Kathryn Akin

Kathryn is a highly experienced and versatile American voice artist working across all fields of the UK industry. From playing badass female villains in video games such as the Assassins Creed series to reading the poems of Robert Frost on BBC Radio 4 to voicing the time travel computer for Alex Rider in Stormbreaker or redubbing the real life Mrs. Scorsese in Gangs of New York, to selling cutting edge technology for companies like Deloitte and Nokia - she is a skilled actress up for any challenge.

Her ear catching commercials and promos include work for Unilever, American Airlines, Sony, Phillips, Focus Features, Barclays, BBC Radio and many more.

In the corporate world, Kathryn is known for her clear, engaging voice for clients including Nokia, Deloitte, Hewlett Packard, Strongbow and Gucci.

Gaming credits include leading mocap characters/voices in Crysis Warhead, Surge 2, Horizon Zero Dawn and multiple games for the Assassin’s Creed series.

She can be heard playing the young, old and whacky in animations such as the feature Planet 51 and The Moonkeys children’s series.

Audiobooks/documentaries include James Patterson’s scintillating Honeymoon, Barbara Gowdy’s heartbreaking Helpless and many documentaries for Discovery and PBS.

Kathryn is an award nominated stage actress with multiple West End credits, leading roles at theatres like the Bristol Old Vic, the Traverse Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Dundee Rep, and the Lyric Hammersmith. On screen she has been seen in The Cambridge Spies for the BBC, in many Discovery TV productions about important American events and in the feature film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again in which she also sings on the soundtrack.


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