John Rafter Lee is an English actor, narrator, playwright and producer.

Biography

Lee was born in England with Irish ancestry. His father worked as a carpenter and other men in his family were blacksmiths, brick layers and plumbers. Lee himself has worked in agriculture, picking fruit, which he considers much more difficult than voice acting.

Career

Lee has narrated hundreds of

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. "His trademark rich, smooth voice with its hint of a growl turns the word into a seduction", according to '' AudioFile''. He has won numerous

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s and ''AudioFile'' Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by ''AudioFile'' in 2009. In film, he portrayed the mysterious Trevor Goodchild in

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''. Other voice credits include Meier Link in both '' Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'' and ''

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'', Pavlo Zaitsev in episode 16 of '' Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'',

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in HBO's ''

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in '' Reign: The Conqueror''. John also had a role as a voice actor playing Cid Bunansa in the video game ''

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''. Lee was also the producer and screenwriter for the 2001 film ''Breathing Hard'', in which he played the character John Duggan. His ''

'' co-star

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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 ''

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'', which received its premier at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival in

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. He is currently writing a film to be shot in his hometown,

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, England.

Awards and honors

'' AudioFile'' named Lee a Golden Voice narrator.

Awards

"Best of" lists

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, John Rafter Living people Audiobook narrators English dramatists and playwrights English film producers English male film actors English male screenwriters English male television actors English male video game actors English male voice actors English people of Irish descent 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Year of birth missing (living people)