Hyun Jeong Yang, best known as Niki Yang, is a South Korean voice actress and storyboard artist. She was born in Seoul, South Korea. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Niki is best known for her voice as Lady Rainicorn and BMO in the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time, and also voices Candy Chiu from Disney's Gravity Falls.
She is the voice of Mrs. Park in the Cartoon Network original series We Bare Bears.
Awards[]
Niki was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her designing work on Fanboy and Chum Chum[1], though she hasn't won an award yet.
Career[]
Niki first attended Hongik University, a fine arts college, for 7 years and proceeded to attend CalArts for 4 years.[2] She then worked on Family Guy after graduating from CalArts in 2003 as a storyboard revisionist, and then was promoted to be a storyboard artist.
After working with Family Guy, she proceeded to work with Frederator as a storyboard artist. She also started working with Adventure Time, providing voices for several characters. She also started working on the Nickelodeon show Fanboy and Chum Chum as a storyboard artist. After the first season of Adventure Time, she dropped her position with Frederator as a storyboard artist.
Trivia[]
- Niki is best known for her voices as Lady Rainicorn and BMO in the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time, and also voices Candy Chiu from Disney's Gravity Falls.
- Niki trained as a violinist for 7 years.
- Niki has pets; specifically dogs, but it's not specified how many or what breed they are.
- She wrote and directed a short called The Two Witch Sisters that was pitched in the series Random! Cartoons.
- She also directed a Random! Cartoons short called Victor.
- She was also a co-producer for a Random! Cartoons short called Super John Doe Junior.
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| v • e Crew | |
| Voice actors | Bobby Moynihan • Charlyne Yi • Demetri Martin • Duncan Joiner • Edi Patterson • Eric Edelstein • Estelle • Jason Lee • Jacob Hopkins • Keith Ferguson • Niki Yang • Patton Oswalt • Rodger Bumpass • Sam Lavagnino |
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| Show staff | Abe Audish • Brad Breeck • Brian A. Miller • Bert Youn • Charlie Parisi • Christina Chang • Curtis Lelash • Daniel Chong • Danny Ducker • Guillermo Martinez • Jennifer Pelphrey • Kyler Spears • Lauren Sassen • Lilit Atshemyan • Louie Zong • Madeline Sharafian • Manny Hernandez • McKenna Harris • Mikey Heller • Nate Funaro • Nooree Kim • Randy Myers • Rob Sorcher • Sarah Sobole • Tara Helfer • Teresa Hsiao • Tom Law • Violet Bruce |
| Guests | Adam Campbell • Dia Frampton • Ellie Kemper • Eric Favela • Suzie Vlček • Phil Rynda • Sue Mondt • Vera Brosgol |