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Jacob Hopkins

Cast · Known for The Amazing World of Gumball

Best known for doing the voice Gumball Watterson on the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball.

Chris Garbutt

Chris Garbutt is the Head of Story on Bad Fairies with Rikke Asbjoern. He is the co-creator, writer, director, and executive producer of both the animated interactive Netflix movie, We Lost Our Human, and the Netflix/Nickelodeon animated series, Pinky Malinky. Hailing from the north of England, Chris’ love for comics, cartoons, and storytelling has taken him from scribbling silly doodles on his bedroom floor in Yorkshire, to doing the same for studios in London, Paris, and Los Angeles. He has worked in the animation industry in feature films, TV series, commercials, and short films for over twenty years, enjoying various roles from creating, show-running, executive producing, writing, directing, production design, and art directing, to storyboarding, character design and background design. He has worked at Dreamworks, Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, Aardman, and DNEG, on animated projects such as the Gorillaz, Trolls, Puss In Boots, The Smurfs, Angry Birds, the Amazing World of Gumball, the Mr Bean Animated Series, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Robotboy and Stressed Eric.

Kwesi Boakye

Cast · Known for The Amazing World of Gumball

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye (KWAY-see boo-ah-CHEE; born April 6, 1999) is an American actor. He is best known as the original voice of Darwin, Gumball's best friend and adoptive brother on the Cartoon Network animated TV series The Amazing World of Gumball. He also voiced Gossamer on The Looney Tunes Show and The Passenger on Bravest Warriors. He also played Manny in the 2009 Tyler Perry film I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kwesi Boakye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Logan Grove

Cast · Known for The Amazing World of Gumball

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Logan Parker Grove is an American actor who starred in the 2006 film Arc. He guest starred on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, ER, Medium, and Untold Stories of the ER. He will soon star in Mr. Woodcock, Christmas Every Day, and The Angriest Man in Suburbia. He was also scheduled to star in the Disney Channel spin-off of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody called Arwin!, which was not picked up by Disney. He has also been cast as voice talent of Garfield Logan (Beast Boy) in the show: "Young Justice". Grove plays the voice of the titular character in the Cartoon Network show titled The Amazing World of Gumball (premiering in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2011 and in the U.S. precisely a week after its U.K. premiere). Description above from the Wikipedia article Logan Grove, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Dan Russell

Cast · Known for The Amazing World of Gumball

Dan Russell is a prolific American voice actor and director based in London, most famous for voicing Richard Watterson (the dad) in the award-winning series The Amazing World of Gumball.

Jon Foster

Jon Foster is a BAFTA and EMMY winning Film and Television writer who is mostly known for writing Paddington in Peru, The Adventures of Paddington, Wasted, and The Amazing World of Gumball. He also co-wrote the Jubilee sketch where Paddington met the Queen. He mostly writes in collaboration with James Lamont.

Jon Brittain

Jon Brittain (born May 1987) is an Olivier Award-winning playwright, comedy writer and director who was born in Chester in the northwest of England and grew up in the Netherlands.[1] He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in 2008.[2] His play Rotterdam received its world premiere at Theatre503 in October 2015[3] and subsequently received an Off West End Award nomination for Best New Play.[4] In 2017, the play won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement In An Affiliate Theatre.[5] He was also nominated for the Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for the Most Promising Playwright.[6] Previously, he co-wrote and directed the hit show Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho, starring Matt Tedford.[7] He also directed stand-up comedian John Kearns's Fosters' Award winning shows Sight Gags for Perverts and Shtick.[8] Jon also directed Tom Allen, Tom Rosenthal, Mat Ewins and Richard Gadd who won Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Scotsman Fringe First Award for New Writing based on his play Baby Reindeer. In television, he was a writer during season 2 of The Amazing World of Gumball, Netflix’s The Crown and has created and starred in HodgePodge.[6]

