Sara Ballantine

Brooklyn, Southern, Valley Girl, Upper crust English, Cockney, Irish, French, German, Russian, Armenian, New York and New Jersey South African. Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Bart Simpson, The Wicked Witches of the East and West, Judy Garland, Joan Rivers. I have an excellent ear, and am able to do sound alikes easily.

I came into voice-over from an acting background. My first v-o was for Starkist Tuna, where I essayed to role of "Charlie Tuna's goldfish girlfriend" who said "Oh Charlie, Starkist don't want tuna with good taste, they want tuna that tastes good! That job opened the doors for me (as it aired for 5 years!) and I have done spots for hundreds of clients since, such as Toyota, Dominos pizza, McDonalds, Diet Coke, Yoplait, Nordstrom, The Gap, Jaguar,Knott's Berry Farm, Velveeta, 6 Flags Magic Mountain, and oodles of others! I did 32 episodes of "Spiderman" for Fox, as the iconic voice of "Mary Jane", which I loved, and even did a couple of episodes of the original "Ghost Busters" animated series. Just this past year I have been a featured voice on "The Guild Wars" video game. Excelsior! I have a Fine Arts degree from Immaculate Heart College. I have been an actress for many years, working in theatre, television, film, and on-camera commercials as well. I attended the London Academy of Music and Drama. I have studied with Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Herbert Berghof,Stella Adler, Nina Foch Peggy Feury, David Craig, Harold Guskin, and John Kirby. For voice-over I studied with Maurice Tobias, Elaine Craig, and did workshops with Andrea Romano. I have a digidesign M-Box, an MXL 909 microphone, and Sony Dynamic Stereo headphones. I use Pro-Tools LE 7.3 I have easy access to studios for producing actual spots. I am a versatile voice talent, and have made my living at this for the past 20 years. I hope to have my own home studio soon, as that seems to be the way the business is going. I bring the utmost professionalism with the utmost craft to every client.