Background
MacFarlane was born in Kent, Connecticut.
Actor production manager writer jazz musician
MacFarlane was born in Kent, Connecticut.
Boston Conservatory.
She also voiced supreme leader Numbuh 362 in Codename: Kids Next Door and Kate Lockwell in Starcraft World War II In addition to voice acting, MacFarlane has also been involved in other aspects of animation, such as being a production manager for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Welcome to Eltingville, and she wrote an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, titled "Educating Grim". Her parents, Ronald Milton MacFarlane (born 1946) and Ann Perry Sager (1947–2010), were born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Her brother is filmmaker, animator, and voice actor Seth MacFarlane (born 1973).
She is of English, Scottish, and Irish descent.
The couple moved to Kent in 1972, where Ann began working in the Admissions Office at South Kent School. She later worked in the College Guidance and Admissions Offices at the Kent School, a selective college preparatory school where Ronald also was a teacher.
MacFarlane went to Boston Conservatory but did not graduate before moving to Los Angeles to begin a career in voice acting. MacFarlane first started voicing characters on Hanna-Barbera shows.
Then after her career on Hanna-Barbera had ended, MacFarlane then began voicing many characters on Cartoon Network.
Seth MacFarlane asked her to help him with his new pilot for the Fox Broadcasting Company, which would become Family Guy. This launched her career as a voice actress. She remained an incidental cast member on Family Guy for several years and began getting other voice-over work on her own, working for both The Walt Disney Company and Cartoon Network.
MacFarlane also continues to contribute to Family Guy, on a regular basis.
In September 2012, she released her first album Hayley Sings, which is a jazz vocal tribute to Hayley Smith, her character on American Dad!.
MacFarlane has noted her similarities to Hayley Smith on American Dad!, revealing, "We both share the same political views".