margaret@margaretashley.com
Engaging, Reassuring, Conversational
Award Winning British Female Voice Over.
A rich, relatable, voice with warmth and gravitas.
About
Award winning, multi nominated British Female Voice Over Actor
I am an experienced award winning voiceover artist and trained actress. Originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, which makes me a native Geordie, (I can still do the accent), via drama school in Manchester before making my base and building my voice studio in Purley, Surrey, Greater London.
I use my voice for all genres of voiceover, from games and animation to radio ads and corporates, explainer videos and audio drama. As an actress, you may have seen me in Coronation Street, London's Burning, The Bill, BBC Crimewatch, Wyatt's Watchdogs, The Ward, Children's Ward, Coming Home, Jeffrey Archers First Among Equals, Our John Willie and many other TV and radio dramas including the BBC/Big Finish's Doctor Who series, as well as theatre and film.
How I can Help You?
I provide a warm, natural, conversational read, for TV and Radio commercials, explainer videos, corporate video and medical narration, games, animation, audio guides and audio drama. My voice creates impact, gains attention, evokes images, builds engagement and entices customers to buy your products and services.
I can create a credible character for you or just be a natural voice for your video, telephone on-hold message or marketing campaign. I can do quirky, ethereal, sci-fi and medieval characters for gaming, animation, children’s animation and TV shows and promos. My clients include the BBC, IBM, the V&A, National Geographic Channel, English Heritage, SIDE Global, DigitalWizardTV playing Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter series of animations. to name but a few, you can see a bigger list of my clients on my portfolio page.
As a skilled actor, I am known for being very outgoing and friendly, fun to work with, always professional, passionate about standards and great at what I do.
Broadcast Quality Professional Studio
In my home studio I use a Neumann TLM103 microphone to record into, Studio One for my DAW, with a Focusrite Scarlett Solo and my Byerdynamic DT770 professional headphones, with Source Connect Now, Cleanfeed, BodalgoCall, Zoom, Microsoft teams, Google meets and Skype facilities, which means I can connect with other studios and clients all around the world for all voice recording sessions.
You can listen in remotely and direct me if required.
The studio is based in Purley, Surrey, Greater London and I can easily access other studios of your choice in London's Soho and West End as well as some in Surrey and nearby Sussex.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
VOXAwards WINNER - ONEVOICE AWARDS - SOVAS AWARDS
