Are Seth Macfarlane’s Voices and Talents a Family Trait?
He was the youngest executive television producer at the tender age of 24, and the highest-paid writer on television at 34. Seth MacFarlane didn’t do too badly for himself in that decade. It was 2008 and he was not only looking back on a career just over a decade long that included writing animated series for some of the biggest companies in the world, he was also the man in charge of his own show, created by him, and pretty much voiced by him.
Did we say pretty much? Seth MacFarlane does almost all the voices on his hit animated series Family Guy. Not only did he take $50,000 from Fox to produce the pilot for the show in a world where most pilots are given a budget of at least $1 million in 1997, he spent six months working on his concept which would, just over a decade later, lead him to receive a $100 million contract to keep Family Guy on television for another four years. He’s been successful. But there’s something you didn’t know about MacFarlane, and that’s the small fact that his talent runs in the family. No, not his writing talent or his animated abilities; though they could, actually, run in the family – we just don’ know.
His voice talents, if you can believe it. Not only does MacFarlane provide the many voices for characters on Family Guy such as Peter, Brian, Stewie, Glenn, Jake and Tom, as well as several other lesser-known characters, his talents are shared by his sister. She’s a voice actress herself, which is just a skill that you don’t hear about being handed down through the family all that often. Granted, the vast majority of her work has been on shows either written or produced by her brother, Rachael MacFarlane has also made a career of her voice talents. It’s a family business for the MacFarlane’s, and it’s a profitable one.
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