English actor, narrator, playwright and producer
John Rafter Lee
Born Occupations Actor narrator playwright producer
John Rafter Lee is an English actor, narrator, playwright and producer .
Biography
Lee was born in England with Irish ancestry.[ 1] His father worked as a carpenter and other men in his family were blacksmiths, brick layers and plumbers.[ 1] Lee himself has worked in agriculture, picking fruit, which he considers much more difficult than voice acting.[ 1]
Career
Lee has narrated hundreds of audiobooks .[ 1] "His trademark rich, smooth voice with its hint of a growl turns the word into a seduction", according to AudioFile .[ 1] He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009.[ 1]
In film, he portrayed the mysterious Trevor Goodchild in Peter Chung 's Æon Flux . Other voice credits include Meier Link in both Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Vampire Hunter D , Pavlo Zaitsev in episode 16 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex , Jason Wynn in HBO 's Spawn animated series, and Aristotle in Reign: The Conqueror . John also had a role as a voice actor playing Cid Bunansa in the video game Final Fantasy XII .
Lee was also the producer and screenwriter for the 2001 film Breathing Hard , in which he played the character John Duggan. His Æon Flux co-star Denise Poirier plays his wife Carol.
He has written the plays Blood and Milk , Hitler's Head , Passchendaele , Clean Souls and Frankincense . He has adapted into English Schiller's Don Carlos , Racine's Britannicus and Grabbe's Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Significance . Passchendaele received its first production at the New York Fringe Festival in August 2010.
His latest film, which he wrote and co-produced, is Forfeit , which received its premier at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas . He is currently writing a film to be shot in his hometown, Birmingham , England.
Awards and honors
AudioFile named Lee a Golden Voice narrator.[ 2]
Awards
"Best of" lists
Filmography
Film
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1992
Small Kill
Hit Man
1998
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
Jason Wynn
Voice
1999
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
Jason Wynn
1999
George Lucas in Love
Ranter
Short
1999
Princess Mononoke
Voice
2000
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Meier Link
Voice[ 38]
2001
Breathing Hard
John Duggan
Also writer and producer
2003
Jules Verne & Walt Disney: Explorers of Imagination
Narrator
Documentary
2007
Forfeit
—
Writer and producer
Television
Video games
References
^ a b c d e f "Spotlight on John Lee" . AudioFile . 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "AudioFile Magazine Spotlight on Narrator John Lee" . AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2003 Audie Awards" . Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review" . AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b Howell, Kevin; Maughan, Shannon (1 January 2007). "The 2006 Listen-Up Awards" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2006 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b c Howell, Kevin (5 January 2009). "The Listen Up Awards: The Best Audios of 2008" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b "2008 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review" . AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b c "The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review" . AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b c "The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review" . AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b c d "2009 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Sehgal, Parul (3 January 2011). "The 2010 Listen-Up Awards" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2010 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b c "2011 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Boretz, Adam (4 January 2013). "The 2012 Listen-Up Awards" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ a b c "2013 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Boretz, Adam (31 May 2013). "BEA 2013: Audible Takes Top Audie Awards" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Boretz, Adam (3 January 2014). "The 2013 Listen-Up Awards" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Coreno, Annie (30 January 2015). "The 2014 Listen-Up Awards: The Best Audiobooks of the Year" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2015 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 29 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2016 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review" . AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2018 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 30 December 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2019 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Maher, John (5 March 2019). "Adeyemi, Turpin Win Top Award at 2019 Audies" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2020 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson Read by John Lee Erik Larson Note | Audiobook Review" . AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2022 Audie Awards®" . Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "2007 Notable Children's Recordings" . Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) . 30 November 1999. Retrieved 3 October 2022 .
^ "2008 Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults" . Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) . 16 January 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2022 .
^ "Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Adults, 2015" . Booklist . 1 January 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Saricks, Joyce (August 2017). "Top 10 Adult SF/Fantasy/Horror on Audio" . Booklist . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Saricks, Joyce (28 February 2018). "Audio Stars for Adults: 2017" . Booklist . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ "Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Adults, 2017" . Booklist . 1 January 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ Smith, Candace (1 May 2018). "Top 10 Crime Fiction Audiobooks: 2018" . Booklist . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
^ NGILBERT (6 January 2020). "2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults" . Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) . Retrieved 3 October 2022 .
^ a b c d e "John Rafter Lee (visual voices guide)" . Behind The Voice Actors . Retrieved 24 April 2021 . A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web }}
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