Anna Kendrick is an American actress and singer. She's the voice actress of Poppy in Trolls, Trolls Holiday, Trolls World Tour, Trolls: Holiday in Harmony, and Trolls Band Together.
Biography[]
Anna Kendrick was born on August 9, 1985, in Portland, Maine to parents Janice Kendrick and William Kendrick.
Kendrick started her career as a child in theather productions. She received a Tony Award nomination for her work in the Broadway musical High Society in 1998, and then made her film debut in 2003's Camp.
Before Trolls, Kendrick had starred in other musicals such as Pitch Perfect and Into the Woods. She had starred in the animated film ParaNorman as Courtney Babcock as well.
Roles[]
- Poppy in Trolls, Trolls Holiday, Trolls World Tour, Trolls: Holiday in Harmony, Adventures in Perfect Harmony, Trolls Band Together and It Takes Three.
- In Trolls, she sings Move Your Feet / D.A.N.C.E. / It's A Sunshine Day, Get Back Up Again, True Colors and Can't Stop the Feeling!.
- In Trolls Holiday, she sings Love Train, Lookin' For A Holiday, The Holla-Day For You, Double-Down Speed Round and Holiday.
- In Trolls World Tour, she sings Trolls Wanna Have Good Times, Trolls 2 Many Hits Mashup, the movie version of Perfect For Me and Just Sing.
- In Trolls: Holiday in Harmony, she sings Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) and Together Now.
- In Trolls Band Together, she sings Let's Get Married, BroZone's Back, It Takes Three, Better Place (Family Harmony) and Family.
- Minor characters, including "Anxious Child", in Trolls.
Interviews[]
Trivia[]
- Poppy's design was partly inspired by Kendrick, even before she was casted.
- Kendrick admitted that Poppy is a bit of her opposite, so she thought it was fun to explore the regions of constant optimism.
- Kendrick also said that she and Poppy are both known to sometimes randomly burst into song, but unlike Poppy, she tries to stop it in public.
- In contrast to Poppy, Kendrick said that she doesn't like hugs very much, and would feel awkward when hugged by cast members.
- Anna Kendrick previously worked with Christopher Mintz-Plasse in ParaNorman, Pitch Perfect and Get a Job.
- Anna Kendrick previously worked with James Corden and Christine Baranski in Into the Woods.
- Anna Kendrick previously worked with Jeffrey Tambor in The Accountant.
- Anna Kendrick previously worked with Ester Dean in Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 2 and Pitch Perfect 3.
- Anna Kendrick previously worked with Kenan Thompson in Saturday Night Live.
- Anna Kendrick previously worked with Sam Rockwell in Digging for Fire and Mr. Right.
- Anna Kendrick previously worked with Andrew Rannells in A Simple Favor and worked again with him in Another Simple Favor.
- Anna Kendrick worked again with Ron Funches in Noelle.