I'm a British voice actor with a voice that has been described as "a warm hug". (They obviously hadn't heard me being a crime lord!)
I have a naturally neutral British accent and the ability to perform in many other regional variations, from Posh Gent to Country Yokel, Scotland to South London.
A Yorkshireman currently exiled in London, I have lived in various regions of the UK, picking up accents as I went along and storing them away for future use.
I am now a versatile voice artist, with experience in audio drama, characters, narration and more.
With a degree in physics and a 3-decade career in IT, I'm no stranger to technical vocabulary and concepts but am just as much at home portraying one or many characters or just reading a good novel.
My voice can go from rich & soothing to loud & commanding to just downright daft.
I am also a singer (choral tenor) and a drummer.
Listed on IMDB: https://www.imdb.me/JKVA
What have I done?
Here are a few of what I consider to be my best bits (updated October 2024):
Drama
- Selene: The PINS of Needle Street (several episodes, ongoing) - CI Stroud (weaselly, superior), Insp. Braxton (N. English), Judge Tombs (deep, angry Scottish), Baron Mizra Kovach (posh British, charmingly evil), various others
- Breathing Space: [S04E10] They Will See Us for Miles (Fable of the Family, part 1): Rondo Largesson (Fatherly; French accent)
- Breathing Space: [S04E12] Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears (Fable of the Family, part 3): Rondo Largesson (Fatherly; French accent)
- Breathing Space [S04E17] There's a Design: Derek Emelemson (Very hammy actor-turned-salesman)
- Tales of the Monster Hunters (several episodes, ongoing) - Fred, a possessed ventriloquist's dummy. (Squeaky, slight Estuary accent; formant-shifted up 3 semitones)
- Hail Cassius (ongoing series): Cassius (Ridiculously pompous with over-emphasised speech defects)
- The Department of Motor Vehicles - Eli Fruc, aka Lucifer (from 16:19) (Well-spoken and deeply evil!)
- Single Point of Failure - "Chief" (London accent, rough)
- The Arenberg Principle - Danny 'Ace' Oswald (main protagonist and narrator) (Northern English)
- Selene: The Fata Morgana - Two roles: Baron Mizra Kovach (posh British); Vincenzo the Magician (Italian)
- Outpost Alpha - Melvin, slightly nerdy, officious man
- Murder on the East Ward - Shaun Hardy (officious, annoying office manager) (Slight Estuary accent)
- Dominion (Part 3) - The Disciple Thomas (Yes, that disciple. No, it wasn't in the slightest bit religious! From 37:00-ish) (Northern English)
- Spiked Eggs podcast: Yuletide Hustle - Donder (gruff, violent henchman that doesn't eat elves)
- Spiked Eggs podcast: A Gnatty Tale (pt1 of Double Trouble): Russian Ox (Russian accent, with added bovine grunting and eating noises)
- The Dysfunctional 5 - "Control" (the head of a British Secret Agent organisation)
- The Malfunctioning Icon - Professor Anders (an elderly, eccentric inventor) / shopkeeper (small-town USA)
Narration
Roles I'm currently recording for / are in production:
- Tales from the Shady Grove - Narrator
- Covenant 13: Mimi the Mimic: Narrator (In the style of Sir David Attenborough)
- Night Nurse kickstarter (2d-game): Albie Fairfax (Late-middle-age, well-to-do)
- Close Your Eyes Season 2: Fletcher (over-bearing British butler)
- Bring Them Down - Arthur Malloy (Upper-class British bureaucrat)
- Piper Wars - Nemo (Indian accent)
- Past Pretense - Colin (neutral British)
- The other world's chronicles - Victor Frankenstein (aristocratic British)
- Meliora / Year Zero - Sammael
- World without refuge - Guild Master Camden
Audiobooks: Non-fiction
Hunting Sketches by Anthony Trollope - Chapter 2 & Chapter 4
Audiobooks: Fiction
The Return of Don Quixote by G.K. Chesterton - Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18
The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales - 55: Hok Lee and the Dwarfs
Contact me
Discord: RacingHippo
TwiXtter: @JK__VA
Instagram: JohnKennardVA
Bluesky: JK-VA
email: johnkennardva@gmail.com
