Kathleen Herles voices Mami, center, on "Dora," the Paramount Plus reboot of "Dora the Explorer." Mami, Papi and Dora’s twin baby siblings are a bigger part of the story on the new show. From 1997 to 2009, Kathleen Herles was the voice of Dora in Nickelodeon’s bilingual animated series “Dora the Explorer.” That memorable, amiable, high-pitched squeal that kids played on repeat? That was her.
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“I know I lost the passion for acting in my early 20s,” Herles says, “and once I got this opportunity and this door opened — which they don’t open often in this industry — I really did have to think to myself, ‘Is this something that I want?’ When I said yes, and I got the part, all those memories came flooding back. I remember stepping into the booth for the first time to record for the show, and I never felt so safe.