To say that Debbie Irwin is a late bloomer would be an understatement. “I didn’t discover voiceover until I was 45 years old,” she says.
Debbie Irwin in her VO Studio
With an enriching childhood being raised off and on in Rome, Debbie saw the world as so many children do not. “Nature is amazing, and I had a front row seat.”
Young Debbie with a horse statue in Rome
With a father as an entomologist, and a mother as a therapist, Debbie was immersed from the beginning with the importance of knowledge, education and learning.
Her parents pulled no punches on the importance of only the very best in education. So, while Debbie started at the University of Chicago, she wound up being a student of Brown University.
For the uninitiated, Brown holds the distinction as one of the world’s finest academic institutions in the Ivy League with only a chosen few allowed to attend.
“Brown was a happy healthy place, and I picked semiotics as my major which is the study of signs and symbols in cultures.,” Debbie tells me. And it was there at Brown, that Debbie took an interest in radio and TV.
Before voiceover she experienced the NYC scene in the 80s, working in various jobs, discovering herself and experiencing the phenomenon of disco. It permeated the New York night life and had an effect on millions of people around the world, and Debbie was right in the thick of it.
She even spent five years as a stockbroker. But when voiceover intercepted, Debbie became hooked…
Nowadays, Debbie’s forte is medical narration. It’s THE most difficult genre to master and THE leanest of all voiceover genres amongst voice over artists. But it appealed to Debbie because of its difficulty.
Hear Debbie’s masterful delivery of medical narration on her website: https://debbieirwin.com/medical/medical-narration/
Debbie’s talents are not limited to just medical narration:
Deeply entrenched in wellness, Debbie cares deeply about mental health issues. Her devotion to living a full and happy life is evident in her work involving people’s emotions. It’s evident in her voice.
So now fully outfitted with a home studio, Debbie Irwin has reinvented herself into a medical and wellness voice talent that cares very much about the message she sends using her voice.
And at 67, Debbie, the late bloomer, has finally arrived.
Debbie and her husband Michael