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Cindy Robinson
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Cindy Robinson (born April 6, 1968) is an American voice actress who voices in anime, cartoons and video games. She has performed on Broadway covering Peter Pan, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Cinderella.
Robinson is best known for her roles as Amy Rose, Bloom, Ginchiyo Tachibana and Betty Boop.[1]
She officially replaced Lisa Ortiz as the voice of Amy Rose in the Sonic the Hedgehog. The official Japanese voice of Amy from 1999 to present day is Taeko Kawata, and Kawata originated the Japanese role whereas Jennifer Douillard Hellman originated the English speaking role.
Because Robinson's initial portrayal of Amy Rose sounded more like Cream the Rabbit or Minnie Mouse, the actress first received negative feedback for it. Robinson ascribed the fault on the voice-acting directors. The directors at the time, wanted Amy to sound more like her Japanese counterpart. In contrast, Amy Rose was well-known in the West as a "valley girl" and for speaking Valleyspeak.
Subsequently, Robinson modified her Amy Rose vocals slightly for the Sonic Boom series.
Robison was no longer connected to the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and formally retired from the role in 2021, as she wanted to focus more on script writing, song writing and directing.[2] For a brand-new show, Shannon Chan-Kent assumed the role. However though retired, Robinson later returned to voice Rose for various SEGA spin-off video games, adaptions, including TailsTube a Sonic VTuber show.
Robinson was also the voice of Leap in the Leapfrog children's educational toy series and is currently the official voice of Betty Boop and can be heard as Betty Boop in commercials, toys and video games.
Not only that Robinson provided the voice for Pudgy.
In the late 2000s, she began providing the voice of Betty Boop. The 2010 video game "Betty Boop's Love Meter" served as one of her primary introductions to the character of Betty Boop, and she was excellent at it. In 2012, the game was later released for iOS. Initially Lani Minella was the voice of Betty Boop for Bally, Susan Bennett and Wendy Wynman Engels had briefly taken on the role.
"Cindy Robinson: The Official Voice of Betty Boop" was her official "Betty Boop" Facebook page until she turned it into a fanpage in 2012, and later deleted it. She made a new page showcasing her voice-over flexibility. Furthermore, she had observed that she was not the only voice of Betty Boop, and that other individuals were also currently "voicing" Betty.
According to her, King Features Syndicate employs multiple voice actresses for Betty Boop.
Robinson talked about her portrayal of Betty Boop in a 2017 interview. In response to a question about whether or not she had voiced Olive Oyl, Robinson stated that no, even though Olive has a similar voice to Betty.
She went on to say that she naturally sounds like Mae Questel, but that she is not Questel's voice-match, and that it is natural. Robinson added that, despite her ability to mimic Betty Boop's voice, she dislikes voice-matching and that Mae Questel had portrayed Betty "beautifully" in the original cartoons. She stated that Betty has already been cast and her voice has been originated.
Additionally, she believes that she cannot make a name out of the role in voice-matching.
Robinson said, unless you're a voice-matching pro and well-known for your impersonations. Robinson feels she is unsuited for the role of "Betty Boop" and would rather voice fresh new characters.
Lauren "Coco" Cohn also contributes to Betty Boop's voiceover. It was revealed that starting in November of 2023, actress Jasmine Amy Rogers would play the new reimagined version of the live-action Betty Boop character in The Betty Boop Musical on Broadway.
