Highlights
warm and deep for narrations, sexy and fun for commercials, smooth and professional presentations, flexible and charachteristic for audiobooks and radio plays. As I am not only a professional actress, but allso a professional singer, I can do recording of songs - from deep alt-voice to a clear soprano. I can allso speak fluently geman, english. Recording in French, Spanish, Italian and Latvian would be no problem for me, providing I have a written text at hand. I can change an accent from very fine to a strong one.
Languages
Russian, German
Accents
english with russian acent
Ages
Young Adult, Middle Aged
Special Skills
Cartoons, Movie Trailers, Documentaries, Audiobooks, Business, Educational, Radio, Telephone, Videogames, Jingles, Podcasting, Television, Internet, Music
Experience
Beginning with 1982 I have done a lot of dubbing work in Russian language at the Latvian Film Studios (features and documentaries).
From 1993 to 1997 worked as voice actor for the BBC Radio in London doing voice overs, composing and performing specially commissioned musical compositions, naration in numerous literary/poetry recordings and radio-plays for "Russian Features" of Russian Service BBC and the "Marshal Plan" project at the BBC.
At that time I also recorded several comercials and my singing voice was also used by some of studios in the U.K.
In Germany I'm performing in theatre productions and frequently touring with solo concerts as a guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Voice over clients have included: Shell, Miele, Weatherford, Honeywell, Air Astana, Trip Advisor, Life Technologies, Tetra pak, Tarraco touristic, IncrediMail, Chinelli, Bellotti Ezzio Arredamenti, Goethe-Verlag, Lisbon Labs... and others
My songs are often aired one the Latvian State Radio (Latvijas Radio 4)
Some of my songs can be heard at
http://www.myspace.com/marinakalmykova
Credentials
Education
1979-1983 Latvian State Conservatory, Theater & Film Faculty
1980-1983 Riga Russian Drama Theater in Latvia, actress
1983-1992 Riga Youth Theater in Latvia, actress
1993-1997 BBC Radio, London, U.K., voice over, narration, singing, songwriting
1997-2008 Actress in theatres in Duesseldorf, Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Bochum, Witten, Germany.
1999-2008 Concerts in Germany, singer, guitarist, composer
2007-2008 Concerts in Latvia and Russia, singer, guitarist, composer.
Payment Terms
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