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John Rafter Lee

John Rafter Lee

English actor, narrator, playwright and producer

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

For other people named John Lee, see John Lee (disambiguation).
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Biography

Lee was born in England with Irish ancestry.[1] His father worked as a carpenter and other men in his family were blacksmiths, brick layers and plumbers.[1] Lee himself has worked in agriculture, picking fruit, which he considers much more difficult than voice acting.[1]

Career

Lee has narrated hundreds of audiobooks.[1] "His trademark rich, smooth voice with its hint of a growl turns the word into a seduction", according to AudioFile.[1] He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009.[1]

In film, he portrayed the mysterious Trevor Goodchild in Peter Chung's Æon Flux. Other voice credits include Meier Link in both Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Vampire Hunter D, Pavlo Zaitsev in episode 16 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Jason Wynn in HBO's Spawn animated series, and Aristotle in Reign: The Conqueror. John also had a role as a voice actor playing Cid Bunansa in the video game Final Fantasy XII.

Lee was also the producer and screenwriter for the 2001 film Breathing Hard, in which he played the character John Duggan. His Æon Flux co-star Denise Poirier 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 Forfeit, which received its premier at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. He is currently writing a film to be shot in his hometown, Birmingham, England.

Awards and honors

AudioFile named Lee a Golden Voice narrator.[2]

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Filmography

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References

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    "Spotlight on John Lee". AudioFile. 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
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    "AudioFile Magazine Spotlight on Narrator John Lee". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2003 Audie Awards". Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    Howell, Kevin; Maughan, Shannon (1 January 2007). "The 2006 Listen-Up Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2006 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    Howell, Kevin (5 January 2009). "The Listen Up Awards: The Best Audios of 2008". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2008 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2009 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    Sehgal, Parul (3 January 2011). "The 2010 Listen-Up Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2010 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2011 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    Boretz, Adam (4 January 2013). "The 2012 Listen-Up Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2013 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    Boretz, Adam (31 May 2013). "BEA 2013: Audible Takes Top Audie Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    Coreno, Annie (30 January 2015). "The 2014 Listen-Up Awards: The Best Audiobooks of the Year". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2015 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 29 August 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2016 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten Read by John Lee | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2018 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 30 December 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2019 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2022 Audie Awards®". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "2007 Notable Children's Recordings". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). 30 November 1999. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
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    "2008 Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 16 January 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
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    "Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Adults, 2015". Booklist. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    Smith, Candace (1 May 2018). "Top 10 Crime Fiction Audiobooks: 2018". Booklist. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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    "John Rafter Lee (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 24 April 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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