Jean Brassard

French, French-Canadian, Standard American

Sixteen years as voice-over artist for all types of characters, mostly connected to French of Canadian-French (québécois) either in the original language or in English with some accents. Voiced Jacques Cousteau for PBS, numerous industrial narrations for the UN, Knights of Columbus (reading multiple characters within a piece) and many others. Commercials for Calvin Klein, IBM, Volkswagen, Air Canada, Wendy's, NHL, CNH, World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly WWF), Nautica Competition, Regina, Black & Decker, American Express, Halls, Microsoft, etc. Years of doing French language tapes, CDs, DVDs. Voice-over language monitoring and session director. Translation from French to English or from English to French. Accomplished cabaret singer specialized in the French and French Canadian repertoire. Learned doing voices from experience first by hosting radio shows when young and doing spots for the station and clients in the early 1980s. Then learned constantly on the job. Full-time actor and singer Highly reliable and attentive, flexible and team-worker as well as team leader. Career as actor, director, producer of theater and cabaret spans the last two decades.