Cynthia Blaise

Cynthia Blaise is an actress, dialect coach and voice and speech teacher. She was married to Keegan-Michael Key from December 1998 until their divorce was finalised in November 2017.

Career

She played a younger Amanda Grayson, Spock's mother, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), and appeared in several sketches on Key & Peele and in other sketch videos with Key.

According to her profile at the International Dialects of English Archive, where she is an associate editor, she studied theatre at the University of Oregon and acting at the University of California, Irvine, taught voice, speech and acting at universities including Temple University and Wayne State University, and has worked as a film and television dialect coach since 2005, on productions including Bad Teacher, The Five-Year Engagement, Touch and American Horror Story.