Biography

Dean is an American actor and is the co founder/creator and Disc jockey on Radio Disney from 1994-1999 Season 4-11, but left the company in order to dedicate his time to voicing Barney the Dinosaur in 2001. Although he is best known for Barney's current voice, Dean Wendt also does many other voices for commercials. Before voicing Barney, Dean was a DJ for Radio Disney. To date, Dean Wendt is the longest lasting voice actor for Barney (voicing the character for 14 years). Despite the show's hiatus in 2009, Dean did voice Barney for the 25 Million Hugs Campaign, as well as Barney's appearance at CPTV's 50th Anniversary Special, the app Learn English with Barney, and the new version of the Barney website. Award winning international Voice Artist Dean Wendt has been described as the next new voice. He is conversational, believable, friendly, real. He is the voice of the Tampa Bay Suns and the voice of Barney the Dinosaur, just to name a few. Does character voices like Elmo, Homer Simpson, Bill Clinton, Obama, Bush, Jack Nicholson. Impersonations, sound alike, conversational vocal range from young adult, middle aged and senior, 20's, 30's, 40's something. He also can do accents - Neutral, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Southern, New York, Midwestern, Redneck, Goombah, French, German, Spanish/Hispanic, Italian, Asian, and many others!
- IMDb mini biography by: Dean Wendt