Davina Porter is a British audiobook narrator and actor, best known for narrating the unabridged audiobooks of the '' Outlander'' series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Since the 1960s she has been based in the United States, and she began narrating books on tape in the mid-1980s.

Life and career

Porter was born in England, to an English father and a Scottish mother. She moved to the United States in the early 1960s, where she began acting in community theatre and began acting professionally in the mid-1980s. she was based in Westport, Connecticut, and recorded her works at a studio in

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. Porter began narrating audiobooks in 1986. In addition to her work on the ''Outlander'' series, she has narrated books by Leo Tolstoy,

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, Alexander McCall Smith and Anne Perry, and narrates both children's and adult literature. In 1989 her recording of '' Madame Bovary'' was described in the '' Los Angeles Times'' as "a performance against which all others must be measured". In 2019 she had narrated 192 books available on the Audible service. She has also acted in and directed a number of stage productions. In 2004 Porter won the

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. In 2006 she won the Audie Award for Best Female Narrator for her narration of '' A Breath of Snow and Ashes'', the sixth book in the ''Outlander'' series. In 2015 she won the Sova Award for Best Female Narrator for ''

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'', the eighth book in the series. In 2017 Porter was selected as one of the 20 inaugural members of the Narrator Hall of Fame by Audible. Audible said of Porter's selection that she "has developed a special relationship with the listener, making every audiobook she performs a transporting experience". Porter has said it takes her a week to two and a half weeks to record a book, depending on length, working five hours a day.

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