Sarah Natochenny
Appearing In Person at Christchurch & Wellington
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Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth,
The Muppet Christmas Carol, Fraggle Rock, The Muppets
Mike Quinn is well known for his role as Nien Nunb, Lando’s copilot for the Millennium Falcon in Return Of The Jedi, the final Star Wars trilogy and the epic Disney Theme Park ride Rise Of The Resistance.
Other characters he assisted with in Jedi were Yoda, Jabba, Baby Ewoks, Sy Snootles, Admiral Ackbar and Ree Yees. He is also a Lead Animatronic Puppeteer for CFX, Lucasfilm’s creature department in the UK. He recently provided animatronic lip-sync and his first Star Wars voice for Dewi in the Andor TV series and puppeteered on many creatures for The Acolyte on Disney+
His career for over four decades has seen him working on both sides of the camera as a Director, Producer, Actor, Writer, Character Animator, Puppet Builder, Puppeteer and Voice Over Actor.
He was personally chosen by Jim Henson and Frank Oz in 1980 to work on many Muppet projects including The Great Muppet Caper, The Dark Crystal, Fraggle Rock (UK and Europe), Labyrinth, Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted and the ABC TV series The Muppets and Muppets Now on Disney+
Other movies and TV shows he performed in include Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Starve Acre, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Little Shop Of Horrors, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, The Storyteller, Glee, Lady Gaga and The Muppets, Good Luck Charlie, Shake It Up, Muppets Wizard Of Oz, The Secret Life Of Toys, The Ghost Of Faffner Hall, Jim Henson’s Mother Goose Stories, Jim Carrey’s Kidding and the recent Willow TV series.
Mike is also a character animator and has worked on Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life at Pixar. Attack Of The Clones and Jurassic Park 3 at ILM and was lead animator at a few game companies.
Not content with just movies, TV shows and games, Mike has also performed live, acting a principle role in the play Rope, singing live with a couple of bands and even performing Muppets at The Hollywood Bowl, The O2 in London and Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco.
Guest appears work and health commitments pending.
Panel, photo and autograph times are subject to change.
Fee applies for autographs and photos purchased.