Deedee Magno Hall

Early life

Magno Hall grew up in San Diego, California, and Orlando, Florida.

Career

Magno Hall began acting at a young age on the Disney Channel series The All New Mickey Mouse Club (first recorded in 1989) from 1989-1991, and occasionally in 1992. She also appears as Jasmine on the Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular soundtrack. She is credited as one of the students in the 1993 film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit and voiced Princess Dinner Guest in an episode of Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child.

After The Party, Magno Hall went on to perform in musical theatre, most notable was her role of Kim in the Broadway production of Miss Saigon, a role she later reprised on the national tour. She later played the role of Nessarose on the first national tour of Wicked, from December 12, 2006, to November 16, 2008. She reprised the role in the San Francisco sit-down production at the Orpheum Theatre. Performances began January 27, 2009, with an opening night of February 6, 2009. She played her final performance on September 5, 2010, when the production closed. She joined the ensemble for the US tour of If/Then in October 2015, listed as "Cathy and others" and was the understudy for Elizabeth and Kate. Magno Hall starred in the East West Players production of Next to Normal as Diana Goodman from May 12 to June 18, 2017.

Magno Hall came to wider attention for voicing Pearl on the Cartoon Network program Steven Universe from 2013 to 2019, and the follow-up series Steven Universe Future from 2019 to 2020. She also voiced other Pearls and miscellaneous characters in both series. Magno Hall provided both the spoken and singing voice for Pearl in Steven Universe: The Movie, Spinel Finds Out About Pearl's Secret Rap Career, video games such as Steven Universe: Attack the Light, Steven Universe: Save the Light, Steven Universe: The Phantom Fable, and Steven Universe: Unleash the Light, and animated shorts. Magno Hall also voiced Snuggs in the animated series Doc McStuffins, from 2016 to 2017, and three characters (Dorris, Dominel, and Pyllis) in the video game Epic Seven.

In 2021, Magno Hall voiced multiple characters, specifically Emissary, Vina, and Newscaster, in Trese and two characters in Dogs in Space, Penelope and Elder Shrubdub. She also voiced the character of Rory in Craig of the Creek, two characters in We Baby Bears (Snowball and Fairy #2), Lola Belen in an episode of Firebuds, and Queenie Santos in the video game We Are OFK. In 2023, Magno Hall voiced Miss Deer Teacher in the Disney animated series Kiff.

Personal life

Magno Hall is married to Cliffton Hall, who has starred opposite her in both Miss Saigon and Wicked national tours, and as Fiyero in the San Francisco production of Wicked. He also played the role of Dan Goodman alongside her in East West Player's production of Next to Normal. They played opposite each other as Donna Sheridan and Sam Carmichael in a Guam production of Mamma Mia!. They have two sons named Kaeden and Brycen.

Filmography

Live-action

Film

Television

Voice roles

Film

Television

Video games

Theatre

Awards and nominations

References

References

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21. Magno Hall, Deedee. (December 8, 2015). "VO gig for #Disney's #DocMcStuffins today! #funjob".
22. Magno Hall, Deedee. (October 19, 2021). "Happy to share & grateful to lend my voice to the #new #animated #series #DogsInSpace on @netflix coming soon! Also…thanks for the cool swag🐶🚀 Check out the trailer…".
23. Magno Hall, Deedee. (January 24, 2022). "I’m so grateful to have lent my voice to a character so close to my actual self, a Filipino Mom🥰 Maraming Salamat (Thank you very much) @oni_hat #LeianaNitura @ben_levin @Matt___Burnett & entire #SinkOrSwimTeam @CraigoftheCreek for this very special episode❤️".
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