Peter Berkrot is an American voice actor, stage actor, director, producer, and freelance writer who has worked in television, the movie industry,

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s, and theatre.Peter Berkrot

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'' as well.Peter Berkrot – "Richard"

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Accessed June 9, 2009."LEXINGTON, READING HIGH SCHOOLS SHARE THRILLING DRAMA IN REAL LIFE ". By Cate McQuaid. ''

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''. Published March 30, 1998. He has worked in the television series '' America's Most Wanted'', ''

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''. Berkrot's voice work in video games include Ignatius Mortimer Meen in ''

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'' and '' Chill Manor'' and a jewelry merchant in '' Darkened Skye''. Berkrot is a voice over actor and audiobook narrator with 150 audiobooks and over 100 children's titles to his credit. He has won three Earphones Awards and was nominated for an Audie Award for the narration of ''Buddha Standard Time'' in 2012.

Personal life

In November 1988, he married Karen A. Schionning. He is a former resident of

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. Circa 2020, during the

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, he lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 2020, he described "working from his 4-foot-by-4-foot soundproof booth," while his son Misha Berkrot operated the production panel outside of the booth. Circa 2020, Berkrot " eadfor a living, from morning until evening, whether it is performing at home in his sound studio or preparing for one of his recordings."

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Peter Berkrot's web site
Living people American film directors American male voice actors 1959 births {{theat-bio-stub

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