Jacqueline Samuda

Authentic, warm, smooth, relaxed, wry, confident, professional, character, sexy, fun, comic, deep, husky, clear, strong, natural, funny, smart, conversational, approachable, sultry, texture, medical, technical terminology

Accents: English British, Scottish, Irish, Southern U.S., Eastern European (Russian), Caribbean, French

English·English (North American)·English (British)·English (Australia)·French (Parisienne)

English British, Scottish, Irish, Southern U.S., Eastern European (Russian), Caribbean, French

Teen·Young Adult·Middle Age

EQUITY,ACTRA,Financial Core,Non-Union

Years of experience: 10-25 years

Recent News - Jacqueline was a finalist for Best Female Voice for the 2008 Voicey Awards hosted by Voices.com

CLIENTS SINCE JANUARY, 2008 ALONE INCLUDE: JEEP; Charter Communications (campaign); McCune Brooks Hospital (campaign); Skogman Model Homes; MySpace (web tutorial); AAA (campaign); Damnation video game (lead); Habitat for Humanity; Cohen's; Superclubs Resorts (DVD narration); Vancouver Aquarium; "Story of Sainkoku" animation (major role)

A professional actress with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours) degree in theatre, with university and professional level voice and dialect training. Twenty years of voice-over experience.

May, 2007 attended a pro "TRAILER/PROMO" workshop with the renowned Los Angeles voice coach Marice Tobias.

Jacqueline Samuda has been the voice for several major commercial campaigns, promoting retail, housing, health care, auto, utility and banking products among many others. A specialist in ADR (lip synching), she has replaced the voices of models and actresses in TV ads and dramatic programming. She has worked extensively on the web, for example as the client care/tutorial voice for a major bank's website, and the instructional website voice for another banks' employees. As a regular voice for a telecomm company for three years, she is very comfortable with IVR and on hold messaging, and has even been the voice "inside" greeting cards sent by the American Medical Association to doctors!

Although specializing in voice-over work, she has years of experience playing various characters in mulitple radio drama series and also performs in television and film productions, and has been an on-air host in industrials.

The partial client list (below) is just since 2005:

Banks:
Carolina First (radio)
Ethical Funds (radio)
Mountain West Bank (TV/radio)
First Niagara Bank (radio)
Credit Union of BC (TV)
ENT Credit Union (TV/radio)
ESL Bank (radio)

Healthcare:
BC Lung (radio)
BC Cancer (radio)
BC Dental (TV)
Denver Children’s Hospital (radio)
Ellis Hospital (radio)
Baptist Medical (TV)
Evergreen Health (radio)
Riverview (radio)

Real Estate:
Daybreak Homes (TV/radio)
Reunion Homes (radio)
Elderwood (radio)

Public Service:
“Public Affairs” (TV/radio)
Habitat for Humanity (radio/TV)
City of Richmond (TV)
Distress Line (radio/TV)
Focus on Family (radio)

Commercial:
Super 7 Lottery (TV)
BC Hydro (TV)
Thrifty Foods (TV/radio)
Richmond Shopping Centre (radio)
Cooks Ham (TV)
Denver Museum (radio)
Staples (national radio)
Dupont (radio)
Entel (radio)
Brentwood Mall (radio)
Woodgrove Centre (radio)
Future Shop (radio)
McDonald’s (TV/radio)
Playland (radio)
So Good Soya (radio)
Envision (radio)
Food Giant (radio)

Auto-related:
Mitsubishi (web)
AAA (TV/radio)
ICBC (TV)
CAA Manitoba (TV/radio)
Cadillac Fairview (TV/radio)
Nissan (radio)

IVR/Voice Messaging:
Flight Centre (on-hold/messaging)
Vancouver E-comm (IVR)
Charter Communications (IVR)

Business and Corporate Videos:
American Medical Assoc. (greeting cards)
BP Petroleum (instructional video)
Citizen’s Bank (web)
HSBC (educational/web)
TAL (industrial, lip sync)
Regions Next (industrial)
Tourism Webpage (website)
Buck Consultants (Flash page for HR)
Symantec/Quickbooks (on-line)
Vancity Focus (corporate)
Independent Health (website)
Royal Bank of Canada (web tutorial)

Narration:
CNN (documentary series)
National Park Services (documentary)
River Rock (promotional video)

Animation/Video games:
The Story of Sainkoku (major character)
Damnation Game (lead character, pre-lay)
Edison & Leo (lead role, pre-lay/stop-action feature)

Approachable, credible, distinctive reads for television and radio commercial recordings, funny when appropriate. Natural, real, spontaneous, unique reads for podcasts and on-line tours. Strong, believable, natural communication with complex corporate and E-Learning copy. Fresh, welcoming, clear, direct for telephone scripts. Great storyteller skills for narrative texts and audio books.

Audio Books and Books on Tape·Business Presentations and Corporate Videos·Character Voices and Cartoon Voice Actors·Educational Videos and e-Learning·Movie Trailers·Narration and Documentaries·Podcasts and Podcasting Voices·Radio Commercials·Radio Imaging and Station Identification·Telephone System Recordings, Voicemail and On-Hold·Television Commercials·Television Imaging and Station Identification·Video Game Voices, Computer Game Voices