Sam Fletcher

Sam Fletcher is an actor, writer and comedian. His charming, quirky brand of comedy landed him a nomination for the FOSTERS EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS, and he continues to perform regularly on the comedy circuit. As an actor he has appeared in TED LASSO (AppleTV), DREAMLAND (SKY), SHAMELESS (C4),LIFE'S TOO SHORT (BBC), DNN (CBBC) and Disney feature film 'PATRICK'. As a comedy writer, Sam supplies jokes and material for a variety of light entertainment programmes including Comic Relief, THE GENERATION GAME (BBC) Amazon Prime's BACKSTAGE WITH KATHERINE RYAN and the BAFTA Television Awards, as well as writing sketches and dialogue for DNN (CBBC), Radio 4 and EMMY award winning animation THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL. Most recently Sam has been working as Associate Producer and writer for Broadcast Digital Award winning show MEL GIEDROYC: UNFORGIVABLE on Dave.

Steve Small

Production Design · Known for Mr. Bean: The Animated Series

Steve Small has worked in animation for over thirty years as a director, designer, and animator. The work has varied from working on Disney features to designing and directing shorts, TV series, and commercials at Studio AKA. He is also the illustrator of I’m Sticking with You and the author and illustrator of The Duck Who Didn’t Like Water, Wellington’s Big Day Out, and Brave Little Bear. Steve lives in London, and when he’s not painting and drawing, you’ll likely find him feeding the crows on Blackheath Common or or dancing with foxes. The Amazing World of Gumball character Mr. Steven "Steve" Small is named after Steve.

Nicolas Cantu

Cast · Known for Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sofia the First, The Amazing World of Gumball

Nicolas Cantu (born September 8, 2003), known by his internet pseudonyms junky janker and TheCAN2Network, is an American actor, internet personality, video producer, and former animator. Cantu is best known for being the third voice of Gumball Watterson in the Cartoon Network animated television series The Amazing World of Gumball (2017–2019) and the voice of Leonardo in the animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) and its Nickelodeon television adaptation Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2024). Cantu is also well known for starring as Elton Ortiz in the AMC television series The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020–2021) and as Hark in the film The Fabelmans (2022). His YouTube channel has over 425,000 subscribers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolas Cantu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Teresa Gallagher

Cast · Known for Octonauts, The Amazing World of Gumball, Thomas & Friends

Teresa Gallagher is an American-born British actress, voice actress, and singer who is known for her roles in several animated television shows, such as Nicole Watterson, Margaret Robinson, Penny Fitzgerald, and various characters in The Amazing World of Gumball; Annie, Clarabel, Emily, Rosie, Mavis, Gina, Frieda, and numerous characters in Thomas & Friends; Egbert and Gilda in Poppy Cat; EOS and various guest characters in Thunderbirds Are Go; Elias and Helinor in Elias: Rescue Team Adventures; and the Tiddlytubbies in the 2015 reboot of Teletubbies. For Disney, she voiced Mater's computer in Disney/Pixar's Cars 2 and its video game; the titular character in the U.K. version of Henry Hugglemonster; Dashi in the Disney Junior British series The Octonauts; and Jessica Wright, Mallory, and Lolo Calorie in the Disney XD British/French series Dude, That's My Ghost!.

Naomi McDonald

Naomi McDonald is a British-American actress, voice artist, comedian, and impressionist currently based in London, England. She voices Clare, Fake Muriel, the rotten cupcake, Brydie, the flight attendant in "The Anybody" and onwards, and Banana Barbara in "The Singing" and season 6 on The Amazing World of Gumball.

