Jon Portrey - Character Specialist - Jon Portrey at Voice123

Character Specialist

• Jon Portrey is registered with Voice123 since Aug 14, 2008.
• Jon Portrey started his/her voice over career in 2006.
• Currently Jon Portrey is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

I have a voice with deep resonation, I am able to do very deep demon like characters; with that I can also do higher pitched voices. I have pretty good control over my vocals. I can do popular characters such as Heath Ledgers Joker pretty easily. I am pretty good at hearing a voice and adopting it to my sheet of voices. I have a soft voice, I have been told by many that my voice is pleasant to listen to. I have been told I have a singing voice; I didn’t know what that meant at first, but now I do. I love to put a rhythm in my voice when I speak and when I don't hear it in my voice or others I cringe. I'm a character actor, I have to have the voice before anything else. I have stayed up late at night unable to sleep, because I can't stop perfecting my voices. I hope this helps me do something with my talents.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Baby
• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Adult content
• Songs

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks

My Home Base

Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Irish, English, Australian, Germany, Indian, Canadian, etc....

I can do accents. I can do any accents as long as I work on them enough. I am eager to learn new accents, my strength as I pointed out in the begin is that I can adopt a voice when I hear it. I can adopt any accent that I listen to and can work on. One time at one of my high school like school jobs I started talking to customers in a Irish accent. After a while I was talking in that accent even when I tried to stop. So If I practice enough there is almost no way of myself getting out of a character; only if I have to do another character.

My Voice Experience

I am just starting out at this, so my experience won't be as vast as most. In high school I did three competitions where my voices where on display. Only one was for money; which I won that one. I did everything from Doctor Evil to Beetle juice. You could call that my coming out of my shelf so to speak. Once I got out of High School I started to attend College at a near by school. I Majored in acting, the first role I under took was that of Ernest Ludwig in Cabaret. Ernest Ludwig was Germany accent that I got to play around with. It was almost funny; I was able to get all the parts that called for a dominate male voice. I did plenty of voice work singing and doing voices while working on sets. I was told once that I should go out of American Idol which I would never do, but it was a good complement. One of my advisors referred me to a company called Santa speaking. If there are no children reading this I can talk about it...... are they out of the room? Ok well it was company which asked actors to call children and pretend to be Santa Claus. It was grueling to keep the conversations down to 5 minutes. Most of the children talked my ear off, it was a good experience and I'm glad I did it. During my College experience I was also working with my uncle who was in advertising. I did commercials for him in fact my first job for him was a commercial on the radio. Then I just did a lot of commercials for him on Television. I think that is all so far, I would love to add more to that list. If given a chance I would show that everything stated here is true. I am very critical of my talents and when I say I can do something I mean it.