Mari Maurstad

"How shall children manage in this world if the dialogue in Thomas the Tank Engine is something to be 'protected from'?"

- Mari Maurstad on the show's critisism, 2015 VG interview Mari Maurstad (born on March 17th, 1957) is a Norwegian actor. She will join the Norwegian voice cast at some point.

She is the mother of fellow Thomas and Friends voice actor, Scott Maurstad.

In 2015, Mari, along with Tiril Heide-Steen, Trond Teigen, and Terje Strømdahl, was interviewed by the Norwegian newspaper "VG" about the critisism Thomas and Friends gets. She stated that she does not find the show offensive at all.