Voice Description

Smooth, approachable, fun, distinctive reads for television and radio commercial recordings, funny and sexy when appropriate. Natural, real, spontaneous, unique reads for podcasts and on-line tours. Warm, textured deep tones for narration. Strong, credible, natural and professional for complex medical, technical, corporate and E-Learning copy. Great storyteller skills for narrative texts and audio books.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - British
• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• ACTRA (Canada)

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have Phone Patch in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Dialects include Eastern European, Russian, British, English, Southern U.S., French, Caribbean, Jamaican, Southern US, Middle Eastern, Israeli, Parisian, French

Speak European French at a conversational level.

My Voice Experience

Recent News - Jacqueline was a finalist for Best Female Voice for the 2008 Voicey Awards hosted by Voices.com

CLIENTS SINCE JANUARY, 2008 ALONE INCLUDE: JEEP; Charter Communications (campaign); McCune Brooks Hospital (campaign); Skogman Model Homes; MySpace (web tutorial); AAA (campaign); Damnation video game (lead); Habitat for Humanity; Cohen's; Superclubs Resorts (DVD narration); Vancouver Aquarium; "Story of Sainkoku" animation (major role)


Jacqueline Samuda has been the voice for several major commercial campaigns, promoting retail, housing, health care, auto, utility and banking products among many others. A specialist in ADR (lip synching), she has replaced the voices of models and actresses in TV ads and dramatic programming. She has worked extensively on the web, for example as the client care/tutorial voice for a major bank's website, and the instructional website voice for another banks' employees. As a regular voice for a telecomm company for three years, she is very comfortable with IVR and on hold messaging, and has even been the voice "inside" greeting cards sent by the American Medical Association to doctors!

Although specializing in voice-over work, she has years of experience playing various characters in mulitple radio drama series and also performs in television and film productions, and has been an on-air host in industrials.

The partial client list (below) is just since 2005:

Banks:
Carolina First (radio)
Ethical Funds (radio)
Mountain West Bank (TV/radio)
First Niagara Bank (radio)
Credit Union of BC (TV)
ENT Credit Union (TV/radio)
ESL Bank (radio)

Healthcare:
BC Lung (radio)
BC Cancer (radio)
BC Dental (TV)
Denver Children’s Hospital (radio)
Ellis Hospital (radio)
Baptist Medical (TV)
Evergreen Health (radio)
Riverview (radio)

Real Estate:
Daybreak Homes (TV/radio)
Reunion Homes (radio)
Elderwood (radio)

Public Service:
“Public Affairs” (TV/radio)
Habitat for Humanity (radio/TV)
City of Richmond (TV)
Distress Line (radio/TV)
Focus on Family (radio)

Commercial:
Super 7 Lottery (TV)
BC Hydro (TV)
Thrifty Foods (TV/radio)
Richmond Shopping Centre (radio)
Cooks Ham (TV)
Denver Museum (radio)
Staples (national radio)
Dupont (radio)
Entel (radio)
Brentwood Mall (radio)
Woodgrove Centre (radio)
Future Shop (radio)
McDonald’s (TV/radio)
Playland (radio)
So Good Soya (radio)
Envision (radio)
Food Giant (radio)

Auto-related:
Mitsubishi (web)
AAA (TV/radio)
ICBC (TV)
CAA Manitoba (TV/radio)
Cadillac Fairview (TV/radio)
Nissan (radio)

IVR/Voice Messaging:
Flight Centre (on-hold/messaging)
Vancouver E-comm (IVR)
Charter Communications (IVR)

Business and Corporate Videos:
American Medical Assoc. (greeting cards)
BP Petroleum (instructional video)
Citizen’s Bank (web)
HSBC (educational/web)
TAL (industrial, lip sync)
Regions Next (industrial)
Tourism Webpage (website)
Buck Consultants (Flash page for HR)
Symantec/Quickbooks (on-line)
Vancity Focus (corporate)
Independent Health (website)
Royal Bank of Canada (web tutorial)

Narration:
CNN (documentary series)
National Park Services (documentary)
River Rock (promotional video)

Animation/Video games:
The Story of Sainkoku (major character)
Damnation Game (lead character, pre-lay)
Edison & Leo (lead role, pre-lay/stop-action feature)

My Training

A professional actress with twenty years of voice-over experience, Jacqueline has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours) degree in theatre.

Training includes many courses of university and professional level voice and dialect training, most recently in May, 2007 attended a pro "TRAILER/PROMO" workshop with the renowned Los Angeles voice coach Marice Tobias.

My Studio Equipment

Mic: Rode NT2-A
Computer: PC with ProTools
Pre-amp: JoeMeek Three-Q
Computer Interface: MBox2

Additional Skills

lip synch/dubbing/ADR/voice replacement

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in any currency
• Wire transfers

Online Payments Via PayPal

Contact Information

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