Elissa Knight

Elissa’s birthplace is Santa Cruz in California, USA. Her birthday falls on the 15th of April, 1975. Elissa is an employee at Pixar Animation Studios and she works as a voice-over artist. She got her first break as a voice actress in the 2008 Oscar-winning animated adventure “WALL-E”, where she played the role of a robot named EVE (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator).

In the movie she voiced the character of a robot who comes in search of life on the planet earth, especially for the plant which still exists in the 29th century. This film was not only a massive hit and got a huge revenue collection across the globe, but it also won many awards especially at the Oscars. This film not only brought her a lot of appreciation for her voice, but also made her a celebrity.

Not many details are given about her on the internet like her family background and educational background. But she is known for her work in different animated movies worldwide. Actually Andrew Stanton Andrew Stanton was born on 3rd December, 1965 in U >> Read More... was searching for a computer sound for the voice of EVE but didn’t find one. After that Mrs. Elissa Knight was selected for the role of EVE as a voice actress. In one of her interviews she said that she was happy that Andrew decided to not opt for a computer sound for EVE’s role.

Elissa was working as an assistant for the movie “Wall E” at the heralded animation studio Pixar. Pixar often casts their own employees to voice their beloved characters. This is how she came to everybody’s attention and because of this she bagged her first film “Cars” in 2006, which was a racing-themed comedy where she played the role of Tia, one of the Mazda Miata sisters. She worked in many films from 2006-2016, but it was the movie “Wall E” which introduced her to unexpected spotlight and attention worldwide.

The director of the movie, Andrew Stanton, was struggling to find a suitable person for the vocals for Wall E’s robotic heroes and at that moment she was working at Pixar as an assistant producer and she often used to do ‘scratch voices’. This meant that she voiced over for characters temporarily and they were finally recorded over by the main actors. She did the same for Wall-E too. But Andrew Stanton liked her performance so much that he kept it for the final cut as well.

Mr. Andrew Stanton electronically manipulated knight vocals to create the unique timber of voice to suite EVE’s character. This film earned her not only a long list of fans but also many awards including the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year. She happily returned to her job at Pixar. In one of her interviews she revealed that she had not gone through Wall-E’s script prior to recording and had recorded her performance with very little preparation. It was her determination and hard work which lead the character of EVE to huge success.