Biography

As a classically trained and highly versatile voice artist, Debbie Grattan has leveraged her acting skills and talents over the past three decades into a very successful career as a professional female voice over talent.

Born in central California, Debbie spent most of her young life in Irvine, where she attended high school and college.

With a degree in Drama from UC Irvine, she set out to work on stage and screen in LA, Orange County and San Diego. Within a few years, Debbie had won several awards for her stage performances from the Los Angeles Times, Drama-Logue, and a Theatre Woman of the Year Award in Southern California.

She played nearly every stage venue in the Southern part of the Golden State, culminating with leading performances at the Tony award-winning South Coast Repertory Theatre and the Laguna Playhouse.

As she loaded her resume with stage work, she was also finding the proximity to Hollywood and the television industry a draw, and won roles in episodics, TV movies, commercials, infomercials, and many other types of acting jobs, both live and filmed, as a corporate spokesperson.

Debbie also found tenure as an actor with a decade of service to a comedy improvisation group, performing live interactive theatre, and honing her improvisational skills in thinking "off the page".

With a lifetime as a working actor, and over 22 years behind a microphone, voicing tens of thousands of scripts for many hundreds of satisfied clients, her customers have come to know Debbie as a female voice over talent who is professional, dynamic and able to deliver top quality reads across a wide spectrum of voiceover service applications.

Debbie uses her warm, friendly voiceover style on everything from corporate narrations and training videos to Disney park-wide announcements to national tv and radio commercials. She has worked with scores of well-known clients and brands shifting between the conversational, the humorous and the dramatic.

Debbie has trained diligently with respected experts in the voiceover acting field including Kalmenson & Kalmenson, Voicecaster, Marc Cashman, Joanie Gerber and Carroll Day Kimbel.
- IMDb mini biography by: Debbie Grattan

As a classically trained and highly versatile voice artist, Debbie Grattan has leveraged her acting skills and talents over the past three decades into a very successful career as a professional female voice over talent.

Born in central California, Debbie spent most of her young life in Irvine, where she attended high school and college.

With a degree in Drama from UC Irvine, she set out to work on stage and screen in LA, Orange County and San Diego. Within a few years, Debbie had won several awards for her stage performances from the Los Angeles Times, Drama-Logue, and a Theatre Woman of the Year Award in Southern California.

She played nearly every stage venue in the Southern part of the Golden State, culminating with leading performances at the Tony award-winning South Coast Repertory Theatre and the Laguna Playhouse.

As she loaded her resume with stage work, she was also finding the proximity to Hollywood and the television industry a draw, and won roles in episodics, TV movies, commercials, infomercials, and many other types of acting jobs, both live and filmed, as a corporate spokesperson.

Debbie also found tenure as an actor with a decade of service to a comedy improvisation group, performing live interactive theatre, and honing her improvisational skills in thinking "off the page".

With a lifetime as a working actor, and over 22 years behind a microphone, voicing tens of thousands of scripts for many hundreds of satisfied clients, her customers have come to know Debbie as a female voice over talent who is professional, dynamic and able to deliver top quality reads across a wide spectrum of voiceover service applications.

Debbie has trained diligently with respected experts in the voiceover acting field including Kalmenson & Kalmenson, Voicecaster, Marc Cashman, Joanie Gerber and Carroll Day Kimbel.

Debbie uses her warm, friendly voiceover style on everything from corporate narrations and training videos to Disney park-wide announcements to national tv and radio commercials. She has worked with scores of well-known clients and brands shifting between the conversational, the humorous and the dramatic.

A partial list of clients for whom Debbie has provided voice over services includes: American Express, Samsung, Verizon, Blue Cross Blue Shield, McDonald's, Apple, Wells Fargo, Lexus, Hasbro, Morgan Stanley, Universal, Sprint, JC Penney and DirecTV (see more extensive list on her website).

Types of voice over work projects include infomercials, direct response advertising, radio and tv commercials, medical and corporate narration, political advertising, explainer videos, elearning narration, phone and IVR related recording and character work.

Debbie now works primarily from her home recording studio in Niles, Michigan, where she lives with her husband and two children.
- IMDb mini biography by: Debbie Grattan

Once worked as a Santa's Helper and as an Easter Bunny.

Was a one-time champion on Face the Music (1980).

Was a Junior Miss in 1979.