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Shelby Young (born April 8, 1992, in Florida)1 is an American actress, voice actress, and motion capture performer best known for voicing Princess Leia Organa across multiple Star Wars animated and video game productions, and for her social media presence built around voice impressions and character work. She voiced the Mini-Pufts in both Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).
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Young grew up in Florida, where she developed a love of performing through pageantry, theater, and local commercials from an early age. She began pursuing professional acting work as a child, landing her first television role in 2001.1
Young's professional career spans live-action television and film, voice acting, and motion capture performance across more than two decades.
Her first major television credit was the role of Sue Ann Butler on the Showtime series Going to California (2001).1 She subsequently built a steady presence in episodic television, taking a recurring role as Jennifer Thompson on Everybody Hates Chris from 2005 to 2008,1 followed by 59 episodes as Kinsey on the NBC daytime serial Days of Our Lives from 2009 to 2011.1 She also appeared on American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) as Leah.1
On the film side, notable credits include Wild Child (2008), the David Fincher drama The Social Network (2010) as K.C.,1 Nightlight (2015), and A Haunting in Cawdor (2015).
As her career matured, Young became particularly prominent as a voice and motion capture performer. She portrays the recurring character Rayna on Nickelodeon's Baby Shark's Big Show!1 and has voiced multiple characters across Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Disney+.1 Her most widely recognized voice role is Princess Leia Organa, which she has performed across a series of major productions: Star Wars Forces of Destiny (Disney Channel), Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and Lego Star Wars: Summer Vacation.1 Additional game credits include Soph Blazkowicz (voice and motion capture) in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Annie in Dead Rising 3, Skuld in God of War Ragnarok, and Hami in Horizon Call of the Mountain.1
Young has also cultivated a significant social media following, primarily through voice impression content on TikTok and YouTube, accumulating more than 8 million followers across platforms as of 2024.1
Young provided an uncredited vocal performance for the Mini-Pufts in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.2 The voices of the mischievous miniature Stay Puft Marshmallow Men were assembled from a combination of production crew members and voice actors. Young performed alongside fellow voice actress Sarah Natochenny in uncredited roles.2 The Mini-Puft destroyed in the blender sequence was voiced separately by supervising sound editor Will Files, recorded on helium.
Young returned to voice the Mini-Pufts in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, this time in a credited role alongside voice actors Ryan Bartley and Aryan Simhadri.3 Ryan Bartley confirmed the casting publicly on social media following the film's release, posting that she and Young saw the film together in a 4DX screening.4
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
"Shelby Young," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Young ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12
@sarahnatochenny (Sarah Natochenny), Twitter/X, November 19, 2021: "Ghostbusters: Afterlife is in theaters today!! So thrilled to play a small but mighty role in this epic movie, as one of the voices of the Mini-Pufts. Congrats to my fellow marshmallows including my bud @shelby_young!" https://x.com/sarahnatochenny/status/1461754799993593865 ↩ ↩2
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), Sony Pictures. End credits: "Mini-Pufts (voices): Aryan Simhadri, Ryan Bartley, Shelby Young." ↩
@RyanBartley (Ryan Bartley), Twitter/X, April 3, 2024: "Had the honor of voicing the Mini Pufts in the latest Ghostbusters movie Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!!!! @shelby_young (who also voices Mini Pufts) and I went to see it in #4DX and it was such a blast!!!" ↩
