Blair Barnette

Education

About me

Short description of my voice:
General American accent, professional, medium tone, young and light. Versatile, character voices also available.

I'm an American, born in California, and have lived in South Georgia and New York City. I have a diverse range of American dialects.
Additional skills:
I’m currently working as a Production Designer in the film and TV industry. I’m a former child actor from LA and I’ve had a good career in theatre in my teens and early twenties. In America, I worked for the Nickelodeon art departmentfor over 10 years and here in the UK, I’m currently working on mid-size feature films, BBC & Channel 4 costume dramas, and many national ad campaigns. I have years of experience ‘on-set’ across Hollywood big features to small guerrilla shoots.

I’m American, with a very neutral deeper tone North American accent. I’ve worked in radio and voiceover, as well as being a singer.

In the past few years, I’ve ended up on camera quite frequently due to my proximity when I’m working as a designer/art director, being grabbed by an AD when needed. In the recent featured roles I have performed, I have found that I have a sense of self now that I’m more mature that I didn’t possess when I was younger and my performances are stronger now as a result. I’d like to come back to the field and start acting again. I’m already perfectly at home on set and understand the language and protocol. As a designer it’s easy for me to assimilate a brief and get into the head of what’s required from a performance, and even background subtleties count. Sometimes they want ‘you’. Sometimes you just need to be set dressing, a splash of strategic colour or bit of motion camera right.

Here is a link to my IMDb page, although there are only 5 acting credits there, the majority is my work in the Art Department.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1799053/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Home Studio

I have a home studio

License & Passport

Skills

Voice Style	Angry, Artistic, Authoritative, Dopy, Fun, Luxurious / Smooth, Natural, Rich, Sarcastic, Scary, Sexy, Soft, Sophisticated, Versatile
Voice Age	Adult, Senior, Teen, Young adult
Languages Spoken	French
Accents/Dialects	American - General, Boston, Canadian, Danish, French (Standard International), Midwest American, New York, Portuguese (Brazilian), Southern American, Standard American, Swedish, Upper-class American, US South (Deep South, Dixie, Delta), US West Coast (California, Portland)
Organisations / Memberships	BECTU (UK)
Work Permits	EU, USA