Peter Thomas

Cast · Known for NOVA

Peter Addenbrooke Thomas was an American announcer and narrator of television programs with a career spanning more than 70 years, most well known for narrating the long-running true-crime series Forensic Files. Thomas performed voice-overs for hundreds of television commercials including Coca-Cola, IBM, Valvoline, NBC, United Technologies, Burger King, Beaumont Health and ESPN Monday Night Football commercials, as well as spots for social organizations including the YWCA and The Episcopal Church. He was in high demand for political advertisements and did several films for the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs. He also narrated the orientation video for the National World War I Museum at The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. He narrated the Readers Digest video series The Crucial Turning Points of World War II. He also narrated the NCAA's official highlight film of the 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Thomas was heard in Paul Hardcastle's 1985 hit song "19," which Hardcastle composed after being inspired by a 1984 ABC documentary on the Vietnam War, titled Vietnam Requiem, which Thomas narrated. He narrated the Troll Associates series of audiobooks for children, including "Amazing World of Dinosaurs." He narrated the CD version of Tuck Everlasting, a novel by Natalie Babbitt. Thomas provided the digitized voice for Philips' HeartStart series of automated external defibrillator (AED) units used by emergency services nationwide. Thomas' voice prompts and instructs emergency personnel on when to perform tasks. Thomas was the announcer of the underwriting credits on the Nature TV series on PBS from the early 1980s through 2015. He also was the announcer of the underwriting credits for the NOVA TV series on PBS from 1988 through 1996. Thomas died on April 30, 2016, at the age of 91. He was memorialized at the end of the first episode of Forensic Files II which aired on February 23, 2020.

Tosh Wanogho-Maud

Tosh began on the West End as a child, starring as Young Simba in Disney’s The Lion King. Wanogho-Maud went on to study at the BRIT school for Performing Arts & Technology and graduated from Bird College of Dance and Theatre Performance. Thereafter, he won starring roles in West End productions of Show Boat and The Book of Mormon, as well as numerous other touring shows around the country. Tosh’s status as leading man was crystalised via the part of Jimmy Early in Dreamgirls at The Savoy Theatre in 2018, after which he began to diversify into film and television; securing credits in Netflix’s Bridgeton and Jingle Jangle, as well as BBC’s Roadkill. 2021 saw some of his biggest role(s) to date, as one of the five stars of Michael Harrison’s The Drifters Girl at The Garrick Theatre. Alongside Oliver Winners Beverley Knight, Matt Henry MBE, the all black cast and co-creator team told the decades-spanning story of The Drifters and their female manager, Faye Treadwell. Alongside waitresses, record execs and a gamete of other characters, The Drifters Girl saw Tosh bring musical legends Ben E. King and Rudy Lewis to life via songs like Stand By Me and Under The Boardwalk. Shortly after the Drifters ended their run on the West End, Tosh traveled to Toronto/Egypt for a Pharaoh-stopping star-turn in Joseph & The Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat. It was seven fat cows by night and rehearsals for the biggest challenge of his career by day…the role of David Ruffin in the brand-new transfer of Broadway’s Aint Too Proud, opening in April 2023 and playing at the Prince Edward Theatre until 2024. Outside of Theatre, Tosh is an avid reader, writer, gym-goer and self-described geek; one who hopes to answer the call for greater representation behind-the-scenes and in positions of power by producing stories of his own in the world of the arts that he knows so well. Whilst weathering the post-pandemic alongside his contemporaries Tosh continues to add to his past work alongside some of entertainment’s biggest names, as well as forge ahead in new multi-faceted, equitable, minority-lead roles on both stage and screen.

