Meet Randy Thomas

Hollywood’s premier voice artist, Oscar’s first woman announcer lives in Fort Myers

Until about two years ago, Randy Thomas likely was more known in Hollywood than in her own neighborhood in Fort Myers. As the first woman to announce a voice-over Triple Crown―the Oscars, the Emmys and the Tonys―she has been a high-flyer in the industry, but mostly under the radar at home.

Thomas has been at the microphone for seven Academy Awards shows, 14 Tony Award shows, Entertainment Tonight segments, and even as a voice with Hooked on Phonics and countless other work in television, pageants and politics. And then in 2014, Thomas discovered she had more time than in the past 20 years, jokingly referring to the four stages of her career as: 1) Who is Randy Thomas? 2) Get me Randy Thomas. 3) Get me a young Randy Thomas and, once again, 4) Who is Randy Thomas?

So Thomas in her fourth phase paused to look around at downtown Fort Myers―and loved it. Having organized fundraisers for voice-over legend Don LaFontaine’s foundation, she applied those skills to the first Voiceover Mastery Summit workshop at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center. That was November 2014. Guests included Susan Bennett, the voice of iPhone’s Siri. She hosted another workshop in 2015, with a third planned for this November.

Davis Art Center CEO Jim Griffith was intrigued by a voiceover workshop but had no idea of Thomas’ impact in the industry. “She was very charming, very sweet, with great intentions,” he says. “I searched online and learned about all the things she had done and was certainly interested in bringing her celebrity status to Fort Myers.”

Visiting Randy Thomas, painters are sprucing the Fort Myers home she shares with Arnie Wohl, her husband and manager.

Amazing and magical.” —Randy Thomas describing her husband, Arnie Wohl