Voice profile
Recent clients include Netflix and Amazon Studios.
“I have had the pleasure of working with Mhairi on several projects. She is reliable, professional and talented. Mhairi’s positive energy is contagious and everyone from my team always enjoys working with her. Additionally Mhairi has the perfect voice to fit most situations. Highly recommended! contagious and everyone one from my team always enjoys working with her"
-Allan Fallke, Post Haste Digital, Los Angeles
Mhairi is an award winning British female voice artist, actress and mime. She is bilingual, English/French, having worked for years in Paris. Acting credits include the feature films Young Adam (with Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton and Emily Mortimer) Green Street Hooligans (with Elijah Wood) and O, Jerusalem (with Ian Holm) TV credits include Casualty (BBC), Missing (ITV) and Emo (Channel 4)
She recently won an Audio File Earphones award for her narration of the audio book The Reluctant Highlander, by Amanda Scott. She has also won best actress (Web Series Mag) and was nominated Best Actress in a Comedy (ISA awards) for her performance in her web-series Feathers and Toast.
She is also a mime artist and performs a mime several times a week, shooting in her home studio and distributing the series, One Mime at a Time, online. She has created mimes for Adobe and Warner Bros and performed live for the IAWTV awards show in Los Angeles, in 2017.
Voice Over work:
Since 2004 she has worked as a writer and VO artist for audio description. She has narrated the description for hundreds of TV shows (most recent credits include Lego Masters Master Chef, Master Chef Junior and Hells Kitchen –all for FOX. Babies for Netflix and Sylvie's Love for Amazon Studios) and feature films including Happy Feet, Baby Mama and Painkillers. She has also written and voiced the audio description for a variety of National Park Service productions including the tour of The White House and Mount Rainier National Park.
She has narrated over 20 audiobooks and won an Audio File Earphones Award for her narration of The Reluctant Highlander, by Amanda Scott (Oct 2017)
What is her sound?
Her reads are described as warm, youthful, energetic, upbeat, friendly, dynamic, funny, approachable, enchanting, charismatic and conversational. From amusing, uplifting to authentic and believable, Mhairi can deliver an edge to whatever is being read.
She excels at the following vocal types: Believable, Conversational, Friendly, Professional, Confident, Authoritative, Informative, Corporate, Animated, Natural, Announcer, Educational, Upbeat, Attractive, Warm, Genuine, Caring, Narrator, Knowledgeable, Sincere, Calming, High Energy, Amusing, Storyteller, Deep, and Motivational.
Being a classically trained actress she is able to engage an audience and create meaning with her reads. Also, as a writer, she brings a sensitivity to your script and a passionate desire to deliver exactly what the writer/client has in mind.
Mhairi has her own home studio and prides herself on a professional and fast turnaround.
Mhairi is also a passionate human rights advocate, having campaigned for years against human rights violations. She is involved with the FiSahara Film festival; an annual human rights film festival located in a refugee camp in the Sahara desert, along the border of The Western Sahara and Algeria. She is the founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Amnesty International.