Takayo Fischer

Cast · Known for The Pursuit of Happyness

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Takayo Fischer (born November 25, 1932) is an American stage, film and TV actress, as well as voice-over actress and singer. Personal life Fischer was born in Hardwick, California, the daughter of Issei (Japanese immigrants) Chukuro and Kinko Tsubouchi. During World War II, as a young child, she and her family were forcibly evacuated from the West Coast and spent time in the Fresno Assembly Center before being relocated to Jerome and Rohwer internment camps. Fischer later lived in Chicago, Illinois, where, as a young adult, she won the crown of "Miss Nisei Queen." She attended Rollins College from 1951-1953. After her 2nd year at Rollins College she married Dean Doran the day after he graduated from Rollins, in the college chapel, and had 3 children by him within 4 years. Toya: (1954), John (1956) Juliet (1957.). She married Sy Fischer, 2nd husband, (an entertainment executive) on November 29, 1980 . Her 2nd husband has 2 children Stewart and Peter. She resides in Los Angeles. Career Fischer appeared in the stage production of The World of Suzie Wong in New York in 1958. She won a Drama-Logue Award for ensemble performance for Tea at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. She has also appeared in many productions with East West Players in Los Angeles, including Into The Woods. She toured the U.S. and Europe in The Peony Pavilion in 1997. Fischer has appeared in many big-budget films, including Moneyball, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) as Mistress Ching, The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) as Mrs. Chu, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and War of the Worlds (2005). She has also worked on many independent Asian American films including Americanese (2009), Only the Brave (2005), Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story (2004) and Strawberry Fields (1997). Fischer has had numerous guest-starring roles on network television including FX's It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia as a North Korean bar owner named Mr. Kim. She is sometimes credited as "Takayo Doran." Voice work Fischer has also done voices in several cartoon programmes. Some of her well-known roles included Mister T, Battle of the Planets, Rubik the Amazing Cube, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Saturday Supercade, The Flintstone Kids, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, The Karate Kid, Capitol Critters, The Centurions, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show, The Heathcliff and Dingbat Show, Super Friends, Thundarr the Barbarian, Rambo, Wildfire, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited and Avatar: The Last Airbender. She has also reprised her role as Mistress Ching in the video game version of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Eileen Tepper

Eileen Tepper most recently created the role of Mrs. E in Playground in the New York Theater festival. Prior to that, she played Dolores in the world premiere of Cutman at Goodspeed-at-Chester. Previously, she had the honor of playing the role of Rose Gellman in Caroline, Or Change at TheatreWorks Palo Alto. Eileen played Aunt Annie and Mary the Tart in the critically acclaimed world premiere of Bookends at New Jersey Repertory Company. Ms. Tepper has played the role of Tzeitel in several national tours and regional theater productions of Fiddler on the Roof starring Theodore Bikel. Her other tours include Les Misérables (Factory Girl/Fantine) and Starlight Express (Starlight Chorus). Some of her favorite roles were Golde in Fiddler on the Roof at the Fireside Dinner Theatre, Edwin in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Candlewood Playhouse, and the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Genetti's Dinner Theater. Ms. Tepper has also been seen on TV in Law & Order: SVU, All My Children and As the World Turns. Ms. Tepper is proud to be a member of Actor’s Equity Association.

John Schwartzman

Cinematographer · Known for Armageddon, Jurassic World Dominion, Meet the Fockers

John Leonard Schwartzman, A.S.C., is an American cinematographer who is best known for his work on Jurassic World, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Rock and Seabiscuit, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Schwartzman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Louis Cancelmi

Cast · Known for Mayday, The Bride!, The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Louis Cancelmi (born 9 June 1978, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American stage and film actor who studied Theater at Yale College. He is a frequent performer with the Public Theater, appearing at both its Astor Library home and the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (including The Tempest in Shakespeare in the Park, 2015). He is best known for playing Mike D'Angelo in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2014, 6 episodes), Victor Mateo in Showtime's Billions (2016–2023, 45 episodes), Sally Bugs in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman (2019), and Kelsie Morrison in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He is married to actress Elisabeth Waterston (m. 2006), whose father is actor Sam Waterston. His filmography includes The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014, as the Man in Black Suit), 21 Bridges (2019), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021, as Richard Fletcher), Pet Shop Days (2023), Sorry, Baby (2025), In the Hand of Dante (2026, dual roles as Lefty / Guido da Polenta), and The Bride! (2026). On television he has also appeared in Blue Bloods (2015–2016, as Thomas Wilder), The Looming Tower (2018, as Vince Stuart, 10 episodes), A Murder at the End of the World (2023, as Todd Andrews, 7 episodes), The Penguin (2024, as Rex Calabrese), and Government Cheese (2025, as Jean-Guy Prevost, 5 episodes).

