are actors just like any other actor. We portray a role, and it's a full performance, not just a voice. The established Muppet Performers literally are the characters they bring to life. Hide

[on taking over the role of Kermit from Jim Henson] That was really, really scary as you could imagi Show more [on taking over the role of Kermit from Jim Henson] That was really, really scary as you could imagine. I had known Jim for thirteen or fourteen years at that point and I had worked with him on everything he had done with this group of Muppets. Not Sesame Street but everything else. We worked very close together. It was super intimidating. It was a great honor to be asked and I was just scared to death. So, Brian and the family made the decision, sent me one of the puppets. I took it out of the box. I'd had the puppet on before. I'd never performed it but had had it on my hand just going around the shop. I put him on and held him up in front of a mirror. I knew how to make the puppet talk because I'd been doing this for a long time and I fiddled with some of those expressions that Jim would do with Kermit. Then I opened my mouth to say something and nothing came out. There was no way that I could find the voice. The puppet just sort of looked at me like, "come on. You can do it". I took it off and put it in a closet and left it there for a month. I couldn't touch it. Hide

Steve Whitmire's FILMOGRAPHY - Page 2

as Actor (197)

The Muppets

The Bachelorette - Season 5

The Cosby Show - Season 7

The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 13

Americas Funniest Home Videos - Season 15

Paul Williams: Still Alive

Dancing with the Stars - Season 27

WWE Raw - Season 30

Sesame Street - Season 47

Kermits Swamp Years

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Season 9

The Bachelor - Season 18

The Jonathan Ross Show - Season 16

Americas Funniest Home Videos - Season 4

Americas Got Talent - Season 19

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Season 4

Dinosaurs - Season 2

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Season 4

The Christmas Toy

Dinosaurs - Season 3

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Season 10

The Cosby Show - Season 6

The Bachelorette - Season 9

The Bachelor - Season 15

Sesame Street - Season 52

Steve Whitmire'S roles

Scientist

Wembley Fraggle

Fletcher Bird

Ernie

Ernie, Muppet, Kermit the Frog, 'I Love You More or Less' male singer, 'Let's Go Driving in a Car' son, Additional Muppets, Billy Idle, Cookie Monster's Mom, Henry the Pig, J.P. Mouse...

Rizzo

Robbie Sinclair

Kermit the Frog