Karen Leigh Prell is best known as the performer of Red Fraggle in Fraggle Rock. Prell was born in Florida, but grew up in Seattle, Washington. She also performed some characters in other Jim Henson films, and has enjoyed a significant second career as a computer animator for such studios as Pixar and DNA. In Sesame Street, she performed Deena Monster, which was a background character in the classic Sesame Street. Her website includes notes about working with Jim Henson and pictures of her custom puppets. Prell married fellow mupeteer Mike Quinn. They lived for a decade in England before moving to California to work for Pixar. She was an animator for Geri?s Game and also worked on animation of A Bug's Life. Prell currently works as an animator with Valve Corporation. [More at Wikipedia]

1959 in Florida