Betty Jean "B.J." Ward is an American actress, voice actress, and singer. She is the creator and star of Stand-Up Opera, a musical one-woman show, as well as being a licensed aviator she also voiced Winnie Woodpecker in the 1999-2002 New Woody Woodpecker show.
She has done several voice roles for Disney, primarily in the theme parks. Among them are:
- Sarah in Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
- The safety spiel announcer for the SeaCabs in The Living Seas[1]
- The narrator of Disneyland's PeopleMover
- The safety spiel announcer on It's a Small World
- Several singing voices in Splash Mountain, including Mother Possum and Mother Rabbit in the Disneyland version
- The unload platform spiel announcer in Walt Disney World's Peter Pan's Flight
- Various spiels on the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover
- Various spiels on Spaceship Earth
- Various voices in Epcot and Disneyland Paris
She also voiced Harmond in TaleSpin, Birdie McQuack and Loopey McQuack in DuckTales, Gloria Swansong in Darkwing Duck, Fleance in Gargoyles, Halinor Clarkson and The Mage in W.I.T.C.H., and a Street Mother in The Return of Jafar.