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Kevin Clash

American puppeteer · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1960 · age 66

Kevin Jeffrey Clash is an American puppeteer, director and producer best known for puppeteering Elmo on Sesame Street from 1985 to 2012. He also performed puppets for Labyrinth, Dinosaurs, Oobi, and various Muppet productions.

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2025The First Snow of Fraggle RockFilm2019The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceSeries, Gruenak (voice) / Various Characters (puppet)2018The Happytime MurdersFilm, Bumblypants / Lyle (voice)2014Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesFilm2012Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's ProgramAward2011Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's JourneyFilm2006The GameSeriesA Sesame Street Christmas CarolFilm, 2006i-SAM / Elmo (voice)2004The Tony Danza ShowSeriesSesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!Film, 2004Director2002I Love MuppetsFilm2001ScrubsSeries, Elmo (voice)1999RoveSeries, ElmoCinderElmoFilm, 1999Elmo (voice)1997Sesame Street: Elmo Says BOO!Film, Elmo1995Mr. Willowby's Christmas TreeFilm, Father Mouse (voice)1993Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical CelebrationFilm, Elmo / Baby Natasha / Hoots the Owl (voice)1992Dog CitySeries, Eliot Shag (voice)1991DinosaursSeries, Baby Sinclair (voice)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the OozeFilm, 1991Splinter1989Dog CityFilm, Ace Yu (voice)1986LabyrinthFilm, The Four Guards / Firey 1 / Ambrosius (voice)1983Reading RainbowSeries1981The Great Space CoasterSeries, Goriddle Gorilla1960Born17 September 1960

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  • Jim Henson Idea Man 2024
  • Labyrinth 1986
  • Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey 2011
  • Tour de Pharmacy 2017
  • Muppet Treasure Island 1996

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program2012

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Born 1960 · age 66

In the same film or series as Kevin

Keri RussellAlso in CinderElmo (1999)Kevin JamesAlso in Elmo's Christmas Countdown (2007)Maya AngelouAlso in Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)MC FrontalotAlso in Sesame Street: Elmo's Potty Time (2006)Bill IrwinAlso in Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! (2004)