Rick Wimberly

Rick Wimberly offers a deep, warm, authoritative male voice with strong appeal for commercial, narration, documentary, audiobook, and character-driven projects. His voice is often described as trusted, grounded, cinematic, and relatable, making him well suited for roles requiring credibility, emotional intelligence, and clear storytelling. His primary strength is storytelling voice work—natural, conversational delivery that sounds lived-in rather than announcer-driven. Rick excels in long-form narration, including audiobooks, documentaries, narrative podcasts, scripted audio, and cinematic projects, where pacing, clarity, and listener connection are essential. Although raised in the South, Rick typically performs with a neutral American / Midwestern accent, making his voice difficult to geographically place and ideal for national and regional campaigns. When requested, he can introduce authentic Southern, Texas, or Western accents, and TransAtlantic without exaggerated drawl or caricature. Rick can voice older male characters, authority figures, mentors, fathers, grandfathers, and quietly eccentric personalities. His character voice work focuses on realism and believability rather than vocal gimmicks, using subtle changes in rhythm, tone, texture, and attitude to create distinct characters that remain clear and grounded—especially effective for audiobooks, games, narrative audio, and story-driven content. Depending on direction, Rick’s voice can sound raspy and weathered, calm and reassuring, or clear and approachable. His delivery carries quiet energy and restraint, appealing across demographics while maintaining authenticity. Casting professionals and coaches often reference similarities in overall tone and presence to Donald Sutherland, Sam Elliott, Tom Bodett, and occasionally Wilford Brimley. These comparisons describe texture and gravitas only—Rick does not perform impersonations. Rick is comfortable in directed sessions, takes direction efficiently, and records from a broadcast-quality home studio. He is Source-Connect ready and delivers clean, professional audio with fast turnaround.

Rick Wimberly is a professional voice actor specializing in commercial, narration, documentary, audiobook, and character-driven voice work. He is frequently cast for projects that require credibility, warmth, authority, and grounded storytelling, including trusted spokesperson reads, cinematic narration, and older male roles. Recent work includes performance and narration in the streaming feature film On Sacred Ground, national brand campaigns for Montucky Cold Snacks, long-form audiobook narration, English-language dubbing and sync-to-picture performance for narrative and cinematic projects and narrative podcast work. Rick also narrates the podcast Myths of Selling Government, available on major podcast platforms. Rick’s performance approach is shaped by ongoing professional coaching and a strong emphasis on modern, conversational delivery and story-first choices. His primary commercial coach is Gabrielle Nistico, with continued study and training across commercial, narration, and character voice disciplines. He works comfortably in both live-directed and self-directed sessions and adjusts quickly to creative direction. Rick records from a broadcast-quality home studio near Nashville, TN. His primary microphone is a Neumann TLM 103, paired with an Apollo Solo interface on a Mac-based system using ProTools Studio. When traveling, he also works from professional studio environments in Brooklyn, upstate New York and Boston. He delivers clean, consistent audio suitable for commercial broadcast, long-form narration, and cinematic projects, and is Source-Connect ready for live sessions.