Candi Milo began her career
as a singer working for Disney in two shows created especially for her.
She then settled in Los Angeles and worked as a stand-up comic and
singer for Princess Cruise Lines, becoming one of their youngest-ever
nightclub performers. Stints as a stand-up led her to open for Joan
Rivers and Howie Mandel as well as appear on several television shows
like Comedy Express, Evening at the Improv,
and a sketch-comedy show that was the creation of the late Brandon
Tartikoff.
A spur of the moment audition led to a role in the original touring
company of Dreamgirls directed by Michael Bennett,
choreographed by Michael Peters and starring Jennifer Holiday.
Candi moved into television in Reaching for the Stars,
a Real World-type TV movie-of-the-week where the ending included an
appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny
Carson. She then went on to be recurring characters on such hit shows
as Gimme a Break, Perfect Strangers,
Knot’s Landing, Days of Our Lives
and Empty Nest. Many other shows followed as did
feature films such as; Bad Medicine, Almost
An Angel, Dead Women In Lingerie (A
Venice Film Festival Grand Prix Winner) and I Don’t Buy
Kisses Anymore.
 But it was doing the feature film, Paramount’s Cool
World, with Brad Pitt and Kim Basinger, that Candi really
discovered her passion – animation voice-over. She voiced twelve
characters in that film, as well as threw lines to the actors on the
set, helping to create the glances and reactions the actors used in the
film. From there it was Steven Speilberg’s Tiny Toon
Adventures and Hanna Barbera’s stable of actors. To date she
has created over 200 characters for cartoons.
Currently, she plays Nick Dean, one of the stars of the Academy Award
Nominated Film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and is
currently at work on the series that will debut this fall. She also
stars as Dexter, in Cartoon Network’s hit show Dexter’s
Laboratory. She plays all four lead characters in Warner
Brother’s new show, Mucha Lucha! and plays Ms. Diaz
in Disney’s new show, Stanley. Candi hopes that
Cartoon Network will pick up a great pilot called Private Eye
Princess in which she plays the bumbling, inept, yet
strangely lovable princess.
In animation, she has had the honor of working with many great actors
including the late Mel Blanc, the late Vincent Price and the brilliant
Brock Peters.
Commercials are great for keeping the acting muscle working and Candi
has appeared in over 300 voice and on-camera spots. Her campaigns have
included Mervyn’s department stores (She still
can’t walk into a Mervyn’s without somebody coming up to her and
saying, “Open! Open! Open!”), Perkin’s Family Restaurants,
Southern States Ford and Rhodes
Furniture stores.
Currently Candi is writing her second feature film script as her first,
her life story, entitled Milo’s Arms is currently
in consideration by Hallmark Entertainment.
She also performs a stand-up/pop show called; Hip Is A
Relative Term. Her other one-woman shows; Life’s
Too Short…And So Am I (produced by Academy Award winner
Marlee Matlin), Playing Well With Others and I
Am Absolutely Exhausted, were mounted to high acclaim in Los
Angeles.
This hard-working single mother currently resides in California with
her daughter.
Candi Milo
is represented by Mark Measures and Mark Quinn at Abrams
Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA. (310) 728-1050.
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