Quotes
- Cindy Robinson: "Check out my Facebook page! The official voice of Betty Boop!" (2011)
- Cindy Robinson: "Look out for the new Betty Boop iPad App coming soon." (2011)
- Cindy Robinson: "Check out my page on Facebook, Cindy Robinson: The Official Voice of Betty Boop. You can always email me there." (2011)
- Cindy Robinson: "Spent the day working on a new slot machine for Betty Boop." (2011)
- Cindy Robinson: "Check out Betty Boop's Fortune Teller when it hits Vegas in the fall!" (2011)
- Cindy Robinson: "In Vegas? Check out the Betty Boop's Love Meter slot machine! Yeah... That's what I said... You can now play my slots..." (2011)
- Cindy Robinson: "Betty is just too big to be contained!" (2012)
- Cindy Robinson: "The time has come for change, ya'll so do me a favor and click 'like' on my new page Cindy Robinson. The old Betty Boop page will not be Betty Boop specific. Thanks in advance and Mwah to you all!" (2012)
- Cindy Robinson: "I posted seven photos in the album Betty Boop pictures." (2013)
- Cindy Robinson: "Recorded two new games yesterday. One for Betty Boop and the other as a big-ass reptile." (2013)
- Cindy Robinson: "Jessica Rabbit or Betty Boop?" (2014)
- Cindy Robinson: "I ended up meeting the lawyer for the Fleischer Studios who got the copyright for the character back. And he saw me in a couple of musical theatre shows and said you are the real deal." (2015)
- Cindy Robinson: "And he was like, when you gonna be in New York next? And I went two weeks, and he said OK, I want you to go meet the people at King Features." (2015)
- Cindy Robinson: "This guy was behind the desk and he was like, what do you do? and I was like err... 'I wanna be loved by you just you and nobody else but you!' and he goes, hey, you sing? And I go yeah!" (2015)
- Cindy Robinson: "And I've been doing Betty for games, slot machines in Vegas, if you go to any of the slot machines in Vegas, that's me! My dad got to hear that... he was thrilled." (2015)
- Cindy Robinson: "I did Betty Boop for a long time, because I naturally sound like Mae Questel." (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "Umm? I think everyone 'THINKS' they know Betty Boop." (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "They know what their childhood version of it is generally." (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "Ooo, honey, it's Betty Boop!" (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "They like the cadence and the crack, so if you got that and you got the same pitch?" (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "They don't know what Betty sounds like originally." (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "And also, the thing about Betty was she wasn't always dialogue driven, she was a one liner character." (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "And again, I already sounded like Betty Boop!" (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "Mae Questel voices? I mean Olive Oyl sounds very much like Betty but no." (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "I don't like to voice-match! Betty's been done, she's been cast. And you're never ever gonna make your name, being someone's second." (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "Why try to emulate, something that's already been done beautifully?" (2017)
- Cindy Robinson: "I was a pretty hot dubber because I'm musical." (2023)
Character Role(s)
Voiceover Credits
- King Features Syndicate (Commercials, Toys, Video Games)
- Betty Boop's Love Meter (2010)
- Betty Boop's Fortune Teller (2011)
- Betty Boop's Love Meter: iOS (2012)
- Betty Boop: DC Lottery (2012)
- Betty Boop's Fortune Teller: iOS (2013)
- Betty Boop's Firehouse (2014)
- Betty Boop's 5th Avenue (2015)
- Betty Boop: Gold Fish Casino Slots (2015)
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Trivia
- Is also the voice of Baby Boop.
- She's a redhead like the original cartoon character Betty Boop.[3]
- Robinson is not a "Betty Boop character impersonator" but a voice-double, a mimic, a professional voice-actress. She's a character vocal imitator and multi-voice and she can do multiple voices. Though she can imitate, she has clarified that she is not a fan of voice-matching.
- She describes her portrayal of Betty Boop as sultry and sexy like the original 1930s Betty.
- Robinson began as the voice of "Betty Boop" in animated cartoons, commercials and games after Susan Bennett, Melissa Fahn and Wendy Wynman Engels.
- The voice she uses for Betty is a little deeper in comparison to other voices of Betty.
- Robinson voiced Queen Beryl and Berthier in the English dub of Sailor Moon Crystal, Zola in Blue Dragon and Kolin in Street Fighter V.
- She used to run an official Betty Boop page on Facebook but later changed it to a fan page.