Howard E. Baker

3 time EMMY award winning director of animated TV Shows (The Rugrats, Aeon Flux, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Hero Factory), Films (The Reef, The Adventures of Clutch Powers, The Unstable Fables), Commercials (LEGO Cars), Theme Park Attractions (The Amazing Spiderman - Universal, Animayhem - Warner Bros. World, Cupfusion - Hershey's, Angry Birds - Thorpe Park) and more!

Eiji Tsuburaya

Writer · Producer · Known for Godzilla, Ultraseven

Eiji Tsuburaya ranks alongside Willis H. O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen as one of the great visionary SFX masters of twentieth-century fantasy cinema. Best remembered as the amazing special effects genius behind the "Godzilla" series of monster films commencing in 1954, he also contributed effects to a host of other Japanese monster / fantasy / science fiction / drama / propaganda films for over four decades. Eiji Tsuburaya had a keen interest in the cinema from a young age, and legend has it that he acquired a second-hand movie projector when he was only ten years old, and pulled it apart and put it back together with relative ease. He began work as a cinematographer in Kyoto around 1919 and then enhanced his skills to include camera work throughout the 1920s, at which time his eye for detail was in high demand from many studios. Around 1938, he became head of Special Visual Techniques at Toho Studios, and during the Second World War, he was involved in the production of several Japanese propaganda films. He went freelance after the war, and in 1954 he collaborated with director Ishirô Honda on the monster epic Gojira (1954) (aka "Godzilla"). The film was an enormous hit in Japan, and additional scenes were filmed with US actor Raymond Burr and then inserted strategically to give the movie western appeal. "Godzilla, King Of The Monsters" was then released in the USA to strong box office takings, and Godzilla has since appeared in over two dozen films spanning over fifty years, becoming a key cult icon of Japanese culture!! The incredibly talented Tsuburaya went on to be the SFX director behind dozens of Japanese monster & science fiction classics including Sora no daikiju Radon (1956) (aka "Rodan"), Bijo to ekitai ningen (1958) (aka "The H-Man"), Densô ningen (1960) (aka "The Telegian"), Mosura (1961) (aka "Mothra"), Kingu Kongu tai Gojira (1962) (aka "King Kong versus Godzilla"), Varan the Unbelievable (1962), Matango (1963), Furankenshutain tai chitei kaiju Baragon (1965) (aka "Frankenstein Conquers the World"), and Kaiju soshingeki (1968) (aka "Destroy All Monsters" ). Tsuburaya had also established his own production company in 1963 (Tsuburaya Productions), creators of the highly popular "Ultraman" character, and subsequent TV shows and films. On January 25, 1970, while vacationing in Shizuoka Prefecture, Tsuburaya suffered a sudden, fatal heart attack. His incredible film & SFX production company is still active today under the guidance of his grandson, Kazuo Tsuburaya.

