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Cynthia Songé (September 26, 1951, Hollywood, California -- May 19, 2010, Arroyo Grande, California)1 was an American actress, voice actress, casting director, and voiceover educator.2 She built a career spanning stage, film, television, and animation over four decades, and became a widely respected teacher and advocate for the voiceover craft. She is known to Ghostbusters fans for her guest appearance on Extreme Ghostbusters.
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Cynthia Songé was born on September 26, 1951, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.1 She graduated from UCLA before entering the entertainment industry as a stage performer and director.2
After completing her studies at UCLA, Songé worked as an actor and director and became a member of the Ensemble Studio Theater, an off-Broadway company known for developing new American playwrights.2 Her career path shifted substantially after she enrolled in a voiceover class taught by Susan Blu, a prominent animation voice director and actress.2 That class, she later said, was where she found her niche.
Songé's deep, distinctive voice became a commercial and animation asset. Her voice acting credits included the animated series Clifford the Big Red Dog, the animated Stuart Little adaptation, Ben & Izzy, and Curious George.3 In addition to animation, she accumulated live-action film and television credits earlier in her career, appearing in Caged Heat (1974), Crazy Mama (1975), Steel (1979), the television series The Bionic Woman (1976), and the video game The Saboteur (2009).1
Alongside her performance work, Songé became a voiceover educator. She and Susan Blu co-owned Blupka Productions, Inc., a Los Angeles-based television and film voiceover school where they trained students to develop what Songé described as "the signature voice."2 Together with Blu and Molly Ann Mullin, Songé co-authored the third revised and updated edition of Word of Mouth: A Guide to Commercial Voice-Over Excellence (2006), one of the most widely used reference books in the voiceover industry.4
Cynthia Songé contributed a guest voice performance to Extreme Ghostbusters, the 1997 animated continuation of the Ghostbusters franchise. She appeared in the episode The Infernal Machine, in which the new team of Ghostbusters faces Luko, a demon capable of jumping between and possessing electronic devices.5
Songé was in a long-term domestic partnership with voice actress and director Susan Blu from 1982 until Songé's death in 2010.6 The two collaborated extensively on both Blupka Productions and the Word of Mouth book series. She is survived by her sister Susan Songey, her nephew Chris Jackowchik and his wife Ginger, and two younger relatives.2 Her family requested memorial donations to Woods Humane Society in San Luis Obispo, California.2
Cynthia Songé died on May 19, 2010, in Arroyo Grande, California, after a brief illness.2 She was 58 years old.
"Cynthia Songé," IMDb (nm0814329), accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814329/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
The Hollywood Reporter, "Voiceover actress Cynthia Songe dies" (May 2010), https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/voiceover-actress-cynthia-songe-dies-23894/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8
Variety, "Voiceover artist Songe passes away" (May 2010), https://variety.com/2010/digital/news/voiceover-artist-songe-passes-away-1118019750/ ↩
Blu, Susan; Mullin, Molly Ann; Songé, Cynthia (2006). Word of Mouth: A Guide to Commercial Voice-Over Excellence, 3rd revised and updated ed. Silman-James Press. ISBN 9781879505872. ↩
"Extreme Ghostbusters: The Infernal Machine" (TV Episode, 1997), IMDb, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0574542/ ↩
"Susan Blu," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Blu ↩
