---
name: "Ester Dean"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ester-dean"
fi1m_id: "ester-dean"
imdb_id: "nm3637636"
tmdb_id: 1072572
wikidata_id: "Q271119"
roles: ["Songs"]
born: "15 April 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T03:53:45.890522+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ester Dean

## Identity

Ester Dean

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ester-dean
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ester-dean
- **IMDb ID:** nm3637636
- **TMDB ID:** 1072572
- **Wikidata ID:** Q271119
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Dean, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3637636/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1072572

Songs. Born 15 April 1982 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Songs
- **Born:** 15 April 1982, Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
- **Active:** 2011–2012
- **Also known as:** Esther Renay "Ester" Dean, Esther Renay Dean
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Dean, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3637636/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1072572

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Pitch Perfect*](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md) (77)

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## Biography

Ester Dean is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born Esther Renay Dean on 15 April 1982 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, she was raised in Tulsa as the youngest of five children and began writing and performing music at a young age.

She moved to Atlanta at the age of 20 to pursue a music career and achieved prominence in the late 2000s as a songwriter, contributing hits for Rihanna, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and others. Dean has voiced characters in the animated films *Rio* (2011), *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012) and *Trolls World Tour* (2020).

Her acting debut came in the live-action musical *Pitch Perfect* (2012) as Cynthia Rose, a role she reprised in *Pitch Perfect 2* (2015) and *Pitch Perfect 3* (2017). She has also appeared on television, including as a judge on *American Song Contest* in 2022.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Pitch Perfect* (2012), Fi1m 77, as Cynthia Rose — [page](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md)
- *Rio* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Boy in Gondola (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/rio.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Trolls Holiday in Harmony* (2021), as Legsly (voice)
- *Trolls World Tour* (2020), as Legsly (voice)
- *Pitch Perfect 3* (2017), as Cynthia-Rose Adams
- *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015), series, as Connie's Client — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/crazy-ex-girlfriend.md)
- *Pitch Perfect 2* (2015), as Cynthia Rose, Songs
- *Pitch Perfect* (2012), as Cynthia Rose — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md)
- *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), as Female Siren (voice), Songs
- *Rio* (2011), as Boy in Gondola (voice), Songs — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/rio.md)

## Gallery

- ![Brittany Snow/Anna Kendrick/Ester Dean (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/3318103/gallery-8acb67f5a0b8.jpg) Brittany Snow/Anna Kendrick/Ester Dean (2017) — jason madrigal, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Cast_Of_Pitch_Perfect_3_-YouTube_Night_of_Awesome.jpg/1280px-Cast_Of_Pitch_Perfect_3_-YouTube_Night_of_Awesome.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ester Dean](https://film.one/media/person/3318103/gallery-deb23334e977.jpg) Ester Dean — jason madrigal, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Cast_Of_Pitch_Perfect_3_-YouTube_Night_of_Awesome_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ester-dean