Sim Evan-Jones

Editor · Known for Shrek, Shrek 2, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Sim worked for Stephen Spielberg's Amblimation in London during the early nineties. In 1995 he moved to Los Angeles as one of the first employees of DreamWorks Animation, working on the Prince of Egypt and then cutting the Oscar winning Shrek and Shrek 2 for director Andrew Adamson, as well as helping out on Madagascar. Sim continued working with Adamson at Disney in New Zealand, editing The Chronicles of Narnia; the Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and returned to the UK in 2007 to cut the The Chronicles of Narnia; Prince Caspian. Sim went on to edit Hippy, Hippy, Shake for Beeban Kidron and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang for Susanna White, both at Working Title. He spent some time in New Zealand, again with Andrew Adamson, cutting Cirque du Soleil's World’s Away 3D, shot in Las Vegas, and MrPip, starring Hugh Laurie, shot in Papua New Guinea. Sim was consultant editor on the 3D effects movie Pompeii, and the animated movies Free Birds and Book of Life for Dallas' RealFX. In 2014 Sim joined the Aardman Animations team in Bristol, for Oscar nominated, Shaun the Sheep the Movie. He then worked with the amazing Nick Park, editing his 2018 release Early Man. After that came Shaun the Sheep; Farmageddon which was also Oscar nominated. In 2020 Sim moved back to London to help on Locksmith’s Ron’s Gone Wrong and is currently heading up editing on their Richard Curtis written, Simon Otto directed That Christmas, due out on Netflix Christmas 2024.

Joey Graceffa

Joey Graceffa is a leading digital creator, actor, and producer, best known for his scripted and vlog format videos on YouTube. Joey has also competed on two seasons of The Amazing Race. He is the author of the instant #1 New York Times bestselling memoir In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World and the bestselling teen dystopian novels, Children of Eden, Elites of Eden and Rebels of Eden (out October 2, 2018). In 2013, Joey produced and starred in his own Kickstarter–funded supernatural series, Storytellers, for which he won a Streamy Award. In 2016, he debuted his new show Escape the Night, a “surreality” competition series for YouTube Premium that is currently streaming its third season. Joey is also the CEO of his own jewelry & lifestyle brand, Crystal Wolf and supports various nonprofit organizations for literacy, children’s health and wellness, and animal welfare. Joey resides in Los Angeles, California with his partner Daniel Preda and their three dogs.

Ken Kristensen

Writer · Known for Marvel's The Punisher

Ken Kristensen is an American screenwriter, television writer, and comic book author. Kristensen has served as writer-producer on multiple series, including Shantaram (Apple TV+/Paramount), The Continental: From the World of John Wick(Peacock/Lionsgate TV), Echo (Disney+/Marvel), Spidey and his Amazing Friends (Disney Junior/Marvel), The Punisher (Netflix/Marvel) and Happy! (SyFy) and authored comic book series published by Image Comics, IDW Publishing, and Dark Horse Comics. His television pilots have been developed at UCP, HBO, FX, A&E, Paramount Network, and Pivot TV. Kristensen is also a member of the Writers Guild of America West, Producers Guild of America, The Animation Guild, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Kristensen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Siobhan Finneran

Cast · Known for Time, Downton Abbey

Siobhan Margaret Finneran is an English television and film actress. She made her screen debut in the 1987 independent film Rita, Sue and Bob Too, and subsequently worked consistently in television drama including roles in Coronation Street (1989–1990), Clocking Off (2000–2002) and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006). In 2005, Finneran originated the lead female role in the stage play On the Shore of the Wide World and was awarded the Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Also a comedy performer, Finneran appeared as Janice Garvey, a leading character in the first seven series of ITV sitcom Benidorm (2007–2015). Later television roles include portraying a lawyer in the mini-series Unforgiven (2009), an embittered servant in the first three series of the costume drama Downton Abbey (2010–2012) and a recovering addict in Happy Valley (2014–2023), for which she was nominated for the 2017 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later film credits include Mrs Swift in the 2013 film release The Selfish Giant, which earned her a British Independent Film Award nomination. Finneran is also a prolific television documentary narrator. Finneran was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, then in Lancashire, to Irish parents. She moved with her family to Saddleworth as a young child, and has lived in the area ever since. During childhood Finneran was always drawn to the performing arts and was a fan of the celebrated English comedian Eric Morecambe, recalling that "as a little girl I wanted to be Eric Morecambe. Not to be like him but to actually be him". She completed a theatre studies course. In 2023, Finneran became patron for Manchester based charity Contact Hostel, an organisation that provides support and accommodation for teenage girls facing homelessness.