BJ Ward

B.J. Ward 	B.J. Ward
 	
Gender: 	Female
Age: 	76
Born: 	
September 16, 1944
Character: 	Sarah (Mother)
Occupation: 	Voice Actress, Singer
Years Active:	1960-Present
Betty Jean Ward professionally known as B. J. Ward, is an American actress. She is the creator and star of Stand-Up Opera, a musical one-woman show, as well as being a licensed aviator. She has been the voice of Mother from 1993 to the present in Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress.
==Personal life==
Betty Jean Ward was born in Wilmington, Delaware.
Ward is married to Gordon Hunt. She is Helen Hunt's stepmother.
==Career==
She made her debut on the stage in 1960, in the original off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, where she was an understudy for the role of Luisa/the Girl. B.J. Ward had gotten the part by calling the producer of the show.
She toured with the Groundlings for a short while before starting her voice over career on Hanna-Barbera's Jana of the Jungle in 1978.
In 1985, she made a rare film appearance in the TV movie Malice in Wonderland alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Alexander.
Ward has also guest-starred on television series such as Frasier, ER and In-Laws.
In addition, she has also done voiceovers for theme parks, including:
*Voices for Epcot Center and Euro Disney
*The narration of the former PeopleMover attraction at Disneyland.
*"Mother" in the 1993 version of the Carousel of Progress.
*Some of the singing voices ("Burrow's Rabbit", opossums and rabbits) in Splash Mountain
*The current voice guide for It's a Small World
*She was also the safety narrator for Spaceship Earth from 1994-2007
She also sings the song "Help Your Wish Along" from the Shining Time Station episode "Becky Makes a Wish".
==Trivia==
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