Jodi Benson Movies and Career Information

Jodi Marie Marzorati (born October 10, 1961), best known as Jodi Benson, is an American voice actress and soprano singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voices of Disney's Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequels. In 2002 and 2006, she reprised the role of Ariel in the English versions of the Kingdom Hearts series. Most recently Benson voiced the high-profile animated character Barbie in the 2010 movie Toy Story 3. Benson was born Jodi Marie Marzorati in Rockford, Illinois. She attended Saint James elementary and middle school, Boylan Catholic High School and Millikin University. She currently lives in Gainesville, north Georgia with her husband, Ray Benson, and their son, McKinley, and daughter, Delaney. Benson has become well-known in popular culture for providing the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid. She even parodied this later when she provided the voice for the character of Ann Darrow in The Mighty Kong - Ann sang and swam through the water with her hair flowing about her. She also provided the voice for a character called Aquagirl in a two-part episode of Batman Beyond. In an interview with Christians in Cinema, Benson said