Jen Taylor
Jennifer Lee "Jen" Taylor is a voice actress who provided the voice of Princess Peach and Toad since Mario Golf up until Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. She has also provided the voices for a variety of other characters, including Toadette since her debut in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! up until Mario Party 7, Birdo in Super Mario Advance, and Princess Daisy in Mario Party 3, Mario Party 4 and Mario Party 5 replacing Jessica Chisum until Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour where she is replaced by Deanna Mustard as the current voice of Daisy.
History
Jennifer Lee Taylor was born on February 17, 1973 in Seattle, Washington, United States. She has provided the voice for many Nintendo characters, but is well known for being the voice of Princess Peach, Toad, and Toadette. In addition to doing voice-over work for Nintendo, she has also done voice-over work for Microsoft such as voicing Cortana from the Halo series and the Cortana voice assistant in the Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 operating systems, including the Cortana app for iOS and Android devices. Taylor attended school at Oxford University. She also spends a lot of time at the Seattle Children's Theatre.
After 8 years, Jen Taylor ended her career with Nintendo in 2006 to make sure she was able to work more in the Seattle's Children's Theatre, although her voice clips as Peach and Toad still continue to be reused for some of the current Mario games on an occasional basis.
Portrayals
- Mario Golf – Princess Peach / Toad (with Tomoko Maruno)
- Mario Tennis – Princess Peach / Toad
- Mario Party 3 – Princess Peach / Princess Daisy
- Super Mario Advance – Princess Peach / Toad / Birdo / Robirdo
- Luigi's Mansion – Toad
- Super Smash Bros. Melee – Princess Peach
- Super Mario Sunshine – Princess Peach / Toads
- Mario Party 4 – Princess Peach / Princess Daisy / Toad
- Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 – Princess Peach / Toad
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour – Princess Peach / Toad
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!! – Princess Peach / Toad / Toadette
- Mario Party 5 – Princess Peach / Princess Daisy / Toad
- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga – Princess Peach (Samantha Kelly in the remake)
- Mario Golf: Advance Tour – Princess Peach
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – Princess Peach
- Mario Power Tennis – Princess Peach / Toad
- Mario Party 6 – Princess Peach / Toad / Toadette
- Super Mario 64 DS – Toad
- Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix – Toad
- Mario Superstar Baseball – Princess Peach / Toad / Toadette
- Mario Tennis: Power Tour – Princess Peach
- Mario Kart Arcade GP – Princess Peach / Toad
- Super Princess Peach – Princess Peach / Toad (the last Mario game with new voice clips recorded by Jen Taylor)
- Mario Party 7 – Princess Peach / Toad / Toadette
- Mario Kart DS – Princess Peach / Toad
- Mario Hoops 3-on-3 – Princess Peach
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis – Mini Peach / Mini Toad
- Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 – Princess Peach / Toad
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games – Princess Peach / Toad
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Blue Toad (when he gets a continue)
- Mario Tennis Open – Princess Peach (reused voice clips)
- New Super Mario Bros. U – Yellow Toad (when he comes back in a bubble after losing all of his lives)
- Mario Kart Arcade GP DX – Princess Peach / Toad (reused voice clips)
- Mario Sports Superstars – Princess Peach / Pink Gold Peach (Tennis portion only other sports are voiced by Samantha Kelly, reused voice clips; in the case of Pink Gold Peach, the reused clips are filtered)
- Mario Tennis Aces – Princess Peach (with Samantha Kelly)
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – Yellow Toad (when he comes back in a bubble after losing all of his lives)
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars – Princess Peach / Toads (Super Mario Sunshine)
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Trivia
- She was one of Peach's first long running voice actresses with the second one being Samantha Kelly.
