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Lore & Background

Clarke began his acting career in The Hollywood Palace as The King Family Show. He continued to perform with his family on various television specials until the 1980s when he got his first voice acting roles in Snorks and Robotech. He was taught by Michael Bell. To date, Clarke has voiced over four hundred titles. From 1987 until 1996, Cam Clarke would most notably portray Leonardo, the leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Rocksteady, one of the show's antagonists. Clarke would reprise the role of Leonardo in non-musical spoken portions of the first show of the TMNT: Coming Out of Their Shells concerts designed around the Ninja Turtle characters held at Radio City Music Hall, though the later VHS tape released of the event leaves him uncredited.

In Their Own Story

Clarke is the nephew to guitarist Alvino Rey and pianist Buddy Cole, cousin to actress Tina Cole, actor and TMNT co-star Pat Fraley, and writer Chris Conkling, half brother to musicians Ric and Lex de Azevedo, and uncle to voice actress Emilie Brown and actress Rachel Coleman. Clarke is gay, and his experiences inspired his album Inside Out, which changed pronouns in lyrics of classic songs and his one-man autobiographical play Stop Me If I Told You This. Clarke is a survivor of HIV, having lived with it for decades.

Reader's Guide

Clarke's filmography includes animation, anime dubbing, films (feature films and direct-to-video and television films), video games, live-action, audio books (The Mystery of Smuggler's Cove (1985) Hardy Boys), theater (Noah: The Musical – Citizen of Land of Nod; Stop Me If I Told You This – Himself), and other works (The Dark Crystal – Jen (read-along cassette story recording); "The World of Snoopy" – Snoopy (animatronic toy and read-along cassette series); Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable – Simba; American Psycho – FanMoy). Staff work includes Christmas with the King Family – Consulting producer; Labyrinth of Crete – Casting director; Rachel & the TreeSchoolers – Casting director. Discography includes Inside Out (1999), Return to Pride Rock: Songs Inspired by Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, and Saturday's Warrior (Original Cast Recording) (1978).

Did You Know?

• Cam Clarke served as Matthew Broderick's singing voice for Simba in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.
• Clarke is the nephew to guitarist Alvino Rey and pianist Buddy Cole.
• He is a survivor of HIV, having lived with it for decades.
• Clarke voiced both Leonardo and Rocksteady in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series.
• His one-man autobiographical play is titled Stop Me If I Told You This.