{"id":342284,"date":"2025-12-11T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342284\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:33:08","slug":"jimmy-neutron-sheen-voice-actor-was-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342284\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jimmy Neutron’ Sheen Voice Actor Was 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJeff Garcia<\/a>, the voice actor best known for playing Sheen in the \u201cJimmy Neutron<\/a>\u201d franchise, died Wednesday, Variety has confirmed. He was 50.<\/p>\n

\n\tGarcia was taken off life support on Tuesday at a hospital in Southern California, where he was surrounded by family and friends. According to TMZ, Garcia suffered from a brain aneurysm earlier this year and had a stroke several weeks ago. He was hospitalized in late November with pneumonia, but after he was discharged he continued to have health problems. Per the publication, Garcia\u2019s lung collapsed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tGarcia\u2019s Hollywood career took off with the 2001 film (and accompanying video game) \u201cJimmy Neutron: Boy Genius,\u201d in which he voiced the obsessive and hyperactive sidekick Sheen Estevez. He went on to voice the role in 59 episodes of Nickelodeon\u2019s \u201cThe Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius\u201d and a handful of TV movie spinoffs.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the success of \u201cJimmy Neutron,\u201d Garcia led a Sheen-centered spinoff, \u201cPlanet Sheen,\u201d an animated sci-fi comedy that ran for 26 episodes spanning 2010 to 2013.<\/p>\n

\n\tGarcia\u2019s recognizable voice can also be heard out of the mouth of Pip the Mouse in the \u201cBarnyard\u201d series, which included a movie, video game and TV series that ran from 2007 to 2011. He also played the penguin Rinaldo in the \u201cHappy Feet\u201d movies and had voice roles in 2010\u2019s \u201cMarmaduke\u201d and \u201cRio\u201d and its sequel.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was also a stand-up comedian who regularly performed at the Laugh Factory, and he acted in live-action projects such as the TV series \u201cMr. Box Office\u201d and the film \u201cHoly Cash.\u201d Garcia also appeared at animated conventions, where he interacted with fans who grew up on \u201cJimmy Neutron\u201d and his other work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Garcia, the voice actor best known for playing Sheen in the \u201cJimmy Neutron\u201d franchise, died Wednesday, Variety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,171483,171615],"class_list":["post-342284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jeff-garcia","tag-jimmy-neutron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}