Mary Jane Wells

Mary Jane Wells is a British female voice artist with a Uk passport, an Irish passport and USA Green card. Her work won a BAFTA in recent years (she was series voice for BBC's 'In My Childhood'), as well as 3 Earphone Awards, a nomination for Outstanding Body of Voiceover Work and 2 Audie Awards. Her national campaigns have included Puma, LinkedIn, Eharmony, Sunnt Finance and Jet 2. She has worked for NASA and the Obama Campaign. Others include - Microgenius, Bank of America, Dreamworks, HBO, Claritas for Futurebrand who branded the 2012 Olympics, Tech-crunch, Jaguar, Emagine - and Dettol, Forest of Dean, City University London, Shade Station, NASA. She is also the voice of Puma Mobium, Jet 2 Airways, Eharmony, Interflora, Sunny Finance, Aqua Credit, and LinkedIn Talent Pipeline. She is also a voice match doing dubbing and ADR for other celebrities - Cate Blanchett's voicematch at Dreamworks, Tilda Swinton in Dr Strange, Judi Dench in Marigold Hotel and Nicole Kidman in Paddington. She read the news as the digital anchor for the Chicago Tribune news app every morning for a year, and was the voice for the Downton Abbey audiobooks 'Below Stairs' and 'Above Stairs’ and is the award winning narrator of another 35 audiobooks with Simon and Shuster, Audible and Harper Collins. She also popped up as an on-camera actress in HBO's The Newsroom, as American character Josie Marks. Other work - Story Coach to the Director for Holy Hell, Sundance Select 2016, CNN. Heroine, based on the true story of female soldier in the US Army recently debuted at The Kennedy Center. Mary Jane wrote and performed in this solo show which won a Made in Scotland Award, Writers Guild Olwen Wymark Award and a Scottish Theatre Arts Award. She prides herself on a fast turnaround and a reliably professional service. Her reads are described as confident, quirky, natural, sincere, enticing, nuturing and authoritative. She is known for making the driest copy sound warm, inviting and friendly, and for bringing authentic human connection into all of her work. She finds voice work exciting and inspiring and it reflects in her work. For corporate work, she has an optimistic, driven and educated sound: for narration work she sounds warm and assured. In animation, audiobook and videogame she works across the board, with a range of characters and ages, male and female. She likes to get on with the job of bringing your copy to life, engaging the target demographic, and creating a fun and efficient work rapport where she nails the tone and feel of what you are looking for quickly. Being a trained actress goes part and parcel of the work that differentiates her - she is trained to quickly engage a target audience, and create meaning. She is also a writer; sensitivity to your text and its interpretation is important to her. Mary Jane has her own home studio with Source Connect, ipdtl, access to ISDN and patch. She has particular interest in projects with a global humanitarian focus, that are ethically sound. She is an active campaigner in the abolition of slavery, zero tolerance of MST, and violation of human rights. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you think she can help you out.