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Benni Latham is a commercial and voice actor who grew up with a love for cartoons and comic books. She grew up watching Nickelodeon as a kid, and dreamed of one day voicing a character on the iconic network. This self-proclaimed nerd from Compton, California was once a TSA agent at LAX airport for over a decade. While studying improv at Groundlings and UCB, her love of performing was reignited and she quit her job to pursue acting full time. As fate would have it, she booked her first national commercial playing a TSA agent for Samsung. Since then, she has booked some amazing campaigns working with the likes of Carnie Wilson and Kevin Hart.Benni is ecstatic about making her animation debut in the role of Ranger Malto for Transformers Earth Spark. This marks her first series regular role. Her journey from Compton to Hollywood is proof that childhood dreams do come true.Host james Lott jr asks her questions from how to protect your voice to following your dreams!