Sometimes, I’m just the wrong age for the connection some people have with a person who’s been suggested for me to write about. We were too poor to go to the movies much when Follow That Bird came out, even though I’m about the right age for nostalgia with it. However, I’m too old for The Big Comfy Couch. I didn’t even have television all of those years, and the handful of years where I could actually hold a day job fell in there as well. So while there are definitely things to talk about when it comes to Alyson Court, she’s not as easy for me to connect to as I’m sure she is for some of my readers.
Court is one of the many performers to come to us from Toronto; IMDb lists over two thousand people born there. She got her start on a show I’ve never even heard of, which is fine; it appears to be a Canadian show that never really exported to the US. However, almost immediately from there, she was cast in Follow That Bird as one of the farm children who helps Big Bird. Which pretty solidly cements her into a Gen-X childhood even if you’re not from Canada. She also did voicework on Care Bears and Garbage Pail Kids and The New Archies.
She is also quite solidly in the pantheon of “why did they make a kids’ cartoon out of this?” performers. Court wasn’t just in one of those. She wasn’t just in two. In the stretch from 1991 to 1995, she was in three. Free Willy probably made the most sense for a children’s show. Then I guess would be Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. But then, of course, she also took over the role of Lydia Deetz from Winona Ryder in the animated show. (Delia, rather than being fellow Torontonian Catherine O’Hara, is Ottawa’s own Elizabeth Hanna.) It is she who goes off having wacky adventures with a ghost.
She was also Jubliation Lee on the ‘90s X-Men cartoon, which is definitely where I know her best myself. She’s been continuing the career of voicework in the years since then, voicing both children’s fare and more adult things. She’s connected with the Resident Evil franchise; I’ll admit I don’t know the series well enough to have anything to say about Claire Redfield, but fans of the games will definitely know a character who spans as many games as she does. Except for, as Wikipedia puts it, the games where “the third-party localization team overseeing voice acting and motion capture chose to go with non-union voice actors.”
And, of course, being Canadian, she did an episode of Murdoch Mysteries, albeit one I haven’t myself seen yet. She’s a Canadian actress, so it would be more surprising if she hadn’t done Murdoch yet. Especially one who is as prominent in so many people’s memories as Loonette the Clown. Sorry I didn’t have more to say about that character, folks; I literally have never seen a single episode of the show.
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